The Ozerkovskaya Hotel is located in downtown Moscow, and it's theoretically possible to walk to nearly all the city's major tourist attractions – including Red Square, the Kremlin and the Tretyakov Gallery – in under 30 minutes. In the immediate vicinity of the Ozerkovskaya, a couple of sights are worth mentioning.
Nestling in a park adjacent to Pavelets Station, guests will find the pavilion house the Lenin Funerary Train. This impressive black and orange steam engine and wagon carried the body of the "Father of the Revolution" in to Moscow in January 1924 for his funeral on Red Square and has been kept here at Paveletskaya ever since. The pavilion also contains an imposing bust of Lenin and various sculptures glorifying the achievements of Communism in Russia.
About ten minutes' walk across the Moskva River from the hotel is Novospassky Monastery, arguably the oldest religious house in Moscow. Thought to have been founded in the 12th century during the reign of Prince Yury Dolgoruky, it is was initially established on the site of the present-day Danilov Monastery. Novospassky ("New Saviour") Monastery was transferred to the Kremlin complex in 1300 by Ivan The Terrible and then relocated to this site in 1490 by Ivan III. Most of the buildings standing today date from the 17th century, when thick fortress walls and bastions protected the complex. During the 20th century the monastery played a more sinister role in Russia's history, serving the Bolsheviks as a concentration camp and later the NKVD as an archive, before eventually being returned to the church in 1991.
Located just down the hill from the Monastery lies the Krutitsy Metochion, another historic religious house that boasts a complex of 17th century buildings that have remained uninfluenced by Western design and exemplify ancient Muscovite architecture. Originally founded in the 14th century as the seat of the Metropolitan or spiritual head of the Christian minorities under Tartar rule, the Metochion boasts the impressive Cathedral of Assumption, built entirely of brick, and a brightly tiled fairytale house or Teremok.
