This is not real, Mandy, but I would still recommend two sites there: 1) Vodka museum - a really unique one, and 2) the crafts market which is right next to this "Kremlin" (most active on weekends); you'd better have a native speaker with you when you go there (and not reveal that you are a foreigner): prices are likely to be better this way :) --Galina
Mandy, it's real in the sense that it exists, but it's fake. I don't think that it is worth seeing for its own sake. There are much better and really authentic sites to see.
A little misunderstanding here... It IS real of course, but it is not an authentic medieval fortress, it was built like 8 years ago, as an entertainment center. Still, the whole complex is quite interesting, and is very beautiful.
It's called Kremlin in Izmaylovo. I don't think there is a website of this place... It's appeared quite chaotically, right like such towns appeared in middle ages... First there was a market. Some paintings, old things, some souvenirs were sold there, and it was just a market, nothing more. Then local authorities decided to convert that flee market into a local place of interest. And they built some wooden towers and some wooden walls to attract people. It grew for several years, as I understand they gave right to build something on that territory to those to trade there. So the wooden part is really chaotic. There is a windmill, some towers, some walls, passages between all this and so on. Later the city authorities decided to help, and they built this white-stone fortress inside the wooden one. Frankly speaking I think our city mayor Luzhkov just wanted to build a Kremlin :))) So this place appeared as it is now - a stone citadel surrounded by a wooden fortress.
Add to friends 
please wait... 
My friend
А потом удивляемся, откуда берётся развесистая клюква :)
1) Vodka museum - a really unique one, and
2) the crafts market which is right next to this "Kremlin" (most active on weekends); you'd better have a native speaker with you when you go there (and not reveal that you are a foreigner): prices are likely to be better this way :)
--Galina