Many Russian Museums of the world significance, both metropolitan and provincial, are well-known. The book narrates about such indisputable symbols of Russian culture as the State Hermitage and Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery and the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.Pushkin; about eloquent witnesses of many centuries, that are the Moscow Kremlin and the kremlins of other cities; about the oldest museums such as the Central Naval Museum established in St. Petersburg in 1709 in the order of Peter I, the Kunstkammer, which was opened in 1714 as the first Russian public museum. The reader can find here also the articles on the memorial museums, museums-estates and the most interesting private museums.