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      If it rains: gemstones and the Church on the Blood

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 1.8 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Short dashes between museums in the centre: Ural malachite and jewellery, the history of Yekaterinburg, a 19th-century literary salon and the lower church on the site of the Ipatiev House.

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        🖼 Museum of Stone-Cutting and Jewellery Art
        просп. Ленина, 37
        🎟 ticket
        Ural gemstones, malachite, jasper and jewellery from ancient times to the present — in the 1820s mining pharmacy building on Prospekt Lenina.
        Wednesday to Sunday from 10:30 (from 12:00 on Thursdays): malachite, jasper and the Gold Vault.
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        Museum of Stone-Cutting and Jewellery Art
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Museum of Stone-Cutting and Jewellery Art
        © HappLuck · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The museum occupies the former Mining Department Pharmacy, built in 1821–1822 to a design by Mikhail Malakhov.
        • The idea of a “World of Stone” museum was put forward in 1992 by Dmitry Likhachev’s Culture Foundation.
        • It has the Silver Room and the Gold Vault with jewellery from the 9th to the early 20th century.
        • There is a collection from the Imperial Yekaterinburg Lapidary Factory and a mineral collection.
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      3. 2
        🖼 Museum of the History of Yekaterinburg
        ул. Карла Либкнехта, 26
        🎟 ticket
        The city museum in an 1820 mansion: how an ironworks on the Iset became a city of a million, from Tatishchev to the present day.
        ≈7 minutes along Karla Libknekhta: from an ironworks on the Iset to a city of a million.
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        Museum of the History of Yekaterinburg
        © Мазур Владимир · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Museum of the History of Yekaterinburg
        © А.Кудрявцева · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The main building is an 1820 mansion on Karla Libknekhta Street; the wing was added by the mining engineer A. G. Kachka.
        • The museum was founded in 1939 and opened on 3 July 1940 as the Y. M. Sverdlov House Museum.
        • The museum got its present name after the 1995 reconstruction.
        • The museum owns several old buildings in the city centre.
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        🍽 Pashtet restaurant · 🧸 play area
        ул. Толмачёва, 23
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        Lunch in a warm dining room: borshch, pâtés, medovik (honey cake).
        🍴 A cosy restaurant of Russian and Ural food in a merchant’s house by the Literary Quarter, with a kids’ room. What to order: borshch with veal and salo (cured pork fat), pâtés, bird-cherry medovik (honey cake).
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        🖼 Museum of Literary Life of the Urals in the 19th Century
        Царская ул., 7
        🎟 ticket
        A wooden mansion in the Literary Quarter: books, manuscripts and the furnishings of Ural literary salons of the century before last.
        A 19th-century literary salon — Tuesday to Saturday.
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        Museum of Literary Life of the Urals in the 19th Century
        © Pokvalitov · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Museum of Literary Life of the Urals in the 19th Century
        © Pokvalitov · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The museum is part of the United Museum of Ural Writers.
        • It is one of the houses of the Literary Quarter on Voznesenskaya Hill.
        • The United Museum of Ural Writers is one of the largest literary museums in Russia.
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      9. 5
        🏛 Church on the Blood
        Царская ул., 10
        🆓 free entry · the museum of the royal family in the Patriarchal Compound is ticketed
        A five-domed church on the site of the Ipatiev House, where the family of Nicholas II was shot in 1918. Below is a dim lower church, and next door a museum of the royal family.
        The lower church with the recreated room of the Ipatiev House; open until 23:00.
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        Church on the Blood
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        Church on the Blood
        © alexandergroshev · CC BY 3.0
        Church on the Blood
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        • The church was built in 2000–2003 on the site of the demolished Ipatiev House.
        • On the night of 17 July 1918 Nicholas II, his family and four servants were shot here.
        • The upper church is tall and bright, with a white marble iconostasis; the lower one is dim, with low vaults.
        • The lower church contains a symbolic recreation of the room where the shooting took place.
        • Next door, in the Patriarchal Compound building, is the Museum of the Holy Royal Family.

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