Arbat is the most famous street in Moscow, muscovites call it ‘our Montmartre’. Through the centuries it used to be one of the most bohemian places of Moscow and it attracted a lot of prominent Russian people – writers, poets, artists – to live or to stay here. Today it’s a promenade full of small cozy cafes and street life: artists offer a quick portrait, street musicians and dancers perform on every single corner.
Moreover, to find the real Moscow lifestyle we’ll hide into the side-streets of Arbat. Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy, the best of Moscow architecture, Kremlin Hospital and spy games between the USSR and the US – on our Arbat Promenade Tour.
On our Arbat Promenade Tour you will see:
- Russian State Library, the second biggest library in the world
- Kremlin Hospital, the place where many of the heads of the communist countries were treated
- Morozov’s Mansion, one of the most impressive houses in Moscow
- The most famous Moscow haunted house
- Melnikov’s House, one of the most famous constructivist style buildings in the world
- Spy stories of the Spaso House, a residence of the American ambassador in the USSR
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Time: THURSDAY, 2 PM Price: 24 € / 950 RUB Students: 12 € / 550 RUB Duration: 1.5 hour Included: tasting typical Moscow cake Bird’s Milk |
Booking is essential!
MEETING POINT
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DETAILED DIRECTIONS FOR YOUR COMFORT:
1. Get to the Biblioteka imeni Lenina (Lenin’s Library, Red Line) or Alexandrovsky Sad (Alexander Garden, Light Blue Line) metro station.
2. Use any exit.
3. Find the Kutafia Tower of the Kremlin. The guide will wait for you near it.
Metro map image based on source by Art. Lebedev Studio, © 2012