This square is the site of an underground shopping mall that opened in 1997 and contains four levels of stores carrying furs, jewelry, cigars, clothes and other consumer goods.

This interesting wooden hut that sits incongruously among block houses and high-rises was the home of one of Russia's greatest artists.

Lined with huge apartment buildings, this shoppers' thoroughfare is filled with elegant boutiques, fashionable bars and shopping malls.

This museum charts the history of Moscow's subway system.

Tourists and Muscovites alike flock to this three-level underground shopping center near Red square comprising over 100 stores.

One of the most honoured of Moscow's holy places, the chapel and gates were taken down in the 1930s and rebuilt in the 1990s.

Built in 1993, this is a replica of the 17th century church built to commemorate victory over the Poles and demolished in the 1930s by the Bolsheviks.

The main Moscow's monument of the Patriotic War of 1812 and victory over Napoleon.

Designed by I. Martos in 1818, this is the first Moscow monumental sculpture. It depicts two heroes that headed volunteer troops against the Polish invaders in the 1600s.

This spiritual segment of the Kremlin includes several enormous cathedrals and the Ivan the Great Bell Tower, the watchtower for the Kremlin, which would sound its 21 bells to warn of an approaching enemy.

The area to the east of the Kremlin was a traditional trading quarter. The oldest streets of Kitai-Gorod - Nikolskaya, Ilyinka, Varvarka - were known as early as the 14th century.