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Top 10 Moscow (Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides)

Top 10 Moscow provides travelers with visually engaging lists of Moscow's finest museums, churches and cathedrals, performing arts venues, socialist buildings, cultural events, festivals, leisure activities, markets, souvenirs, bars, and even distinctive Russian drinks.

There are sections covering all the popular tourist sights, including The Kremlin and Red Square, Kitay Gorod, Arbatskaya, Tverskaya, Zamoskvorechve.

Top 10 Moscow also offers invaluable advice on etiquette for visitors, shopping tips, and budget selections.

Good afternoon mine dear and loved [Enter Name Here], for me it is very
happy day to see your letter. I'm in Moscow! You can't imagine how
happy I am because I already started my trip to you! Moscow is a
really big city! From my city I went by train... it was so long way...
about 23 hours. When I got off the train in Moscow, policeman asked
me about passport and he looked at me like I am an enemy ))) I think
all people here are a little crazy. Everything here is very expensive,
not like in my city... and everywhere are big crowds of people!
Everywhere is so many people! I feel uncomfortable because of it but I
hope I will be OK soon. I couldn't find a cheap hotel, everything is
so expensive in Moscow. I managed to find number for $70.. but I have
counted it also expensive. I managed to find my girlfriend, Julia...
We studied at university. She has allowed me to stop in her house. She lives
with mum. Earlier we lived in one city, but later she with mum, went live to Moscow.
We had many conversations, spoke about you much. Julia it is very glad
for me! Today she has carried out all the day long with me..
And by the evening accompanied to the Internet of cafe, then has gone for work.
[Enter Name Here] I think that everything most difficult has remained behind us!
I had the conversation in embassy! I knew that it would be a difficult
conversation, but I could not imagine at all that I must answer to so
many questions. And prior to the beginning of I have been so frightened,
I so worried. But as soon as they have asked the first question,
I at once became absolutely calmed down. I simply sat, and straight
answered to questions. I spoke everything what I think, in all
sincerity, as always. They asked me actually about everything!
They asked me about my life, about my childhood,, about terrorism,
about my work, about my last relationship. They have read all
documents which I has collected. They asked me about my belief in god.
and often I saw on their faces that they expected from me not such the
answers, but I didn't want to speak beautiful things which pleasantly
to listen to. I simply spoke sincerely all what in my heart.
And first I thought that my answers have not satisfied them, but they
have told that to listen to my answers very pleasantly and unusually.
They have told that "bitter" sincerity always better than "sweet"
flattery. Besides, I already had experience of reception of the visa and
they really have been impressed with fact that I had such a great support
from many people and establishments. And maybe in some hours All papers
will be in my hands !!!!! I can't believe. I feel that I did all correctly.
[Enter Name Here] I should also ask you the very important question once again.
When I'll arrive to you, there is a place, I however can be stop at your home?
Or however I should live in the hotel? But I dont want stop in the hotel.
dont like hotel. But I have found some variants. Just in case.
And dear, dont forget send me all information.
1. Your full name
2. Your full home address.
3. Also once again nearest airport . Where you will precisely meet me.
[Enter Name Here] today I saw my parents in my sleep-dream, and they smiled to me.
I know that it is their approval. I see my parents in sleep-dream very seldom!
I always knew that dream will never simply fall into hands
from the sky. I always knew that if you want the dream to come true,
you must do for this purpose all what in your forces. I know that it
is necessary to believe, hope and struggle. And I really struggled
[Enter Name Here], I tried to do all what in my forces. And I hope god will
help us. after all difficulties, after all efforts I believe that
Everything will be fine! I really feel that I did everything well.
[Enter Name Here] I worry very much, but my heart say to me that I should smile.
And I smile today. I feel that I will meet you. I feel that the
meeting at the airport will be beautiful and romantic. I will tell you
everything what I will feel at that moment, and you will tell me. And
then we will leave the airport and we will chatter and laugh. I will
tell you how I endured the flight in the plane and what I was thinking about.
You will tell me how you waited for me at the airport. And then we
will have a wonderful time together. We will walk, spend evenings, to
watch funny and scary movies, - and I will hide under your hand at the
most scary moment... We will meet together the first beams of the sun
and will see off a magnificent sunset. We will sit near a window and
to drink hot tea while in the street will be a cold. How I want
to have a breakfast together and a supper with candles. How I want to
shout together with you at the stadium; or simply to lay on a bed, and
to tell each other about a life. How I want all this - simple things
which will bring to us so many joy. If everything will be fine, I will
start the most difficult process - preparation of my suitcase! :) .
[Enter Name Here] probable by d

Nothing special about this, except that you can see destination airport, Moscow Domodedovo, where the plane is going to land in 20 minutes on runway 32L. Check photo notes if you can't find it :)

The extraordinary new Gabriel Allon novel from the “gold standard” (The Dallas Morning News) of thriller writers.

Over the course of ten previous novels, Daniel Silva has established himself as one of the world’s finest writers of international intrigue and espionage— “a worthy successor to such legends as Frederick Forsyth and John le Carre” (Chicago Sun-Times)—and Gabriel Allon as “one of the most intriguing heroes of any thriller series” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).

Now the death of a journalist leads Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He’s playing by Moscow rules now.

This is not the grim, gray Moscow of Soviet times but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and choked with bulletproof Bentleys. A Moscow where power resides once more behind the walls of the Kremlin and where critics of the ruling class are ruthlessly silenced. A Moscow where a new generation of Stalinists is plotting to reclaim an empire lost and to challenge the global dominance of its old enemy, the United States.

