Vasilevsky Island and The Antikvariat na Bronnoi Index Petrograd side, (Moscow), 136 200–201 Antiques and collectibles See also Accommodations and Addresses, finding, 295 Moscow, 136 GENERAL INDEX Restaurant indexes, below. Admiralty (Admiralteistvo; St. Petersburg, 252 St. Petersburg), 228 Apartment rentals, 295–296 Admiralty (St. Petersburg), 181 Moscow, 76 Aeroexpress train (Moscow), 284 St. Petersburg, 203 General Index Agate Pavilion (Tsarskoye Apraksin Dvor (St. Petersburg), A Tselo), 274 251, 254 AirAmbulanceCard.com, 301 Apshu (Moscow), 153 Abim Plus (St. Petersburg), 252 Air Force Museum, Russian Arbat district (Moscow), 41, Above and Beyond Tours, (Moscow), 112–113 48–49 303–304 Air travel, 289 accommodations, 67–68 Academic trips, 39 Moscow, 282–284 restaurants, 89–91 Access-Able Travel Source, 301 St. Petersburg, 289–290 shopping, 134 Accessible Journeys, 301 staying comfortable in Arbatskaya Lavitsa Accommodations, 39, 294–296. long-haul flights, 283 (Moscow), 140 See also Accommodations Akhmatova, Anna, 28 Archangel Gabriel, Church of the Index Museum (St. Petersburg), (Moscow), 128 Moscow and environs, 55–76 238–239 Architecture, 23–25 near the airport, 73–74 Aktsia (Moscow), 136 best, 7–8 alternative Akunin, Boris, 28 "Seven Sisters" (Moscow), 24 accommodations, Alexander Gardens Shchusev Museum of 75–76 (Alexandrovsky Sad; Moscow), Architecture (Moscow), 24 Arbat, 67–68 48, 107 Arctic and Antarctic, Museum of best, 3, 6, 55–57 Alexander I, Czar, 20 (St. Petersburg), 233–234 currency exchange, 74 Alexander II, Czar, 16–17, 20, 182, Area codes, 301, 311 family-friendly, 60 230, 244 Aristocratic estates, Moscow, foreigner tax, 62 Alexander III, Czar, 20 117–118 around The Kremlin and Alexander Nevsky Monastery Arkhangelskoye, 167–168 Red Square, 57–61 and Cemetery (Lavra Armed Forces, Museum of outside the Garden Ring Aleksandra Nevskogo; St. (Moscow), 112 Road, 70–73 Petersburg), 228–230 Armed Forces Day (Defenders of Peredelkino, 171 Alexandra, Empress, 19 the Motherland Day), 35 Petrovka and The Alexandra Nevskogo Bridge The Armory Museum Ukrainian Quarter, (St. Petersburg), 292 (Moscow), 102 63–66 Alexandrinsky Theater (St. Aromatny Mir (Moscow), 142 prices, 55, 75 Petersburg), 258–259 Art galleries prostitution, 64 All-Russian Exhibition Center Moscow, 136–137 reservations, 75 (formerly VDNKh; Moscow), Central House of Artists south of Moscow River, 117, 121 (Tsentralny Dom 68–70 Alphabet, Russian, 315–316 Khudozhnika), 115 Suzdal and Vladimir, 166 Amber House (Yantarny Dom; St. Petersburg, 252–253 Tverskaya Street and St. Petersburg), 252 Art Garbage (Moscow), 152 environs, 61–63 Amber Room (Tsarskoye Tselo), Art Modus (St. Petersburg), 252 St. Petersburg and environs, 273–274 Art MUSEON (Moscow), 110, 112 187–204 American Foundation for the Art museums near the airport, 201–202 Blind (AFB), 301 Moscow best, 187–189 American Medical Center Art MUSEON, 110, 112 family-friendly, 193 Moscow, 301 Museum of Private around the Hermitage American Medical Clinic and Collections, 114 Museum and Palace Hospital (St. Petersburg), 311 New Tretyakov Gallery/ Square, 189–193 Ananov (St. Petersburg), 255 Museum of Modern landing the best Andrei