🚶 Prechistenka Street

A street from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour to the Garden Ring with 19th-century estates and mansions.

The name was given in 1658 after the Smolensk icon of the Most Pure Mother of God in the Novodevichy Convent, to which the street led.
From 1921 to 1990 the street was called Kropotkinskaya, after the anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin, who was born in a nearby lane.
No. 24 is the "Kalabukhov House", where Bulgakov settled Professor Preobrazhensky from "Heart of a Dog".
In no. 20 General Alexey Yermolov died in 1861, and in the 1920s Isadora Duncan's studio worked there and Sergei Yesenin lived there.
The Lopukhin-Stanitsky estate (no. 11) has housed the State Leo Tolstoy Museum since 1920.
Morozov's mansion (no. 21) housed the Museum of New Western Art in 1918–1948.
The "White Chambers" (no. 1/2) are the main house of Prince Boris Prozorovsky's estate, built in 1685.

Part of these routes