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      The whole Boulevard Ring on foot

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 9.5 km🍽 2📍 9 stops
      🏃 A lot — over 7 km

      From the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour to the Yauza — 10 boulevards, shady alleys and monuments.

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      1. 1
        🚶 Gogolevsky Boulevard
        A boulevard with two avenues at different levels, a monument to Gogol and a view of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
        Start at Kropotkinskaya metro
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        Gogolevsky Boulevard
        © Panther · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • Until 1924 the boulevard was called Prechistensky; it was renamed for Gogol's 115th anniversary.
        • The avenue and the roadways lie at different levels because the Chertory stream, with its uneven banks, once ran where the outer roadway is.
        • House no. 8 is an experimental communal house of 1929–1930 with two-level flats and "cupboard kitchens".
        • The Decembrist Mikhail Naryshkin lived in the estate at no. 10, and Ryleyev and Pushchin came to see him.
        • Since 1956 the estate at no. 14 has housed the Central Chess Club.
        • Stalin's son Vasily and the intelligence officer Rudolf Abel lived at no. 7.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Nikitskiye Vorota
        A square at the junction of boulevards with a rotunda fountain of Pushkin and Goncharova and the Empire-style Church of the Great Ascension.
        Pushkin with Natalya Goncharova in the rotunda
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        Nikitskiye Vorota
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The square is named after the Nikitsky Gate of the White City and the Nikitsky Monastery, which was demolished in the 1930s.
        • In 1831 Pushkin and Natalia Goncharova were married in the Church of the Great Ascension at Nikitskiye Vorota.
        • The rotunda fountain Natalia and Alexander, with figures of the newlyweds, was installed in 1999, for Pushkin's 200th anniversary.
        • Sergey Merkurov's monument to Kliment Timiryazev has stood on the square since 1923.
        • Mark Rozovsky's U Nikitskikh Vorot Theatre grew out of a studio he founded in 1983.
        • The TASS building at the corner of Tverskoy Boulevard is a recognisable late Soviet modernist structure of the 1970s.
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      5. 3
        🚶 Tverskoy Boulevard
        A long, wide boulevard of lime trees and lawns between Pushkin Square and Nikitskiye Vorota, passing the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre.
        The oldest boulevard
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        Tverskoy Boulevard
        © Valeri Pizhanski from Odintsovo, Russia · CC BY-SA 2.0
        Tverskoy Boulevard
        © Perituss · CC0
        • 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.
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      7. 4
        🍽 Café Pushkin
        Тверской б-р, 26А
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        Lunch halfway
        🍴 A restaurant of Russian aristocratic cuisine in an old-style mansion on Tverskoy Boulevard, open since 1999. What to order: beef stroganoff with Pushkin potatoes, a Pozharsky cutlet with mushroom sauce, dumplings with three kinds of meat.
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      9. 5
        🚶 Petrovsky Boulevard
        A short boulevard between Trubnaya and Petrovskiye Vorota, with lindens and mansions on both sides.
        A view of the Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery
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        Petrovsky Boulevard
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The boulevard was laid out in the early 19th century on the site of the White City walls, demolished in the 1780s.
        • In the fire of 1812 the houses and trees on the boulevard burned, and it was restored only in 1818.
        • House no. 14/29 held Lucien Olivier's Hermitage restaurant; today the building houses the School of Modern Play theatre.
        • In house no. 5 the composer Reinhold Glière wrote the music for the first Soviet ballet, The Red Poppy, in 1926–1927.
        • The cast-iron fence and the vases on granite pedestals at the Trubnaya entrance were installed in 1947.
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        🚶 Rozhdestvensky Boulevard
        A boulevard that drops steeply to Trubnaya Square, with shady lindens and the Nativity Convent at the foot of the slope.
        A steep descent and climb
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        Rozhdestvensky Boulevard
        © XAKxRUSx · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Rozhdestvensky Boulevard
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The name comes from the Nativity of the Virgin Convent, founded in 1386.
        • The boulevard, about 600 m long, was laid out in the 1820s; it descends steeply to Trubnaya Square.
        • In the house of the Fonvizin brothers (no. 12/8) it was decided in 1821 to dissolve the Union of Welfare, and in 1826 Decembrists were arrested there.
        • In the Rostopchina mansion (no. 14) in the 1840s writers gathered, among them Gogol and Fet.
        • A 1936 fire in a house on the boulevard formed the basis of Marshak's poem The Story of an Unknown Hero.
        • On 6 March 1953 a crush occurred on the boulevard and Trubnaya Square during the farewell to Stalin.
        • A tram ran along the boulevard from 1911 to 1971.
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      13. 7
        🧺 Tsentralny Market
        Рождественский б-р, 1
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        Coffee or a second snack
        🍴 A food hall on Trubnaya: around fifty corners with cuisines from around the world, and music in the evenings. What to order: pho bo at PhoBo, tom yum at Tom Yam, pinsa at Pinzeria by Bontempi, khinkali (Georgian dumplings) at Gruziny Zdes.
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      15. 8
        🌳 Chistye Prudy (Clean Ponds)
        A boulevard with a pond in the middle, swan houses and a floating café on the water.
        A pond and the "Annushka" tram
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        Chistye Prudy (Clean Ponds)
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Chistye Prudy (Clean Ponds)
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • According to a popular version, the pond was called Pogany (Foul) because of butchers' waste, and in 1703 it was cleaned on Menshikov's orders.
        • Of several ponds, only one has survived to this day.
        • Nearby stands the Menshikov Tower of 1704–1707 by architect Ivan Zarudny; its top burned down after a lightning strike in 1723.
        • The monument to Griboyedov at the start of the boulevard was erected in 1959.
        • Since 1974 the Sovremennik Theatre has been housed in the building of the former Colosseum cinema of 1914.
        • The Annushka tram, route A, runs along the boulevard; in summer swans live on the pond.
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        🚶 Yauzsky Boulevard
        A short boulevard at the end of the Boulevard Ring, descending a hill to Yauzskiye Vorota.
        The finale at the Yauza
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        Yauzsky Boulevard
        © SmallSonMarex · CC BY 4.0
        • The boulevard was laid out in 1824, at the same time as Khitrovskaya Square.
        • On 2 (14) September 1812 the area burned to the ground; only the Foundling Home survived.
        • The stretch from Petropavlovsky Lane to Yauzskiye Vorota remained built-up, so there is no green avenue there.
        • The nearby Nikolovorobinsky lanes are named after the streltsy settlement of Vorobin's regiment, which stood here in the 17th century.
        • House no. 14/8 (1929–1930) is built of sand-lime brick and fitted into a level difference of almost a whole storey.

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