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      All day: galleries, mansions and Stolbova

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 6 km🍽 3📍 10 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A big art day: the Museum of Fine Arts and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Lyadskoy Garden, Gorky's bakery and Chaliapin's gramophone, Fechin at Khazine, Smena, and dinner on the food street Stolbova.

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        ☕️ run coffee
        ул. Карла Маркса, 54А
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        Breakfast until noon; the coffee shop opens at 7:30
        🍴 The coffee shop of a running community, with changing rooms and lockers for runners; breakfasts until 12:00. What to order: a cappuccino and breakfast before noon.
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      3. 2
        🖼 Tatarstan Museum of Fine Arts
        ул. Карла Маркса, 64
        🎟 ticket
        The republic's main art museum in General Sandetsky's mansion: painting and graphic art, plus an exhibition centre of the Russian Museum.
        Sandetsky's mansion, from 10:00
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        Tatarstan Museum of Fine Arts
        © Екатерина Егорова · Public domain
        • The museum was created in 1958 on the basis of the picture gallery of the State Museum of the Tatar ASSR.
        • Since 1967 it has occupied an early-20th-century mansion, the former residence of General Sandetsky, commander of the Kazan Military District.
        • The museum has three sites: the main building, Khazine in the Kremlin (since 2005) and the Contemporary Art Gallery (since 2009).
        • In 2016 Russia's first Russian Museum cultural and exhibition centre opened here.
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        🖼 Contemporary Art Gallery
        ул. Карла Маркса, 57
        🎟 ticket
        The State Museum of Fine Arts of Tatarstan's venue for contemporary art and photography, in a modernist building from 1978.
        Contemporary art across the road
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        Contemporary Art Gallery
        © Vyacheslav Kirillin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Contemporary Art Gallery
        © Azmanova Natalia · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The building was designed by the architect German Bakulin in 1978.
        • Since 2009 it has housed the Contemporary Art Gallery of the State Museum of Fine Arts of Tatarstan.
        • The exhibition area is 2,500 square metres.
        • It shows contemporary artists and has a photography gallery.
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      7. 4
        🌳 Lyadskoy Garden
        между улицами Горького, Щапова, Муштари и Гоголя
        A small 18th-century garden with a fountain of a girl and a monument to Derzhavin, a quiet spot among old mansions.
        The girl fountain and the Derzhavin monument
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        Lyadskoy Garden
        © Vyacheslav Kirillin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Lyadskoy Garden
        © Тара-Амингу · CC0
        • The garden was laid out by General Alexei Letsky next to his estate; locals changed "Letsky" into "Lyadskoy".
        • In 1798 Emperor Paul I stayed at Letsky's estate.
        • The fountain of a girl with a jug was installed to mark Kazan's first water supply in 1874.
        • The spherical fountain of the 1970s is nicknamed "the apple" by locals.
        • In 2003 a monument to Derzhavin, a copy of a lost 19th-century monument, was erected at the entrance.
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        🖼 Gorky and Chaliapin Museum
        ул. Горького, 10
        🎟 ticket
        Two museums in one house: the basement bakery where the young Gorky worked, and a Chaliapin collection with a gramophone.
        Go down to Gorky's bakery and listen to Chaliapin on the gramophone
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        Gorky and Chaliapin Museum
        © Marat Kamalevsky · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The young Gorky worked as a baker's assistant in this house's basement bakery in 1886–1887.
        • Gorky called his Kazan years, 1884–1888, his "spiritual birth".
        • The second floor holds the Chaliapin collection of about 4,000 items.
        • Early-20th-century records of Chaliapin's voice can be heard on an old gramophone.
        • The singer's personal belongings include the costume of Khan Konchak from Prince Igor.
        • Until 2018 the museum was called the A. M. Gorky Literary Memorial Museum.
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        🌳 Black Lake Park (Chyornoye Ozero)
        ул. Дзержинского
        🚪 entrance from Dzerzhinsky Street
        A shady park in a hollow behind Kremlyovskaya Street: a pond with fountains and the Lovers' Arch, with a skating rink in winter.
        Walk through the Lovers' Arch
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        Black Lake Park (Chyornoye Ozero)
        © Alaexis · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The park is named after a lake that turned to marsh and was finally filled in by 1889.
        • In 1890 the All-Russian Scientific and Industrial Exhibition was held here, and the plantings made for it became the basis of the park.
        • A cast-iron fence was put up around the park as early as 1847.
        • In the western part there is a pond, where a skating rink with skate rental is flooded in winter.
        • The garden in the eastern part is entered through the Lovers' Arch.
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        ☕️ Tubetey on Kremlyovskaya · 🧸 play area
        Кремлёвская ул., 21
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        A quick lunch by Black Lake
        🍴 A café of a Tatar chain by Black Lake park with a kids' room and a summer veranda. What to order: echpochmak, kystybyi, tokmach noodle soup; breakfasts from 8 a.m.
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        🖼 Khazine Gallery
        Кремль, 12, бывшее юнкерское училище
        🎟 ticket
        A national art gallery in a former cadet school: Nikolai Fechin, the Kazan avant-garde and Tatar artists of the 20th century.
        Fechin and the Kazan avant-garde, until 18:00
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        Khazine Gallery
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The gallery opened in 2005, for Kazan's 1000th anniversary, in the building of a former cadet school.
        • Khazine is a branch of the State Museum of Fine Arts of Tatarstan.
        • The permanent exhibition holds about two thousand works by artists from Kazan and Tatarstan.
        • Several rooms are devoted to Nikolai Fechin, including his 1914 Portrait of Varya Adoratskaya.
        • A separate gallery is dedicated to Haris Yakupov, and there are works by Baki Urmanche, the founder of Tatar painting.
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        🖼 Smena Contemporary Culture Centre
        ул. Бурхана Шахиди, 7
        An independent contemporary culture centre in an old brick building: exhibitions, lectures and a bookshop of independent publishers.
        Exhibition and bookshop, open until 20:00
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        Smena Contemporary Culture Centre
        © Vyacheslav Kirillin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The centre opened in 2013 with the Winter Book Festival.
        • At first Smena rented only the second floor; the first floor held a car wash and a tyre shop.
        • Now the ground floor has a bookshop, and the second floor has a lecture hall and exhibition rooms.
        • Smena has had its own publishing house since 2015.
        • Since 2023 the Galeev-Prometheus foundation has worked on the third floor.
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      19. 10
        🍽 Gina restaurant
        ул. Николая Столбова, 1/3
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        Dinner on Stolbova: cacio e pepe pasta or vitello tonnato
        🍴 An Italian restaurant with an open kitchen on Stolbova. What to order: cacio e pepe pasta, chicken with fennel or vitello tonnato.

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