Books share the shelves with site-branded apparel at Kazan Kremlin Branded Store, operated directly by the Kazan Kremlin's museum authority. TATSHOP.RU supplies Tatar-language books and music from Kazan, with Shamail wall calligraphy also included in its catalogue. Moscow's Biblio-Globus carries a broad general book selection on Myasnitskaya, near Lubyanka, alongside stationery and board games. Author talks and book launches form part of that shop's regular programme, extending its activity beyond the sales shelves.
Government Offices Building 4, Kazan Kremlin, Tatarstan, Russia
Run by the State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve that has managed the Kremlin since 2007, the branded store inside Government Offices building 4 sells scented candles and diffusers made specifically for the site alongside books and apparel. It operates under the Kremlin's own museum authority rather than an outside souvenir concessionaire.
Registered in Kazan since 2001 under entrepreneur Damir Nasyrov, this mail-order house has spent two decades supplying Tatar and Muslim households with Tatar-language books and music, jewelry and Shamail wall calligraphy. Its souvenir section extends the same catalogue to visitors, shipping nationally and internationally from its Tatarstan base.
Best for Tatar-language books, music, Islamic calligraphy
Biblio-Globus is a landmark Moscow bookshop on Myasnitskaya near Lubyanka, carrying more than 200,000 titles and running a busy programme of author talks and book launches. Open daily, it pairs a deep general catalogue with board games, stationery and regular in-store events.
The Moskva bookshop sells printed and electronic books alongside antiquarian editions, stationery and gifts, with delivery across Russia from its online store. A team of reader-advisers curates the shelves, with particular strength in regional and hard-to-find titles.
Yanina is a Moscow haute couture house with a working online shop for its Basic and Demi Couture lines, plus a showroom on Tverskaya Street where clients book appointments to view and buy full couture collections. The brand has been operating since 1993 and lists a Bolshaya Dmitrovka address in central Moscow in its site footer.
Best for Couture, fashion, womenswear, eveningwear
This antique shop in Omsk, run by a longtime collector, buys, sells, and trades coins, medals, porcelain, icons, watches, books, and other collectibles. Visit the kiosk on Gusarova Street to browse the stock or have a piece appraised.
Staraya Tula has baked the city's tula pryanik gingerbread since 1881, which the company describes as the oldest gingerbread enterprise in the city, and now runs three branded shops across the city alongside a gingerbread museum. Visitors can also book a hands-on pryanik-making masterclass at the factory.
Best for Tula's oldest gingerbread maker, with its own museum
Staraya Tula has produced tula pryanik — the city's traditional spiced, filled gingerbread — since 1881, and describes itself as the oldest enterprise in Tula's gingerbread industry. The factory has maintained continuous production through more than 140 years, adapting its offerings from standard 130-gram gingerbread to souvenir editions, premium "Extra" varieties, and hand-decorated pieces sold in gift boxes.
Beyond the factory on Staronikitskaya Street, the business runs branded retail shops across Tula, including a location inside the SK-Royal Hotel on Sovetskaya Street and two "Tulskiy Pryanik" shops. A gingerbread museum, attached to one of the Staronikitskaya Street locations, documents the craft's history and role in regional culture — the bakery describes its product as more than a sweet, calling it a souvenir and a symbol of regional pride.
Visitors can book hands-on masterclasses in gingerbread making and decoration at the factory, alongside standard retail purchases from any of the branded shops.
The shop of the Aldan-Maadyr National Museum in Kyzyl carries what Tuva makes — agalmatolite carvings, felt, books on the land of khöömei singing and Scythian gold. Museum retail on the MoMu precedent, at the geographic centre of Asia.
Best for Tuvan craft and books from the Aldan-Maadyr museum