Visitors to Moscow's Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve were urged to avoid the area on 31 October after the US Embassy warned of a credible threat of a mass-casualty event there.
The US government said it was coordinating a response with appropriate Russian authorities. Russia's Federal Security Service, the FSB, said it had received information from US partners through partner channels about plans for a terrorist attack in Moscow and was taking action.
Tsaritsyno, at Dolskaya Ulitsa 1 in southern Moscow, is a historic palace and park complex commissioned by Catherine the Great in the 18th century.
The embassy's urgent alert identified the site as the location of the potential mass-casualty event on 31 October. It advised people to stay away from the museum and from crowded places more generally.
The FSB said: “We have received information from U.S. partners regarding plans for a terrorist attack in Moscow. We are taking appropriate action.”
The museum remained open as usual. A representative told the Telegram channel Mash that staff had received no information about a threat.
Moscow city officials and federal authorities gave no public comment on the alert.
The warning recalled an earlier embassy alert issued in early March 2024, before the attack on Crocus City Hall outside Moscow on 22 March 2024. That attack killed 145 people and wounded hundreds.
Sergei Naryshkin, the Russian spy chief, later described the US information before the Crocus City Hall attack as “too general.” He said it “did not allow us to fully identify those who committed this terrible crime.”
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