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      Chistopol: a merchant town and Pasternak

      ⏱ 11 h🚶 3 km + 🚌🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A day on the Kama: old merchant streets, the blue domes of St Nicholas Cathedral and the house where Pasternak translated Shakespeare in evacuation. A little over two hours by bus each way.

      🏛 History and architecture🚆 Out of town
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      Getting there
      🏛 Kazan Central Bus Station
      ул. Девятаева, 15
      Buy a ticket at the ticket office or online in advance: morning buses to Chistopol fill up.
      🚌 by bus to Boris Pasternak Memorial Museum
      bus from the Central Bus Station at 06:30 (arrives in Chistopol at 08:45) or at 07:30, the Almetyevsk service (arrives 10:05)
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        🖼 Boris Pasternak Memorial Museum
        ул. Ленина, 81, Чистополь
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        The house where Pasternak lived in evacuation and translated Shakespeare: his room on the second floor and an exhibition about Chistopol's writers.
        From Chistopol bus station it is about 20 minutes on foot along Karl Marx and Lenin Streets, or take a taxi. The museum opens at 9:00; the poet's room is on the second floor, and the Pasternak monument is nearby, in Skaryatinsky Garden.
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        Boris Pasternak Memorial Museum
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Boris Pasternak Memorial Museum
        © Vyacheslav Kirillin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Pasternak lived in this house in evacuation from October 1941 to June 1943.
        • The museum opened in 1990, for the poet's 100th anniversary.
        • The poet rented a corner room on the second floor of the house of the bank clerk Vasily Vavilov.
        • In Chistopol Pasternak translated Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra.
        • On 26 February 1942 he read his translation of Romeo and Juliet in public at the town's Teachers' House.
        • On 1 October 2015 a monument to Pasternak was unveiled in Chistopol.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        ☕️ Avenue café in Chistopol · 🧸 play area
        ул. Ленина, 37, Чистополь
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        Lunch: pizza, pasta or sushi rolls; for kids there is a play room with slides.
        🍴 A family café in central Chistopol with a play room: slides and a maze. What to order: pizza, pasta, sushi rolls or meat.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🚶 Old Chistopol: Karl Marx Street
        ул. Карла Маркса и ул. Ленина, Чистополь
        Merchant mansions of the former district town on the Kama: two-storey, many with stucco decoration.
        Walk along Lenin and Karl Marx Streets to the Kama: two-storey merchant mansions, many with stucco decoration.
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        Old Chistopol: Karl Marx Street
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Old Chistopol: Karl Marx Street
        © Mary Linnik · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • By decree of Catherine II in 1781, the village of Chistoe Pole became the district town of Chistopol.
        • The town stands on the left bank of the Kama, about 135 km from Kazan by road.
        • During the war Chistopol took in evacuated writers; Boris Pasternak and Leonid Leonov lived here.
        • Anna Akhmatova spent 10 days in evacuation in Chistopol.
        • Marina Tsvetaeva came to Chistopol on 25 and 26 August 1941, then returned to Yelabuga.
        • The town's enterprises include a watch factory.
      6. 🚶 on foot
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        🏛 St Nicholas Cathedral in Chistopol
        ул. Карла Маркса, 2, Чистополь
        A white cathedral with blue domes at the start of Karl Marx Street, the main church of the Chistopol diocese.
        Blue domes at the start of Karl Marx Street; the church is open until 17:00. A taxi back to the bus station takes about 10 minutes.
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        St Nicholas Cathedral in Chistopol
        © Marat Kamalevsky · CC BY-SA 4.0
        St Nicholas Cathedral in Chistopol
        © Добрый ТиП · CC BY-SA 3.0

      ↩️ Getting back: the Almetyevsk–Kazan service from Chistopol bus station at 15:31 (arrives in Kazan at 17:30) or marshrutka 613 at 15:00 and 16:00 to Ploshchad Tukaya metro; the Pasternak museum is closed on Mondays

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