Visit Moscow and you will find the opulence of Tsarist Russia and the grey monumentalism of the Cold War Soviet Union era now sit hand in hand as a neon, Bladerunner-esque new Moscow springs up all around

When you visit Moscow you visit a city of splendour and shadows. Much can be admired just by standing amid this huge movie set and drinking in the history. For spy-movie buffs this is the landscape that at least the imaginations of Ian Fleming, Len Deighton, and John Le Carre, once skulked around in heavy trenchcoats. And for everyone else there is the shopping.

Moscow abounds with museums. For perhaps Russia's best collection of art and icons visit the Tretyakov Gallery (10-12 Lavrushinsky Pereulok). The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (12 Volkhonka Ulitsa) is interesting for its collection of works snaffled from Nazi Germany in the dying stages of the Second World War, and since made the property of the Russian state.

The Armoury, which is located in the Kremlin offers everything from Tsarist baubles - including the world famous Faberge eggs, and a large collection of armour and period weaponry. Russia's experimentation with communism, meanwhile, is recorded in great detail at the Central Museum of the Revolution (21 Tverskaya Ulitsa)

Red Square remains unchanged by the march of time but for the proximity of global burger bars just out of range of the tourist cameras. St. Basil's Cathedral, meanwhile, remains the iconic oddity it always was.

Pushkin is a writer celebrated the world over, and one of the few to survive the vagaries of acceptability in the changing political climates of Russia and the Soviet Union as it became. Pushkin Square is then, aptly, a popular place to meet and chill out for all Muscovites.

The subject of a recent renovation, Moscow Zoo (1 Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Ulitsa) is worth visit if you like that sort of thing. Gorky Park, meanwhile, offers skating during the winter and a funfair in the summer months. Moscow also offers two permanent circuses: the Tsvetnoi Bulvar Circus (13 Tsvetnoi Bulvar) and the Circus on Sparrow Hills (7 Prospect Vernadskogo) offering both traditional and more contemporary circus performances.

For an altogether different perspective on the city, meanwhile, a cruise along the Moskva river can be a perfect way to spend a summer day or evening,

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