Moscow Art Theater
It was founded in 1898 by the famous Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas that were Russia's dominant form of theatre at the time. The theatre who was the first to regularly put on shows implementing Stanislavski's system, proved hugely influential in the acting world and in the development of modern American theatre and drama.
The Bolshoi Theatre
The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic theatre in Moscow, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové. The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world. It is by far the world's biggest ballet company with more than 200 dancers.
Lenkom Theatre
Lenkom Theatre is the official name of what was once known as the Moscow State Theatre named after Lenin's Komsomol. Over its 80-year career Lenkom has been a forerunner of new, fresh and experimental theatre in the Soviet Union, and now Russia. Lenkom has featured many of the most popular Russian artists, well known by their work both in theatre and cinema, such as Aleksandr Abdulov, Leonid Bronevoy, Nikolai Karachentsov, Yevgeny Leonov, Tatyana Pelttser, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Oleg Yankovsky.
Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theater
Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theater appeared in 1988 when a talented director recruited his group of students at GITIS. The success was achieved at national and international festivals. Each play is an original realization of the plan of Peter Fomenko himself or his students. They strive to use the most diverse styles and are not afraid to experiment.
Mayakovsky Theatre
The Mayakovsky Academic Theater is considered one of the oldest not only in Moscow but throughout Russia. The first concerts in the building on Bolshaya Nikitskaya took place in 1886. In addition to the original reading of classical works the Mayakovsky Theater has always been famous for its actors. At different times Faina Ranevskaya, Alexander Lazarev, Natalya Gundareva, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan played on his stage.
Museums
There are more than 400 private and state museums and their branches in Moscow.
The State Tretyakov Gallery
The State Tretyakov Gallery is the world's largest collection of Russian art. It started with a private collection of Pavel Tretyakov, a connoisseur of painting, who bought and exhibited the works of Repin, Vasnetsov and other progressive Russian artists of that time. Modern Tretyakov Gallery is a place where you can see the unsurpassed masterpieces that make up the pride of Russian painting.
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
The holdings of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts currently include around 700,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, applied works, photographs, and archaeological and animalistic objects. Here you can see famous sculptures of antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, interesting works in the genre of graphics, painting, decorative and applied art from Europe and America, the department of personal collections.
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Moscow. It was opened to public in December 1999. The project of the Museum was initiated and executed by Zurab Tsereteli, president of the Russian Academy of Arts. The Moscow Museum of Modern Art contains works of art from the first decades of the 20th century; the exposition is based on contrasts and correlations of artistic trends and events in Russia and abroad, and is also aimed at showing the integrity of the development of world culture, while specifying the role of the Russian art in it.
The Moscow Planetarium
The Moscow planetarium is one of the largest and most interesting in the world. There is an observatory that provides the opportunity to observe space objects, the famous "Planetarium Sky" (the largest dome screen in Europe), Small and Large star halls, models of spaceships and meteorite debris, the state of the art 4D cinema. In the Planetarium, you can see how stars are born and destroyed, make unusual scientific experiments and buy space souvenirs.
Tagansky Protected Command Point
The Tangansky Protected Command Point, also known as Exhibition Complex Bunker 42, is a once-secret military complex, a bunker, and Spare Long-Range Aviation Command Post (ET-42) near the underground Moscow Metro station Taganskaya. It has an area of 7,000 square meters and is situated at a depth of 65 meters below ground.