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      With a stroller: the Literary Quarter and Kharitonovsky Garden

      ⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A short, quiet walk: the houses of the Literary Quarter, the colonnade of the Kharitonov estate, the garden with a pond and an island rotunda, and lunch with a kids’ room.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature
      👶 under 3, 3–6 years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      Kharitonovsky Garden has slopes down to the pond — choose the gentle paths from the estate. In slush and the first snow the paths can be slippery.

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        🌳 Literary Quarter
        Царская ул., 4
        🆓 free entry · the quarter’s museums are ticketed
        A quiet quarter of 19th-century wooden and stone houses by the Church on the Blood: writers’ museums, a chamber theatre and a small park.
        A small park between old houses — calm and car-free.
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        Literary Quarter
        © Евгений Смирнов · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Literary Quarter
        © AnnushkaW · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Literary Quarter
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Literary Quarter
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The quarter is part of the United Museum of Ural Writers, founded in 1980.
        • It holds the museums “Literary Life of the Urals in the 19th Century” and “Literary Life of the Urals in the 20th Century”, the Reshetnikov house museum and the Chamber Theatre.
        • The museum publishes the magazine Literaturny Kvartal.
        • The quarter stands on Voznesenskaya Hill, a stone’s throw from the Church on the Blood.
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        🏛 Rastorguyev–Kharitonov Estate
        ул. Карла Либкнехта, 44, корп. 7
        A Neoclassical early 19th-century estate with a colonnade on Voznesenskaya Hill; behind it is an English garden with a pond.
        The estate colonnade at Karla Libknekhta, 44 — we look from outside; the garden entrance is next to it.
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        Rastorguyev–Kharitonov Estate
        © Artyom Svetlov · CC BY 4.0
        Rastorguyev–Kharitonov Estate
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Work on the estate began in 1794–1795 and was finished by 1824.
        • The architect Mikhail Malakhov took part in its construction.
        • The merchant Lev Rastorguyev bought the plot in 1798; in 1823 the estate passed to his son-in-law Pyotr Kharitonov.
        • The house had an Old Believer prayer room painted by Nevyansk icon painters.
        • It is an architectural monument of federal importance.
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        🌳 Kharitonovsky Garden
        Харитоновский сад
        🚪 entrance from Clara Zetkin Street
        A 19th-century English park behind the estate: a pond with islands and a rotunda, little bridges and a hillock — a quiet spot a stone’s throw from the Church on the Blood.
        A pond with ducks, an island with a rotunda and little bridges. The gentle paths start from the estate.
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        Kharitonovsky Garden
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Kharitonovsky Garden
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        Kharitonovsky Garden
        © O.Bragina · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The garden was laid out in 1826 and is named after the estate’s owner, Pyotr Kharitonov.
        • The pond has two artificial islands; the rotunda on the central one was built in 1935–1937.
        • Of the original garden buildings only the grotto survives — wine was kept and ice cream made in it.
        • Prokudin-Gorsky photographed the old rotunda on the hillock in colour in 1910.
      6. 🚶 on foot
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        🍽 Khutorok · 🧸 play area
        Первомайская ул., 15
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        Lunch: borshch and cherry vareniki (dumplings), with a kids’ room.
        🍴 Russian and Ukrainian food by Kharitonovsky Garden, with a kids’ room. What to order: “Khutorok” borshch, cherry vareniki (dumplings), draniki (potato pancakes) with meat.

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