Luxury guide · Moscow
Luxury Moscow: Our Favourites
The Metropol, the National and The Carlton; Café Pushkin, Turandot and White Rabbit; GUM, TsUM, the Bolshoi and the Sanduny Baths.
What's onThis week in Moscow
Grand hotels
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Art Nouveau, 1899–1905
Hotel Metropol Moscow
Moscow’s great Art Nouveau hotel, facing the Bolshoi, with the Savva restaurant under its glass roof.
Teatralny Proezd 2, MoscowExplore View on map
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Facing the Kremlin since 1903
Hotel National, Moscow
The 1903 hotel on the corner of Tverskaya and Mokhovaya, looking across Manege Square to the Kremlin.
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At the foot of Tverskaya
The Carlton, Moscow
A 334-room luxury hotel at the foot of Tverskaya, a few steps from Red Square.
Fine dining
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Russian cooking, round the clock
Café Pushkin
Russian cooking in a grand 19th-century-style house on Tverskoy Boulevard, open around the clock.
Tverskoy Boulevard 26A, MoscowExplore View on map
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A palace on the boulevard
Turandot
A theatrical palace of a restaurant on Tverskoy Boulevard, cooking Chinese and pan-Asian dishes.
Tverskoy Boulevard 26, MoscowExplore View on map
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Under a glass dome
White Rabbit
Modern Russian cooking under a glass dome on the 16th floor, with the city all around.
Smolenskaya Square 3, 16th floor, MoscowExplore View on map
Shopping, culture and banyas
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UNESCO World Heritage
Moscow Kremlin
The red-brick fortress at the heart of Moscow, with its cathedrals, bell tower and the Armoury’s treasures.
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Ballet and opera since 1825
Bolshoi Theatre
The great theatre of ballet and opera, with Apollo’s quadriga over the portico on Theatre Square.
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The great Russian collection
State Tretyakov Gallery
The national gallery of Russian art, from icons to Repin, Vasnetsov and Levitan, in its fairy-tale building in Lavrushinsky Lane.
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From Egypt to the Impressionists
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
The great collection of European art on Volkhonka, from antiquity to Monet, Cézanne and Matisse.
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The arcades on Red Square
GUM
The great glass-roofed arcades along Red Square, with fashion, food and its famous ice cream.
Red Square 3, MoscowExplore View on map
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Behind the Bolshoi
TsUM
The Gothic-revival department store at Petrovka 2, behind the Bolshoi, for luxury fashion.
Petrovka 2, MoscowExplore View on map
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The grand bathhouse
Sanduny Baths
Moscow’s grandest banya, with its marble halls and steam rooms on Neglinnaya Street.