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      Boulevards, Bulgakov and Patriarch's Ponds

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 4.5 km🍽 2📍 7 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Shady Tverskoy Boulevard, "The Master and Margarita" and the trendiest pond in the city.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
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      1. 1
        🏛 Pushkin Square
        A square on Tverskaya with a garden, fountains and Opekushin's bronze Pushkin of 1880.
        Start at the Pushkin monument
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        Pushkin Square
        © Shakko · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The square was called Strastnaya, after the Passion Monastery demolished in 1937; it became Pushkinskaya in 1931.
        • The Rossiya cinema, now Pushkinsky, was built in 1961 on the monastery's site.
        • Alexander Opekushin's Pushkin monument was unveiled on Tverskoy Boulevard in 1880, and in the mid-20th century it was moved across the square.
        • The 1880 unveiling celebrations are remembered for Dostoevsky's Pushkin Speech.
        • The Izvestia building of 1927 by the architect Grigory Barkhin is a notable monument of Constructivism.
        • On 31 January 1990 the USSR's first McDonald's opened here; on the first day the queue stretched for hundreds of metres.
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      3. 2
        🍽 Café Pushkin
        Тверской б-р, 26А
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        Breakfast or lunch in a nobleman's mansion
        🍴 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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      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.
        Moscow's 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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        🏛 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.
        The Church of the Great Ascension, where Pushkin was married
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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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      9. 5
        🖼 Bulgakov Museum (the "Bad Apartment")
        Б. Садовая ул., 10
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        The Art Nouveau Pigit apartment building where Bulgakov lived in 1921–1924 and from which he "moved" Woland and his retinue into the novel.
        The "Bad Apartment" No. 50
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        Bulgakov Museum (the "Bad Apartment")
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The apartment building was built in 1902–1903 for the tobacco manufacturer Ilya Pigit, owner of the Dukat factory.
        • Bulgakov lived here from 1921 to 1924, at first in Apartment No. 50, which became the "bad apartment" of The Master and Margarita.
        • In the novel the building is called "302-bis Sadovaya".
        • In autumn 1921, in the studio of the artist Georgy Yakulov in this building, Yesenin met Isadora Duncan.
        • The artist Pyotr Konchalovsky also had a studio in the building.
        • Two museums operate in the stairwell: the state museum in Apartment No. 50 and the private Bulgakov House on the ground floor.
        • For years the stairwell walls were covered with inscriptions and drawings by fans of the novel.
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        🌳 Patriarch's Ponds (Patriarshiye Prudy)
        A square pond surrounded by old lime trees and benches, a calm park amid quiet lanes and the setting of The Master and Margarita.
        Sit on that very bench
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        Patriarch's Ponds (Patriarshiye Prudy)
        © Dimа · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Patriarch's Ponds (Patriarshiye Prudy)
        © Shuvaev · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Patriarch's Ponds (Patriarshiye Prudy)
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • In 1683 Patriarch Joachim ordered the local Goat Marsh drained and three fish ponds dug.
        • After the fire of 1812 two ponds were filled in and one remained; Trekhprudny Lane recalls the three.
        • From 1932 to 1992 the pond was officially called Pionersky ("Pioneer").
        • The 1976 Krylov monument (sculptors Andrei Drevin and Daniel Mitlyansky) is surrounded by scenes from 12 fables.
        • The stone pavilion by the water was built in 1986 on the site of a wooden one from 1938.
        • The Master and Margarita begins here; the sign banning talking to strangers refers to the novel's first chapter.
        • A skating rink has been flooded on the pond since 1900, with an area of about 12,000 m².
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      13. 7
        🍽 Aist restaurant
        ул. Малая Бронная, 8/1
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        Dinner on Malaya Bronnaya
        🍴 Arkady Novikov's restaurant by Patriarch's Ponds: an Italian menu, a bakery and brunches. What to order: oven-baked pizza, pasta with chanterelles, honey cake, Bird's Milk cake.

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