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Walking routes in Moscow

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    1. The Kremlin, Red Square and Zaryadye

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 2📍 9 stops

      Postcard Moscow in half a day: from the Eternal Flame along Nikolskaya to the Floating Bridge.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture

    2. Boulevards, Bulgakov and Patriarch's Ponds

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 4.5 km🍽 2📍 7 stops

      Shady Tverskoy Boulevard, "The Master and Margarita" and the trendiest pond in the city.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    3. Merchant Zamoskvorechye

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      Quiet lanes, the Tretyakov Gallery, the convent of Elizabeth Feodorovna and the Baroque Church of St Clement.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art

    4. Along the river: Muzeon to Vorobyovy Hills

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 8.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops

      A long walk along the embankments through three parks to the city's main viewpoint.

      🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature

    5. Stars and animals: the Planetarium and the Zoo

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 4 km🍽 2📍 4 stops

      A day with a child near Barrikadnaya: the interactive Lunarium, then elephants and polar bears.

      👶 With kids

    6. VDNKh: space and the Moskvarium

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      A Soviet exhibition fairy tale: golden fountains (water from late April to early October), the Vostok rocket and an oceanarium.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture✨ New places

    7. The centre in the rain

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 1.8 km🍽 3📍 6 stops

      Almost all under cover: the Historical Museum, the GUM arcades and Zaryadye's underground media centre.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains

    8. GES-2, Red October and the New Tretyakov

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      A new cultural axis by the Kremlin: a power-station art centre, a former confectionery factory and the 20th century in painting.

      🎨 Art✨ New places

    9. Danilovsky Market and the monasteries of the south

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 4.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A food walk: lunch at Moscow's main food market between two ancient monasteries and the Shukhov Tower.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture

    10. Central Market, Sretenka and Chistye Prudy

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 3.2 km🍽 2📍 6 stops

      Food and history in one: a food market, a monastery, a Chinese-style tea house and ponds.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture

    11. Evening in the centre: theatres and cocktails

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 2📍 5 stops

      From the Bolshoi Theatre through Stoleshnikov to two famous cocktail bars, finishing at Patriarch's Ponds.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture

    12. Moscow City: skyscrapers and the 85th floor

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km + 🚇🍽 1📍 4 stops

      An embankment with views of the towers, the metro to City, Europe's highest viewing platform and dinner above the clouds.

      🌙 Evening✨ New places

    13. Kolomenskoye: a royal estate above the river

      ⏱ 5 h 10 min🚶 5.3 km🍽 2📍 7 stops

      A UNESCO-listed tent-roofed church, the new "Hare Glade" playground, the mysterious Golosov Ravine and a wooden palace.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    14. Tsaritsyno: palace, conservatories and ponds

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      The neo-Gothic of Bazhenov and Kazakov, tropical conservatories and big ponds.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    15. Old Arbat and its side streets

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops

      Pushkin, Tsoi and Melnikov's avant-garde — a short walk for a first acquaintance.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art

    16. Khamovniki: Tolstoy and Novodevichy

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      The house where Tolstoy wrote "Resurrection", a market with good food and a UNESCO-listed convent by a pond.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    17. Winzavod, Artplay and Andronikov Monastery

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      Galleries in former factories, the Yauza embankment and Moscow's oldest building.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art✨ New places

    18. Izmailovo: the fairy-tale kremlin and the royal island

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A wooden kremlin with workshops, a flea-market art fair and a Petrine estate on an island.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture

    19. North River Terminal and the parks on the water

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A restored ship-shaped terminal of 1937, fountains and pleasure-boat piers.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places

    20. "Dream Island" and the Nagatino floodplain

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      An indoor amusement park — a lifesaver in bad weather, and in good weather a walk along the floodplain embankment.

      👶 With kids✨ New places☔️ If it rains

    21. Sokolniki: the rose garden and the ponds

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 5 km🍽 2📍 6 stops

      A large green park with rentals, radial avenues and quiet ponds deep inside.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature

    22. The German Quarter and Lefortovo

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 7.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops

      Peter's Moscow: the palaces of Lefort and Catherine, a formal park and the Yauza to Andronikov Monastery.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    23. Kuskovo: the Sheremetevs' summer estate

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      A little "Versailles" in eastern Moscow: a palace, a grotto and porcelain by a big pond.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    24. Ostankino: the tower, the pond and the Japanese Garden

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A viewing platform at 337 metres, an estate by a pond, lunch at VDNKh and the most beautiful garden in Moscow.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    25. Povarskaya: from mansions to Constructivism

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2.8 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      A street of noble estates, the "Rostovs' house", Chekhov and the cult Narkomfin Building.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art

    26. Ivanovskaya Hill and an evening on Pokrovka

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      The most "hilly" lanes of the centre, the legends of Khitrovka and bars to finish.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture

    27. Vorobyovy Hills: cable car, eco-trail and MSU

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 7.5 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      An active day: over the river by cable car, through the forest along the slope and to the country's main skyscraper.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature

    28. Inside the Kremlin

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      Cathedral Square, the Tsar Cannon and the treasures of the Armoury Chamber, then lunch on Arbatskaya Square.

      🏛 History and architecture

    29. Taganka: a Stalinist skyscraper and Bunker-42

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      The Cold War underground and 1950s Moscow above it. Almost all under cover.

      🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains

    30. The whole Boulevard Ring on foot

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 9.5 km🍽 2📍 9 stops

      From the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour to the Yauza — 10 boulevards, shady alleys and monuments.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    31. Embankments: from Novodevichy to Zaryadye

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 9 km🍽 1📍 8 stops

      A long route along the Moskva River across the city's most beautiful bridges.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    32. Classic food of the centre

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2.2 km🍽 2📍 5 stops

      Russian cuisine with a view of the Kremlin, theatrical Kamergersky Lane and the neo-Gothic Yeliseyev store.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture

    33. Dinosaurs and evolution

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 1.5 km + 🚇🍽 2📍 4 stops

      Two of the best natural history museums: dinosaur skeletons and living nature. The metro connects them.

      👶 With kids☔️ If it rains

    34. The Pushkin Museum and Volkhonka

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Impressionists, ancient casts and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour — an ideal rainy-day plan.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains

    35. Khlebozavod and Design Factory

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      Two creative clusters near Dmitrovskaya: design shops, galleries, coffee shops.

      🎨 Art✨ New places

    36. ZILART and Tyufeleva Grove

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      New Moscow on the site of an auto plant: architecture, a cultural centre and a terraced park.

      🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places

    37. Aptekarsky Ogorod and Sretenka

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2.8 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      Russia's oldest botanical garden, the lanes of Sretenka and a food market to finish.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    38. Serebryany Bor: pines and lakes

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 7.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A forest island in the west: pine woods, Lake Bezdonnoye and beaches on the Moskva River.

      🌳 Parks and nature

    39. Arbat at sunset and rooftop bars

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2 km🍽 2📍 5 stops

      Evening Arbat, the view from Borodinsky Bridge and cocktails on the 16th and 22nd floors.

      🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening

    40. Moscow from the water

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A cruise on a covered boat past the Kremlin and Gorky Park with lunch on board — runs in winter too.

      👶 With kids☔️ If it rains

    41. Kutuzovsky: the market, Borodino and Poklonnaya Hill

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Lunch at one of the city's best markets, the 1812 panorama and Victory Park.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture

    42. Bolshaya Nikitskaya: animals, music and Gogol

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 2📍 5 stops

      A short route almost without street time: a zoological museum, coffee at the Conservatory and the house where the second volume of "Dead Souls" was burned.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains

    43. Novospassky, Krutitsy and a bar on the 34th floor

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Two quiet monasteries by the river and, at sunset, a panoramic bar above the Moskva River.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture

    44. An evening at the National: caviar and a Kremlin view

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 1.5 km🍽 2📍 5 stops

      The Art Nouveau of the Metropol, the lit-up Bolshoi, dinner at Beluga and dessert on the roof of The Carlton.

      🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening

    45. Space: the Cosmonautics Museum and the Alley of Heroes

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 2📍 5 stops

      Real capsules, spacesuits, and Belka and Strelka — under a rocket monument.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains

    46. Experimentanium and the Artists' Village

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      Hundreds of hands-on experiments at a science museum and a 1920s village in the middle of Moscow.

      👶 With kids☔️ If it rains

    47. KidZania, the aquarium and Khodynka Field

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A city of professions for kids, a huge indoor aquarium and a new park next door.

      👶 With kids✨ New places☔️ If it rains

    48. Kuzminki: the Golitsyn estate

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 4.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A huge forest park with a cascade of ponds, a horse yard and Egyptian lions.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    49. Kitay-gorod for foodies

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 1.8 km🍽 2📍 5 stops

      A rooftop viewing platform at Detsky Mir, three floors of world cuisines on Nikolskaya and merchant Ilyinka.

      👶 With kids🍽 Food tour✨ New places

    50. Russian Impressionism and Bolshevik

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      A private museum in a former confectionery factory and the Depo food mall next door.

      🎨 Art✨ New places

    51. Ostozhenka: photography and the history of Moscow

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      MAMM, the Museum of Moscow in the Provision Warehouses and Ostozhenka's "golden mile".

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains

    52. Moscow Art Nouveau

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      Shekhtel and his clients: the wave-like staircase at Ryabushinsky's, Morozova's Gothic and the architect's own house.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art

    53. The metro as a museum

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 1.5 km + 🚇🍽 1📍 6 stops

      The most beautiful stations of the Moscow metro: mosaics, stained glass and bronze. A great rainy-day plan.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains

    54. Fili: Naryshkin Baroque and the park above the river

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 7 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A long walk from the "lacy" church along the high bank of the Moskva River.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    55. The Rostokino Aqueduct and Losiny Ostrov

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 7.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      From VDNKh along the Yauza to an 18th-century aqueduct and into the national park.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    56. The circus on Tsvetnoy

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 1.2 km🍽 2📍 4 stops

      A matinee at the Nikulin Circus, the boulevard and lunch at a food market.

      👶 With kids☔️ If it rains

    57. On foot from the Kremlin to the City

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 7.5 km🍽 2📍 7 stops

      From the 15th century to the 21st: Arbat, Novy Arbat, the White House, Gorbaty Bridge and skyscrapers.

      🏛 History and architecture✨ New places

    58. Krylatskoye: Skazka Park and the hills

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A children's amusement park and Moscow's highest hills with a view of the rowing canal.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature

    59. Pashkov House and the Museum of Architecture

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Moscow's most beautiful Neoclassical palace and a museum that holds the city's architectural history.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art

    60. Rocks, stars and a park: Fersman Museum and Gorky Park

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 2📍 5 stops

      Gems and meteorites at the museum, the shady Neskuchny Garden and a telescope at the observatory.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature

    61. All day: Kremlin, Red Square and an evening at the Bolshoi

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 6 km🍽 3📍 13 stops

      A classic first day in Moscow: from breakfast overlooking Red Square to dinner overlooking the Kremlin.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture

    62. All day: all of Moscow's highlights on foot

      ⏱ 11 h 30 min🚶 13 km + 🚕🍽 3📍 13 stops

      A packed day for keen walkers: boulevards, the Arbat, embankments, parks and sunset on Sparrow Hills.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    63. All day: Moscow of museums

      ⏱ 10 h 30 min🚶 6.5 km + 🚕🍽 3📍 9 stops

      Impressionists, Rublev icons, the avant-garde and contemporary art in one day. Pick 3-4 museums from the list.

      🎨 Art☔️ If it rains

    64. All day: gastronomic Moscow

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 6 km + 🚇🚕🍽 5📍 8 stops

      From breakfast at Pushkin through three markets to dinner at one of the country's best restaurants.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture

    65. All day: galleries by day, bars by night

      ⏱ 11 h🚶 6 km + 🚇🚕🍽 5📍 10 stops

      A late start, contemporary art in former factories, dinner and two famous cocktail bars.

      🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening🎨 Art

    66. All day with kids: space, VDNKh and the Ostankino Tower

      ⏱ 11 h🚶 7 km + 🚕🍽 2📍 11 stops

      The Cosmonautics Museum, VDNKh, Moskvarium and an evening at the Ostankino Tower viewing platform.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture

    67. All day with kids: stars, animals and Gorky Park

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 6 km + 🚇🍽 4📍 9 stops

      Planetarium and zoo in the morning, a food court at midday, then the park, minerals and a telescope in the evening.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature

    68. All day: two royal estates of the south

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 9 km + 🚇🍽 2📍 10 stops

      Kolomenskoye in the morning, Tsaritsyno in the evening — a wooden palace, a tent-roofed church, neo-Gothic and a singing fountain.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    69. All day by the river: cable car, Novodevichy and dinner cruise

      ⏱ 11 h🚶 9 km + 🚕🍽 3📍 12 stops

      Over the river by cable car in the morning, the convent and Tolstoy's house at midday, an evening dinner cruise past the Kremlin.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    70. All day: new Moscow, from factories to skyscrapers

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 5.5 km + 🚇🍽 3📍 9 stops

      Creative clusters, a museum in a former factory, an embankment with a view of Moscow City and dinner on the 85th floor.

      🎨 Art✨ New places

    71. All day: Moscow of Peter the Great

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 9 km + 🚇🍽 2📍 11 stops

      Where Peter I grew up and where his foreign friends lived: Izmailovo, the German Quarter and Lefortovo.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    72. All day: literary Moscow

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 8 km🍽 3📍 12 stops

      Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov, Bulgakov and Tolstoy — the houses, boulevards and restaurants the writers frequented.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art

    73. All day: architecture from Art Nouveau to GES-2

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 7 km + 🚕🍽 3📍 12 stops

      Shekhtel, Melnikov, Narkomfin, Shukhov and Renzo Piano — 20th-century Moscow architecture in a day.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art

    74. All day: Moscow's monasteries

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 6 km + 🚇🚕🍽 3📍 9 stops

      Five ancient monasteries that once ringed the city as a defensive chain.

      🏛 History and architecture

    75. All day indoors: Moscow in the rain

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 3 km + 🚇🚕🍽 3📍 11 stops

      The Historical Museum, metro palaces, a market, the Tretyakov Gallery and a secret bunker — almost no time outside.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains

    76. All day in nature: Sokolniki, the Yauza and the Botanical Garden

      ⏱ 10 h 30 min🚶 10 km + 🚕🍽 2📍 10 stops

      Moscow's green north: an old park, the Yauza valley, an aqueduct, the Japanese Garden and the Ostankino Tower viewing platform.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    77. All day: Moscow from above

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 5 km + 🚇🚕🍽 3📍 9 stops

      The city's five best viewpoints, from the Detsky Mir rooftop to the 89th floor in Moscow City.

      🏛 History and architecture✨ New places

    78. All day with kids in the rain

      ⏱ 11 h🚶 2 km + 🚇🍽 3📍 7 stops

      A science museum, a city of professions, a giant aquarium and an evening circus show.

      👶 With kids☔️ If it rains

    79. All day with kids: Kolomenskoye and Dream Island

      ⏱ 10 h 30 min🚶 5.3 km + 🚕🍽 2📍 9 stops

      A royal estate in the fresh air in the morning, an indoor amusement park from the afternoon until evening.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    80. All day: Zamoskvorechye and Ostozhenka

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 8 km🍽 3📍 12 stops

      Merchant lanes, the Tretyakov Gallery, Red October, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and the Museum of Moscow — the centre without the crowds.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art

    81. All day: Soviet Moscow

      ⏱ 10 h 30 min🚶 6 km + 🚇🍽 2📍 12 stops

      The Mausoleum, metro palaces, a Cold War bunker and Stalinist skyscrapers — and for dinner Doctor Zhivago with a view of the Kremlin.

      🏛 History and architecture

    82. All day: the Kuskovo and Kuzminki estates

      ⏱ 9 h 30 min🚶 6 km + 🚕🍽 2📍 12 stops

      The Sheremetev family's Kuskovo with its pavilions and pond, then after lunch the quiet Golitsyn estate of Kuzminki with its stable yard and ponds.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    83. All day: Moscow's green west

      ⏱ 10 h 30 min🚶 10 km + 🚇🚕🍽 2📍 11 stops

      The shore of Filyovsky Park, the ski slopes of the Krylatskoye hills and the pines of Serebryany Bor — a day almost without asphalt.

      🌳 Parks and nature

    84. All day: cuisines of the former USSR

      ⏱ 10 h 30 min🚶 6 km + 🚇🍽 4📍 11 stops

      A Georgian breakfast by Patriarch's Ponds, an Armenian lunch by the Pashkov House, plov at Uzbekistan, and between them the Arbat, a market and the centre.

      🍽 Food tour

    85. All day: Moscow's coffee scene

      ⏱ 11 h🚶 9 km🍽 6📍 13 stops

      Specialty coffee shops and the city's best bakeries from Polyanka to Chistye Prudy, with the lanes of Zamoskvorechye and Ivanovskaya Gorka in between.

      🍽 Food tour

    86. All day: bar-hopping Moscow, from brunch to night

      ⏱ 11 h 30 min🚶 7 km + 🚕🍽 4📍 11 stops

      A late brunch by Patriarch's Ponds, a stroll past the mansions of the Nikitskie streets, dinner on Yauzskaya and two well-known bars on Solyanka and Pokrovka.

      🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening

    87. All day with kids: Moscow for little ones

      ⏱ 9 h 30 min🚶 3 km + 🚕🍽 2📍 8 stops

      A day for children under five: the zoo in the morning, a nap in the stroller by Patriarch's Ponds, Detsky Mir and dinner at a restaurant with a play area by the Apothecary Garden.

      👶 With kids

    88. All day with kids: skyscrapers, ciphers and the metro

      ⏱ 11 h🚶 3 km + 🚆🚕🚇🍽 2📍 9 stops

      For teenagers: the 89th-floor viewpoint in Moscow City, a cable car over the Moskva River, GES-2, museums of ciphers and transport with simulators, and street food at Depo.

      👶 With kids✨ New places

    89. All day: a date in Moscow

      ⏱ 12 h🚶 7 km + 🚕🍽 4📍 10 stops

      Breakfast at Pushkin, Impressionists on Volkhonka, the quiet lanes of Prechistenka and Tolstoy's garden, a sunset cruise and dinner overlooking the river.

      🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening🌳 Parks and nature

    90. All day: warm Moscow in the freeze

      ⏱ 12 h🚶 6.5 km🍽 4📍 10 stops

      A banya at Sanduny, lunch at an indoor market, the Historical Museum and GUM, tea with a tea master and an evening skating rink on Red Square.

      🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains

    91. All day: Sergiev Posad and the Trinity Lavra of St Sergius

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 4 km + 🚆🍽 2📍 8 stops

      By commuter train to Sergiev Posad: the lavra, Russia's first toy museum, vareniki in a Soviet-style interior and sunset on Blinnaya Gora.

      🏛 History and architecture🚆 Out of town

    92. All day: New Jerusalem in Istra

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 5 km + 🚆🚕🍽 2📍 7 stops

      A monastery modelled on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a large museum on the far bank of the Istra, a Georgian lunch and a Balkan dinner by the station.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🚆 Out of town

    93. All day: the Arkhangelskoye estate

      ⏱ 9 h 30 min🚶 3 km + 🚌🚕🍽 2📍 8 stops

      The Yusupov princes' "Versailles of the Moscow region": a palace, terraces and pavilions in a park above the Moskva River, lunch at the estate and a Georgian dinner nearby.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town

    94. All day: Kolomna — the kremlin, kalachi and pastila

      ⏱ 11 h 30 min🚶 3 km + 🚆🍽 2📍 9 stops

      By express train to Kolomna: a pastila tasting, hot kalachi (traditional bread), the kremlin with Marina's Tower and dinner with infused liqueurs from the "moonshine alphabet".

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🚆 Out of town

    95. All day: merchant and Old Believer Moscow

      ⏱ 10 h 30 min🚶 8 km🍽 2📍 11 stops

      From the Old Believer Rogozhskaya Sloboda through the Andronikov Monastery and Taganka to Shvivaya Gorka, the Kotelnicheskaya skyscraper and Khitrovka.

      🏛 History and architecture

    96. All day: the seven hills of old Moscow

      ⏱ 11 h🚶 8 km + 🚇🍽 3📍 13 stops

      Up and down the hills Moscow grew on: from Borovitsky with the Kremlin via Ivanovskaya and Shvivaya hills to Sretensky and Tverskoy.

      🏛 History and architecture

    97. All day: Myasnitskaya, Chistye Prudy and Basmanny

      ⏱ 10 h 30 min🚶 8 km🍽 3📍 11 stops

      Merchant Myasnitskaya with Perlov's Chinese House and Menshikov Tower, lunch in an estate on the boulevard and quiet Basmanny with a garden and noble houses.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art

    98. All day: Moscow's shops and food halls

      ⏱ 10 h 30 min🚶 6 km + 🚇🍽 3📍 13 stops

      Historic department stores and arcades of the centre, lunch at the Central Market and the designer shops of Khlebozavod — almost the whole day indoors.

      🍽 Food tour☔️ If it rains

    99. All day: theatrical Moscow

      ⏱ 12 h🚶 5 km🍽 3📍 9 stops

      A tour of the Bolshoi, Kamergersky Lane with the Moscow Art Theatre museum and Yermolova's house, an evening performance and a late dinner at the National.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art

    100. All day: Moscow by night

      ⏱ 12 h🚶 5.5 km + 🚇🚕🍽 5📍 9 stops

      Starting after lunch: sunset over Moscow City, dinner on a river boat, illuminated Zaryadye and Nikolskaya, bars and a finale at the round-the-clock Pushkin.

      🌙 Evening✨ New places

    101. Tushino: a river canyon, an estate and a submarine

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 6.1 km + 🚌🍽 2📍 7 stops

      Tushino has a natural amphitheatre above the Skhodnya, a classical Stroganov estate and a real submarine on the shore of the Moscow Canal reservoir.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    102. Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo: forest, springs and an estate

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 6.7 km🍽 2📍 7 stops

      In the middle of Moscow, a real forest with ravines, springs and a cascade of ponds, and at the end of the avenue a pseudo-Gothic estate of the Streshnevs and Shakhovskoys.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    103. Strogino: a backwater, a floodplain and Naryshkin Baroque

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 6 km🍽 2📍 5 stops

      A residential district on a bend of the Moskva River: a quiet backwater with beaches, flood meadows and a white Petrine-era church on a high bank.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    104. Mitino: Spas village and ponds

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 6 km🍽 2📍 6 stops

      The youngest district in the north-west hides the former village of Spas with an old church, a landscape park with Penyaginsky Pond and a neighbourhood bakery people travel to from all around.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    105. Kuntsevo: a hill fort, an estate and dacha slopes

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 5.2 km🍽 2📍 6 stops

      A high bank of the Moskva River where a fortified settlement stood a thousand years ago and where all of merchant Moscow holidayed at dachas in the 19th century.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    106. Cheryomushki: the first Khrushchyovkas and mammoths

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 5.4 km🍽 4📍 8 stops

      In the late 1950s the country's first prefabricated five-storey blocks were tried out here — the Grimau Street quarter still looks like an experimental town. Nearby are the Darwin Museum and Cheryomushki Market.

      👶 With kids🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre

    107. Troparyovo: a church by the pond and a forest park

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 5.1 km🍽 2📍 5 stops

      All that remains of the village of Troparyovo is a late-17th-century church and the pond below it, and beyond Vernadsky Prospekt begins a real forest with an eco-trail.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    108. Vorontsovo: a Mobius strip and an estate park

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 4.9 km🍽 2📍 5 stops

      The scientific south-west: an institute with a mosaic Mobius strip above the entrance and, half an hour's walk away, the Vorontsovo estate with a cascade of ponds, mazes and the stable-yard outbuildings.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🏘 Off the centre

    109. Uzkoye and Yasenevo: estates by Bitsa Forest

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 8.1 km🍽 3📍 8 stops

      The dinosaurs of the Paleontological Museum, the old avenue to the Uzkoye estate and a restored house in Yasenevo — along the edge of Bitsevsky Forest.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    110. Matveyevskoye: the Setun and Matveyevsky Forest

      ⏱ 5 h 15 min🚶 9.1 km🍽 2📍 5 stops

      The Setun valley — an almost wild river in the middle of the city: from the church of the former patriarchal village of Golenishchevo through Matveyevsky Forest to a nature reserve with a trail along the water.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    111. Chertanovo: a 1970s district of the future

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 6.5 km🍽 2📍 6 stops

      A building almost three-quarters of a kilometre long, Vyatichi burial mounds in the forest and a micro-district where the cars were hidden underground.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    112. Butovo: a park, remembrance and an estate

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 4.2 km + 🚕🍽 2📍 5 stops

      The biggest park beyond the MKAD, a quiet place of remembrance for 1937 and the remains of a dacha estate by the station.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    113. Brateyevo: along the Moskva River to the Borisov Ponds

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 7.8 km🍽 2📍 6 stops

      A long walk along floodplains and embankments that few people know — to Godunov Pond and a large new church.

      🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    114. Kotlovka and Nagorny: a stream, the Alps, mosaics

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 7.1 km🍽 2📍 7 stops

      A stream in an open channel, a ski slope within the city limits and mosaics in the arches on Varshavka.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    115. Pechatniki and Lyublino: a monastery and the Durasov palace

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 7.3 km🍽 2📍 6 stops

      From a 1950s settlement in a river bend through an ancient monastery to a palace that looks like a medal.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre

    116. Kosino: three lakes and old churches

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 3.7 km🍽 3📍 9 stops

      The only lakes of glacial origin in Moscow, the churches of the old village and a yacht club with Dutch-style houses in the middle of new-build blocks.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    117. Perovo and Novogireyevo: Baroque, Sidur, an oak grove

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 6.6 km + 🚌🍽 2📍 7 stops

      A Petrine-era church with a legend of an empress's secret wedding, the museum of a front-line sculptor, an Art Nouveau dacha from a former dacha settlement and 300-year-old oaks.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    118. Golyanovo: ponds at the edge of Losiny Ostrov

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2.9 km + 🚌🍽 2📍 6 stops

      An old village with an 1842 church, two ponds and shashlik right at the edge of the national park, and the Lilac Garden for dessert.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    119. Maryino: a monastery and the embankment by Brateyevsky Bridge

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 4.9 km + 🚌🍽 2📍 5 stops

      From the ancient Pererva Monastery to one of Moscow's longest embankments with a view of Brateyevsky Bridge.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    120. Sokolinaya Gora: avant-garde, Iofan and modernism

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 5.7 km🍽 1📍 7 stops

      A 1920s settlement of army commanders, a post-Constructivist cinema, towers by the architect of the House on the Embankment and the USSR computing centre — on the way to Izmailovo Park.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🏘 Off the centre

    121. Sviblovo and Medvedkovo: along the Yauza

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 4 km🍽 2📍 6 stops

      Two estates near Moscow on one river: the Baroque Naryshkin estate and Prince Pozharsky's tent-roofed church in the middle of residential blocks.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    122. Lianozovo: an estate, a park and barrack avant-garde

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 5 km🍽 2📍 6 stops

      A 16th-century village by the MKAD, an oil magnate's mansion and a station where unofficial 1950s art was born in a barrack.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🏘 Off the centre

    123. Khovrino: "Monte Carlo" and the reservoir

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 4 km + 🚌🍽 2📍 5 stops

      A merchant's palace considered a copy of the casino in Monte Carlo, Ossetian pies, Vietnamese soup and sunset on a quiet shore of the Khimki Reservoir.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    124. Babushkin: a dacha town by Losiny Ostrov

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 5 km🍽 3📍 7 stops

      The former town of Losinoostrovsk: a park for dacha-dwellers, an 1898 station, a church that was never closed, plov on Yaroslavka and a way straight into the national park.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    125. Otradnoye and Vladykino: churches and the Likhoborka

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 5 km🍽 2📍 6 stops

      A Petrine church of a former village, the oaks of the Botanical Garden, a stream that is almost entirely hidden underground and a rare quarter where a church, mosque and synagogue stand side by side.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    126. Gorky Park playgrounds for little ones

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 3 km🍽 2📍 6 stops

      A morning at the centre's best playgrounds: Salyut by Pioneer Pond, the giant cat by Golitsyn Pond, lunch at Syrovarnya and a nap in the stroller in Neskuchny Garden.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature

    127. City Farm and Neftegrad at VDNKh

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 1 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Goats, cows and rabbits at the City Farm, then the slides of Neftegrad and lunch at a café with a sea-themed play area by Moskvarium.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature

    128. A rainy day: puppets, mice and syrniki

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 2 km + 🚕🍽 1📍 4 stops

      An indoor route for a preschooler near the Garden Ring: the animal clock at the Obraztsov Theatre, Durov's mouse railway, the play area at AnderSon and palms in the greenhouse.

      👶 With kids☔️ If it rains

    129. Vorontsovo Park: ducks, an estate and a family café

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 1 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A quiet park in the south-west for the very little: ducks by Duck Island, a white estate above the ponds, a playground and a family café with a play area.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    130. A morning with a baby in the centre

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      An early, car-free stroll: quiet Zaryadye, the fountain under GUM's glass roof, pedestrian Nikolskaya and Detsky Mir with a play area and mother-and-baby rooms.

      👶 With kids

    131. VDNKh: robots, rides and the wheel

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 1.4 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      An active day in the south of VDNKh: a robot exhibition, the Orion amusement park and the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe — all within 15 minutes' walk of each other.

      👶 With kids✨ New places

    132. VDNKh for engineers: Atom and limousines

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      Science and technology in the north of VDNKh: the interactive Atom museum, the Vostok rocket by the Kosmos pavilion and a garage of the country's leaders' cars.

      👶 With kids✨ New places☔️ If it rains

    133. Sokolniki: a rope park and a picnic

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 4.4 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      An active day in Sokolniki: PandaPark's high-up courses, lunch on Pesochnaya Alley and a picnic in the camping gazebos along the forest clearings.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature

    134. Obraztsov puppets and the Apothecary Garden

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A show and Russia's biggest collection of theatre puppets, then a stroll through the Apothecary Garden and lunch at a family restaurant with a play town.

      👶 With kids🎨 Art

    135. A Zamoskvorechye quest with ice cream

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops

      A walking quest for ages 7-12: riddles on the bridges, by the Tretyakov Gallery and old churches, lunch on Pyatnitskaya and GUM ice cream as the prize.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture

    136. Hermitage and Aquarium gardens with a stroller

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2 km + 🚌🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A quiet centre for a baby: a wooden playground in Hermitage Garden, the cosy Aquarium Garden, a nap in the stroller around Patriarch's Ponds and lunch with a high chair.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature

    137. Khamovniki with a baby: the pond and Devichye Pole

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 3 km🍽 2📍 5 stops

      Ducks and swans on Novodevichy Pond, lunch at Usachevsky Market, a nap in the stroller in the Trubetskoy estate park and the playgrounds of Devichye Pole square.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature

    138. Filyovsky Park: a playground, the river and shashlik

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A shady park above the Moskva River for an unhurried day with a baby: a playground on the Main Alley, a nap in the stroller on the embankment and lunch on a veranda.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    139. Palms, an animal clock and a family café

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2.7 km + 🚕🍽 1📍 3 stops

      A route for a damp October day: tropics in the Apothecary Garden greenhouse, the clock at the Obraztsov Theatre and a warm play area at AnderSon.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature☔️ If it rains

    140. Aviapark in the rain: fish and play areas

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 1 km + 🚕🍽 2📍 4 stops

      A warm day indoors on Khodynka: a huge cylindrical aquarium, lunch with a play room, a nap in the stroller in the park if the weather allows, and a whole kids' floor at AnderSon for an afternoon snack.

      👶 With kids☔️ If it rains

    141. Tsaritsyno in bad weather: greenhouses and a play area

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A short loop around Tsaritsyno for a rainy day: ducks on the Middle Pond, a warm palace, tropics in the greenhouses and lunch at a café with a play area.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature☔️ If it rains

    142. A rainy day at Vegas on Kashirka

      ⏱ 2 h 30 min🚶 500 m🍽 1📍 3 stops

      When it's slushy outside: everything under one roof — soft and sensory zones for toddlers, lunch by the play area and a mother-and-baby room.

      👶 With kids☔️ If it rains🏘 Off the centre

    143. Botanical Garden and Ostankino: oaks, ducks, a playground

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 1.3 km + 🚕🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A quiet walk in the north: a daytime nap under the oaks of the Botanical Garden, ducks on Ostankino Pond, a kids' town and lunch at a café with a play area.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature

    144. Lyublino: a pond, an estate and a family café

      ⏱ 2 h 30 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      An unhurried loop along the embankment of Lyublino Pond: the Durasov estate rotunda, ducks, playgrounds on the shore and a family café overlooking the water.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    145. The Lilac Garden and Round Pond

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 500 m + 🚕🍽 1📍 4 stops

      East Moscow with a stroller: the quiet, smooth paths of the Lilac Garden, then the heart of Izmailovo Park — Round Pond, a playground and a café.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    146. Abramtsevo: the Mamontov estate and Khotkovo Monastery

      ⏱ 10 h 30 min🚶 5.9 km + 🚆🍽 2📍 7 stops

      By commuter train to Abramtsevo, where Serov, Vrubel and Vasnetsov lived and worked at Mamontov's, then on foot through the forest to Khotkovo Monastery and dinner by the station.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town

    147. Muranovo: Tyutchev's estate and shchi with pineapples

      ⏱ 6 h 30 min🚶 600 m + 🚕🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Half a day at Tyutchev's Muranovo: authentic rooms of the poets, Gogol's room, lime avenues above the pond and lunch in the estate granary.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town

    148. Dmitrov: kremlin ramparts, a monastery and the canal

      ⏱ 10 h 30 min🚶 6.5 km + 🚆🍽 2📍 9 stops

      By commuter train to Dmitrov: a walk along the ramparts of an ancient kremlin, the Dormition Cathedral, merchant Kropotkinskaya Street, the Boris and Gleb Monastery and the Moscow Canal.

      🏛 History and architecture🚆 Out of town

    149. Klin: Christmas-tree ornaments and Tchaikovsky's house

      ⏱ 11 h🚶 5.1 km + 🚆🍽 2📍 6 stops

      By Lastochka train to Klin: a tour of a Christmas-ornament factory with painting your own bauble, the old centre and the house where Tchaikovsky wrote his Sixth Symphony.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains🚆 Out of town

    150. Dubna: Lenin by the canal and the Volga

      ⏱ 11 h 50 min🚶 6.4 km + 🚆🚌🍽 2📍 7 stops

      A full day in Dubna: the 37-metre Lenin at the start of the Moscow Canal, a lighthouse above three waters, Nadezhda Leger's mosaics and the Volga embankment in the city of physicists.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town

    151. Serednikovo: Lermontov's holidays

      ⏱ 6 h 40 min🚶 2.7 km + 🚌🍽 1📍 5 stops

      Half a day at the estate where Lermontov spent his summers: the paths and bridges of the old park, a tour of the Stolypin house and tea with pastries at the Tea House.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town

    152. Zvenigorod: monastery, Gorodok and the Moskva River

      ⏱ 11 h🚶 5.5 km + 🚆🍽 2📍 7 stops

      A commuter-train trip to the “Switzerland of the Moscow region”: Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, a hermitage in a ravine, the ancient Gorodok hill above the Moskva River and the merchants’ Moskovskaya Street.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town

    153. Zakharovo and Vyazyomy: Pushkin’s places

      ⏱ 9 h🚶 6 km + 🚆🍽 1📍 5 stops

      Pushkin’s childhood estate in Zakharovo, the walking Pushkin Trail and the Golitsyn palace in Bolshiye Vyazyomy, where Kutuzov and Napoleon spent the night in 1812.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town

    154. Borodino: the field, the flèches and Mozhaysk

      ⏱ 11 h🚶 6 km + 🚆🚕🍽 2📍 7 stops

      Take the Lastochka train to Mozhaysk to see the hilltop kremlin, then on to the Borodino Field: the museum, Raevsky’s Battery, Bagration’s Flèches and the convent on the spot where General Tuchkov fell.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town

    155. Kubinka and Patriot Park: tanks and the Main Cathedral

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 3 km + 🚆🚕🍽 1📍 5 stops

      A day for school-age kids: the tank museum in Kubinka with the Maus and the T-35, lunch in a military town, the Main Cathedral of the Armed Forces and the “Road of Memory” gallery.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains🚆 Out of town

    156. Ilyinskoye and the Zadorozhny technology museum

      ⏱ 9 h 30 min🚶 4.5 km + 🚆🚌🍽 2📍 6 stops

      A commuter train to the Moskva River and the former Romanov estate of Ilyinskoye — a church, a museum and pies — then half a day among the vintage cars, planes and tanks of the Zadorozhny museum.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains🚆 Out of town

