Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword by the chief architect of Moscow 6 --
Introduction 12 --
Capital region in the heart of Eurasia 13 --
Architecture before 1700: Old Moscow 38 --
The Kremlin and its buildings 39 --
Architecture 1701-1812: Moscow before the Great Fire 62 --
Twelve portraits of architects 63 --
Architecture 1813-1917: Moscow becomes a metropolis 84 --
Architecture of the Moscow Small Railway Ring 128 --
Architecture 1918-1934: Moscow of the Soviet Avant-garde 144 --
El Lissitzky's horizontal skyscrapers 148 --
Buildings for a new social order 156 --
'Specialists' in Siberia 188 --
Architecture 1935-1955: Socialist Neoclassicism in Moscow 190 –
The Palace of the Soviets 190 --
The Moscow metro 194 --
The Exhibition of Achievements of the Soviet Economy (VDHKh) 232 --
The road to Korolev 254 –
Architecture 1956-1991: Moscow of the second Soviet Modernism 268 --
Soviet monumental mosaics 278 --
Soviet housing series in Moscow 294 --
Architecture 1992-2011: The new Moscow 342 --
Rublevka: Moscow's West End 354 --
Moscow International Business Centre, Moscow City 418 --
Architecture since 2012: Moscow on the way to the 21st century 426 --
Skolkovo Science Park 427 --
Urban landscapes: five renovated city parks 462 --
Zaryadie Park 480 --
Renaissance of urban squares 492 –

Index of buildings:
Adidas headquarters in Krylatskie Holmy business park --
Administration of the Specialist School for Electrical Engineering /VEI building --
Administrative building of the Moscow metro --
Aerobus residential complex --
Aeroflot office complex --
Aeroport metro station --
Alye Parusa residential complex --
Andronikov Monastery --
Anglican Church of St Andrew --
Apartment complex of the First Russian Insurance Company --
Apartment house in Bryusov pereulok --
Apothecary's Garden office and club building --
Arbatskaya metro station (Arbatsko Pokrovskaya Line) --
Arbatskaya metro station (FiLevskaya Line), east vestibule --
Arkos building --
Armoury --
Arsenalnaya Tower (Kremlin) --
Arseny Morozov Mansion --
Art Elektro Theatre/ Khudozhestvenny Cinema --
ART HOUSE residential and cultural centre --
Assembly of Nobles/ House of Unions --
Atlantic Apartments residential complex --
Avangard residential building --
Averky-Kirillov Palace and Church of St Nicholas the Miracle-Worker on Bersenevka --
Avrora business centre --
Azhurny dom --
Bakhmetevsky Garage/Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre --
Bakhrushin Mansion --
Bankside business park --
Barkli Plaza residential complex --
Barvikha Luxury Village --
Bathhouse in the resort of Pirogovo --
Battle of Borodino Panorama Museum --
Bauman Garden play area --
Beklemishchevskaya Tower (Kremlin) --
Belarus Pavilion, VDNKh --
Belaya ploshchad office centre --
Belokamennaya Station --
Berg Mansion --
Biryulevo-Zapadnoe --
Birzhevaya ploshchad --
Board of Guardians --
Bogdan Khmelnitsky Bridge --
Botshoy Theatre --
Borovitskaya Tower (Kremlin) --
Boutique Office business centre --
Boyars' Court hotel/Trading house of Moscow Fire Insurance Company --
British Embassy --
Budapest Cinema --
Buildings of the Northern Insurance Company --
Burevestnik Factory Club --
Business centre on ulitsa Krasina --
Camelot residential complex --
Capital Towef business centre --
Cathedral of Christthe Saviour --
Cathedral of Sts Peter and Paul --
Cathedral of the Archangel --
Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat --
Central Council of Unions building --
Central House of Actors/ Filatov apartment building --
Central House of Architects --
Central House of Artists/ New Tretyakov Gallery --
Central House of Culture of Railway Workers 14! Central House of Tourists --
Central Moscow Hippodrome --
Central Pavilion, VDNKh 238 Central Telegraph building --
Centraltelephone exchange for Frunzensky District --
Chekhoff Hotel Moscow/ Golden Apple Hotel --
Chekhov club house --
Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre --
Children's park on Taganka --
Chistye prudy metro station, street-level pavilion --
Church of Metropolitan Philipp --
Church of St Louis --
Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Gonchary --
