Best places: Museums in Kol’chugino, Russia

Imposing 1600s monastic complex set in the countryside, with a cathedral & an underground church.

Privately run museum housing over 1000 objects from cars & planes to military vehicles & weapons.

Orthodox place of worship & former home church of the Romanovs, Russia's last Imperial family.

👍 I visited the monastery for the second time. The first time was here twenty years ago with a friend. Then everything was just being restored. At the entrance we then met a priest - Father Anatoly. When he found out that we were here for the first time, he invited us to tell us about the monastery....

👍👍 Sergiev Posad (Сергиев Посад) is the only city in the Moscow Region to be officially included on the Golden Ring route. It is is home to one of the most revered monasteries in Russia, Troitse-Sergeiv Monastery, a UNESCO protected site, and the spiritual home of the Russian Orthodox Church. It is...

Huge, lavish 18th-century royal palace with formal gardens, plus museum of fine arts & antiquities.

Immense, fortified compound of churches & palaces, with museums of Russian state regalia & art.

Architecture from different eras in an open-air museum on former royal estate, with tours & events.

Art museum with a collection of over 180,000 Russian works spanning multiple centuries.

Lavish neoclassical repertory theater housing Russia's world-famous Bolshoi Ballet & Bolshoi Opera.

Classical building with antiquities, sculpture & painting collections, plus temporary exhibitions.

Extensive space museum within a titanium monument honoring the launch of Sputnik 1 & the space age.

Multicolored domes top this 16th-century former cathedral that now contains a museum of the church.

Set in Victory Park, a huge museum dedicated to Russia's role in WWII, with dioramas & memorabilia.

Interactive exhibits & experiment demonstrations in a science museum with a spherical cinema.

Elegant 19th-century theater staging works by playwrights such as Tolstoy, Shakespeare & Ibsen.

Museum & exhibition center in the pedestal of a 24m-tall Soviet-era sculpture by Vera Mukhina.

Military relics from the Russian Civil War & Soviet periods including uniforms, weapons & equipment.

16th-century monastery complex & museum with a 7-domed Russian-style cathedral, church & prison.

Gallery with themed shows & a permanent collection covering the last thousand years of Russian art.