“I guess I was thinking that we would need to keep a lower profile,” added Ms. Wood, who was last in Moscow before Western sanctions or the war in eastern Ukraine, “but no one’s reacted badly to us at all, and we’re even kind of loud.”

Probably the biggest selling point for visiting Russia now, though, is the drastic devaluation of the ruble, which lost more than half its worth at the end of last year. Even taking into account inflation (recorded at 16.7 percent in February) and the ruble’s considerable rebound over the past few months, the country is more affordable than at any time in recent memory. At the beginning of 2014, a dollar bought 32.86 rubles. In mid-April this year, it bought 49.80.

For tourists, this means paying 15 to 50 percent less for just about everything. A year ago, a cappuccino in Moscow cost the equivalent of $8 or $9. Now it’s rarely more than $5. Though airlines, even Russia’s Aeroflot, keep their tickets indexed at dollar rates, most hotels have not substantially raised their ruble prices.

This means that the starting room rate in June at the Sheraton Palace, which is 11,900 rubles, has decreased from $362 to $226. A room at a budget hotel goes for around $50 these days, and a double at the Ritz-Carlton, at 28,910 rubles, was once just short of $900 and now comes in just over $550. In fact, luxury hotels in Moscow actually reported an 8 percent uptick in occupancy in the first two months of 2015, apparently because of travelers upgrading from midrange because of the currency rate, according to a recent report cited by The Moscow Times.

Though some tourist attractions have increased the entrance fee in rubles, they are still more affordable for visitors with foreign currency. The Kremlin’s entrance fee has increased since the beginning of 2014 from 350 to 500 rubles, but in dollars, it has dropped from $10.65 to $9.54. Entrance for non-Russians to the Tretyakov State Gallery, with its stunning collection of medieval Russian religious art, is now 450 instead of 360 rubles, but its dollar price has dropped 10 percent.

Most cathedrals and churches seem not to have increased their entrance fees, nor has the phenomenal Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, meaning all are around 40 percent cheaper for visitors. The State Hermitage Museum there seems to be the only major attraction that is actually more expensive for foreigners, though not by much. It doubled its price in rubles, but the dollar price increased by about a buck.

Ruble ticket prices to the Bolshoi Theater have not changed. A decent seat for an opera or ballet on the recently refurbished historic stage still sells in the 3,000- to 9,000-ruble range, which used to start around $90 but now starts at $57. Of course, that’s only if you manage to buy from the theater itself. The scalper racket is as strong as ever, but even scalpers’ more capricious price schemes, anywhere from $50 to upward of $500, are now further within range of budget travelers.