    157. Serpukhov: bison, the kremlin and Vysotsky Monastery

      ⏱ 10 h 50 min🚶 5 km + 🚕🍽 2📍 6 stops

      The Lastochka train to Serpukhov: in the morning, European bison and American bison at the Prioksko-Terrasny Reserve; in the afternoon, Cathedral Hill, the Maraev factory-owners’ museum and Vysotsky Monastery.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town

    158. Melikhovo: Chekhov’s estate and Lopasnya

      ⏱ 11 h 30 min🚶 3 km + 🚕🍽 2📍 5 stops

      A commuter train to Chekhov and a taxi to Melikhovo — the house, garden and outbuilding where “The Seagull” was written — then the Pushkin-family estate Lopasnya-Zachatyevskoye and dinner in town.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🚆 Out of town

    159. Gorki Leninskiye: the estate, the garage and the park

      ⏱ 6 h 10 min🚶 3.6 km + 🚌🍽 1📍 5 stops

      Half a day at the estate where Lenin spent his last years: his Kremlin study, the house rebuilt by Shekhtel, a peasant hut in Gorki village and a lime-tree park. The memorial garage with the tracked Rolls-Royce is closed for reconstruction.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town

    160. Ostafyevo and Dubrovitsy: Karamzin and the crowned church

      ⏱ 9 h 50 min🚶 700 m + 🚌🚕🍽 2📍 6 stops

      South on MCD-2: the Vyazemsky estate where Karamzin wrote his “History of the Russian State”, the white-stone church with a crown instead of a dome in Dubrovitsy, and a Georgian dinner in Podolsk.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town

    161. Tarusa: the Tsvetaevs, Paustovsky and the Oka

      ⏱ 10 h 50 min🚶 4.5 km + 🚌🍽 2📍 8 stops

      A little town on the high bank of the Oka: the Tsvetaev family museum, Paustovsky’s grave above the Tarusa River, the Marina Tsvetaeva stone by the river and a Tsvetaev pie for the road.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town

    162. Gzhel: porcelain, cobalt and a cup of your own

      ⏱ 9 h 30 min🚶 1.4 km + 🚆🚕🍽 2📍 5 stops

      A commuter train to Gzhel: a tour of a working porcelain factory, painting a cup in cobalt, the museum of the craft and lunch served on Gzhel tableware in Turygino.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🚆 Out of town

    163. Pavlovsky Posad: shawls, Stirlitz and a monastery

      ⏱ 10 h 50 min🚶 5.6 km + 🚆🚕🍽 2📍 7 stops

      An express to Pavlovsky Posad: the museum of the Russian shawl, the factory shop of shawls, the house of Vyacheslav Tikhonov (Stirlitz) and Pokrovsko-Vasilyevsky Monastery.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🚆 Out of town

    164. Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery and the quarry in Dzerzhinsky

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 2.1 km + 🚌🍽 3📍 5 stops

      Half a day in Dzerzhinsky: the monastery of Dmitry Donskoy with its 93-metre bell tower, pirozhki in the refectory and a view over the Belopeschany quarry.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town

    165. Korolyov: the town where rockets were built

      ⏱ 6 h🚶 3.2 km + 🚆🍽 2📍 6 stops

      Half a day with kids in the science city of Korolyov: the space hall of the city museum, monuments to Korolyov and Gagarin, a park and plov.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🚆 Out of town

    166. Vladimir: Intercession on the Nerl and white cathedrals

      ⏱ 11 h 10 min🚶 4.1 km + 🚆🚕🍽 2📍 9 stops

      The Lastochka train to Vladimir for a full day: a meadow walk to the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl, the Golden Gate, Rublev’s frescoes in the Dormition Cathedral and the carved Cathedral of St Demetrius.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🚆 Out of town

    167. Boulevards and Patriarch’s Ponds: the big loop

      ⏱ 6 h 30 min🚶 4.7 km🍽 2📍 12 stops

      The same route from Pushkinskaya to Patriarch’s Ponds, but with stops at Art Nouveau mansions, at Gorky’s and Yermolova’s houses, and in the Akvarium garden next to the “bad apartment”.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature

    168. The whole Arbat: from Vakhtangov to Smolenskaya

      ⏱ 6 h🚶 2.6 km🍽 2📍 12 stops

      The same Old Arbat, but with the Vakhtangov Theatre, Polenov’s “Moscow Courtyard”, Okudzhava and Andrei Bely, and a finale of dinner with a view of the Foreign Ministry skyscraper.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art

    169. GES-2, Krasny Oktyabr and Garage: the big culture axis

      ⏱ 7 h🚶 3.4 km🍽 2📍 10 stops

      The same route from GES-2 over the Patriarshy Bridge to the New Tretyakov, but with 17th-century chambers, a fish lunch at Krasny Oktyabr and a finale at Garage in Gorky Park.

      🎨 Art✨ New places

    170. Central Market, Myasnitskaya and Chistye Prudy: big route

      ⏱ 6 h🚶 2.7 km🍽 3📍 10 stops

      The same route from the market via Sretensky Monastery to Chistye Prudy, but with the Sandunovsky Baths, the Post Office, Menshikov Tower and a fish dinner on Myasnitskaya.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture

    171. Evening in the centre: theatres, dinner and three bars

      ⏱ 6 h🚶 4.2 km🍽 4📍 10 stops

      The same evening from the Bolshoi Theatre to Patriarch’s Ponds, but with dinner in the Egyptian House, a stroll along the boulevards and a third bar on Patriki.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture

    172. Moscow City: from Kievsky Station to the 85th floor

      ⏱ 6 h 30 min🚶 5 km + ⛴🍽 4📍 11 stops

      A big day at the City: coffee on Ukrainsky Boulevard, an embankment with a view of the towers, lunch at Dorogomilovsky Market, a ride to the towers on the river electric tram, a stroll at the foot of the skyscrapers, sunset on the 89th floor and an evening in the bars.

      🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening✨ New places

    173. Gastronomic classics of the centre: the big loop

      ⏱ 6 h🚶 3.8 km🍽 3📍 10 stops

      Russian cuisine by the Kremlin, Teatralnaya Square and Kamergersky Lane, dessert at Café Pushkin and dinner at Nikitskiye Vorota after a walk along Tverskoy Boulevard.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture

    174. Ivanovskaya Hill and Pokrovka: a long evening

      ⏱ 6 h🚶 3.7 km🍽 4📍 9 stops

      Lunch at a Siberian restaurant, a monastery on the hill, the legends of Khitrovka and Yauzsky Boulevard, chambers in Khokhlovsky, and in the evening Pokrovka’s bars and dinner in a mansion.

      🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture

    175. All of Kolomenskoye: from the gate to Dyakovo

      ⏱ 6 h 40 min🚶 4.5 km🍽 2📍 11 stops

      The tsar’s estate without hurry: the new Zayachya Polyana playground, the Sovereign’s Court, the Ascension and Peter’s little house, Golosov Ravine, the church in Dyakovo with its apple orchard and a wooden palace with lunch as the finale.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    176. Sokolniki from the gate to the Putyayevo Ponds

      ⏱ 6 h🚶 4.7 km🍽 2📍 9 stops

      The whole park in a day: lunch by the entrance, Fountain Square, the Avenue of Arches and the rose garden, a rope park and a children’s town, and a finale in the forest part by the Putyayevo Ponds.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature

    177. Nagatinsky Zaton and the floodplain along the water

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 6.5 km🍽 2📍 7 stops

      A walk by the water from a Big Circle Line station: a curved bridge over the bay, a new church on the bank, the renovated Nagatinskaya Embankment, the river terminal and a park on the peninsula, finishing at Dream Island.

      🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    178. Kolomenskoye from the river: falcons, embankment, gardens

      ⏱ 4 h 40 min🚶 3.8 km🍽 1📍 7 stops

      The other side of the estate — the entrance from Klenovy Bulvar metro: birds of prey, a wooden embankment above the Moskva River, the Kazan Church, an old apple orchard and a peasant farmyard with a horse and hens.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    179. The Zhuzha valley and Kolomenskoye

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      Downstream along the little Zhuzha River: from the “Robber’s Lair” playground in the ravine, where the robber Savka is said to have hidden, to Zayachya Polyana (Hare Meadow) and the water mill at the mouth in Kolomenskoye.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    180. Patriarch’s Ponds at night: Bulgakov and dinner by the pond

      ⏱ 3 h 15 min🚶 2.8 km🍽 1📍 7 stops

      The mansions of Spiridonovka at dusk, the lights around Patriarch’s Pond and an unhurried dinner on Malaya Bronnaya. Set off at 17:30–18:00.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture

    181. Chistye Prudy, Myasnitskaya and the lights of Nikolskaya

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 3 km🍽 2📍 8 stops

      From Chistye Prudy along the evening Myasnitskaya to Lubyanka: the pagoda house, the Kremlin from the roof of Detsky Mir, dinner and a walk down Nikolskaya to Red Square.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture

    182. Zamoskvorechye at night: the Kremlin and Pyatnitskaya

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops

      Sunset on the Patriarshy Bridge, GES-2 until closing and the quiet lamp-lit lanes of Zamoskvorechye, with dinner on Pyatnitskaya as the finale.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art

    183. Ostozhenka at night: a convent, dinner and a cathedral

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      The Museum of Moscow until closing, the lanes of Ostozhenka, a Georgian dinner and a walk along the river to the illuminated Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture

    184. Sretenka at night: two monasteries and a Georgian dinner

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2.3 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      From Trubnaya up the boulevard, through Sretensky Monastery into the hunchbacked lanes of Sretenka and dinner until midnight by Sukharevskaya.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture

    185. Gorky Park at night: two bridges and an embankment

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      Sunset on the Crimean Bridge, Gorky Park in the evening, dinner by Golitsyn Pond and a walk along the lit-up embankment to a glass gallery above the river.

      🌙 Evening🌳 Parks and nature

    186. The Kremlin in lights from across the river

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      From the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour over the Patriarshy Bridge and along Sofiyskaya Embankment — to the Kremlin, which stands lit up across the river all evening; the finale is dinner in GUM with windows on Red Square.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture

    187. Nikolskaya, Ilyinka and the Floating Bridge at night

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2.4 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      Kitay-Gorod after the offices close: the lit facades of Nikolskaya and Ilyinka, the churches of Varvarka, dinner in Zaryadye and the Floating Bridge over the dark river with the Kremlin in lights.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture

    188. Frunzenskaya, Andreevsky Bridge and the lights of Gorky Park

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 4.2 km🍽 1📍 7 stops

      A long evening walk by the water: the Stalin-era Frunzenskaya, the glass Andreevsky Bridge, the pedestrian Pushkinskaya Embankment, dinner in Gorky Park and the lit-up Crimean Bridge as the finale.

      🌙 Evening🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature

    189. The Yauza at night: skyscraper to Andronikov Monastery

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 3.4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Not the most showy, but very Moscow evening walk: the lit skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya, the Yauza embankments, the white walls of Andronikov Monastery in lights and dinner at Winzavod.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture

    190. Sunset at the River Terminal and dinner by the water

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      The North River Terminal at sunset: the sun goes down over the Khimki Reservoir, the 1930s lamps come on along the galleries, and then dinner in the park by the canal.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    191. The Drainage Canal and Raushskaya Embankment

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2.8 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      A quiet evening on the Zamoskvorechye bank: the lamps of Luzhkov Bridge over the canal, a Northern-cuisine dinner and the deserted Raushskaya Embankment with a view of the Kremlin, Zaryadye and the Kotelnicheskaya skyscraper.

      🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture

    192. VDNKh in lights: the wheel at sunset and dinner

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      Sunset from the height of the Sun of Moscow, then the Main Alley as the arch, pavilions and Kosmos light up, and dinner in the Russian wine pavilion.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre

    193. ZILART in the evening: a grove, a new museum and dinner

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A new district on the site of the car plant after work: houses by different architects, Tyufeleva Grove at dusk, the ZILART museum open until 22:00 and ribs from the smokehouse opposite. The museum is closed on Monday.

      🌙 Evening🎨 Art✨ New places🏘 Off the centre

    194. The Nagatinskaya floodplain at sunset and Dream Island

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Sunset on the floodplain embankment, the river terminal at dusk, and when it gets dark, the warm promenade of Dream Island and Georgian wine.

      🌙 Evening🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    195. Novodevichy at sunset and the cable car in lights

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      Sunset by the Novodevichy Pond, the lit-up convent, a cable car over the dark river and dinner with a view of Luzhniki from the Sparrow Hills.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    196. Sokolniki at dusk and dinner from on high

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Evening alleys of the old park from the entrance arch to Fountain Square, then a Chinese dinner on the 24th–25th floors with a view of Sokolniki and the city lights.