Church of the Intercession of Mary on Fili --
Church of the Life-Giving Trinity on Borisov Ponds --
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putinki --
Church of the Resurrection on Uspensky Vrazhek --
Church on Gorokhovoe pole --
Church on Taganka --
Club building of the Lisya Nora sports complex --
CMEA building --
Commune house on ulitsa Ordzhonikidze --
Complex of buildings at Novy Arbat --
Construction Materials Pavilion/ International Ballet Centre, VDNKh --
Convent of Sts Martha and Maria --
Copper House residential complex --
Council for Labor and Defence building/ State Duma --
Country house Gorki - 2 --
Country house Rublevskoe shosse (Eduard Zabuga) --
Country house Rublevskoe shosse (Meganom) --
Country Palace of Elizaveta Petrovna --
Crystal House residential complex --
Culture/Uzbekistan Pavilion, VDNKh --
DaimlerChrysler AG headquarters --
Danilov Plaza business centre --
Danilovsky department store --
Danilovsky Fort business centre --
Danilovsky Market --
Delovoy dvor --
Delovoy Tsentr metro station --
Demin Palace --
Depository, restoration, and exhibition complex --
Derozhinskaya Mansion --
Detsky Mir (Central Children's Store) --
Dinamo metro station --
Dinamo Society building --
Dinamo Swimming Stadium --
Dominion Tower business centre --
DOMRIK and DOMNAD standard housing series --
Donskoy Monastery --
Dormition Cathedral (Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) --
Dorogomilov Chemical factory Club --
DoubleTree by Hilton --
Druzhba multi-purpose sports hall --
Dvorets na Yauze concert hall --
Dvoryanskoe gnezdo apartment building --
Dynamo Sports Palace --
Edelweiss residential complex --
Ekologiya office building --
Etektrozavodskaya metro station (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line) --
Eliseevsky grocery shop --
Else Club Wellness --
Ermitazh Plaza business centre --
EuroPark shopping centre --
Evolution Tower --
Factory Kitchen no. 1 --
Fantasy Island residential complex --
federation Tower --
Filatov apartment building/ Central House of Actors --
Fili Grad residential complex --
First State Ball-Bearing Plant (no longer operational) --
Former building of the Moscow City Duma / Museum of the Patriotic War of 1812 --
Former Gazprom headquarters --
Fusion Park residential complex --
Gagarin Palace/ Maksim Gorky Museum --
Gagarinskaya ploshchad residential complex --
Galereya Aeroport --
Garage and workshop for personal automobiles --
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art --
Garden Park Edalgo residential complex --
GDR Embassy/Goethe-Institut in Moscow --
German Embassy --
German quarter --
GES-2 House of Culture --
Gireaud Picture Gallery --
Glinka Museum of Musical Culture/ Museum of Music --
Goethe-Institut in Moscow/GDR Embassy --
Gogolevsky Boulevard commune house --
Golden Apple Hotel/ Chekhoff Hotel Moscow --
Gorbunov Mansion --
Gorbunov Palace of Culture --
Gorka Park --
Gorky Art Theatre --
Gorod stolits --
Gorod Yakht --
Gosplan computing centre --
Gosplan garage --
Gosstrakh residential building --
Gostorg building --
Government residential building (House on the Embankment) --
Government residential building on Mokhovaya ulitsa --
Grad-1 M housing series --
Granatny 6 residential building --
Grand Kremlin Palace --
Grand Park residential complex --
Great Moscow State Circus --
Grunwald apartment complex --
Guardhouse Gorki-10 --
GULAG History Museum --
GUM department store/ Upper Trading Rows --
Gymnasium 1517 --
H Headquarters of the Federal Investigation Committee --
Headquarters of the state security organs on Lubyanka --
High-rise residential building on ploshchad Krasnye Vorota --
Horizontal skyscrapers (WoLkenbiigel), project --
Hospice of Count N.P. Sheremetev --
Hotel Balchug Kempinski --
Hotel Kosmos --
Hotel Leningradskaya –
Hotel Metropol --
Hotel Moskva --
Hotel Pekin --
Hotel Sovetskaya --
Hotel Ukraina --
Hotel Yunost --
House of Architects on Rostovskaya naberezhnaya --
House of Atomic Workers --
House of Aviators on Begovaya ulitsa --
House of Lunin / Museum of Oriental Art --
House of the Government of the Russian Federation (White House) --
House of Unions/Assembly of Nobles --
House on Mosfitmovskaya --
