For visitors to the city, the Akademicheskaya Hotel has a great location for accessing many of the more famous sights around the city. A few of the more choice things worth seeing are listed below.
While most foreigners know it as Gorky Park, Muscovites know it as Park Kultury. In fact, the official title of the park is: The First Park of Culture and Leisure in honor of Maxim Gorky. Regardless of what you call it, this park starts just a short walk from the hotel. For children, the park offers many different rides and attractions. For those with more of a classical inclination, be sure to check out the previous Golitsinskiy and Neskuchniy gardens which feature a few nice buildings from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Also not far from the park is the Central House of Artists located on Krimskiy Val. This location is home to a large portion of the Tretyakov Gallery’s modern collection. For fans of the strikingly soviet Socialist Realism, this museum has it in spades. This is not all, however, and the highlights of the collections are several masterpieces of pre-Revolutionary and Avantgarde art created by Kandinsky, Chagall, Malevich and other world famous Russian artists. There are also regular temporary exhibitions by contemporary artists, making this museum well worth a visit.
For fans of the James Bond film “Goldeneye”, the Sculpture Park, or as it is otherwise known as the Graveyard of Fallen Monuments is located right behind the gallery. This location used to be used as a dump for Soviet statues of people who had fallen from grace both during and after communism. Now, you can find a melange of statues from a variety of places and periods.
While most foreigners know it as Gorky Park, Muscovites know it as Park Kultury. In fact, the official title of the park is: The First Park of Culture and Leisure in honor of Maxim Gorky. Regardless of what you call it, this park starts just a short walk from the hotel. For children, the park offers many different rides and attractions. For those with more of a classical inclination, be sure to check out the previous Golitsinskiy and Neskuchniy gardens which feature a few nice buildings from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Also not far from the park is the Central House of Artists located on Krimskiy Val. This location is home to a large portion of the Tretyakov Gallery’s modern collection. For fans of the strikingly soviet Socialist Realism, this museum has it in spades. This is not all, however, and the highlights of the collections are several masterpieces of pre-Revolutionary and Avantgarde art created by Kandinsky, Chagall, Malevich and other world famous Russian artists. There are also regular temporary exhibitions by contemporary artists, making this museum well worth a visit.
For fans of the James Bond film “Goldeneye”, the Sculpture Park, or as it is otherwise known as the Graveyard of Fallen Monuments is located right behind the gallery. This location used to be used as a dump for Soviet statues of people who had fallen from grace both during and after communism. Now, you can find a melange of statues from a variety of places and periods.
