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to go sightseeing осматривать достопримечательности
surprise, n удивление, удивлять
tour, n путешествие, экскурсия
to make a tour of (some
place)
объехать, осмотреть
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A VISIT TO MOSCOW
Last summer Mr. Wilson, his wife and their daughter
Mary – tourists from England – arrived in Moscow. It was
their first visit to Russia and they wanted to see as much
as possible.
Their guide showed them a lot of places of interest so
that they could get a good idea of the Russian capital.
Moscow is one of the largest cities in Europe, its total
area is about nine hundred square kilometers, and the
population of the city is over eight million.
The heart of Moscow is Red Square. It has more his-
torical associations than any other place in Moscow. The
Kremlin and St. Basil’s Cathedral are masterpieces of an-
cient Russian architecture. The main Kremlin tower, the
Spasskaya Tower, has become the symbol of the country. On the territory of the
Kremlin the Wilsons saw old cathedrals, the Bell Tower of Ivan the Great, the Palace
of Congresses, the Tzar-Cannon and the Tzar-Bell, the biggest cannon and the bell in
the world. St. Basil’s Cathedral was built in the mid-16
th
century in memory of the
victory over Kazan. Ther’s a legend that Ivan the Terrible blinded the architects
Barma and Postnik, because he didn’t want them to create another masterpiece.
The Wilsons saw a lot of beautiful palaces, old mansions, cathedrals, churches
and monuments. They had a chance to visit any of more than 80 museums: the Push-
kin Museum of Fine Arts and the Tretyakov Gallery, the All-Russia Museum of Folk
Arts and the Andrei Rublev Museum of Early Russian Art, Alexei Bakhrushin Thea-
tre Museum and Mikhail Glinka Museum of Musical Culture among them.
In the evening the Wilsons decided to go to the Bolshoi Opera House, though it
was very difficult to choose between a large number of popular theaters.
The Wilsons liked Moscow’s straight and broad streets and avenues. They ad-
mired the centre of the city with its theatres, cinemas, museums, monuments, and
wonderful many-storied buildings. They were greatly impressed by the Kremlin, Red
Square, Novy Arbat, which is one of the busiest streets in Moscow.
One day the Wilsons decided to see Moscow State University and the guide sug-
gested their going there by metro. They liked the idea and joined a stream of people
going downstairs into the metro. It seemed to them that nearly everyone in Moscow
was in a hurry. Very few were satisfied to stand still and let the magic staircase carry
them down to the platforms below. Most people went hurrying down on the left side.

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