House Vnukovo --
Igumnov Mansion --
Imperia Tower --
Imperial Orphanage --
Institute for Bioorganic Chemistry --
Institute for Research into Glass --
Institute for Spatial Planning --
Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers/ MSTUCA --
Intellect Telecom office building --
International Ballet Centre/Construction Materials Pavilion, VDNKh --
International Medical Cluster --
Intourist garage --
Irina A. Viner-Usmanova Rhythmic Gymnastics Centre --
Isakov apartment building --
Ivan the Great Bell-Tower --
Izmaylovo Estate --
Izmaylovo hotel complex --
Izmaylovo Kremlin --
Izvestia building --
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre/ Bakhmetevsky Garage --
Kauchuk Factory Club --
Kazanskyvokzal (Kazansky Railway Station) --
Kekusheva Mansion --
Khimki Business Park --
Khokhlovskaya ploshchad --
Khoroshevskaya Gymnasium --
Khrushchev Palace/ State Museum of Alexander Pushkin --
Khudozhestvenny Cinema/ Art Elektro Theatre --
Kievsky vokzal (Kievsky Railway Station) --
Kinopanorama --
Knoop Mansion --
Kolomenskoe Church of the Ascension of Jesus --
Kolomenskoe Estate --
Komsomolskaya metro station (Circle Line) --
Komsomolskaya metro station (Sokolnicheskaya Line) --
KOPE housing series --
Kotelnicheskaya Embankment building --
Kozhukhovo boarding school --
Krasnoselskaya metro station, street-level pavilion --
Krasnye Vorota metro station --
Krasnye Vorota station, south vestibule --
Kremlin Palace of Congresses --
Kremlin polyclinic --
Kropotkinskaya metro station --
Kropotkinskaya metro station, west vestibule --
Krutitskoe Metochion --
Krylatskie Kholmy business park --
Krylatskoe cycling track --
Krylatskbe Ice Palace --
Krymskaya naberezhnaya --
Kudrinskaya high-rise residential building --
Kuibyshev Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering /MGSU --
Kurskaya metro station (Circle Line) --
Kuskovo Estate --
Kutuzovsky residential high-rise --
Kuzminki Estate Stables --
Kvadro shopping centre --
Large Ascension Church --
Large Gostiny Dvor --
Lebed residential complex --
Leman Mansion --
Lenin Institute/ Russian State Archive of Socio-Political. History --
Lenin Library --
Lenin's Mausoleum --
Leningradsky vokzal (Leningradsky Railway Station) --
Levchenko family sepulchre chapel --
Levenson printing plant --
Library of the State Medical University --
Lokomotiv Stadium / RZhD Arena --
Lomonosov University main building --
Lopukhin Palace --
Lukoil office building --
Luzhniki Stadium --
Luzhniki Water Palace --
M M. V. Frunze Military Academy --
Main entrance gate --
Maly Theatre --
Manege --
Maksim Gorky Museum /Gagarin Palace --
Mayakovskaya metro station --
Mayakovsky Theatre --
McDonald's building --
Mechanisation /Space Pavilion, VDNKh --
Megasportice stadium --
Melnikov house and workshop --
Menshikov Tower --
10 Mercedes-Benz Plaza business centre --
Mercury City Tower --
Metro headquarters --
Metropolis shopping mall --
MGU Science Library --
MIIT club and dormitory --
Military Political Academy building --
Military Provisions Store/ Museum of Moscow --
Millennium House --
Ministry of Agriculture residential building --
Ministry of Defence Industry building --
Ministry of Foreign Affairs building --
Ministry for Railways/ NKPS building --
Molochny residential building --
Monolith apartment house --
Montreal Pavilion, VDNKh --
Morozov Gallery --
Morozov House in Leontevsky pereulok --
I Mosaic on the facade of the House of Optics --
Mosaic on the facade of the Institute for Mechanical Engineering --
Moscow Arbitration Court --
Moscow Architecture Institute (MArchI) / Vorontsov Mansion --
Moscow Cathedral Mosque --
Moscow City Hall/ Moscow Governor General's Palace --
Moscow Conservatory --
Moscow Governor General's Palace/ Moscow City Hall --
Moscow International Bank --
Moscow International Business Centre Moscow City --
Moscow International House of Music --
Moscow International Trading Bank --
Moscow Lending Bank --
Moscow Merchants' Club/ Lenkom Theatre --
Moscow Palace of Youth --
Moscow Planetarium --
Moscow Post Office --
Moscow University buildings on Mokhovaya ulitsa --
MOSGAS Engineering Centre --
Moskvich Palace of Culture/ AZLK Museum --
Mosselprom building --
