🚶 Tverskoy Boulevard

A long, wide boulevard of lime trees and lawns between Pushkin Square and Nikitskiye Vorota, passing the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre.

The boulevard was laid out in summer 1796; it is the oldest and longest boulevard of the Boulevard Ring, almost 900 m.
At first it was simply called "the Boulevard": there were no other boulevards in Moscow then.
In 1812 French soldiers cut down almost all the boulevard's trees for firewood.
Opekushin's Pushkin monument stood at the end of the boulevard from 1880, and in 1950 it was moved to the other side of the square.
Alexander Herzen was born in 1812 at No. 25; it now houses the Gorky Literary Institute.
RAPP and MAPP, which met in Herzen's house in the 1920s, became the prototype of Bulgakov's MASSOLIT.
Sergey Merkurov's monument to Timiryazev (1923) was knocked off its pedestal by a blast wave in 1941 and later restored.
In 1960 the World Chess Championship match was held in the building of the former Tairov Kamerny Theatre, now the Pushkin Theatre.