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Duration: a 1-day sightseeing tour
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- Meeting with guide at the airport.
- Transfer to Kropotkinskaya metro station.
- Short tour of the Moscow Metro.
- Lunch at the restaurant.
- Excursion to Pushkin museum of Fine Arts.
The solemn ceremony of stone laying of the Museum took place on August 17, 1898 in the presence of the Emperor Nikolas II and members of the royal family. The Museum was opened on May 31, 1912 as a Museum of Fine Arts named after Emperor Alexander III under the University of Moscow. On May 31, 1923 ceased its subordination to the University. In 1932 was named The State Museum of Fine Arts, in 1937 was named in honor of Alexander Pushkin the great Russian poet. The founder of the Museum and its first Director (1911-1918) was Prof. Ivan Tsvetaev, the head of the Department of Theory and History of Art at the Moscow University, Ph.D. of Roman Arts and Letters.
The Museum has been created on the basis of the Cabinet (museum) of Fine Arts and Antiquities of the Moscow University as an educational and public institution where the most important periods of art history from the ancient times to the New Age have been represented: in plaster casts, maquettes, pictorial and galvanic copies, in accordance with the unique scientific program. The Museum became the first institution of this type in Russia. The ideas of founding a Museum of this type in Moscow have been expressed many times in the past: by princess Zinaida Volkonskaja and S.P.Shevyrev (1831), by Prof. K.K.Gerz (1858) by N.V.Issakov, director of the Moscow Public and Rumiantsev Museum (1864). The Tsvetaev?s conception has developed the basic ideas of his predecessors.
- Transfer to Izmailovo for souvenir shopping.
- Evening Circus performance
The Old Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard is one of the oldest circuses in Russia.
The former rider and gymnast Albert Salamonski established the permanent brick building for the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in Moscow in 1880.
In 1919 the Circus was nationalized in accordance with a decree from Lenin becoming the first Moscow State Circus.
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