ALEXANDER GARDEN
This 19 th century garden along a north wall f the Kremlin once bordered the Neglinaya River which now flows underground. The garden dotted with cafes, offers a pleasant place for a stroll on a spring day.
CATHEDRAL OF THE ARCHANGELS
Commissioned by Ivan the Great in 1505, it was the burial place of Russian tsars until the capital of Russia was moved to St. Petersburg in 1712. There is substantial Italian Renaissance flavour to the five-domed church because the star brought in an Italian, Aleviso Novi, to design it. The walls of the cathedral are adorned with frescoes depicting ancient Russian history. Some of the frescoes, which had been painted over by later artists, were rediscovered in the 1950s.
Excursion duration - about 3 hours.
- Tsar?s bell and cannon, stunning examples of casting of the 16th – 17th centuries.
- The Grand Kremlin Palace, from the imperial residence to the Russian President?s gala reception quarters.
- Political and governmental buildings of the Kremlin, the Senate, the Palace of Congresses, the Arsenal.
- Kremlin walls and towers, a unique fortress of Middle Ages? Russia.
- Cathedral Square, a breathtaking architectural ensemble of the 15th – 17 th centuries, where the life of Russian grand princes and tsars started and ended, the Annunciation Cathedral where they were baptized, the Assumption Cathedral where they were crowned and the Archangel Michael where they buried.
- The Armoury Museum, the oldest museum of Russia, a unique collection of crown jewels, gems, icon covers, crosses, thrones, carriages, coronation robes and top clergy vestments, Byzantine cameos and Faberge Easter eggs.
 
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