Moscow Reviews

Moscow is a city that seems to do its best to deter me. My travels have always been on business and I doubt if I had been paying for the trip myself I would have bothered to fight the bureaucracy of applying for a visa and paid the astronomical hotel bills. And when I finally arrive I normally end up with a taxi drive stuck in the horrendous ...  Read the complete review

One of my biggest regrets is never having to been to Berlin whilst the wall was up. Amanda, my wife, once managed to visit East Berlin - with no papers - but that's a different story! Since the demise of Communism, I've been behind the former Iron Curtain twice. On this occasion, we visited Moscow. There's a lot to say about ...  Read the complete review

I hope what follows will be of some use to those who, on the one hand, have never been in Russia before, and, on the other, prefer travelling on the cheap and on one’s own (without any bodyguards or escorts). · Don’t come to Moscow in November to March inclusive. In any case wait until there is no snow. Keep in mind that ...  Read the complete review

I arrived in Moscow after an overnight train journey from St Petersburg. We had a quick coffee. purchased a map of the Metro and set off to explore the city. TRANSPORT The Metro stations in the city are excellent places to begin your sightseeing. Many of them are like museums in themselves with the huge chandeliers and fascinating ...  Read the complete review

Generally I try to be rather guarded about my personal life but I want to share an extraordinary experience that I had in Moscow that has altered how my future vacations will be handled. First off I married a sweet beautiful Russian girl who I love very much. I was a comrade of her brother in the defense of Servian culture in Bosnia a ...  Read the complete review

There is a stereotypical view of Russia , it can hardly be ignored , we've all seen the history videos and propaganda proclaiming them as the "red menace" or "the evil empire" (according to the Reagans). This is far from the truth. I have been to Russia three times so far in my relatively short life so far , this ...  Read the complete review

I visited Moscow and St Petersburg in February 2000 - the middle of winter - and I can honestly say that it is one of the most interesting cities I've been to. From the beginning, the feeling that you've stepped into a slightly surreal world intensifies. At times you think you're in a completely normal European city, then you ...  Read the complete review

Muscovites know how to live Moscow is a rule unto itself. And that rule has it’s own scale unlike any other. Grandiose and austere. Vast and towering. The architecture is stunning and public. However, it’s the people that make Moscow – the people that populate every paper-thin apartment building, that ...  Read the complete review

I visited Moscow for a week in the summer of 1998. Having studied Russian and Soviet history, I was very interested in seeing the history of Tolstoy and Lenin myself. I arrived at Moscow airport and was instantly struck by the clear contrasts with the modernity of Heathrow and JFK. Having unpacked in my functional but unexceptional room I began ...  Read the complete review

Moscow is one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited (on a par with Niagara falls). People make unfair opinions about Russia without any knowledge of the place so I will set them right. Although it looks run down outside and you can be hassled by street sellers, the buildings are covered in gold and look magnificent. You have to see them ...  Read the complete review

There's nothing quite like the sight of Red Square covered in snow with the impressive Kremlin Buildings and St Basil's Cathedral as a wondrous backdrop. Having been something of a closed city for many years, it is now totally accessible to the foreign business/tourist visitor and is one of those magical places which everyone ...  Read the complete review

Anyone glued to their T.V. on Millennium night could not fail to be moved by the sight of Red Square. With St. Basil's Cathedral bathed in soft light at one end, the Square came alive with people. The soft falling of snow, caught in the lights, only added to the fairytale atmosphere. How I wished I could have been transported, in that moment, ...  Read the complete review

Lucky me, sent to Moscow on business. I swapped my club class ticket for two coach and took along a friend that spoke Russian - with hindsight the wisest decision I have ever made. Our hotel was the Ritz, a joint Finnish-Russian venture. The dining room was exactly as you would imagine it, huge chandeliers, six-inch thick red carpets, more ...  Read the complete review