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      Apothecaries' Garden and the lanes of Sretenka

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 1.8 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Peter's Botanical Garden with its palm greenhouse, Sukharevskaya Square, Sretenka's herringbone lanes and a quiet monastery courtyard at the end.

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        🌳 Apothecaries' Garden (Aptekarsky Ogorod)
        пр-т Мира, 26, стр. 1
        🚪 entrance from Prospekt Mira
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        Russia's oldest botanical garden, founded under Peter I, with a pond, greenhouses and centuries-old trees.
        Peter's Garden and the palm greenhouse
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        Apothecaries' Garden (Aptekarsky Ogorod)
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        • The garden was founded in 1706, when the state garden of medicinal plants was moved here from beneath the Kremlin walls.
        • Peter I planted a spruce, a fir and a larch here himself; according to legend, one larch survives to this day.
        • The first director in 1735–1742 was the botanist Traugott Gerber, after whom the gerbera flower is named.
        • In 1805 Moscow University bought the garden for 11,000 silver roubles.
        • The Palm Greenhouse was built in 1891.
        • The white willow growing here is considered the oldest tree in central Moscow.
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        🏛 Sukharevskaya Square
        A square on the Garden Ring with the Sheremetev Hospital, now the Sklifosovsky Institute.
        The spot where the Sukharev Tower once stood
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        Sukharevskaya Square
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Sukharevskaya Square
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The square is named after Sukharev Tower, built in 1695 to a design by Mikhail Choglokov and demolished in 1934.
        • The tower took its name from the streltsy regiment of Lavrenty Sukharev, which guarded the gate of the Earthen Town here.
        • Yakov Bruce set up Russia's first astronomical observatory on the upper floors of the tower.
        • According to legend, Bruce hid a "black book" granting power in the tower's foundation; people called the tower Ivan the Great's bride.
        • The Hospice House, now the Sklifosovsky Institute, was built in 1792–1810; its authors include Giacomo Quarenghi.
        • From 1939 to 1994 the square was called Bolshaya Kolkhoznaya.
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        🚶 Sretenka Street
        An old street with low 19th-century buildings, with shops and cafés on the ground floors.
        A merchants' street with herringbone side lanes
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        Sretenka Street
        © Bogunilia · CC BY 4.0
        • The name comes from the Sretensky Monastery, founded where in 1395 Muscovites met (sretali) the Vladimir Icon.
        • The street was the start of the road to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery: pilgrims walked 68 versts on foot.
        • The Church of the Dormition in Pechatniki (no. 3/27) was built in 1695.
        • The Church of the Trinity in Listy (no. 27/29) was built in 1650–1661.
        • In the Kiryakov estate (no. 17), the founder of the Moscow Conservatory, Nikolai Rubinstein, lived in the early 1860s.
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        🏛 Sretensky Monastery
        A 14th-century monastery on Lubyanka with the Church of the Presentation of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God and a seminary behind its walls.
        A monastery courtyard
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        Sretensky Monastery
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Sretensky Monastery
        © Андрей Колычев · CC BY 3.0
        • The monastery was founded in 1397 by Grand Prince Vasily I in memory of Moscow's deliverance from Tamerlane in 1395.
        • The name comes from sretenie, meaning "meeting": this is where Muscovites met the Vladimir Icon brought from Vladimir.
        • The Cathedral of the Presentation of the Vladimir Icon was built in 1679 under Feodor Alexeyevich, with murals from 1707.
        • In 1925 the monastery was closed, some buildings were demolished and the bells were sold to England.
        • The monastery was revived in the 1990s; from 1995 it was headed by Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov).
        • The Church of the Resurrection of Christ and the New Martyrs, about 60 m tall, was consecrated by Patriarch Kirill on 25 May 2017.
        • The Sretensky Theological Seminary has operated at the monastery since 2002.

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