Rublev (film), 109 Art (Novaya room, 196 Andropov, Yuri, 21 Tretyakovka), 115 Lower Nevsky to Smolny Anglia British Bookshop Patriarch's Palace and Cathedral,COPYRIGHTED 196–198 MATERIAL (St. Petersburg), 253 Cathedral of the mini-hotels, 188 Angliiskaya Naberezhnya Twelve Apostles, 102 practical information, (English Embankment; St. Pushkin Museum of Fine 202–204 Petersburg), 258 Arts (Muzei prices, 187, 202–203 Angliisky Podvorye (English Izobratitelnykh South of Nevsky, Courtyard; Moscow), 125, 148 Isskustv imeni 198–200 Anna Akhmatova Museum Pushkina), 114 Upper Nevsky Prospekt, (St. Petersburg), 238–239 193–195 325 222_9781118167151-bindex.indd2_9781118167151-bindex.indd 325325 112/13/112/13/11 112:562:56 PPMM Art museums (cont.) Blagoveshchenksy (formerly Canada Shchusev Museum of Leytenanta Shmidta) Bridge embassy, 302 Architecture, 24 (St. Petersburg), 292 passports, 308 Tretyakov Gallery Blockade Museums (St. St. Petersburg consulate, 311 (Tretyakovskaya Petersburg), 232–233 visas, 297 Galereya), 49, 114 Blue Chinese Room (Tsarskoye Canal cruises, St. Petersburg, 186 Museum of History and Art Tselo), 274 The Capital Shipping Company (Sergiev Posad), 162 Blue Drawing Room (Tsarskoye (Moscow), 121 St. Petersburg and environs Tselo), 274 Capital Tours (Moscow), 120 Pushkinskaya 10, Boar House (Moscow), 154 Car rentals, 289, 294 234–235 Boating (boat rentals), Cartier (Moscow), 140 Russian Museum (Russky Moscow, 121 Car travel, 289 GENERAL INDEX Muzei), 182, 234–235 Boat tours and cruises, 38–39 Moscow, 285 The State Hermitage Kronshtadt, 277 St. Petersburg, 291 Museum, 223, 226–227 Moscow, 121 Cathedral of Dmitry Art Nouveau (Style Moderne), 22 Peterhof, 269–270 (Vladimir), 165 Arts and Crafts movement, 22 St. Petersburg, 241, Cathedral of Our Lady of Arts Bureau (Khudozhestvennoye 290–291, 294 Smolensk (Moscow), 107 Buro; Moscow), 136 Bolshoi Okhtinsky Bridge Cathedral of the Annunciation ATMs (automated-teller (St. Petersburg), 292 (Moscow), 100 machines), 305 Bolshoi Theater (Moscow), Cathedral of the Archangel Atrium in front of Kursky Train 144, 149 Michael (Moscow), 100 Station (Moscow), 136 Books, recommended, 25–29 Cathedral of the Assumption Australia Bookstores Moscow, 101 embassy, 302 Moscow, 137 Sergiev Posad, 161 passports, 308 St. Petersburg, 253 Vladimir, 162, 164 visas, 297 Boris Godunov, 14, 20, 161–162 Cathedral of the Trinity (Sergiev Autumn Marathon Jazz Festival Botanical Gardens (Botanichesky Posad), 161 (St. Petersburg), 262 Sad; Moscow), 117 Cathedral of the Twelve Apostles Avante-Garde movement, 22 Botkin City Hospital (Moscow), 102 Avis Rent a Car, 301 (Moscow), 303 Cathedrals, monasteries and Avrora, Cruiser (St. Petersburg), The Boulevard Ring (Moscow), convents. See also Churches 237–238 41, 43 Moscow and environs, Azbuka Vkusa (Moscow), 138 Bowling 107–109 Moscow, 156 Cathedral of Dmitry St. Petersburg, 267 (Vladimir), 165 B Bowling Park (St. Cathedral of Our Lady of Babushka (St. Petersburg), 255 Petersburg), 267 Smolensk, 107 Ballad of a Soldier (film), 27 Brezhnev, Leonid, 18, 21 Cathedral of the Ballet, 29 Bronze Horseman (Medny Annunciation, 100 Banyas (baths), Moscow, 123 Vsadnik; St. Petersburg), Cathedral of the