Selected from the most beautiful 20, for your enjoyment.
Moscow's most famous building, there is no one! Although it is the core of Russia's architectural complex, but has the most "intimate" relationship with Italy. Ivan III invited a team of Italian architects, including Aristotle Fioravanti, Aloysius da Milano, Antonio Giraldi and Pietro Antonio Solari, to remodel the Kremlin. They designed the towers of the palace walls, as well as the churches and palaces within the palace walls, changing the face of the ancient Kremlin, while still retaining its own uniqueness and national character.
One of the most famous classical buildings in Moscow is now a branch of the Russian State Library. Legend has it that architect Vasily Bargenov, feeling offended that Ekaterina II would not allow him to remodel the Kremlin, designed this gorgeous mansion across the street from the Kremlin. The building was completed in 1786 and first belonged to the wealthy merchant Peter Pashkov.
Moscow's most famous Orthodox church, one of the most representative monuments of 16th-century ancient Rus' architecture. This beautiful sight on Red Square is particularly striking. You can see in the high base of the towering eight colorful and full-bodied towers. Eight towers surrounded by the central tower, the front door are facing the center of the church inside the cloister, corridors and stairs around the church.
This unique Russian building was built at the end of the 19th century in the style of New Russia, which blends perfectly with the neighboring Red Square and the Kremlin. This is the State Historical Museum, the largest history museum in Russia. Designed by architect Sherwood and engineer Semyonov, the museum's main building is flanked on each side by soaring symmetrical towers with decorative spires, triangular gables, and round-arched windows.
One of the most outstanding residential buildings in Moscow, built in the early 20th century. A building that had an elevator in those days was something special. This apartment building, which can be called "high class", "housed" during the Soviet period a number of literary, musical, cinematographic and art studios, including the famous contemporary artist Ilya Kabakov, who lived here.
The Igonov House is the most famous Russian-style building in Moscow, the residence of the Yaroslavl merchant Nikolai Igonov, built in 1888 and completed in 1895 by the young architect Bozdev, who gave it to the Soviet government after the revolution of 1917, and later became the official residence of the French ambassador to Russia.
This manor house on the outskirts of Moscow is an outstanding example of Russian architecture from the time of Emperor Nicholas I, and is an outstanding example of the decorative and applied arts. It was designed and built by the architects Vasily Bazhenov, Matvey Kazakov, and Bernard Desimone***. On the estate there is an Orthodox church in the style of an English castle - Vladimir's Church, some sides of which are a bit Disney castle-like.
This palace on the Tsaritsyno estate was built in the 18th century by order of Ekaterina II as a residence in Moscow, but was never occupied. It is a typical Gothic style building, very beautiful, but unfortunately the Empress did not like it, so for a long time it was in a state of abandonment. 2004, after an active restoration by the government of Moscow, it was transformed into one of the favorite places for residents and tourists.
This Gothic palace was built by order of Ekaterina II to commemorate the victory in the Russo-Turkish War, and was first used as a resting palace for the royal nobility on their way from St. Petersburg to Moscow, where Napoleon and his guards stayed for one night during their retreat from Moscow in 1812. Today, the Petrov Palace is a five-star palace-style hotel where anyone can stay (for a fee, of course).
The tallest skyscraper in Moscow's business district and the second tallest in Europe. Built from 2004 to 2017, the building consists of two triangular tower structures, the East Tower is 374 meters high and the West Tower is 242 meters high. The Federal Tower is both a high-class office building and high-class apartments, of which the apartments in the East Tower start from the 69th floor (****97th floor), 30~450 Optional.
One of the seven sisters of the famous Moscow Stalinist architecture. As Moscow celebrated its 800th birthday, the idea of building eight skyscrapers as a symbol of the power of the great powers was born, and in the years that followed, seven Stalinist buildings were erected, while the tallest of the seven, the Palace of Soviets, was not completed for various reasons.
The Skolkovo School of Business was founded in 2006, and the main building complex on the campus consists of a combination of four buildings (the administration building, the sports hall and two hotels), designed and built by the British designer David Adjai, whose work includes the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Ghanaian National Cathedral in Accra, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver.
The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is an outstanding example of elegant minimalism, designed and built by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, and opened to the public in 2008 after a remodeling. The "Garage" building was originally a long-unused Soviet modernist building in Gorky Park, which housed a restaurant that was built in 1968 and abandoned for more than 20 years before it was selected.
The office building designed by world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid is absolutely unique in Moscow. The design is said to be inspired by "space flight". However, at first glance, it looks more like a stack of books or a layered cake.
Built in the mid-19th century by order of Nicholas I, it is located in the Kremlin. It was once the palace of successive tsars, used for the coronation of emperors and meetings with foreign monarchs. It was later transformed into a venue for meetings of the Soviet government, the Central Committee of the USSR and social groups. Today, it is the venue for official diplomatic ceremonies, as well as for the highest ceremonies in Russia, such as the inauguration of the President of the Russian Federation.
The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, located in the Kremlin, is one of the oldest well-preserved buildings in Moscow (built in the 15th century), the "first church" of the Russian Empire, where royal weddings, coronations of emperors, and the appointment of the state Orthodox Patriarch were held. It also holds the decree of Catherine the Great's son, Paul I, according to which women had no right to rule the empire (Paul hated his mother). Since then, Russia has never had a female leader, royal or otherwise.
The Gum State Department Store, located on the east side of Moscow's Red Square, behind the Kremlin, is a world-famous department store. Not only is it a shopping center filled with branded goods ranging from classic luxury goods to modern Russian designers, it is also an architectural monument dating back to 1893.
One of the world's most famous opera and ballet theaters, typically built in the Russian Imperial Classical style. The theater's iconic front fa?ade is adorned with statues of Apollo, the four racing bronze warhorses and the mythological Apollo of ancient Greece, who was in charge of music, and eight ancient Greek Ionic columns standing 14.8 meters high. The splendid & magnificent Bolshoi Theater we see today is actually the fourth building of the theater, the first three have been burned down.
One of the grandest buildings in Moscow, the 103-meter-high Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which can seat 10,000 people at a time, is actually a replica. Construction of the earliest church began in 1838 and it wasn't completed until 1883, but in December 1931 Stalin ordered it blown up. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Moscow government decided to rebuild the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, and the existing church was completed in August 2000, still only 21 years "young".
The Melnikov Residence, built in the 1920s, is considered an "experiment" in Soviet architecturalism. The architect, Konstantin Melnikov, had hoped to build a large number of cylindrical houses in Moscow, as he believed that the cylindrical shape would save a lot of material. However, his proposal was not accepted by the world, so this cylindrical house is unique.
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