Moscow: 10 Things to Do

The classic Moscow of the Romanovs, Leo Tolstoy, ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich is well known around the world: The Kremlin, the Bolshoi Ballet, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin State Museum and the Conservatory top most to-do lists. But there's another Moscow — alternately ostentatious, hip, crass, beautiful, elegant, luxurious and fascinating — that all visitors to the city must see if they want to get a feel for what this place is all about.

• 1. GUM and TSUM
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• 2. Patriarshy Prudiy
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• 3. The Bulvar
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• 4. 35 MM
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• 5. O2 Lounge
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• 6. Swiss Ôtel
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• 7. Gorky Park
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• 8. Winzavod
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• 9. Krysha Mira
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• 10. Café Pushkin
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• 11. Bonus: Lenin's Tomb
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