4–6 hours · Moscow
Moscow in a day: the theatres and the Kremlin
Walk from the Bolshoi and Maly theatres to Nikolskaya, Red Square and Alexander Garden, with a lunch stop along the way.
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Moscow then and now
The Bolshoi Theatre and Red Square in archival and contemporary images.
Bolshoi Theatre
The lithograph shows the theatre before the fire of 1853. Compare the colonnade and upper façade with the building rebuilt to Cavos’s design.
Lithograph, 1839–1843
Photograph, 2012
Red Square
The photographs use different viewpoints. Find the Upper Trading Rows, now GUM, in the old photograph and compare the façade with the panorama.
Archival photograph, 1910s
Contemporary panorama