Mossoviet Lorry Depot --
Mostorg building --
Moscow State Technical University of Civil Aviation (MSTUCA) /Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers --
Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (MGSU) / Kuibyshev Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering --
Muir & Mirrielees Trading Company/ TsUM department store --
Multifunctional car park --
Museum of Moscow/ Military Provisions Store --
Museum of Oriental Art/ House of Lunin --
Museum of Russian Impressionism --
Museum of the Patriotic War of 1812/ Former building of the Moscow City Duma --
Naberezhnaya Tower --
Narkomfin building --
Narkomzem building/ Ministry of Agriculture --
Natalya Sats Children's Musical Theatre --
National Centre for Contemporary Arts --
National Film Actors' Theatre --
Nautilus business centre --
New building of the Moscow City Duma --
New building of the Tretyakov Gallery --
New Catherine Hospital --
New headquarters of Novatek --
New Kremlin museums --
New Lifestyle building --
Nikolskaya Tower (Kremlin) --
Nikulin Moscow Cireus on Tsvetnoy bulvar --
Nirnzee apartment house --
NKPS building/Ministry for Railways --
NKVD residential complex --
NKVD workers' residential building on Smolenskaya ploshchad --
North Tower --
Nosov Mansion --
Novodevichy Convent --
Novoslobodskaya metro station --
Novospassky Monastery --
Novosti press centre –
NTV Media Centre --
Office building on Leninsky prospekt --
OKO Towers --
Oktyabr Cinema --
Oktyabrskaya metro station (Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line) --
Oktyabrskoe pole residential quarter --
Old English Court --
Old Mint --
Olympia Park Business Centre --
Olympic Star Kuntsevo fitness centre --
Olympiysky sports complex --
Oncological centre --
Oruzheyny business centre --
Ostankino Palace --
Ostankino TV technical centre --
Ostankino TV tower --
Otkrytie Arena /Spartak Stadium --
Otto List Mansion --
Palace of Facets --
Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren --
Palace of the Soviets (project) --
Palaeontological Museum --
Panfilovskaya Station (Moscow Central Circle) --
Panorama apartment house --
Park Place residential complex --
Partizanskaya metro station --
Parus residential complex --
Pashkov House --
Patriarch apartment house --
Patriarch's Palace and the Twelve Apostles Church --
Paveletskaya Plaza business centre --
People's Commissariat of Defence building --
Perlov Tea house --
Perovsky Market --
Pertsova apartment building --
Petrovsky Passage --
Petrovsky putevoy dvorets --
Pharmacy in OrekhovoBorisovo --
PIK 1 housing series --
Plant for printing children's books --
Ploshchad Revolyutsii metro station --
Polytechnic Museum --
Pompeii apartment house --
Posolsky Dom residential complex --
Pravda house of culture --
Pravda printing plant and publishing house --
Presnya City residential complex --
Progress Cinema --
Prospekt Mira apartment building --
Public toilet, Gorky Park --
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts --
Pushkinskaya metro station --
RAN Central Economic and Mathematical Institute --
Razumovsky Palace --
Razumovsky Palace on Yauza --
Red Army Theatre --
Rehabilitation centre for autistic children --
Residential and commercial complex on Bolshaya Polyanka --
Residential building at Kievsky vokzal --
Residential building on proezd Zagorskogo --
Residential building on Tverskaya --
Residential building on ulitsa Burdenko --
Residential building, Baumanskaya ulitsa 35/1 --
Residential buildings on Bolshaya Polyanka --
Residential complex --
Residential complex in Butikovsky pereulok --
Residential complex of the Academy of Military Engineering --
Residential complex of the Polar Research Society --
Residential complex, Skolkovo, Block 11 --
Residential tower in Wellton Park --
Residential towers, utitsa Aviakonstruktora Sukhogo --
Restaurant Cote D'Azur --
Rodina Cinema --
Roman House --
Romanov Palace --
Rossiya Cinema --
Rossiya Insurance Company apartment building --
Rostokino commune house --
Round house --
Rowing Canal --
Rublevo Park residential complex --
Rusakov Club --
Russian Academy of Sciences building --
Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History / Lenin Institute --
