2 Best Hotels in Rostov, Side Trips from Moscow

Just steps from the kremlin, this 18th-century, two-story historic mansion-turned-hotel has all the amenities you could ask for from a provincial hotel, especially the clean, spacious rooms cheerfully decorated in pastel colors. Restaurant Rasstegai, on the ground floor, serves hearty Russian meals.

If you've ever wanted to stay overnight in a kremlin, here's your chance: these wooden-walled rooms of varying sizes are built over the food stores, or pogreba. Although a bit Soviet in style and presentation, the lodgings have all the basic amenities and you can wander the grounds of the kremlin at night, though you shouldn't be too loud.