Opulent landmark grand hotel 5 minutes from red square opposite bolshoi theater first opened in 1901 with a complete renovation and grand reopening in 2001 the palatial hotel metropol moscow puts you right across from the iconic bolshoi theater moscow international airport is a 45 minute taxi ride and leningradsky station is 20 minutes by metro red square and kremlin its a few minutes on foot to red square home to st basils cathedral and the lenin mausoleum the 3 story arcaded depart