This page provides a list of the main things to see in Russia. "++"
identifies the top attractions.
- St Petersburg: +Francesco Rastrelli's Monastery of Smolnji, +Hermitage
- Moskow: ++St Basil, +Kremlin (1495), Andronikov Monastery (1360), Novodevich monastery, St Basil the Blessed (1560)
- Just outside Moskow: Church of the Ascension (1532), Church of st John Baptist (1547)
- Zagorsk: Monastery of the Trinity and St Sergius (1476)
- Kolomenskoe: Church of the Ascension (1532)
- Buryatia (near Lake Baykal): giant head of Lenin, world's largest monumental head
- Novgorod: St Sophia (11th c), Cathedral of the Transfiguration (1374), Church of the SAvior on the Nereditsa (1199)
- Rostov: Kremlin (17th c)
- Pskov: Kremlin (15th c)
- Vladimir: Cathedral of the Dormition (1189), St Dmitri (1197), Church of the Protection of the Virgin on the Nerl (1165)
- Smolensk: Church of SS Peter and Paul, Kremlin (1602),
Suzdal: Cathedral of the Nativity of the virgin (1225), Pukrovsky Cathedral (1518)
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