Kremlin Palace

... in the distance topped with several gold domes. This is the Poteshny Palace. Ahead on the right is the white marble State Kremlin Palace, while the massive yellow Arsenal is off to the left. Next on the left is the yellow former Senate building, which ...

... getting one of the headsets with recorded excursions. They can be quite handy. I bought a map and set out past the old State Kremlin Palace from Soviet times (now used as a theatre) built from concrete, metal and glass in 1959-61. Opposite was the early ...

... while. They were trying to sell CD's. It was lovely to hear, I didn't buy.   I walked down the side of the Great Kremlin Palace but didn't go into the Armoury museum. I went back to look at the Tsar built to see how big they could make a bell but ...

... the next entry). Tobolsk is the only town in Siberia and one of the few in Russia which has a standing stone Kremlin, the Russian word for "fortress", "citadel", or "castle", referring to any major fortified central complex found in historical Russian ...

... destroyed by Napolean in 1812 but Russia was able to protect it. Within the walls of the Kremlin there are several government buildings, cathedrals, the armory and palace. Most of the government buildings are closed off to tourist. We were able to watch ...

... , a plaque near the airport recognises as far as he got. On the right as you enter the Kremlin is a grey monstrous building called the peoples palace, sunken below the ground as not rise above the 2.25km of walls surrounding the Kremlin, built in 1150. ...

... the guards keep you moving going round the body (even though there was no one else in the room). We then walked down the kremlin wall graves, including finding Stalin's memorial, and one for Arthur McManus, not the most Russian sounding name it has to be ...

... or look like, but soviet times sort of bring up pictures of grey imposing buildings. Well I was wrong! The Kremlin (Kremlin translates as fortress) was the tsars palace for many years (when they weren't in St Petersburg) so it is a lot of lovely baroque ...

... like to have a peak at the inside of the Tsar's Palace.  I can only imagine the decorations of the rooms. From the Kremlin, I walked over to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior passing by the Pushkin State museum of Fine Arts (yes, I just passed ...

... pass the village of Foros. A tall communications tower beside the road was the main artery of communications between Gorbachev and the Kremlin when he vacationed here at his dacha. It's also where he was arrested during the 1991 coup. The dacha itself ...