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Free booking and cancellationFree payment tour, no set price, booking and cancellation are free
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Accepts electronic paymentThis tour allows payment by electronic means or credit card
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Hi! I'm Asya, an independent journalist (not affiliated to authorities) and a passionate connoisseur of Moscow, the city where I've lived since the age of 10. I've worked as a tour guide for around a year: first, I showed my foreign friends around the city for free, but soon it turned into a part-time job. I arrange tours around Moscow where I show hidden gems and less touristic sights. If you have already been to Moscow or live here, if you have seen the Red Square and VDNKH - you're welcome to join my tours! Together we can discover Moscow from different historic&cultural prospectives, e.g. we'll see the Moscow of merchants, of poets - or of vagabonds, orphans and thieves, or we can see the Jewish or feminist Moscow. I adore discovering the city from the point of view of muscovites - e.g. via diaries, letters, recollections etc. - and then collecting from those pieces a bigger, more general historic, social or cultural context. Welcome - let's plunge together into the different layers of muscovite history.
You have probably heard a lot about Pushkin, Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy - but do you fancy learning more about Russian literature? During our tour, we'll get acquainted with a broader context of Russian classical and modern literature and try to understand what could have influenced the mindset and the literary works of outstanding Russian writers.
We'll see:
On our way from Dmitrovka to Mayakovskaya, we'll see how literature was evolving in Moscow - both Empire and Soviet - how it thrived, broke through censorship, or overcame crises, and how it reflected and reacted to the changing sociocultural reality.
I'll be waiting for you near the Pushkin monument with a teddy bear in my hand
Free tours do not have a set price, instead, each person gives the guru at the end of the tour the amount that he or she considers appropriate (these usually range from €10 to $50 depending on satisfaction with the tour).