Moscow Weekend

Please email Summerabroad@Brown.edu to confirm your participation in this excursion.

Visit Moscow, Russia’s capital and its largest and most vibrant city. White-stoned, gold-domed, ancient and modern, the city of Moscow is famous for its ancient monasteries, its narrow curved picturesque streets, and ultra-modern monoliths that stand side by side. Throughout much of its history the city was known as the Holy Moscow and considered to be the “Third Rome” after Ancient Rome and Constantinople.

Contemporary Moscow is full of museums, parks, restaurants, and galleries. You will visit the Red Square, the symbolic center of Russia, with its magnificent St. Basil Cathedral, and the Moscow Kremlin with its cathedrals and churches. You will see the Armory Chamber displaying the unique collection of Russia art of the 12-15th centuries and the finest collection of Russian decorative arts of the 16-19th centuries. You will visit various other Moscow museums, including the Tretyakov Gallery, that possesses the finest collection of traditional Russian painting in the world, especially icons, and the Pushkin Museum of Modern Art, one of Russia’s largest museums dedicated to western art. You will also make a trip to the beautiful Sergiev Pasad Monastery, located in a small town north of Moscow, noted for its unique architecture and its many gardens.

The cost of the trip to Moscow, including transportation, city tours, museum visits, some meals and hotel is tbd.  Check back later for registration information.