Dean Nelson

Night tour of Moscow by car

Really enjoyed Olga taking us around and showing us the sites at night. Olga was able to share not only interesting points of what we were seeing but as well as her observations as a resident of Moscow. We all enjoyed the tour. Thank you!



Tim Slee,

Novo Nordisk. Senior Global Director

Thank you for the tour Olga. It was very informative and enjoyable. Have a good summer!



Margaret Chow

The Kremlin

We enjoyed the Kremlin tour conducted by Stan very much.  Stan has provided a lot of knowledge about the history of Kremlin and we have learned a lot from that.



Rosemary Martelli

Old Charming Moscow

We had 2 guides, Tatiana and Olga, and both did a great job. I was in Tatiana’s group and can say first-hand her command of English and knowledge of history are stellar. She even cheerfully emailed a summary of what we had seen. This was a fabulous introduction to Moscow.



Arnols Santos

Night driving tour

My family of 4 (2 adults, 2 small children) enjoyed the 3-hour Moscow by Night driving tour with Stas. We enjoyed listening to the history of the places we visited. We liked this tour as it presented Moscow in a different perspective: illuminated lights (places like the skyscrapers, football stadium, abbey and liberty monument, Moscow State University), informative history of the places, comfortable driving tour. I was able to capture superb photographs. Thank you very much to Stas!






Mark Snider, US


Tours for relatives


I did receive a text from them and they said the tours were excellent. They seemed very pleased. And they are not the easiest people to please, so well done!




Jeremias van Pletzen 










Monino Aviation Museum








Tatiana was the only guide willing to do this tour. She is very pleasant person and well informed. Our original date was for the 29 May, but it changed to the 1 June. I was flexible and could accommodate the change. Communications are a bit slow. In general I would use her again. 




Dear Tatiana and Olga, Thank you very much for the efforts you went through to make the tour worth it. I can assure you that I definitely recommend your services. Good luck in completing your PhD.








Joan  Greco, US

Tatiana did a fabulous job of getting us to and from Sergiyev Posad. Explaining the Lavra and surrounding areas.



Claire de Bruin




Thank you so much for organizing the tour for us, it was so nice. My parents and in-laws were very impressed.






Barbara Stallings


Wm. R. Rhodes Research Professor


Watson Institute for International Studies I had a wonderful tour with Stas yesterday. I am very impressed with your group.


Also for everything else. If I come back to Russia, I will definitely get in touch with you, and if I hear of any friends coming, I’ll tell them too.




Claire de Bruin


Thanks Olga for a wonderful morning at Novodevichy! 






Christopher Moga, USA


Metro and Metro-2 walk 


Absolutely excellent. Tatiana scripted the Metro tour into a story of its being built through the decades. We stopped at probably 8-10 stations, each unique and with plenty of historical insight.








Victory Park walk


My guide for this tour was Tatiana. She was excellent: friendly, intelligent, witty, and very flexible with plans. We toured the surrounding grounds of the museum in addition to the museum itself; she was able to give personal experiences about the (second) Great Patriotic War that were worth the price of the tour alone. Highly recommended.






Emilia Josef  


Our guide for the Two Days Customized Tour was Olga.. We enjoyed our time with Olga. She speaks excellent English, friendly and very helpful… Very knowledgable about Moscow… Moscow is a beautiful place to visit, unfortunately the locals are not 100% «Tourist Friendly» yet .., having Olga as our local guide was definitely a plus point . Thank you Olga, we are now safely back in our country , Indonesia.




Edda Panzani


A big walk of Moscow 


Actually, the guide was Olga Malashkina. The tour was great! Olga’s vast knowledge of the history of Russia was evident throughout the tour. She’s also very nice and personable. If you want to really gather in-depth knowledge about every place you go to in Moscow, then definitely Olga (a historian) should be your tour guide!






Alain Vulliermet, France 


Old Charming Moscow 


It was Tatiana Sazonova. She was perfect.




Stephanie Geller, USA


Novodevichy convent 


Thank you Olga for your time and the tour today. Wish we had more time in Moscow to see other places with you and just «hang out».








Gorman and Faie Frederickson, USA  






















Moscow Metro and Metro-2, The Kremlin, Sergiev Posad tour, 






































Meet Moscow walk, Ostankino TV tower:


Loved it! Perfect! A true professional! Wonderful!






Gerald Roos


Metro tour 


The tour guide was Tatiana and I can really recommend her for her depth of knowledge 


and the very clearly structured and interactive way in which she shares information about the tour. 


She has also been very helpful in answering other queries I have had about Moscow.






