Mysterious Places in Moscow on Private Tour with Friendly Local Guide
Highlights
Moscow
Private Tour
3 Hours
MODERATE
English
Description
Have a thrilling adventure on the mysterious streets of Moscow on this private guided tour.Uncover the dangerous magic hidden on the streets of this city.Delve into the most intriguing corners of Moscow, full of supernatural things and haunted places.Tremble from the frightening tales of your guide and learn more about the events that had happened in the places you will visit.
• See the most famous sites of Moscow, including the Kremlin and Arbat
• Dive into the mysterious atmosphere of haunted houses
• Investigate the presence of supernatural beings on the seemingly peaceful streets of Moscow
• Listen to the thrilling stories of your expert local guide
Itinerary
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It was built in the 1930s for the Soviet famous and intelligent people, civil servants, participants of the Civil War, scientists and artists.However, living here wasn’t sweet, as in the late 1930s many the residents of the house were repressed with their families.Terrible things happened to others: someone committed suicide, and someone died in strange circumstances.The current residents of the house say that this place has a strange atmosphere, it’s believed that the spirits of those who lived in the house in the 1930s are still here.
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The ghost of the Tsar Ivan the Terrible sometimes visits the Kremlin.This ghost lives in the Bell tower and comes to regular visitors of the Kremlin.Fanny Kaplan, woman-killer who arranged the failed assassination attempt on Lenin, and personally shot the Kremlin commandant Fry.She did not calm down — her ghost with the gun in her hands still wanders in a Commandant's Tower in Moscow Kremlin.
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Once a month ghost metro train appears after 12 o’clock at night on the ring of Moscow metro.The driver of this train wears the builder uniform of the pre-war years, however, there are no people in the carriages.It is believed that only the souls of the dead workers are going in this train.The ghost train stops at every station, sometimes with its doors open.
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Nikolay Aleksandrovich Rubakin was a famous bibliographer and writer.He died in 1946, but before it, he had given his great collection of books to Lenin Russian [sensitive content]wadays someone’s footsteps can be heard in the empty reading room of the library.Employees say that it is the ghost of Rubakin wandering there and if you will encounter it, you can ask it to find the book you need.
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The ghost of the cat named after the famous Bulgakov's Behemoth haunts Tverskaya Street.The residents of this street claim that they often see this cat; they even take pictures of it.
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In the early XX century, a beautiful French woman Zhuzhu was the mistress of a philanthropist Savva Morozov.One morning in 1905, Zhuzhu was going by carriage on the Kuznetsk Bridge.Suddenly she heard the loud voice of some newspaper boys: "Savva Morozov committed suicide in Nice!"
Zhuzhu went out of the carriage to buy a newspaper and got under the wheels of a carriage passing on the opposite line.That evening the police officer found a dead newspaper boy, strangled with a black stocking.The police found out that the stocking belonged to Zhuzhu, but her body was already in the morgue.
Since then, Zhuzhu has been bringing her vengeance to all journalists and newspaper sellers by attacking them or even trying to kill.
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The legend of the 19th century says that a loser who had lost all his property came out of the Moscow casino after midnight and began thinking about suicide, a ghost of a carriage appeared in front of him immediately, and the driver wearing gray cloak offered the loser to take him wherever he wants only for 10 cents.Those people, who took this carriage, were never seen later.
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There was a house # 14 on Arbat Street that doesn’t exist nowadays because it was destroyed during the Great Patriotic War.This house belonged to the Suvorov's grandfather, as well as the princes Shakhovsky and Obolensky.House No.14 was known as the haunted house, it was rented and some of its tenants killed themselves.In addition, its basement in the late nineteenth century was shelter for criminals and beggars.
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Rich elderly couple, Peter and Sophia Ivanovna Kusovnikova lived in the house № 17 on Myasnitskaya Street.During their lives the couple was very greedy, they tried to save their money and were afraid of getting robbed.One day Sophia Ivanovna hid the box with the money in the fireplace.The janitor, who did not know about it, lit the fireplace and all the money was burned.Sophia Ivanovna and her husband after they realized that all their money was gone.People say that the ghost of the old man in a coat still haunt the house on Myasnitskaya and tries to return the money.
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In the 19th century, two revolutionaries Herzen and Ogarev took the oath about the impartial struggle against the autocracy at the Vorobyovy Gory.Now the ghosts of Herzen and Ogarev, wearing the clothes of their time sometimes appears here.It is believed that encounter with the ghosts promises good luck to students of the Moscow State University.
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There are many legends about the Patriarch's Ponds.In the past this place was called Goat swamps, the name was associated with evil force, that organized different machinations.The evil forces were the ghosts of the victims of the pagan priests.People had drowned here and the animals hadgone missing.It is still rumored that animals feel bad here and ducks that stay here in the afternoon always fly away to spend the night in the nearest zoo.
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There are a lot of myths and legends about the House of Beria.Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria was Stalin's right hand and the head of the NKVD.Beria was quite a mysterious man during his lifetime.He was also arrested and shot under rather mysterious circumstances.
Historians still argue about where he was actually buried.People say that the Ghost of Beria comes back sometimes, and his ghost car comes to the house around midnight.
According to some witnesses of this event, it is impossible to see it, but you can clearly hear a noise of the running engine, a sound of opening door, heavy steps of a man who got out of the car, and someone's voices.
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There is the mysterious house in the center of Moscow, that today is occupied by the Embassy of France.The house belonged to Nikolay Igumnov who was a rich merchant and the owner of the Yaroslavl Big Manufactory.At the end of the XIX century, he built this mansion in the traditional Russian style.
However, fairy-tale tower that looks like a gingerbread house isn’t as safe as it might look.The ghost of a "white woman" haunts this place, the city legend says that it is the kept woman of the merchant Igumnov, who used to live here before the jealous owner of the house immured her in a wall for treason.
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Your guide will meet you at your centrally-located hotel, hostel or vacation rental
You don't need to call to confirm the tour.The local supplier will contact you via email
Cancellation Policy
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For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -
Refund of 80% of the tour price.