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Moscow - the capital of our Motherland
1. Moscow - the capital of our Motherland
2. Towers of the Kremlin
The Kremlin is thesymbol of Russia.
The symbol of the
Kremlin is the
Saviour’s Tower
(Spasskaya
Bashnya). It is 71m
high. It is notable for
the clock .
3. The Kremlin Towers
4. Cathedrals of Moscow Kremlin
5. Moscow Kremlin’s cathedrals
6. The Bell Tower of Ivan the Great
Its height is 81 m andit has got 22 large
and over 30 small
bells in the Bell
Tower. The tower was
built during the reign
of Ivan IV in 1600.
7. The Tsar Bell
It weighs more than200 tons. In the Great
Fire of 1737 one of its
sides cracked and
broke off.
8. The Tsar Cannon
The Tsar Cannon wasbuilt in 1586 in
Moscow to defend the
city, but it had never
fired.
9. The Red square
It is the heart of the city and one of the biggestand the most beautiful squares in the world. It is
695m long and its width up to 130 metres. Its
area is more than 70,000 sq.m.
10. St Basil’s Cathedral
11. St. Basil’s Cathedral
In 1555-1561 St.Basil’s Cathedral
(Pokrovsky
Cathedral) was
erected in the order of
Ivan IV (the Terrible)
to commemorate the
annexation of the
Кazan and Astrakhan
khanates to Russia.
12. Monument to Minin and Pozharsky
Next to the Cathedralstands the monument
to Minin and
Pozharsky. Under the
leadership of these
heroes of the 1612
war, Russian people
drove the Polish
invaders out of
Moscow.
13. The Lobnoye Mesto
Not far from thePokrovsky Cathedral
there is a place called
the Lobnoe Mesto,
the place of
execution, a platform
of white stone more
than 400 years old.
14. The State History Museum on the Red Square
15. Moscow museums
The State TretyakovGallery houses a rich
collection of Russian
painting and Russian
icons.
16. Panorama of Borodino (museum)
17. Borodino battle
The battle in the village Borodino in the war withthe French in 1812
18. The Triumphal Arch
19. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
20. Monuments of Moscow
21. Monuments of Moscow
22. Monuments
Monument to thegreat Russian poet
Alexander Pushkin
23. Monument to Mayakovsky
24. Arbat. Monument to Pushkin and his wife Nataly Goncharova
25. The Alexandrovsky Garden
The Tomb ofUnknown Soldier