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⭐ Highlights

3 Days in Moscow — Essential Highlights

The Kremlin, Red Square, the world's most beautiful metro and pelmeni with vodka

📍 Moscow, Russia 📅 3-day itinerary

Moscow in 3 days: the most contradictory city in Europe — Byzantine churches beside Soviet monuments, imperial ballet, and the most ornate underground railway ever built.

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Red Square, Kremlin & St. Basil's

09:00
🟥 Red Square — free and unmissable

The most famous public space in Russia — Kremlin walls, St. Basil's, GUM, Lenin Mausoleum in one view.

⏱ 1 hr 💶 Free
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
10:00
🏰 Moscow Kremlin — Armoury & Cathedrals

The seat of Russian power since the 11th century — Fabergé eggs, royal carriages, and three cathedrals.

⏱ 3 hrs 💶 800–1000 RUB
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
14:00
🕌 St. Basil's Cathedral — ten different domes

Ivan the Terrible's 1561 celebration in polychrome onion domes. The most photographed building in Russia.

⏱ 1 hr 💶 500 RUB
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
17:00
🛍️ GUM — the imperial arcade and State Ice Cream

The 1893 shopping arcade on Red Square — three glass-roofed galleries and the most famous ice cream in Russia.

⏱ 1 hr 💶 Free
19:30
🍽️ Café Pushkin — imperial Russian cuisine

Moscow's most theatrical restaurant in a 19th-century mansion — borsch, blini with caviar, beef Stroganoff.

⏱ 2.5 hrs 💶 2,500–5,000 RUB
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
23:00
🍸 Bolshaya Nikitskaya bar district

Moscow's finest cocktail bars in Bulgakov's neighbourhood.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 800–2,000 RUB

Tretyakov Gallery, Metro Art & Bolshoi Theatre

10:00
🎨 Tretyakov Gallery — Rublev to Malevich

The world's finest Russian art collection — icons, the Wanderers, the Black Square.

⏱ 3 hrs 💶 700 RUB
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
14:00
🚇 Moscow Metro tour — the people's palace

Stalin's underground cathedrals — Baroque mosaics, stained glass, Art Deco at each Circle Line station.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 65 RUB
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
17:00
🎭 Arbat Street — matryoshka and Pushkin's apartment

Moscow's bohemian pedestrian street — the best souvenir shopping and the poet's home.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 Free
22:00
🎭 Bolshoi Theatre — ballet or opera

Russia's most famous stage — book online 30 days ahead. Standing from 100 RUB.

⏱ 3 hrs 💶 1,000–15,000 RUB
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide

Cathedral, Gorky Park & pelmeni farewell

09:00
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour — Kremlin panorama

Russia's largest church rebuilt after Stalin demolished it. Outdoor deck: the finest Kremlin view.

⏱ 1.5 hrs 💶 Free
11:00
🌳 Gorky Park — river embankment and Garage Museum

Moscow's great park redesigned in 2011 — bikes, outdoor art, and the Rem Koolhaas Garage Museum.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 Free
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
13:30
📖 Patriarch's Ponds — Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita

The single ornamental pond where the Devil appeared and Berlioz lost his head.

⏱ 1.5 hrs 💶 Free
19:00
🥟 Pelmeni and vodka — Lepim i Varim

Hand-made Siberian dumplings with smetana and Beluga vodka from the freezer. The most Russian farewell.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 800–1,500 RUB

📍 Route map

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