Baranka (St. Petersburg), 266 180, 237 Archangel Michael, 100 Bars B-2 (Moscow), 152 Cathedral of the Moscow, 154–155 Buddhist Temple (Budisky Assumption, 101 St. Petersburg, 265–266 Khram; St. Petersburg), 230 Cathedral of the Baza (Moscow), 155 Budget Travel, 39 Assumption BB King (Moscow), 153 Bulgakov, Mikhail, 28, 117 (Vladimir), 162 Beaches, Moscow, 116 Burnt by the Sun (film), 27 Cathedral of the Trinity Bee-Line, 304 Business lunches, 219 (Sergiev Posad), 161 Beers, 33 Bus tours, Moscow, 54 Cathedral of the Twelve Belazh (St. Petersburg), 252 Bus travel, 289 Apostles, 102 Belochka (St. Petersburg), 254 Arkhangelskoye, 167 Cathedrals of Kitai- Bi-Ba-Bo (Moscow), 156 Moscow, 284, 288 Gorod, 51 Biblio-Globus (Moscow), 137 St. Petersburg, 290, 294 Christ the Savior Biking, 37 Sergiev Posad, 160 Cathedral (Khram St. Petersburg, 241 Suzdal and Vladimir, 164 Khrista Spasitelya), Billiard Cafe-Club Island of Butter Week (Maslenitsa), 35, 37 52, 107 Crimea (Moscow), 155–156 Bvlgari (Moscow), 140 Euthimiev Monastery- Billiards Fortress (Suzdal), 165 Moscow, 155–156 Novodevichy Convent & St. Petersburg, 267 C Cemetery (Novodevichy Birzhevoy Bridge (St. Cabs Monastyr i Kladbishche), Petersburg), 292 Moscow, 284, 288 107–109 Bitsevsky Park (Moscow), St. Petersburg, 290, 293 Pokrovsky Convent 121, 122 CafeMax (Moscow), 303 (Suzdal), 165 Calendar of events, 35–36 326 222_9781118167151-bindex.indd2_9781118167151-bindex.indd 326326 112/13/112/13/11 112:562:56 PPMM Rizopolozhensky Chaliapin House Museum Nikolsky Old Believers' Monastery (Moscow), 148 Commune (Nikolskoye (Suzdal), 165 Changing of the guard, Staroobryadtsoye St. Basil's Cathedral Moscow, 103 Kladbishche), 108 GENERAL INDEX (Khram Vasiliya Chapel Over the Well (Sergiev St. George's Church, 126 Blazhennogo or Posad), 161 visiting, 109 Pokrovsky Sobor), 24, Chaplin Club (St. Petersburg), 265 Church of St. Theodore 46, 103, 106, 125 Che (Moscow), 151 Stratilites (Moscow), 128 Spaso-Andronnikov Chechnya, 12–13, 310–311 Church of the Archangel Gabriel Monastery, 109 Chekhov, Anton, 27–29, 150 (Moscow), 128 Trinity Monastery of St. Chekhov House Museum Church of the Archangel Michael Sergius (Troitse- (Moscow), 119 (Arkhangelskoye), 168 Sergiyevo Lavra; Chernenko, Konstantin, 21 Church of the Deposition of the Sergiev Posad), 160 Cherry Orchard Arts Festival Robe (Moscow), 100–101 St. Petersburg, 228–232 (Moscow), 144 Church of the Savior on the St. Petersburg and environs Chesma Cathedral and Spilled Blood (Tserkov Chesma Cathedral and Monastery (St. Spasitelya Na Krovi; St. Monastery, 230 Petersburg), 230 Petersburg), 182, 244 Kazan Cathedral Children, families with, 302 Church of the Transfiguration (Kazansky Sobor), Moscow (Peredelkino), 170 230–231, 243–244 accommodations, 60 Cinemas, Moscow, 156–157 Naval Cathedral restaurants, 86 Circus (Kronshtadt), 278 shopping, 138, 142 Moscow, 119–120 Peter and Paul sights and attractions, St. Petersburg, 240 Cathedral, 229 119–120 City Children's Hospital no. 1 St. Isaac's Cathedral St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg), 312 (Isaakevsky Sobor), accommodations, 193 City Hospital No. 1 180, 231 attractions, 240 (Moscow), 303 Smolny Cathedral