With some awesome road trip options available in the surrounding area, renting a car makes sense. Without one, it wouldn’t be half as easy to soak up everything that Chekhov, 50 miles away, has to offer. Museum in Memory of 1941-1945, Lopasnya Zachatyevskoye Manor House and Museum and Chekhov Town Theater alone justify the drive out here. The locals will also likely point you toward Serpukhov, 55 miles away. If you can only find time for one thing here, let it be Serpukhov Music and Drama Theatre. (But we’re also huge fans of Vysotsky Monastery and Church of All Saints.)