Russian Union of Architects building --
Russian Volunteer Fire-Fighting Society --
Ryabushinsky Mansion --
RZhD Arena/ Lokomotiv Stadium 412 --
Sadovaya Plaza --
Sadovye Kvartaly residential complex --
Savvinskoe Metochion --
Sberbank headquarters --
School building, Varshayskoe shosse 12 --
Senate Palace --
Serebryany Gorod business centre --
Series P30 310 Series 11-18 --
Series 11-49 --
Series 11-68-01 / 16Yu --
Series II-68-02/12K --
Series P3 --
Series P4 --
Series P44 --
Series P46 --
Series P55 --
Severnoe Chertanovo --
Severny rechnoy vokzal --
Shamshin apartment building --
Sheremetevo - 2 --
Shlekhtel Mansion in Ermolaevesky pereulok --
Shukhov Tower --
Simonov Monastery --
Skolkovo Golf Club --
Skolkovo Institute for Science and Technology (Skoltech) --
Skolkovo MatRex --
Skolkovo Moscow School of Management --
Skolkovo residential complex, Block 10 --
Skolkovo Science Park --
Smart City Pavilion, VDNKh --
Sokol housing estate --
Sokol metro station --
Sokolniki metro station --
Sovintsentr/World Trade Centre --
Space Pavilion/ Mechanisation, VDNKh --
Spartak Stadium /Otkrytie Arena --
Spasskaya Tower (Kremlin)--
St Anne's Church --
St Martin the Confessor --
St Mary's Assyrian Church (Mat-Maryam) --
St Nicholas' Church, Khamovniki --
St Petersburg International Commercial Bank --
St. Clement's Church --
Stakheev Mansion --
Stanislaysky Factory business centre --
State Bank --
State Duma /Council for Labor and Defence building --
State Historical Museum --
State Leather Industry building --
State Museum of Alexander Pushkin / Khrushchev Palace --
State Power Station No. 1 --
State Tretyakov Gallery --
State University for the Humanities --
Stolnik apartment building --
Subbota residential complex --
Svoboda Factory Club --
Swiss Embassy --
Synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya --
Syromyatnichesky hydrosystem --
Sytin office building --
Taganka Theatre, new building --
Tarasov Mansion --
TASS building --
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall --
Terem Palace --
Terminal D, Sheremetevo Airport --
The Egg House --
The Kremlin --
The MID residential complex --
The Ritz-Carlton --
Tolstoy House --
Trading house of Moscow Fire Insurance Company/ Boyars' Court hotel --
Trading House of Moscow's Company of Merchants --
TransKreditBank --
Transport Ministry polyclinic --
Tretyakov Passage --
Trinity Church apartment building (House with Animals) --
Triumfalnaya ploshchad --
Triumph Palace residential building --
Triumphal Gate --
Troitskaya Tower (Kremlin) --
TsAGI complex --
Tsaritsyno Palace --
Tsentrosoyuz building --
TsSKA Arena /VTB Ice Palace --
TsSKA Football and Lightathletics Complex --
TsSKA Swimming Stadium --
Tsvetkov Mansion --
Tsvetnoy Central Market --
Tverskaya metro station --
Tyufeleva roshcha Park --
Udarnik Cinema --
Ukraine Pavilion, VDNKh --
Union Park residential complex --
Upper Trading Rows/GUM department store --
Urban Farm --
Usachev-Naydenov Palace --
Utro Rossii cultural centre --
Utro Rossii printing plant and publishing house --
Uzbekistan Embassy --
Uzbekistan Pavilion /Culture, VDNKh --
Vakhtangov Theatre --
Vavilova 47A business centre --
VEI building/Administration of the Specialist School for Electrical Engineering --
Versis residential building --
Villa Carrot --
Villa Ostozhenka --
Villa Roza --
Vladimir Durov Animal Theatre --
Vneshekonombank building --
Vodovzvodnaya Tower (Kremlin) --
Vorontsov Mansion/ Moscow Architecture Institute --
Vremena goda shopping centre --
VTB Arena --
VTB Arena Park --
VTB Bank --
VTB Ice Palace/TsSKA Arena --
Vysokopetrovsky Monaster --
Wall Street Business Centre --
Wellton Park residential district --
Western Gate business park --
World Trade Centre/ Sovintsentr --
Yakov Shlosberg Mansion --
Yaroslaysky vokzal (Yaroslaysky Railway Station) --
Yauza Hospital --
Yushkov House --
Zaryadie Moscow concert hall --
Zaryadie Park --
Zavodstroy residential building --
Zemlyanoy Val residential complex --
Zhivopsiny most --
ZIL Palace of Culture --
ZIL residential complex --
Zilart Diamond residential complex --
ZILART residential complex --
Zinaida Morozova Mansion --
Zuev Club --