Remembrance Grotto Moscow
This decorative artificial grotto called "The Ruins", in Alexander Garden at the foot of the Kremlin Walls, is made out of fragments of real Moscow houses that had been destroyed during the Napoleonic occupation. It commemorates the war years of 1812.
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Source
- Text: Fedor de Vries
- Photos: Vladimir OKC
Nearby
Museum
- Museum of the Patriotic War of 1812 - Moskva
- State Museum of Gulag History - Moskva
- Central Armed Forces Museum Moscow - Moskva
Point of interest
- Former NKVD Lubyanka Prison - Moskva
- Muzeon Park of Arts - Moskva
- Frunze Military Academy - Khamovniki
Monument
- Memorial Kremlin Defence - Moskva
- Equestrian Statue of Georgi Zjoekov - Moskva
- Memorial Marshall of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov - Moskva
Cemetery
- Memorials Hero Cities - Moskva
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - Moskva
- Kremlin Wall Necropolis - Moskva
Fortification
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