🚶 Povarskaya Street

A street in the Arbat area with 18th–19th-century mansions and embassies, a quiet corner just steps from New Arbat.

The name comes from the palace Povarskaya (cooks') settlement: in 1573 the tsar's kitchen was served by 477 people.
The neighbouring Khlebny, Skatertny, Stolovy and Nozhovy lanes are named after the trades of kitchen servants.
From 1923 to 1992 the street was called Vorovskogo Street.
The Dolgorukov-Sollogub estate (no. 52) is traditionally considered the prototype of the Rostovs' house in War and Peace.
The Church of St Simeon the Stylite was built in 1676–1679; Gogol's death is recorded in its parish register.
Bunin lived on Povarskaya from October 1917 to May 1918, and in 2016 a small park on the street was named after him.

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