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Tverskoy and the Bolshoi
Theatre Square and the Bolshoi, Tverskaya Street, TsUM and Petrovka, and the boulevards.
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Tverskoy & the Bolshoi: Our Favourites
The Bolshoi and the Moscow Art Theatre, Tverskaya, TsUM, Café Pushkin and the Sanduny Baths.
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What to see and do
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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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Five sites in the city
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
The city’s museum of modern art, with its main building on Petrovka and a site on Gogolevsky Boulevard.
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The Tchaikovsky Concert Hall
Moscow Philharmonic
The Moscow State Academic Philharmonic, with the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall on Triumfalnaya Square.
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Opera and ballet
Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre
The city’s second great house of opera and ballet, on Bolshaya Dmitrovka.
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Chekhov’s theatre
Moscow Art Theatre
The Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre in Kamergersky Lane, where Stanislavsky staged Chekhov.
Where to eat
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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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A gilded 1901 grocery
Eliseevsky Store
The gilded neo-Baroque grocery on Tverskaya, opened in 1901 by the Eliseev merchants.
Bars
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Over the Kremlin
The Carlton rooftop
The rooftop bar of The Carlton, at the foot of Tverskaya, looking across to the Kremlin.
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Over the Bolshoi
Ararat Park Hotel roof bar
The roof bar of the Ararat Park Hotel, looking over the Bolshoi’s quadriga.
Shopping
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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
Where to stay
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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.
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Opened in 1913
Savoy Hotel, Moscow
A smaller historic hotel on Rozhdestvenka, opened in 1913, between the Bolshoi and Kuznetsky Most.
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Behind the Bolshoi
Ararat Park Hotel Moscow
The former Ararat Park Hyatt, built in 2002 on Neglinnaya, steps from the Bolshoi and TsUM.
Health and wellness
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The grand bathhouse
Sanduny Baths
Moscow’s grandest banya, with its marble halls and steam rooms on Neglinnaya Street.
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