🚶 Nikolskaya Street

A pedestrian street from Red Square to Lubyanka with the Kazan Cathedral, the Print Yard and garlands overhead.

It is named after the Old St Nicholas Monastery, founded here in 1390.
In 1564 Ivan Fyodorov printed the Apostol at the Print Yard on Nikolskaya, the first dated Russian printed book.
The Gothic Synodal Printing House with a lion and a unicorn was built in 1814; the press worked there until 1918.
In 1687 the Slavic Greek Latin Academy opened here, Moscow's first institution of higher education, where Lomonosov later studied.
In the Slavyansky Bazar restaurant (No. 17) in 1897, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, over many hours of conversation, agreed to found the Moscow Art Theatre.
Ferrein's pharmacy at No. 21 was built in 1894–1899 to a design by Adolf Erichson.
The street became pedestrian in August 2013 and is about 630 m long.

Part of these routes