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                <title>The Hyatt</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Unspeakable prices - $500 plus a night. Strictly for those who don't look at the numbers on the end of the bill.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Hotel Budapest</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A few minutes walk from the Bolshoi and the centre. Doubles start at £125.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Hotel Ukraine</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Enormous Stalinesque building where you'll have to immerse yourself in the sense of history to ignore the lack of any extras. Around €70 a night for a double.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Pushkin Cafe</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A tourist hang-out, but also the preferred eaterie of the well-heeled. High-end Russian cuisine where smoked meat meets pickled fish. Expect to pay at least £50 a head.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Petrovich</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Apparently an exclusive club-restaurant, but they let anyone in who asks nicely (in Russian). Traditional Russian food, ice cold vodka, and bizarre caricature busts of everyone from Lady Di to Dostoyevski. £15 a head for vodka and food.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Karetnyi Dvor</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Azerbaijani food (a little like Georgian, but with more herbs and less melted cheese). Kebabs, pickled vegetable stuffed in previously unimaginable ways. Try the kutab with pumpkin (kutab s tykvy). Drink Georgian Saperavi wine. A drunken feast for about £30 a head.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Master and Margarita</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Mikhail Bulgakov's masterpiece is the definitive Moscow novel.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Burnt by the Sun</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Nikita Mikhalkov’s epic about the 30s purges, which of course culminates in an apartment just off Red Square.]]></description>
                
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                <title>River ferry</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Take a boat on the river, past the Novodevichy monastery, Gorky Park and the Kremlin. They leave every 20 minutes between 12 pm and 8 pm from the pier at Kiev Station]]></description>
                
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                <title>Patriach's Pond</title>
                
                <link>http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/28</link>
                
                <description><![CDATA[The spiritual home of Bulgakov's masterpiece and Moscow's soul. A park in the city centre.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Georgian food</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Sushi is all the rage, but you should try this. Grilled meat, fresh vegetables and hachipuri, bread stuffed with melted cheese - easily the most addictive substance in the former Soviet Union.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Correas' restaurant</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A New York-style delicatessen. Exquisite pizzas and omelettes. Rack of the finest lamb in town. Increasingly and annoyingly popular.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Arkhangelskoye estate</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Old tsarist manor of winding paths and shaded corners.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Matrioshki</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Little wooden dolls that fit inside each other, often with the faces of leaders in descending order, Lenin last, of course.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Novaya Tretyakovskaya Gallery</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Twentieth-century Russian art. You will need several hours to marvel at the avant-garde and socialist realist masterpieces that bring to life what was happening on the other side of the Iron Curtain.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Sandunovskaya Banya</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Traditional Russian baths from the 18th century. Wrap yourself in nothing but a sheet, sit in the hot, purging steam and then jump into a freezing cold-water pool. A perfect hangover cure that, worryingly, leaves you wanting a cold beer (also on offer). Expect to pay around £20 a head for the whole experience.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Coffee Mania</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Outside the Conservatory concert hall on Bolshaya Nikitskaya. A summer terrace and a warm, cavernous interior for the endless winter.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Stand in the middle of Red Square</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[As long as the Kremlin security lets you that day, otherwise stand near it. It's where it all began, ended, and will go on.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Airport transfer: Taxi</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The awkwardness of the various other modes of transport from Sheremetyevo means that taxis are the most viable option. Join the queue for fixed-rate taxis and under no circumstances accept offers from unlicensed drivers inside the terminal.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Moscow Times</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Afisha and Bolshoi Gorod are in Russian, but are the definitive guides. The Moscow Times is the city’s English language bible, with Go magazine as its entertainment guide (<a target="_new" href="http://go-magazine.ru">go-magazine.ru</a>).]]></description>
                
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