Yvette Ball


Izmailovo tour








































































Tatiana is very friendly and her skills as a guide are excellent. I very much enjoyed my time with her. 


Conversations with her are easy going and I would highly recommend her as a guide.
























































Sebastiano Favretto 


Thank you from all of us for the tour, it was interesting, informative and well organized. 






Steve Garing


Night Driving tour of Moscow 


Veronika and her driver Julia were very good tour guides. They informed us of useful information that we would not have known otherwise and happily chatted with us on anything about Russia. 


 


Simon Chabot


Full day tour




The tour was very interesting, with a lot of things to see and to talk about. The guide was very well informed, and ready to answer questions. 


 


Maxine Chowles


Meet Moscow tour 




Tatiana was fantastic!!!! 


 


John Harry Lenthall, Australia


Comprehansive  Soviet tour


Olga was my guide. This was a tour with a reasonably high price tag but I got excellent value because I wanted a lot of in-depth information.She seemed to have every detail at her fingertips and many interesting illustrations for many of the things she was showing me.She also kept it light with humourous anecdotes.It took 6 1/2 hours and I was totally enthrall.


River boat tour


Tatyana was excellent,friendly and knowledgeable.She basically commented on all the features of the river trip as well as some of her own impressions and t was really worthwhile. 




Lance Jeffcoat


Meet Moscow walk


Tatiana was wonderful. We thoroughly enjoyed our tour in Moscow, and would highly recommend her.






Alanna Campbell, UK




Victory Park (Park Pobedy) tour 




We were very pleased with the tour of Victory Park we had with Tatiana, it was great to be able to discuss history and the city in general with someone who has such an excellent knowledge of both. After living here for 3 years my Russian is still nowhere near good enough to be able to discuss such topics in Russian, so Tatiana having such fantastic English was useful for me as well as our family who had never been to Moscow before. They were especially pleased with having someone to answer their many questions about Russian life and give them an insight in a way that we (as expats) cannot. I am very pleased with the service we have received from Moscow Mania and we will most definitely use you again in the future.




Dr.Renate Vahldieck, Germany


Meet Moscow walk 


Hallo-hallo aus Moskau! :)  :)  Danke Sehr fuer die Fotos — sie sind super!! Danke fuer Ihre warme Worte auch! Fuehrungen mit Ihnen waren ein Spass fuer uns alle! Ich, glaube Deutschland ist en Muss auf unseren kuenftigen Reiseplaenen! Es waere toll Sie in Deutschland wiederzutreffen! 




 


Teodoro, Canada


Meet Moscow! tour


I was in Russia recently for the first time and only had a day in Moscow. Tatiana provided an excellent tour of the city; she was very professional, friendly and extremely knowledgeable which helped me to have right context for all the sites we visited. Also, she was flexible and put together a custom tour in a short period of time. I would highly recommend Tatiana to anyone looking to explore Moscow and truly understand all of its rich history and points of interest. 


 


Ekateria Lobanova, Russia


Kremlin Tour 


Olga was very passionate and knowledgeable about the subject, and warm and friendly in her presentation and interaction with us. The tour was of sufficient length and well paced. Overall: excellent.





Moscow Mania Friend is a great concept and we were very pleased to find you before we arrived. We would like to thank the team at Moscow Mania but especially, Olga, our Moscow Friend, for making our stay so memorable. Moscow Mania is an excellent and much-needed initiative which allows people to follow their own personal interests and not be tied down by a big group tour.  We saw everything we’d arranged to do and we were really very impressed with the level of expertise and knowledge. We were also pleased because Olga and Tania spoke so enthusiastically about all the sights they showed us ( yet some guides we had in other cities were not able to do this). I know that Moscow Mania offers some really different tours but it was difficult to find your website at first — once we did we were very happy, so thank you to the Moscow Mania team and especially Olga. Norma and Warwick





Lilya was a wonderful host and we enjoyed very much the sites we saw and her wealth of information about Moscow.  I would certainly recommend the Moscow Friends service to visitors to your city.  The heat was an issue but as we have travelled to many places we have learned one lesson that the weather is not something you can control and you have to do the best you can. Thank you again  Robert Kirouac





We did have a very good time (aside from the heat) and again want to thank Olga and Tatiana for their efforts to find things for us — even if they did think we were a bit «eccentric»!  We hope these thoughts will be received in the spirit they were written — with much affection and many hopes for your success!  Wishing you all the best with the heat and in general with the weeks and years ahead!




PS: Most of our facebook community members have attended to our walks.  If you’re interested in additional opinion, it is the right place to ask.