      🌙 Evening🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    197. The Ostankino Tower: Moscow in lights from 337 metres

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      The lit Space Obelisk, the Alley of Cosmonauts, the evening Ostankino Pond, and then a glazed viewing deck at 337 metres and dinner in a revolving restaurant.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture

    198. From the Detsky Mir roof to the Floating Bridge

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      Sunset over the Kremlin from the roof of Detsky Mir, the garlands of Nikolskaya, Red Square lit up, the night river from the Floating Bridge and dinner in Zaryadye until midnight.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture

    199. Patriarshy Bridge and the lights of Krymskaya Embankment

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      A view of the Kremlin from Patriarshy Bridge at dusk, GES-2 in the evening, the embankment along the river and the suspension Crimean Bridge, with dinner in Gorky Park at the end.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art

    200. Skyscrapers at sunset: Kudrinskaya and Ukraina

      ⏱ 2 h 40 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      A short walk between two Stalin-era skyscrapers: from Kudrinskaya Square past the White House to a bridge with a view of the Ukraina and the City, then dinner on the 29th floor.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture

    201. Bogatyrs and princesses: Vasnetsov’s fairy tales

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 2 km + 🚇🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A morning in the fairy-tale house where Vasnetsov painted his tales, then “Three Bogatyrs” and “Alyonushka” in the Tretyakov Gallery, behind the facade he also designed, and lunch with a kids’ room.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains

    202. Mummies, David and bronze giants

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      A short museum walk from GES-2 over the Patriarshy Bridge: Egyptian mummies and the plaster David at the Pushkin Museum, syrniki on Gogolevsky and an atrium with Tsereteli’s giant sculptures on Prechistenka.

      👶 With kids🎨 Art☔️ If it rains

    203. How a cartoon is born: Soyuzmultfilm and Ostankino

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A new interactive museum right at the Soyuzmultfilm studio — with your own voice-over of a favourite scene — then to the foot of the Ostankino Tower, the playgrounds by the pond and lunch at a restaurant with a kids’ room.

      👶 With kids🎨 Art✨ New places

    204. Black Square, Muzeon and Garage with a school-age kid

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      20th-century art through easy examples: “Failed Again” and the “Black Square” at the New Tretyakov, toppled monuments at Muzeon, the Salyut playground, contemporary art at Garage and dinner with a kids’ room.

      👶 With kids🎨 Art

    205. Basmannaya with a toddler: a garden, Yelokhov and puppets

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 1.8 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A quiet walk from Bauman Garden along Staraya Basmannaya to the cathedral where Pushkin was baptised, then a show at the Moscow Puppet Theatre, one of the oldest in the city. Lunch at the inexpensive Mu-Mu around the corner.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art

    206. The new embankments: from Novospassky to Simonov

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 3.8 km🍽 2📍 9 stops

      A walk along the just-opened Krutitskaya and Simonovskaya embankments: two monasteries on hills, the river alongside and the church where Peresvet and Oslyabya are said to lie.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places

    207. Melnikov and Krasnoye Selo: from the stations to the club

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 5 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      From Shekhtel and Shchusev on the Three Stations Square to the new Transport Museum in Melnikov’s garage, and from there through the former Krasnoye Selo to his most famous club.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art✨ New places

    208. Maryina Roshcha: Dostoevsky, Melnikov and sculptures

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      A low-key Maryina Roshcha: the house where Dostoevsky was born, Melnikov’s garage, a church that was never closed in Soviet years and a new round-the-clock sculpture park from Sidur to Salakhova.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art✨ New places

    209. Zelenograd: microelectronics, a pond and the “Flute”

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Moscow’s farthest district — a satellite town of the 1960s: the square where Soviet microelectronics was born, a pond in the centre and a museum in one of the longest buildings in the USSR.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    210. Peredelkino: Pasternak’s dacha and the writers’ village

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 4.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      A writers’ village among pines 20 minutes from Kievsky Station: the dacha where “Doctor Zhivago” was finished, Pasternak’s grave on the hill and Chukovsky’s house.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    211. Petrovsky Park and Khodynka: from the palace to the airfield

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 4.3 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      A road of tsars and pilots: Kazakov’s travel palace, where Napoleon took shelter from the fire, the dacha-style Petrovsky Park and the former Central Airfield, now a park.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

    212. Three stations and the Transport Museum

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      The Three Stations Square from the inside: the palatial Komsomolskaya, the renovated Leningradsky and Shchusev’s Kazansky Station, lunch in a food mall and the new Transport Museum with a horse tram, metro cars and simulators.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture✨ New places☔️ If it rains

    213. Three markets by metro: from Danilovsky to Depot

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 1.8 km + 🚇🍽 3📍 4 stops

      Eating around Moscow almost without going outside: the concrete “daisy” of Danilovsky Market, the food hall on Trubnaya and the former tram depot by Belorusskaya, with the metro and the stained glass of Novoslobodskaya in between.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains

    214. From Detsky Mir to MMOMA: a food hall, an arcade and dinner

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 1.7 km🍽 2📍 5 stops

      Short dashes between roofs: the food hall under Detsky Mir, Tretyakovsky Proyezd, the gallery of the Petrovsky Passage, contemporary art in Kazakov’s mansion and plov in a restaurant of 1951.

      🍽 Food tour🎨 Art☔️ If it rains

    215. Nikitsky Boulevard: Gogol, the East and cinema

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 1.3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Two estates on one boulevard — the house where Gogol burned “Dead Souls” and the Museum of the Orient with Japanese prints and the Roerich hall — then pho bo on the Arbat and an evening screening at Khudozhestvenny.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains

    216. Taganka under a roof: books, icons and Vysotsky

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 1.2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A quiet day around Taganka: the reading rooms of the Foreign Literature Library, an icon collection in Goncharnaya Sloboda, khinkali and the Vysotsky museum by his theatre — walks of 5–7 minutes between stops.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains

    217. Two great wars: the panorama and the dioramas

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 1.9 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      For school kids interested in history: the huge Borodino Panorama of 1812, blini at a coffee shop and the dioramas of the Victory Museum — walks along Kutuzovsky of about 10 minutes.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains

    218. Melnikov’s garage and Alabyan’s star

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 1.1 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A whole day in the Bakhmetevsky Garage by Melnikov and Shukhov: the interactive Jewish Museum and the Avant-Garde Centre, a kosher lunch in the same building, and on the way to the metro a star-shaped theatre and the mosaics of Dostoyevskaya.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains

    219. Sivtsev Vrazhek: Herzen, Tsvetaeva and Spaso House

      ⏱ 1 h 45 min🚶 2.3 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      An hour and a half in the quiet lanes between Prechistenka and the Arbat: the house where Herzen wrote “Who Is to Blame?”, pie at a pastry shop and the mansion where, according to one version, Bulgakov got the idea for Satan’s ball.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    220. The Basmannyes in 90 min: Peter, Bauman, Decembrists

      ⏱ 1 h 35 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      A short walk from Krasnye Vorota to Baumanskaya through the former settlements: Petrine baroque, a garden with an 18th-century grotto, a coffee shop and the house from which three Decembrists came.

      🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    221. Petrovsky Park with a stroller: the palace and alleys

      ⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      The level alleys of an old park, playgrounds for toddlers, the red-brick palace where Napoleon stayed and a croissant at the coffee shop in VTB Arena — all within five minutes of the metro.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    222. Sadovniki with a stroller: Riga Garden and playgrounds

      ⏱ 1 h 50 min🚶 2.9 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A level park by Kashirskaya for a walk with a toddler: wide alleys, the spiral of the Riga Garden with pines and boulders, a playground and an Italian restaurant with a kids’ corner.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    223. Mikhalkovo: Gothic towers and the Golovinsky Ponds

      ⏱ 1 h 50 min🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      An hour and a half in the north, in the Golovinsky district: the Panin estate with its “Bazhenov-style” towers, coffee in the outbuilding, a cascade of ponds and the lone bell tower of a vanished monastery.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    224. Lefortovo: the German Cemetery and Annenhof Grove

      ⏱ 2 h🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A quiet autumn walk by Lefortovo: Moscow’s oldest non-Orthodox necropolis with the grave of Dr Haass and Art Nouveau tombstones, then the ponds and alleys of Lefortovo Park.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    225. Preobrazhenka and Cherkizovo: Old Believers and a pond

      ⏱ 1 h 55 min🚶 3 km + 🚋🍽 1📍 5 stops

      About two hours between two stations of the red line: the regimental church of Peter’s “Poteshny” troops, a closed Old Believer town with a monastery kitchen and a 17th-century church above the pond in Cherkizovo.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    226. A rainy evening: GUM and the lights of Nikolskaya

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 1 km🍽 3📍 4 stops

      An evening by Red Square almost without going outdoors: the lines of GUM under glass vaults, a Soviet-style dinner, a Guinness on Nikolskaya and fruit liqueurs on Ilyinka.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains

    227. Petrovka in the rain: TsUM, the arcade and Central Market

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 1.4 km🍽 2📍 4 stops

      Short dashes along Petrovka: a department store with spires, a glass gallery of 1906, a cocktail in a hidden bar and dinner in the food hall on Trubnaya.

      🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains

    228. The City in the rain: the 89th floor and dinner in a skyscraper

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 900 m🍽 2📍 4 stops

      Evening in the City almost without going outdoors: the city lights through the clouds from the viewing deck, a walk through Afimall, dinner from a wood oven on the 85th floor and an English pub below.

      🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening☔️ If it rains

    229. GES-2 and Krasny Oktyabr in the evening

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 1.4 km🍽 2📍 4 stops

      Five minutes over the Patriarshy Bridge with the Kremlin lit up — and then everything is under a roof: GES-2 exhibitions, shrimp at Magadan and craft beer in the yard of the chocolate factory.

      🌙 Evening🎨 Art☔️ If it rains

    230. Arbat in the rain: a film at Khudozhestvenny and dinner

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 1.2 km🍽 2📍 4 stops

      An evening the rain can’t spoil: a bookshop on Novy Arbat, hot pho bo, a film at the 1909 cinema that Shekhtel rebuilt, and a pub-theatre.

      🌙 Evening🎨 Art☔️ If it rains

    231. New embankments and the river tram to ZIL

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 3.8 km + ⛴🍽 2📍 10 stops

      A walk along the new embankments from Novospassky Monastery, then 25 minutes on the water by electric river tram to Tyufeleva Grove and the new ZILART museum. The tram runs all year round.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places

    232. By river tram to Fili

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 4.5 km + ⛴🍽 2📍 7 stops

      An hour and a half on the water past the Moscow City skyscrapers, from Kiyevsky Station to Filyovsky Park, then an embankment, lunch on a terrace and a Naryshkin Baroque church. The tram runs all year round.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature

    233. By river tram to Dream Island

      ⏱ 6 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km + ⛴🍽 2📍 6 stops

      Breakfast by Tyufeleva Grove, 50 minutes in the warm cabin of an electric tram around the Nagatino floodplain, and a day in an indoor amusement park. Almost everything is under a roof, and the tram runs all year round.

      👶 With kids☔️ If it rains

    234. From Sparrow Hills by river to the Arbat

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 3.5 km + ⛴🍽 2📍 8 stops

      The panorama from Sparrow Hills, the cable car across the Moskva River and 40 minutes on an electric tram around Luzhniki to Kiyevsky Station, then Borodinsky Bridge and the Arbat in the evening.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places

    235. Under the vaults of GUM to Varvarka via Zaryadye

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 1 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      The glass arcades of GUM, the colourful domes of St Basil’s and the Zaryadye Floating Bridge with a view of the Kremlin, and at the end ancient Varvarka with its churches and the Romanov chambers.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    236. From the Eternal Flame along Nikolskaya to Detsky Mir

      ⏱ 55 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Alexander Garden by the Kremlin wall, the cobblestones of Red Square and the festive Nikolskaya under garlands. You can finish with lunch at an Italian trattoria with a children’s play room.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    237. Along Tverskoy Boulevard to Patriarch’s Ponds

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.3 km🍽 0📍 4 stops

      The lime trees of Tverskoy Boulevard, the church where Pushkin was married, Bulgakov’s house with the “bad apartment” and a bench by Patriarch’s Ponds. A quiet literary hour in the centre.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    238. From the Tretyakov through Zamoskvorechye to Pyatnitskaya

      ⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 1.7 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      The fairy-tale facade of the Tretyakov Gallery, the white-stone Marfo-Mariinsky Convent with its quiet garden and the baroque Church of St Clement. Low-rise merchant Zamoskvorechye, with an inexpensive lunch on Pyatnitskaya at the end.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    239. Muzeon, Gorky Park and Garage

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Open-air Soviet monuments, Gorky Park's Pushkin Embankment and Koolhaas's modernist Garage. A walk by the water with a snack in a bright café at the end.

      🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    240. GES-2, Patriarshy Bridge and Red October

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      Renzo Piano's former power station with a birch grove, the best view of the Kremlin from Patriarshy Bridge and the red-brick buildings of the chocolate factory on the tip of the island.

      🎨 Art✨ New places⏱ An hour or so

    241. Danilovsky Market, Shukhov Tower and Donskoy

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.7 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      The quiet of Danilov Monastery, chudu and pho to taste under the market's concrete “daisy”, the lacy Shukhov Tower and the old necropolis of Donskoy. An unhurried hour in the south of Moscow.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    242. From Rozhdestvensky Boulevard to Chistye Prudy

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      The “hilliest” boulevard with a view of the city, the courtyard of Sretensky Monastery, Perlov's pagoda-style tea house with loose-leaf tea, and a finish by the water of Chistye Prudy (Clean Ponds).

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    243. Ascension Church and Golosov Ravine

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.3 km🍽 0📍 4 stops

      The white Spassky Gate, the tent-roofed Church of the Ascension above the river bend, the wooded Golosov Ravine with streams and boulders, and a fairy-tale wooden palace.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    244. Tsaritsyno's Gothic palace and singing fountain

      ⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 2.7 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Catherine's red-brick pseudo-Gothic palace, the greenhouses by the palace and the Tsaritsyno ponds. A family hour with a snack at a pastry shop and a fountain that “sings” to music.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    245. Arbat, Melnikov's cylinder house and the Tsoi Wall

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.1 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      Street artists and musicians on the Old Arbat, Melnikov's cylinder house in a side street and the Tsoi Wall. Plus an inexpensive lunch and the mansion where Pushkin lived after his wedding.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    246. Khamovniki: from the “egg” church to Novodevichy

      ⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 3.1 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      The ornate Church of St Nicholas in Khamovniki, Tolstoy's wooden estate with its garden, the Usachevsky Market food court and the crenellated walls of Novodevichy Convent.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    247. Vinzavod, Artplay and Andronikov above the Yauza

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 1.7 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      Galleries in the brick workshops of Vinzavod and Artplay, the quiet Yauza embankment and the white walls of Andronikov Monastery, where Rublev lived. An industrial district with art and coffee.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art✨ New places⏱ An hour or so

    248. Friendship Park and the ship-shaped river station by the canal

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      The ponds of Druzhby Park, paths along the Khimki Reservoir and the 1937 river station shaped like a ship with a spire. You can finish with lunch at a restaurant by the canal.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places⏱ An hour or so

    249. Sokolniki: the fountain, the rose garden and a Georgian café

      ⏱ 55 min🚶 500 m🍽 1📍 3 stops

      Avenues of the old park from Fountain Square, a rose garden with themed gardens and a Georgian café like in old Tbilisi. A calm hour in the woods.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    250. From Yelokhovo Cathedral to the palaces of Lefortovo

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      The cathedral where Pushkin was baptised, Lefort's palace from the late 17th century and the huge colonnade of the Catherine Palace. The old German Quarter, with an inexpensive lunch on the way.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    251. The Sheremetevs' pond, palace and grotto at Kuskovo

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 1 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      A view of the wooden palace across the Great Pond, a formal park and a grotto decorated with shells. An 18th-century summer estate; you can finish with lunch at the café “1715”.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    252. The TV Tower and the estate by Ostankino Pond

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.1 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      The Ostankino Tower in full height, the Sheremetevs' wooden palace by the pond and the estate's pavilions. You can finish with lunch at a family café with a play area in the Moskvarium.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    253. Maroseyka, Khitrovka and the bars of Pokrovka

      ⏱ 1 h🚶 1.7 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      Maroseyka's mansions, a quiet monastery on Ivanovskaya Hill, Gilyarovsky's former Khitrovka and graffiti in the courtyard of a 17th-century chamber house. A finish with fruit liqueurs on Pokrovka.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    254. Over the river by cable car to the Sparrow Hills viewpoint

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2 km🍽 0📍 4 stops

      A gondola flight over the Moskva River from Luzhniki, a forest eco-trail with springs and little bridges, and the classic panorama of the city from the viewing platform.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    255. The Kotelnicheskaya skyscraper and Goncharnaya Sloboda

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 1.4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A Stalin-era skyscraper at the confluence of the Yauza and the Moskva, 17th-century churches of quiet Goncharnaya Sloboda and the entrance to a secret bunker. You can finish with khinkali near Taganskaya.

      🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so

    256. Frunzenskaya Embankment and Crimean Bridge

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

      A wide pavement along Stalin-era buildings, Neskuchny Garden on the opposite bank, Gorky Park and the lacy suspension Crimean Bridge. A simple, beautiful hour by the water.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    257. Volkhonka: the Pushkin Museum and Christ the Saviour

      ⏱ 55 min🚶 1.7 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      The columns of the Pushkin Museum and the wing with the Impressionists, the white Cathedral of Christ the Saviour with a view from its bell tower. A short museum quarter and lunch five minutes away.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so

    258. Khlebozavod, falafel and the former Flakon

      ⏱ 1 h🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      A constructivist bread factory with local brands, an Israeli falafel place and the workshops of a former crystal factory with studios and weekend markets.

      🎨 Art✨ New places⏱ An hour or so

    259. ZIL Palace of Culture, ZILART and Tyufeleva Grove

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 3 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

      The Vesnin brothers' constructivist Palace of Culture, houses by different architects and street art in the ZILART quarter, and a park with a cascade of ponds and little bridges on the site of the car factory.

      🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places⏱ An hour or so

    260. Apothecaries' Garden and the lanes of Sretenka

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 1.8 km🍽 0📍 4 stops

      Peter's Botanical Garden with its palm greenhouse, Sukharevskaya Square, Sretenka's herringbone lanes and a quiet monastery courtyard at the end.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    261. Pines, Lake Bezdonnoye and the beaches of Serebryany Bor

      ⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 3.3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A pine forest on an island, a forest lake with clear water and sandy beaches along the channels. You can finish with lunch on a restaurant veranda by the water.

      🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    262. Evening Arbat and dinner under a glass dome

      ⏱ 1 h🚶 2.3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Evening musicians on the Arbat, the illuminated Foreign Ministry skyscraper and the view of the City from Borodinsky Bridge. You can finish with dinner under the White Rabbit dome on the 16th floor.

      🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening⏱ An hour or so

    263. Borodino Panorama, the Arch and Poklonnaya Hill

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

      The round Panorama building, Beauvais's triumphal arch with the Chariot of Glory and the fountains of Victory Park. Kutuzovsky Prospekt in the footsteps of 1812.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    264. Bolshaya Nikitskaya: the Conservatory and Gogol's house

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 1.4 km🍽 2📍 5 stops

      The old Zoological Museum building, the Conservatory with its monument to Tchaikovsky, coffee on a veranda and the estate where Gogol burned the second volume. You can finish with a Georgian lunch.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so

    265. Novospassky Monastery and the Krutitsy Teremok

      ⏱ 55 min🚶 1.8 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

      The mighty walls of Novospassky on a hill above the river, the tiled teremok of the Krutitsy Compound and the modern House of Music by the water. One of the most photogenic corners of Moscow.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    266. Experimentanium and the wooden village of Sokol

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      A science museum from outside, a family café with a children's floor and a quiet 1920s artists' village with wooden houses and tree-lined streets.

      👶 With kids☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so

    267. Ponds and the Horse Yard of Kuzminki

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A cascade of ponds along the Churilikha, the Golitsyns' estate with its cast-iron lions and the Horse Yard with Klodt's horses. You can finish with lunch on a café veranda in the park.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    268. Nikolskaya, the gastro market and Ilyinka

      ⏱ 45 min🚶 500 m🍽 1📍 3 stops

      Smart pedestrian Nikolskaya, food corners with cuisines from different countries where you taste a little of everything, and the 19th-century banks and exchange on old Ilyinka.

      👶 With kids🍽 Food tour✨ New places⏱ An hour or so

    269. The Bolshevik Factory and the Depot by Belorusskaya

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 1.9 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      The brick buildings of a former confectionery factory with a museum of Russian Impressionism and a huge food mall in an old tram depot. An industrial walk with lunch.

      🎨 Art✨ New places⏱ An hour or so

    270. The Provision Warehouses and aristocratic Prechistenka

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      The modern MAMM building, the Empire-style Provision Warehouses with coffee in the courtyard and the mansions of Prechistenka. A quiet district between Ostozhenka and the Garden Ring.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so

    271. Shekhtel's mansions on Spiridonovka

      ⏱ 1 h🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      The wave-like staircase of the Ryabushinsky Mansion, the neo-Gothic Morozova Mansion and the house Shekhtel built for himself. Quiet Art Nouveau streets, with lunch near Patriarch's Ponds at the end.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    272. Church of the Intercession at Fili and the park above the river

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      A red-and-white tiered church of Naryshkin Baroque, plus the ravines, stairs and pines of Filyovsky Park on a high riverbank. You can finish with shashlik on a veranda.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    273. Rostokino Aqueduct over the Yauza

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      From the VDNKh arch to Catherine's white-stone “Million Bridge” with 21 arches over the Yauza. At the end, pastries and coffee at a bakery on a quiet street.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    274. New Arbat, the White House and dinner above the City

      ⏱ 1 h 35 min🚶 4.8 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      The “book” towers of Novy Arbat, the White House, the old Gorbaty Bridge and Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment toward the towers. You can finish with dinner on the 85th floor with a view of all of Moscow.

      🏛 History and architecture✨ New places⏱ An hour or so

    275. Pashkov House and the Znamenka estates

      ⏱ 50 min🚶 1.4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Bazhenov's snow-white palace on the hill opposite the Kremlin, quiet Znamenka with its mansions and the architecture museum in an estate courtyard. Lunch at Arbatskaya at the end.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    276. Varvarka, the Bolshoi Theatre and caviar by the Kremlin

      ⏱ 45 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      Ancient Varvarka with the Romanov Chambers, the illuminated portico of the Bolshoi and windows onto the Kremlin. You can finish with a caviar dinner at Beluga in the National hotel.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    277. From Patriarch's Ponds to the Old Arbat

      ⏱ 1 h🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      The bench at Patriarch's Ponds where “The Master and Margarita” begins, then on foot to the Old Arbat for artists, musicians and the Tsoi Wall. An inexpensive lunch at the end.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    278. Izmailovsky Island and the wooden kremlin

      ⏱ 45 min🚶 1.9 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      An island among ponds where Peter found his little boat: the Intercession Cathedral and the Bridge Tower. Nearby are the painted terems of the Izmailovo Kremlin and lunch at a tavern.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    279. From Pushkin along Tverskoy to Povarskaya

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 0📍 4 stops

      Opekushin's Pushkin, the boulevard where 19th-century literary Moscow strolled, the house where Gogol burned the second volume and quiet Povarskaya with the “Rostovs' house”.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    280. Shekhtel, Narkomfin and Melnikov's house

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

      From Art Nouveau to the avant-garde in an hour: the wave staircase of the Ryabushinsky Mansion, the Narkomfin communal house on “legs” and Melnikov's cylinder house in an Arbat lane.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    281. Roof of Detsky Mir, the Floating Bridge and the Cathedral bell tower

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3.4 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

      The viewing deck on the roof of Detsky Mir, Zaryadye's Floating Bridge over the river and the bell tower of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Moscow from above in three spots.

      🏛 History and architecture✨ New places⏱ An hour or so

    282. Patriarshy Bridge and Ostozhenka's Golden Mile

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3.2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      The view of the Kremlin from Patriarshy Bridge, the white Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Ostozhenka's mansions and the Provision Warehouses. You can finish with dinner by a window overlooking the Cathedral.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    283. The skyscraper, Narkomfin and Mayakovskaya

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

      A Stalin-era skyscraper on Kudrinskaya across from the constructivist communal house, and the columned hall of Mayakovskaya with Deineka's mosaics. Soviet Moscow in three styles.

      🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    284. Krylatskoye Hills and the rowing canal

      ⏱ 50 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

      A white church on the ridge of a hill, the best panorama of the Moskva River bend and the City, and a descent to the Olympic rowing canal. Space and wind in the west of the city.

      🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    285. Pyatnitskaya, Masa Madre and Khokhlovsky Lane

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.3 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      Merchants' Pyatnitskaya, across Ustinsky Bridge to a bakery with an open kitchen, and the hilly lanes of Ivanovskaya Hill with graffiti in the courtyard of a 17th-century chamber house.

      🍽 Food tour⏱ An hour or so

    286. From Chistye Prudy to Kuznetsky Most for coffee

      ⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 1.7 km🍽 2📍 4 stops

      A loop around Chistye Prudy, pour-over in a specialty café in the courtyards of Myasnitskaya, canelés from a French bakery and the shop windows of Kuznetsky Most. A coffee route to go.

      🍽 Food tour⏱ An hour or so

    287. Pushkin and Goncharova's Rotunda and dinner by the Cathedral

      ⏱ 45 min🚶 1.9 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      The rotunda at Nikitskiye Vorota, the wing with the Impressionists on Volkhonka and a window table with a view of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. A romantic short route.

      🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    288. GUM, the bronze dog and tea near Tverskaya

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 1.9 km🍽 2📍 4 stops

      It's warm under GUM's glass roof, the bronze figures by Manizer at Ploshchad Revolyutsii, then a chaban (Chinese tea ceremony) with a tea master. You can finish with dinner by windows onto the Kremlin.

      🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so

    289. Rogozhskaya Sloboda and Andronikov Monastery

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3.9 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

      The tall white bell tower of the Old Believers, the white walls of Andronikov Monastery with one of Moscow's oldest cathedrals, and a merchants' church on Alekseyevskaya.

      🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    290. Borovitsky Hill and Ivanovskaya Hill

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 0📍 4 stops

      From Red Square into the Kremlin to Cathedral Square, a descent along Varvarka past 17th-century churches and a steep climb to Ivanovsky Monastery. Hilly Moscow in an hour.

      🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    291. Sretensky Hill, Petrovsky Boulevard and Pushkinskaya

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 3.1 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      From Sretensky Monastery down into the Neglinka valley and up again along Petrovsky Boulevard to Pushkin on Tverskoy Hill. You can finish with dinner near Patriarch's Ponds.

      🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    292. Myasnitskaya, Chistye Prudy and Khokhlovsky Lane

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      From the Art Nouveau post office to the Baroque Menshikov Tower, along the pond to Pokrovsky Gate and down steep Khokhlovsky Lane. You can finish with lunch in an old manor house.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    293. From GUM to Stoleshnikov: the food hall, Detsky Mir and the arcades

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.1 km🍽 0📍 5 stops

      An hour among the main department stores of the centre: Soviet sweets at GUM, the free viewing deck on the roof of Detsky Mir, TsUM's neo-Gothic and the glass vaults of the Petrovsky Passage.

      🍽 Food tour☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so

    294. The Yeliseyev facade, Central Market and Tsvetnoy

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      The neo-Gothic facade of the former Yeliseyev store on Tverskaya, then Tsvetnoy Boulevard: a little of everything from the stalls of Central Market, and a department store with a rooftop restaurant.

      🍽 Food tour☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so

    295. A submarine, an ekranoplan and the Khimki Reservoir

      ⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A real submarine and an ekranoplan the size of a five-storey building on the shore, then a walk along the reservoir where ships and yachts pass. You can finish with dinner and beer.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    296. Skhodnya Bowl and Bratsevo Estate

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      A descent to the bottom of a huge natural funnel above the Skhodnya — an almost mountain landscape in the middle of Moscow — then the Stroganovs' estate with ponds and coffee with waffles in a loft in the middle of the park.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    297. A spring, a forest tea house and the Ivankovo Ponds

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.8 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      A woodland hour in Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo: a spring right from a ravine's slope, loose-leaf tea with lingonberry pie in the middle of the forest and a cascade of old estate ponds with ducks.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    298. Strogino Backwater and the churches of Troitse-Lykovo

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

      Along a wide backwater and the floodplain meadows of the river valley to Naryshkin Baroque right on the river. From the edge by the Trinity Church you can see Serebryany Bor.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    299. Selo Spas, the landscape park and Penyagino Pond

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.1 km🍽 0📍 4 stops

      The old church of the former village of Spas, the hills and little bridges of the landscape park, a pond on the site of a vanished village — a calm walk on the green edge of a young district.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    300. Kuntsevo Hillfort and the old dacha slopes

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

      The Naryshkin–Soldatyonkov estate, a headland with an ancient hillfort and the best view of the Krylatskoye Hills, and a descent along steep paths under century-old lindens to a spring.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    301. The first Khrushchyovkas and the courtyards of Block 9

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.7 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      The green courtyards of the experimental block that began Moscow's mass housing — built as a little town with a school and a kindergarten. Then pie with coffee and a quiet park-boulevard.

      👶 With kids🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    302. Vorontsovo Park: ponds, mazes and gardens

      ⏱ 1 h🚶 1.1 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      The Vorontsovs' estate church and a park with a cascade of ponds, mazes, and Chinese and Italian gardens; boats in summer. You can finish with lunch at a family café by the entrance.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    303. Matveyevsky Forest and the Setun Valley

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      Paths down the slopes of an old forest to the Setun, which winds between high banks — real nature within the city limits. You can finish with dinner of gyros and moussaka.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    304. Vyatichi burial mounds and North Chertanovo

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 3.1 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      From ancient burial mounds on the edge of Bitsevsky Forest to a 1970s district of the future with covered galleries and underground roads, then a loop around the pond. You can finish with dinner.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    305. Brateyevo Cascade Park and Borisovsky Pond

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

      Terraces descend to the Moskva River by Brateyevsky Bridge — especially lovely at sunset; then the Borisovsky Pond embankment and the old church of the former village of Borisovo.

      🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    306. Kant Slope, the “Spanish Houses” and Varshavka's mosaics

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.8 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

      Skiers on the “Moscow Alps” in the middle of the city, the district's Stalin-era grand facade and mosaic panels in the archways of Varshavka — each arch has its own.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    307. Kotlovka: a church, a river valley and khinkali

      ⏱ 50 min🚶 1.8 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      From the metro down to the little Kotlovka river and along a boardwalk by the water to the north — an unexpectedly wild valley between city blocks. You can finish with lunch of khinkali.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    308. Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery and Durasov's palace

      ⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 3.7 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      The courtyard of an old monastery with the Iveron Cathedral, a snack with lahmajun and an unusual palace in Lublino — a circle with four wings coming out of it, above a pond.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    309. Holy and White Lakes: the old churches of Kosino

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 1.7 km🍽 0📍 4 stops

      A sinkhole lake with a legend of a church that went under water, the wooden Tikhonov Church on the shore of White Lake and yachts in the middle of Moscow — a quiet, almost dacha-like corner.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    310. Church of Zosima and Savvatiy and Golyanovo Pond

      ⏱ 1 h🚶 1.3 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      The 1842 church of the former village of Golyanovo, coffee to go and a loop along the pond's embankment on the edge of Losiny Ostrov — a quiet hour away from the city bustle.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    311. The “Joy of All Who Sorrow” church and the Maryino embankment

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 3.2 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      An unexpectedly large church among prefab blocks and a long embankment by Brateyevsky Bridge, with a view of the opposite bank. You can finish with dinner of khinkali and khachapuri.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    312. Rodina Cinema, Iofan's houses and the Main Computing Centre

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      Avant-garde and modernism of Sokolinaya Gora: a 1930s facade on Semyonovskaya, Iofan's late towers, the church of former Blagusha and a concrete computing centre on Izmailovskoye Shosse.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    313. Sviblovo Baroque and the church in Medvedkovo

      ⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      White carved decoration of Naryshkin Baroque, an estate on the high bank of the Yauza and 1.5 km along the embankment to a church with an old 18th–19th-century cemetery.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    314. Grachyovka Estate and the pond on the Likhoborka

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 1.8 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      The “Monte Carlo” palace with caryatids — the best view of the facade is from the pond's dam — the estate church nearby and a big bowl of pho for lunch.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    315. Vladykino, the Likhoborka and the three-faiths quarter

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      The church of the village of Vladykino, a rare stretch of the Likhoborka in an open channel and a quarter where a church, a mosque and a synagogue stand side by side.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    316. Farm, ponds and the oil platform at VDNKh

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 1 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Goats and hens roaming free, slides on the oil platform and lunch at a café with a sea-themed play area while the little ones play.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    317. A mouse show, syrniki and a palm greenhouse

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      A short show with a mouse railway at Durov's, lunch at a café with a ball pit and the warm tropics of the Apothecaries' Garden in any weather.

      👶 With kids☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so

    318. Nikulin at the wheel, the clock with animals and the Apothecaries' Garden

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A photo “at the wheel” at the Nikulin monument, the famous fairy-tale clock on the Obraztsov Theatre and a walk through the oldest botanical garden. You can finish with a late lunch.

      👶 With kids🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    319. Akvarium Garden, Patriarch's Ponds and lunch by the zoo

      ⏱ 50 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      A small quiet garden by the Mossovet Theatre, a flat loop around Patriarch's Ponds where a baby falls asleep, and lunch at a restaurant with a big play area.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    320. Novodevichy Pond, Usachevsky Market and Trubetskoy Park

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 1.9 km🍽 2📍 4 stops

      A flat loop by the pond with a view of the convent, lunch at the market's food court and a quiet hour in the shady park of an old estate, where there are hardly any cars.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    321. Swings, the riverside and lunch on a veranda in Fili

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 1.7 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      A playground with a soft surface, a flat embankment where the wind and the sound of water quickly put a baby to sleep, and lunch on a veranda with a playground.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    322. The Round Pond and playground in Izmailovsky Park

      ⏱ 55 min🚶 600 m🍽 1📍 3 stops

      An asphalt ring around a pond with ducks, almost empty on weekday mornings, a playground with slides for toddlers two minutes away and pizza with a children's menu.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    323. Eurasia Square and the City towers from the embankment

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      From Kiyevsky Station with a coffee to go to Taras Shevchenko Embankment, from where the Moscow City towers are in full view across the river.

      🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening✨ New places⏱ An hour or so

    324. Metropol, the Bolshoi and Kamergersky

      ⏱ 1 h🚶 1.6 km🍽 0📍 4 stops

      Vrubel's majolica on the Metropol, Apollo's quadriga above the Bolshoi, the outdoor cafés of Kamergersky and the neo-Gothic of the former Yeliseyev store — the grand centre in an hour.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    325. Cable-stayed bridge, a church by the water and Nagatinskaya Embankment

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Across the cable-stayed bridge over the backwater to a church right by the water, khinkali for lunch and 1.5 km along the embankment with a view of the towers of Dream Island.

      🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    326. South River Station and the Nagatino floodplain

      ⏱ 45 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      Across Nagatinsky Bridge to the river station and onto the floodplain peninsula with lawns and an embankment. You can finish with plov on the Dream Island promenade.

      🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    327. Falconry Yard, Tsar's Embankment and the Ascension

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 0📍 5 stops

      Along the river on a wooden boardwalk to the pier, then up the hill to the Church of the Ascension with the best view of the bend, and into Kazan Garden with its new art objects.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    328. The Zhuzha stream: bridges, Cherry Garden and the “Robber's Lair”

      ⏱ 50 min🚶 1.8 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      Along the little Zhuzha through a ravine with bridges, a castle with suspension bridges for children and pizza at the entrance to Kolomenskoye — where the stream goes underground.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    329. Peter's cabin, Golosov Ravine and Dyakovo Garden

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.7 km🍽 0📍 4 stops

      Peter's log cabin, the streams and boulders of Golosov Ravine, the church in Dyakovo with a view of the bend and an apple orchard where in October the apples still lie under the trees.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    330. Avenue of Arches, the rose garden and the play town

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 800 m🍽 0📍 4 stops

      Under the arches of Luchevoy Prosek to the rose garden with gazebos and to a big play town — a calm hour in Sokolniki with children.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    331. The Post Office, Perlov House and Kremlin lights from the Detsky Mir roof

      ⏱ 1 h🚶 1.3 km🍽 2📍 4 stops

      Evening Myasnitskaya with the Chinese facade of Perlov's tea house, the illuminated Kremlin and Lubyanka from the Detsky Mir viewing deck. You can finish with a steak dinner.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    332. Averky Kirillov Chambers, GES-2 and Kadashi

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.7 km🍽 0📍 5 stops

      Patterned 17th-century chambers, a warm house of culture in a former power station, padlocks on the “love trees” by the canal and the lit-up domes of Kadashi and Klement.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    333. The Kremlin in lights from Sofiyskaya Embankment

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 0📍 4 stops

      From Patriarshy Bridge at dusk along Sofiyskaya Embankment, from where the whole Kremlin is visible, to Moskvoretsky Bridge and the illuminated GUM on Red Square.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    334. The Covered Bridge, the lower embankment and the evening park

      ⏱ 55 min🚶 1.4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Across Andreyevsky Bridge under its roof, along the lower tier of Pushkin Embankment, lamplit and carless, to a quiet colonnade by the river. You can finish with dinner.

