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>>1272 You fail it.
OP - As far as Moscow goes, Bolshoi Teatre (99% chance you'll have to buy the tickets from a reseller. Don't pay too much for the best seats, since the tickets cost so little for the reseller that it's almost sad how they get away with 1000% mark ups sometimes. Be sure to haggle, since they love trying to rip off foreigners - this applies to everything you'll be out buying, try at least to haggle them down to the price they put on the sticker.), the Great Patriotic War museum (It's name has actually slipped my mind, but it's an impressive sight - Fountains lit up in red at night, countless tanks, and a pretty nifty museum about the Great Patriotic War that shows off everything from rusty old Moist nuggets, to a massive pile of captured German banners.) Also related is the Kublinka Tank Museum just a little bit outside of Moscow - If it was used in WW2, they have one of it. As a nifty bonus, it's not a particularly Touristy spot. You'll also see Tanks put on large slabs of concrete for no apparent reason here and there in the city and along the highways - It's a nice way to get rid of obsolete tanks and make monuments, two for the price of one. Shuhkov tover is pretty nifty to see, if you run into it, and then there's a pile of the usual junk you'll see in any other city, as well as other, less notable things (See Wikipedia for a massive pile of those) The Kremlin has enough to keep you busy for a whole day, and that's just if you skim over it all. Be sure to remember to visit as many Metro stations as you can - The ones on the outskirts tend to be pretty generic looking slabs of granite, but the major stations are absolutely fucking beautiful. Go to Petersburg by train from Moscow on the Krasnaya Strela - Planes are for fags. As I don't know all that much about Petersburg, all I can recommend off-hand is the Winter Palace.
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