Your Moscow Guide

13/04/2016

The cost of maintaining the body of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin in the mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square is estimated at 13 million rubles ($197,000) for 2016, the Interfax news agency reported Tuesday.

12/04/2016

On this day in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to outer space.

(NASA)

15/01/2016

Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya was born on this day in 1850. She was one of the first female scientists in her field.

09/01/2016

For those who do not believe that houses were moved by the Soviet government)))

05/01/2016

People in Moscow pose at a tunnel of lights, one of the many illuminated attractions in the city.

(Katrin Scheib/MT)

31/12/2015

Happy New Year from Moscow!!!

29/12/2015

She never wore a dress twice, so her wardrobe contained 18-35 thousand dresses. You can see some of them in the Amoury Chamber in the Kremlin.

Empress Elizabeth of Russia was born on this day in 1709.

26/12/2015

Fairytales in the streets of Moscow

25/12/2015

The current Russian National Anthem was established on this day in 2000.

18/12/2015

The Royal Ballet perform the Waltz of the Snowflakes in The Nutcracker, with Meaghan Grace Hinkis as Clara, Ricardo Cervera as the Nutcracker and Gary Avis a...

10/12/2015

Bolshoi

Good night from Moscow!

(Katrin Scheib/MT)

09/12/2015

Yuri Gagarin and magnificent ballet dancer Maya Plesetskaya, 1961