      🌙 Evening🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    335. Sunset at Novodevichy Pond and the lights of Luzhniki

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.3 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

      Round the monastery walls to the pond to see the sunset: after dark the bell tower is lit and reflected in the water. Then to the illuminated stadium.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so

    336. Sokolniki in lamplight: from the entrance to the Avenue of Arches

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      The main avenue in evening lamps, Fountain Square, from which the avenues fan out, and the Avenue of Arches. You can finish with a Peking duck dinner.

      🌙 Evening🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    337. GES-2, Krymskaya Embankment and Crimean Bridge

      ⏱ 55 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Warm up in the house of culture, walk along the embankment's wavy paths and climb onto the bridge to the illuminated pylons with a view of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    338. Simonovskaya Embankment and the Dulo Tower

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 1.3 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      A new pedestrian embankment right by the water, coffee in a courtyard, Torpedo Stadium and the mighty corner tower of Simonov Monastery, and at the end a church with the tombstone of Peresvet and Oslyabya.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places⏱ An hour or so

    339. Three Stations, Melnikov's Garage and Krasnoye Selo

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3.1 km🍽 0📍 4 stops

      Shekhtel's majolica at Yaroslavsky, the Kazansky tower modelled on the Söyembikä, the avant-garde “horseshoe” of Melnikov's garage and the little Tikhvin church in a former monastery.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art✨ New places⏱ An hour or so

    340. Pasternak's grave, his dacha and lunch where writers dined

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      From the platform to the church on the hill, to Pasternak's grave under three pines, across the field to his dacha and to lunch at the Writers' House, where writers once dined.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    341. Petrovsky Palace and the former airstrip

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      The palace's red brick and white turrets, then the central avenue of Khodynka Field, laid along the old airstrip. You can finish with a dinner of mussels.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    342. Tretyakovsky Proyezd, Petrovsky Passage and plov

      ⏱ 55 min🚶 1.7 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      Under the gate-arch into Tretyakovsky Proyezd, under the glass roof of the 1906 passage, past Kazakov's mansion on Petrovka — and to plov in Eastern-style halls.

      🍽 Food tour🎨 Art☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so

    343. Devichye Pole: Pirogov, the clinics and Pogodin's izba

      ⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      An hour around the town of university clinics: a surgeon with a skull in his hand, a tent-roofed church saved from demolition and a carved log house that started the “Russian style”.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    344. Prechistenka's lanes: Obydensky, Mogiltsy and Vlasyevsky

      ⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 3.4 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      A loop through quiet lanes between Ostozhenka and the Arbat: a church built in a single day, the church where Levin and Kitty were married and the wooden house Bulgakov visited.

      🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    345. Presnya: the “Cobblestone”, neo-Gothic and Gruzinskaya Sloboda

      ⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 3.6 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      From Shadr's “Cobblestone” on the site of the 1905 fighting to the red neo-Gothic cathedral and the churches of the former Gruzinskaya Sloboda.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    346. Novinsky Boulevard: Chaliapin, Brodsky and Nikola na Shchepakh

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      A short walk from Barrikadnaya to Smolenskaya: the church behind the US embassy, Chaliapin's mansion, an unusual Brodsky and the white church by the Shchepnoy Dvor.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    347. Miusy: Gorky, Old Believers and Soyuzmultfilm

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      An hour from Belorussky Station to Novoslobodskaya: Gorky, who came back from Muzeon, an Old Believer church, Fadeyev's horsemen and the church where cartoons were drawn.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    348. Krasnye Vorota: Lermontov, the Yusupov chambers and Abai

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      The skyscraper opposite the house where Lermontov was born, fairy-tale 17th-century chambers in Kharitonyevsky Lane and the monuments of Chistoprudny Boulevard.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    349. Meshchanskaya and Sukharevka: the mosque, Kazakov, Sheremetev

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      From Moscow's main mosque via Matvey Kazakov's church to Sheremetev's palace-almshouse and the Church in Listy on Sretenka.

      🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    350. Ordynka to Vspolye: tiles, Baroque and Beauvais's rotunda

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      From the “peacock” tiles of the royal church on Polyanka along Bolshaya Ordynka — through five eras of church architecture to Tretyakovskaya.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    351. Yakimanka: the giant Lenin, the French terem and Peter's church

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      From Moscow's biggest Lenin along Bolshaya Yakimanka: the gingerbread house of the French ambassador, a church built to Peter I's design, quiet Golutvinsky Lane and coffee on Polyanka.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    352. Tatar Sloboda: from Chernigovsky to Vishnyaki

      ⏱ 1 h 35 min🚶 3.7 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      An hour in Zamoskvorechye away from Pyatnitskaya: a 17th-century church in a lane, Moscow's oldest mosque with Tukay and a church that never closed under the Soviets.

      🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

    353. Bryusov and the Bronnaya streets: Putinki, Herzen and Rostropovich

      ⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 3.1 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      From the tent-roofed church at Pushkinskaya through lanes to Nikitskaya: the church where Herzen was baptised, Rostropovich with his cello and the church that actors asked not to close.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    354. Maroseyka and Pokrovka: Kazakov, Mandelstam and Barashi

      ⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 3.2 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      From Kazakov's round church via the Lutheran cathedral and the little park with Mandelstam to the church where, according to legend, Empress Elizabeth was married.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

    355. Timiryazevka: larches, Peter and a grotto by the pond

      ⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      A little over an hour through the old Petrovsko-Razumovskoye estate: a larch avenue, a terrace with statues, a grotto by the Great Garden Pond and the academy with a clock on its tower.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    356. Koptevo: a wooden tent church and a Byzantine church

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.3 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      A quiet hour in Koptevo: a green boulevard from the MCC, two very different churches — a northern wooden log church and a new Byzantine one — and a stele on the site of the Kosmodemyanskys' house.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    357. Bibirevo: the cholera church and the Chermyanka valley

      ⏱ 1 h 35 min🚶 3.2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A short walk through the former village of Bibirevo: a church from the 1890s, lunch at an inexpensive café and the Chermyanka river with wooden bridges as far as Ethnographic Village park.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    358. At Rizhskaya: Trifon in Naprudnoye and Solodovnikov's houses

      ⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      An hour and a half at Rizhskaya: the world's first space monument, an 18th-century coachmen's church, Art Nouveau houses for the poor and one of Moscow's oldest churches.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    359. Stromynka: the fire tower, almshouses and Matrosky Bridge

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      An hour from Sokolniki to Preobrazhenka along old Stromynka: an 1880s fire tower, merchant's and Catherine-era almshouses, and a bridge over the Yauza.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    360. Rubtsovo: the tsar's church, Elizabeth's palace and the Yauza

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      A loop from Elektrozavodskaya across the Yauza and back: Kekushev's Art Nouveau, a hospital church with tiles, the palace where Tsesarevna Elizabeth lived and Mikhail Romanov's votive church.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    361. Bogorodskoye: the marshal on horseback and a wooden church

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

      An hour along Rokossovsky Boulevard: the marshal's equestrian statue, his portrait covering a whole wall of a building and Moscow's only 19th-century wooden church.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    362. Lefortovo: the soldiers' church, the airmen and the ataman

      ⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 1.7 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      An hour in military Lefortovo: Peter's regimental church, a monument to the French airmen of Normandie-Niemen, Ataman Platov by the Red Barracks and lunch at Korchma.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    363. Pechatniki: the nurse, the Churilikha and Gaidar

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      An hour and a half between Pechatniki and Volzhskaya: a monument to a front-line nurse on the site of a hospital, the Churilikha river in Shkulyov Park and Gaidar with pioneers.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    364. Sholokhov, Slava Square and Yesenin at Volgogradka

      ⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 2.8 km + 🚌🍽 1📍 4 stops

      A literary walk through Kuzminki: young Sholokhov with Cossack scouts, the memorial on Slava Square and Yesenin on his own boulevard — and we take a bus past the noisiest stretch of the avenue.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    365. Old Izmailovo: the pond, a church and the manufactory

      ⏱ 1 h 35 min🚶 3.9 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

      An hour and a half through old Izmailovo beyond the island: the tsars' ring pond, a church of Kostroma masters from the 1670s, a coffee shop and the buildings of a cotton-spinning mill.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    366. Degunino: the garage church and Fyodorov Park

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

      An hour at Seligerskaya: a church from the 1860s that was a garage of the Eye Microsurgery complex, and a park with a monument to Svyatoslav Fyodorov himself.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    367. Shabolovka: the avant-garde, Old Believers and Gagarin

      ⏱ 1 h 35 min🚶 3.7 km🍽 0📍 5 stops

      From Shabolovskaya to Gagarin Square: a 17th-century church, a rationalist workers' quarter at a 45° angle, a student communal house and a titanium cosmonaut.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    368. Zyuzino: ponds, ducks and a 17th-century church

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3 km🍽 0📍 5 stops

      A walk from Zyuzino station along the ponds of the former village: a Naryshkin church, a round pond with ducks and a district park with playgrounds.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    369. Belyaevo and Konkovo: the underground and a church by the ponds

      ⏱ 1 h 35 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 5 stops

      Between two stations of the Kaluzhskaya line: the gallery where nonconformists were first officially exhibited, estate ponds, a church from the 1690s and the wasteland of the “Bulldozer Exhibition”.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    370. MSU's new campus: Gandhi, Chekhov and Lomonosov

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 3 km🍽 0📍 5 stops

      Five monuments along Lomonosovsky Prospekt — from two Gandhis to a young Lomonosov; you can sit beside the student Chekhov and his dog.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    371. To Mosfilm: the round house, a church and the Docent

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 1.9 km🍽 0📍 4 stops

      From Minskaya station on MCD-4 to the main film studio: a prefab ring 155 metres across, a 17th-century village church and the Alley of Fame with the monument to the Docent.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    372. Poklonnaya Hill from behind: three houses of worship and monuments

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.8 km🍽 0📍 6 stops

      Not the main avenue but the western part of Victory Park: an Orthodox church, a synagogue and a mosque of different faiths, Tsereteli's memorial and three war monuments.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    373. Karamyshevskaya Embankment: the lock and Godunov's church

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

      A short walk along the Moskva River from Mnyovniki station: a bridge over a working lock, a quiet embankment opposite the green floodplain and a church from 1598.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    374. Atomic Shchukino: Kurchatov, the science town and pines

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3.3 km🍽 0📍 4 stops

      From Oktyabrskoye Pole to Shchukinskaya: a cadets' church on the former Khodynka, Kurchatov's head by his institute, the atomic scientists' mansions and the remnant of a pine forest.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    375. Danilovsky: Beket Pond, the rotunda and the “Ship”

      ⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 3.9 km🍽 0📍 4 stops

      From MCC Verkhniye Kotly to Tulskaya: a spring-fed pond in the Chura floodplain, an Empire-style rotunda in a plague cemetery, manufactory buildings and a 400-metre atomic scientists' house.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    376. October 50th Anniversary Park and the Ramenka river

      ⏱ 1 h🚶 1.6 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

      From the metro straight into a forest park: the Partisans' Alley, children's play towns with a zip line and a bridge over the Ramenka, from which a nature-monument valley leads to Ramenki.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    377. Sparrow Hills for locals: Malchish, the Palace, Herzen

      ⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 6 stops

      Up on the 1959 escalator, to Malchish-Kibalchish and the modernist Pioneers' Palace, pancakes on Kosygin Street, the place of Herzen's oath and a village church by the viewpoint.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

    378. Fili: the aircraft plant, Gorbushka and the N-209 crew

      ⏱ 1 h🚶 2.4 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

      A short walk between Bagrationovskaya and Fili: a Constructivist culture house, a small square by the gate of the plant that built aircraft and now builds rockets, and a Baroque Church of the Intercession.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

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