Moscow
People who shaped the city
Residents, visitors and the occasional passing genius — each with the addresses where their story is still standing.
Literature
Alexander Pushkin
- Pushkin Memorial Apartment on Arbat
- Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
- Pushkinskaya Square and the Passion Monastery Site
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn Museum-Apartment
Alexandra Kollontai
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Anna Akhmatova
- Ardov House on Bolshaya Ordynka
Maxim Gorky
- Gorky Park
- Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Nâzım Hikmet
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Nikolai Gogol
- Danilov Monastery
- Gogol House
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Alexander Ostrovsky
- Alexander Ostrovsky House Museum
Andrei Sinyavsky
- Pushkin Square Glasnost Rally Site
Isaac Babel
- Butyrka prison
- Donskoy Cemetery and Former Crematorium
Ivan Sytin
- Sytin Office Building
Lev Kopelev
- Lev Kopelev and Raisa Orlova Apartment House
Lilya Brik
- Mayakovsky and Brik House in Gendrikov Lane
Nikolai Lyamin
- Lyamin House
Osip Brik
- Mayakovsky and Brik House in Gendrikov Lane
Raisa Orlova
- Lev Kopelev and Raisa Orlova Apartment House
Sergei Yesenin
- Sergei Yesenin Moscow Museum
Sergey Aksakov
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- Simonov Monastery Ruins
Venedikt Yerofeyev
- Site of the Yuzhinsky Circle
Viktor Ardov
- Ardov House on Bolshaya Ordynka
Vladimir Gilyarovsky
- Iron House
- Khitrovskaya Square
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Yuli Daniel
- Pushkin Square Glasnost Rally Site
Yuri Galanskov
- Mayakovsky Monument and Triumfalnaya Square
Yuri Mamleev
- Site of the Yuzhinsky Circle
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Visual art
Vera Mukhina
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Alexander Deyneka
- Narkomfin Building
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Alexander Rodchenko
- Former Pittoresk Café — San-Galli Passage
- Mosselprom Building
David Burliuk
- Polytechnic Museum Great Auditorium
Dmitri Plavinsky
- Malaya Gruzinskaya 28 Exhibition Hall
Evgeny Rukhin
- Bulldozer Exhibition Site
Georgy Frangulyan
- Wall of Grief
Georgy Yakulov
- Former Pittoresk Café — San-Galli Passage
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Igor Grabar
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Ilya Glazunov
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Ilya Kabakov
- Ilya Kabakov’s Sretensky Boulevard Studio
Mikhail Nesterov
- Martha and Mary Convent
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Oscar Rabin
- Bulldozer Exhibition Site
- Izmailovsky Park Nonconformist Exhibition Site
- Malaya Gruzinskaya 28 Exhibition Hall
Ülo Sooster
- Ilya Kabakov’s Sretensky Boulevard Studio
Varvara Stepanova
- Mosselprom Building
Vasily Polenov
- Church of the Transfiguration on the Sands
Viktor Melnikov
- Melnikov House
Vladimir Nemukhin
- Bulldozer Exhibition Site
- Izmailovsky Park Nonconformist Exhibition Site
- Malaya Gruzinskaya 28 Exhibition Hall
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Politics
Boris Yeltsin
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Mstislav Keldysh
- Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Vladimir Lenin
- Lenin's Mausoleum
- Luzhniki Stadium
- Russian State Library
Alexander Yesenin-Volpin
- Pushkin Square Glasnost Rally Site
Elizabeth Feodorovna
- Martha and Mary Convent
Genrikh Yagoda
- Kommunarka Memorial Complex
Lavrentiy Beria
- Beria Mansion
Mikhail Frunze
- Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Mikhail Gusev
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
- Donskoy Cemetery and Former Crematorium
Nadezhda Krupskaya
- Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Nikolai Bukharin
- Kommunarka Memorial Complex
- Lubyanka Building
Nikolai Milyutin
- Narkomfin Building
Vasili III
- Cathedral of the Archangel
- Novodevichy Convent
Vladimir Bukovsky
- Mayakovsky Monument and Triumfalnaya Square
Yelena Bonner
- Andrei Sakharov Apartment Building
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Architecture
Alexey Shchusev
- Kazansky railway station
- Komsomolskaya
- Lenin's Mausoleum
Boris Iofan
- Baumanskaya
- House on the Embankment
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Dmitry Chichagov
- Moscow City Hall
Fyodor Schechtel
- Moscow Art Theatre
Ignaty Milinis
- Narkomfin Building
Ivan Fomin
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- Teatralnaya
Ivan Nikolaev
- Nikolaev Commune House
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Konstantin Melnikov
- Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage
- Melnikov House
- Rusakov Workers' Club
Konstantin Thon
- Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
- Grand Kremlin Palace
- Kremlin Armoury
Lev Kekushev
- Anna Kekusheva Mansion
Moisei Ginzburg
- Narkomfin Building
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Nikolai Pozdeyev
- Igumnov House
Postnik Yakovlev
- St. Basil's Cathedral
Pyotr Baranovsky
- Old English Court
Sergey Solovyov
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- Solovyov Mansion
Vladimir Shukhov
- Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- Shukhov Tower
Music
Dmitri Shostakovich
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Gidon Kremer
- Moscow Conservatory
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Moscow Conservatory
Sergei Prokofiev
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Moscow Conservatory
Alexander Scriabin
- Alexander Scriabin Memorial Museum
- Moscow Conservatory
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Bulat Okudzhava
- Bulat Okudzhava House and Courtyard
Garik Sukachov
- Gorbunov Palace of Culture
Lidia Ruslanova
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Nazib Zhiganov
- Moscow Conservatory
Pyotr Mamonov
- Gorbunov Palace of Culture
Sofia Gubaidulina
- Moscow Conservatory
Zhanna Aguzarova
- Gorbunov Palace of Culture
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Acting
Galina Ulanova
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Ita Ever
- Russian Institute of Theatre Arts
Aleksandr Abdulov
- Russian Institute of Theatre Arts
Alexei Bakhrushin
- Bakhrushin Theatre Museum
Konstantin Stanislavski
- Moscow Art Theatre
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- Stanislavski House Museum
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
- Moscow Art Theatre
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Voldemar Panso
- Russian Institute of Theatre Arts
Vsevolod Meyerhold
- Donskoy Cemetery and Former Crematorium
- Former Pittoresk Café — San-Galli Passage
- Mayakovsky Theatre — Former Theatre of the Revolution
Yuri Lyubimov
- Taganka Theatre
Zinaida Reich
- Meyerhold Apartment Museum
- Vsevolod Meyerhold Apartment Museum
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Science
Andrei Sakharov
- Andrei Sakharov Apartment Building
Alexander Bogdanov
- Igumnov House
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Boris Petrovsky
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Vladimir Vernadsky
- Novodevichy Cemetery
other
Alexander I of Russia
- Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
Nicholas I of Russia
- Grand Kremlin Palace
Film
Sergei Eisenstein
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Eldar Ryazanov
- Novodevichy Cemetery
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Follow the story on foot
These addresses are scattered across the city. Our routes and quests put them in an order that works.