While it's easier to ride the metro to most of Moscow's major visitor attractions from the Marriott Grand, there are several landmarks and sights of interest with comfortable walking distance of the hotel. Triumfalnaya Ploshchad, less than five minutes' walk from the hotel, is dominated by a magnificent monument to Vladimir Mayakovsky, the great Modernist poet of the October Revolution. Beneath the square, the metro station which bears his name (Mayakovskaya) is also arguably the finest of Moscow's many palatial stations, with a revolutionary Art Deco design and beautiful mosaics on the ceilings. Also on the square is the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, one of Moscow's premier classic music venues and home to the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.
Walk about ten minutes from the hotel along Blagoveshchenskiy Pereulok (opposite the main entrance) and then Ermolaevskiy Pereulok, and you will the Patriarch's Ponds, an attractive small lake surrounded by trees, famous as the sight of the Devil's first appearance in Moscow in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. There are statues to Bulgakov and the 19th century fabulist Ivan Krylov nearby.
Walk about ten minutes from the hotel along Blagoveshchenskiy Pereulok (opposite the main entrance) and then Ermolaevskiy Pereulok, and you will the Patriarch's Ponds, an attractive small lake surrounded by trees, famous as the sight of the Devil's first appearance in Moscow in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. There are statues to Bulgakov and the 19th century fabulist Ivan Krylov nearby.
