Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
GGETTING TICKE
TING TICKETS T
S TO THE ARMO
O THE ARMOUURY
Visitors are allowed to enter the Armoury only at specified times (10am, noon,
2.30pm and 4.30pm). Tickets go on sale 45 minutes prior to each session. Try to
be at the ticket window when the sales begin, as they sell a limited number of
tickets for each entry time.
The Diamond Fund is managed by the Ministry of Finance, which retains a mono-
poly on the mining and sale of precious stones. As such, the collection includes
many magnificent raw diamonds, some in excess of 300 carats.
GGETTING TICKE
TING TICKETS T
S TO THE DIAMOND F
O THE DIAMOND FUND
UND
Purchase tickets to the Diamond Fund in the lobby of the exhibit.
The obelisk in Alexander Garden was originally a monument to commemorate
the House of Romanovs. In 1918 it had a dramatic change in mission when it was
honour of those responsible for the spread of communism in Russia.
CHANGING OF THE G
CHANGING OF THE GUARD
ARD
Every hour on the hour, the guards of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier perform
a perfectly synchronised ceremony to change the guards on duty.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier contains the remains of one soldier who died
in December 1941 at Km 41 of Leningradskoe sh - the nearest the Nazis came to
Moscow.
