The Lotte Hotel is located very close to historic Ulitsa Arbat, one of Moscow's most famous streets, home to the city's fashionable bohemian society in the 19th and 20th centuries. Now a pedestrian precinct, Arbat is home to souvenir stalls and a myriad of street performers, as well as open-air bars and cafes in the summer. Less than ten minutes' walk from the museum is the Pushkin Memorial Museum, housed in the apartments where Russia's greatest poet took up residence after his marriage. There is a statue of Pushkin and his bride, Natalia Goncharova, opposite.
Before turning onto Ulitsa Arbat, guests will come to the magnificent Ministry of Foreign Affairs Building, one of the Stalinist skyscrapers erected in the early 1950s and known in English as the Seven Sisters. Another of the Sisters, the Hotel Ukraina (now the Radisson Royal Hotel), is also clearly visible to the west of the hotel, just across the Moskva River.
Before turning onto Ulitsa Arbat, guests will come to the magnificent Ministry of Foreign Affairs Building, one of the Stalinist skyscrapers erected in the early 1950s and known in English as the Seven Sisters. Another of the Sisters, the Hotel Ukraina (now the Radisson Royal Hotel), is also clearly visible to the west of the hotel, just across the Moskva River.
