You'll find mostly fiction and literature in the largest bookstore in Moscow as well as an audio and video section that includes old Soviet children's films.

Past and contemporary masterpieces of some of Russia's most famous photographers are exhibited in the dozen or more rooms of this specialty museum.

Film buffs will enjoy this fairly new museum that covers 100 years of the history of cinema and features many foreign films in their original languages.

Once you've perused the Pushkin Museum, stop in next door to view the treasures in these private collections acquired in Soviet times, including works by Salvador Dali and Henri Matisse, ballet set designs, Russian icons and a whole floor of 20th-century art.

Learn about the tragic life of this world-famous Russian poet, in the home where she lived and wrote thousands of verses.

Founded in 1945, Moscow's sprawling Botanical Garden covers 360 hectares and contain thousands of species in rose garden, Japanese garden, and dendrarium.