🚶 Stoleshnikov Lane (Stoleshnikov Pereulok)

A short pedestrian lane in the centre, with 19th-century apartment buildings and expensive shops.

The name comes from stoleshnik, an old word for tablecloth: in the 17th century weavers lived here.
The lane is first mentioned as Rozhdestvenskaya Street in Ivan III's will of 1504.
In 1922 Kosmodamianovsky Lane was added to it, and it doubled in length.
Vladimir Gilyarovsky lived at no. 9; the estate now houses his museum and exhibition centre, a branch of the Museum of Moscow.
In Soviet times the lane was famous for its second-hand bookshops, considered the best in Moscow.
In 2007 Jones Lang LaSalle named it the second most expensive shopping street in the world after the Champs-Élysées.

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