Architectural Moscow: A Journey Through Buildings and Styles

What should you do if, walking around Moscow and spotting some unusually beautiful building, you don’t promise yourself to find out why it was built and who it belongs to? And who among us actually manages that? Who spends years planning to discover the capital’s old mansions, yet gets lost in their variety? “Architectural Moscow” is a unique book in which all the interesting places of the city—along with vivid descriptions and colorful photographs—are conveniently organized into routes. Lena Krizhevskaya, a Moscow researcher, blogger, and winner of the photo contest “Best of Russia16,” walks through the city, discovers Moscow’s gems, and shares them on the pages of this book. The new edition of the guide includes unconventional stops and distinctive highlights of our city. Lena added two new routes to the guide, along with even more entertaining facts. The new pocket guide turned out to be experimental: it will let you walk around the city not only with the book and map, but also with Lena herself (routes 2, 3, 4). She recorded an audio version of the guide, providing each stop with a photograph.