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IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ!!! You are just about to book a company owned Luxury Apartment located in a very center of Moscow, owned and managed by Go Тo Russia Travel - Apartment Reservation Network. Each apartment has its own address which will be emailed to you after the order is confirmed. After you book an apartment CONTACT AND INFORM US by email, fax or phone with your client's arrival information so we could schedule the check in and key transfer for the reserved apartment. Please contact us at info@apartmentres.com or call +7 495 225 5012, +7 495 649 6282 - more convenient for Europe, Asia and Africa or +1 404 827 0099 - more convenient for South or North America and Australia. IMPORTANT!! If you do not provide us with customers CONTACT INFORMATION and ARRIVAL DETAILS, there is NO GUARANTEE that the client will be met in Moscow. Each client is met at the apartment location where he receives the apartment keys. After apartment is confirmed by Apartment Reservation Network, you will receive an email with confirmation voucher which will contain the apartment address and contact information for our office in Moscow. You are welcome to pass this information request on to your clients and have them contact us directly. If for some reason you have not been contacted, please CONTACT US. Transportation upon arrival is available at $49 from Sheremetevo airport or train station and $59 from Domodedovo airport per sedan car (limit 2 pax). Minivan size vehicle - $85 and $90 accordingly. Whatever brings you to Moscow - business or pleasure, you will love staying at one of the luxury apartments. Fall asleep and wake up to an amazing view. Walk outside - and you're in the middle of an area that both tourists and Muscovites love to visit- the Arbat with little coffee shops, antique stores, street artists, souvenirs, big shops and 24-hour nightlife. As a nice contrast to the busy outside, your apartment will be a very cozy and warm place with all modern amenities.
"Arbat" redirects here. For other uses, see Arbat (disambiguation).
The Old Arbat is a picturesque pedestrian street within the Garden Ring of Moscow. Nowadays, it is one of Moscow's most touristy streets, with lots of entertainment and souvenirs sold. The Old Arbat should be distinguished from the nearby New Arbat, constructed back in the 1960s as Kalinin Avenue and lined with Soviet skyscrapers made of steel, concrete, and glass.
The Arbat was first attested in 1493 as a road leading from the Moscow Kremlin to Smolensk. The origin of the name is Tatar and means suburb (the same as Rabat). During the 16th and 17th centuries, the neighbourhood was graced with elegant churches, notably the one featured in Vasily Polenov's celebrated painting A Courtyard in Moscow (1879).
In the 18th century, the Arbat came to be regarded by the Russian nobility as the most prestigious living area in Moscow. The street was almost completely destroyed by the great fire during Napoleon's occupation of Moscow in 1812 and had to be rebuilt. Alexander Pushkin lodged in one of its mansions for a short time, and there is a statue of him and his wife Natalie in front of this house. Another famous native was the writer Andrey Bely, many of whose novels feature impressionist portrayals of this patriarchal area. (...) more....
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