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The millionaire and textile manufacturer Pavel Tretyakov donated his private museum of Russian art to the city of Moscow in 1892. His brother Sergei also donated some works. Since then, the gallery has been constantly growing, and now counts as the best collection of Russian art worldwide.
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This museum is so far outside the city centre that very few foreign tourists make the trip. Which is a pity, since the collection of fossils, dinosaurs and mammoth remains is worth checking out.
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Moscow's TV tower, 537 meters high, is the second highest in the world, and - as satirists like to say, after it caught fire in August 2000 - the world's tallest ruin. The tower in the north of Moscow, built from 1960-1967, used to be a favourite destination for tourists due to its viewing platform at a height of 337m.
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The Museum of Modern Art in the centre of Moscow provides a comprehensive view of the Russian and international Avant-garde of the 20th and 21st centuries. The museum’s constantly growing collection comprises around 15,000 works from painting, sculpture, graphics and applied decorative arts.
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Moscow’s Pushkin Museum is, after Petersburg’s Hermitage, the most important Russian collection for international art, ranging from Ancient Egypt to the start of the 20th century. The museum, of which a large part of the collection stems from the private collections of nobles expropriated after the Revolution, is especially famous for its Impressionists and Post-impressionists.
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The Polytechnical Museum is housed in an imposing building from the mid-19th century. It was built in the neo-Old Russia style by the Moscow architect Ippolito Antonovitsch Monighetti.
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The collection in the armoury displays the treasures that Russia’s Tsars and princes have accumulated over the centuries.
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The museum with anarchic flair superbly brings to life the provocative and exceptional personality of the revolutionary poet Vladimir
Mayakovski. Huge metal frames in the style of the Constructivism popular in the 1920s comprise the background for this brilliantly arranged exhibition, which chaotically mixes up Mayakovski’s art with his personal possessions
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If you appreciate the macabre, you will not be able to resist visiting the KGB museum. The Lubyanka, in the cellars of which hundreds of thousands were interrogated and tortured, came to epitomise Stalinist terror. Those who survived the torture, fell victim to the firing squads or landed in the GuLAG.
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The house on Malaya Nikitskaya does not even need a famous tenant to attract attention: The architect Fyodor Schechtel created in 1900 a masterwork of art nouveau. The soaring limestone stair demonstrates Schechtel’s inventiveness and extraordinary talent.
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