One such man is Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union. Hidden within that empire, however, is a more lucrative and deadly business: Kharkov is an arms dealer—and he is about to deliver Russia’s most sophisticated weapons to al- Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest terror attacks since 9/11—and the clock is ticking fast.

Filled with rich prose and breathtaking turns of plot, Moscow Rules is at once superior entertainment and a searing cautionary tale about the new threats rising to the East—and Silva’s finest novel yet.

Product Description

Daniel silva has hit the top with his new gabriel allon novel...

A #1 New York Times bestseller!

The death of a journalist leads Israeli spy Gabriel Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn if he wants to prevent a former KGB colonel from delivering Russia’s most sophisticated weapons to al-Qaeda.

Amazon Exclusive Essay: Daniel Silva on Gabriel Allon and the "Accidental Series"


Writers tend to be solitary creatures. We toil alone for months on end, then, once a year, we emerge from our dens to publish a book. It can be a daunting experience, especially for someone like me, who is not gregarious and outgoing by nature. But there is one aspect of promotion I truly love: meeting my readers and answering their questions. During each stop on my book tour, I reserve the bulk of my time for a lively conversation with the audience. I learn much from these encounters-indeed, some of the comments are so insightful they take my breath away. There is one question I am asked each night without fail, and it remains my favorite: "How in the world did you ever think of Gabriel Allon?" The answer is complicated. In one sense, he was the result of a long, character-construction process. In another, he was a bolt from the blue. I'll try to explain.
In 1999, after publishing The Marching Season, the second book in the Michael Osbourne series, I decided it was time for a change. We were nearing the end of the Clinton administration, and the president was about to embark on a last-ditch effort to bring peace to the Middle East. I had the broad outlines of a story in mind: a retired Israeli assassin is summoned from retirement to track down a Palestinian terrorist bent on destroying the Oslo peace process. I thought long and hard before giving the Israeli a name. I wanted it to be biblical, like my own, and to be heavy with symbolism. I finally decided to name him after the archangel Gabriel. As for his family name, I chose something short and simple: Allon, which means "oak tree" in Hebrew. I liked the image it conveyed. Gabriel Allon: God's angel of vengeance, solid as an oak.
Gabriel's professional resume-the operations he had carried out-came quickly. But what about his other side? What did he like to do in his spare time? What was his cover? I knew I wanted something distinct. Something memorable. Something that would, in many respects, be the dominant attribute of his character. I spent many frustrating days mulling over and rejecting possibilities. Then, while walking along one of Georgetown's famous redbrick sidewalks, my wife, Jamie, reminded me that we had a dinner date that evening at the home of David Bull, a man regarded as one of the finest art restorers in the world. I stopped dead in my tracks and raised my hands toward the heavens. Gabriel Allon was complete. He was going to be an art restorer, and a very good one at that.
Over my objections, the book was entitled The Kill Artist and it would go on to become a New York Times bestseller. It was not, however, supposed to be the first book in a long-running series. But once again, fate intervened. In 2000, after moving to G.P. Putnam & Sons, my new publishers asked me what I was working on. When I mumbled something about having whittled it down to two or three options, they offered their first piece of advice. They really didn't care what it was about, they just wanted one thing: Gabriel Allon.
I then spent the next several minutes listing all the reasons why Gabriel, now regarded as one of the most compelling and successful continuing characters in the mystery-thriller genre, should never appear in a second book. I had conceived him as a "one off" character, meaning he would be featured in one story and then ride into the sunset. I also thought he was too melancholy and withdrawn to build a series around, and, at nearly fifty years of age, perhaps a bit too old as well. My biggest concern, however, had to do with his nationality and religion. I thought there was far too much opposition to Israel in the world-and far too much raw anti-Semitism-for an Israeli continuing character ever to be successful in the long term.
My new publishers thought otherwise, and told me so. Because Gabriel lived in Europe and could pass as German or Italian, they believed he came across as more "international" than Israeli. But what they really liked was Gabriel's other job: art restoration. They found the two opposing sides of his character-destroyer and healer-fascinating. What's more, they believed he would stand alone on the literary landscape. There were lots of CIA officers running around saving the world, they argued, but no former Israeli assassins who spent their spare time restoring Bellini altarpieces.
The more they talked, the more I could see their point. I told them I had an idea for a story involving Nazi art looting during the Second World War and the scandalous activities of Swiss banks. "Write it with Gabriel Allon," they said, "and we promise it will be your biggest-selling book yet." Eventually, the book would be called The English Assassin, and, just as Putnam predicted, it sold twice as many copies as its predecessor. Oddly enough, when it came time to write the next book, I still wasn't convinced it should be another Gabriel novel. Though it seems difficult to imagine now, I actually conceived the plot of The Confessor without him in mind. Fortunately, my editor, Neil Nyren, saved me from myself. The book landed at #5 on the New York Times bestseller list and received some of the warmest reviews of my career. After that, a series was truly born.
I am often asked whether it is necessary to read the novels in sequence. The answer is no, but it probably doesn't hurt, either. For the record, the order of publication is The Kill Artist, The English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, Prince of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant, and Moscow Rules, my first #1 New York Times bestseller. The Defector pits Gabriel in a final, dramatic confrontation with the Russian oligarch and arms dealer Ivan Kharkov, and I have been told it far surpasses anything that has come before it in the series. And to think that, if I'd had my way, only one Gabriel Allon book would have been written. I remain convinced, however, that had I set out in the beginning to create him as a continuing character, I would surely have failed. I have always believed in the power of serendipity. Art, like life, rarely goes according to plan. Gabriel Allon is proof of that.