norielle's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

norielle

Lawyer by profession, wandered at heart. I love to travel, eat good food then try to recreate those tastes at home, read a good detective novel, or just lie in a bed, doing nothing. I live in Moscow and I am very proud to say I've travelled Russia and former USSR countries extensively.

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Yekaterinburg, Russia

The Church on the Blood

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

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Soviet Lifestyle Museum

This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

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Saint Petersburg, Russia

Kunstkamera (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography)

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

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Saint Petersburg, Russia

Peacock Clock

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

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Saint Petersburg, Russia

Russian Vodka Museum

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.

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Saint Petersburg, Russia

Rasputin Museum at Yusupov Palace

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

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Saint Petersburg, Russia

Grand Maket Rossiya (Grand Model of Russia)

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.

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Pushkin, Russia

The Amber Room

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Pushkin, Russia

Chinese Village at Tsarskoe Selo

A model village fit for an emperor.

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Medvezhyegorsky District, Russia

Kizhi Island

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

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Solovetskiy, Russia

Solovki

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.

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Hotel Ukraina

The tallest hotel in Europe.

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Bunker-42

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

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Red Gates Skyscraper

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

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Padlock Tree Park

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

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Lubyanka

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Museum of Soviet Arcade Games

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

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Tsar Bell

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

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Lenin's Mausoleum

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

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