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      All day: galleries by day, bars by night

      ⏱ 11 h🚶 6 km + 🚇🚕🍽 5📍 10 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A late start, contemporary art in former factories, dinner and two famous cocktail bars.

      🍽 Food tour🌙 Evening🎨 Art
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      1. 1
        ☕️ Nothing Fancy Café
        ул. Петровка, 30/7
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        Late breakfast across the road from the museum
        🍴 A bright healthy-food café with panoramic windows, with calories and macros listed for every dish. What to order: a salmon and quinoa bowl, a hearty smoothie, pistachio ice cream in a cone.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🖼 MMOMA on Petrovka
        ул. Петровка, 25
        🎟 ticket
        The Neoclassical mansion of the merchant Gubin by Matvey Kazakov, the main venue of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
        Contemporary art in a mansion on Petrovka
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        MMOMA on Petrovka
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • MMOMA opened on 15 December 1999, the first state museum of modern art in Russia.
        • Zurab Tsereteli bought the mansion with his own funds in 1995, and his collection of more than two thousand works became the core of the museum's holdings.
        • The mansion was built in 1793; from 1880 it housed a gymnasium attended by Valery Bryusov and the Bakhrushin brothers.
        • Inside, the Neoclassical ceiling paintings, the grand staircase and the orchestra niche in the ballroom survive.
        • The collection includes Malevich, Chagall, Goncharova, Larionov, Kandinsky and a large collection of Niko Pirosmani.
        • The permanent collection numbers more than 12,000 works.
      4. 🚇 7 min on foot to Trubnaya metro, 2 stops on the light green line to Chkalovskaya, then 10 min on foot to Winzavod
      5. 3
        ✨ Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art
        🎟 partly ticketed · the grounds and many galleries are free, some exhibitions require a ticket
        The 19th-century brick workshops of a former wine factory, with contemporary art galleries, showrooms and cafés.
        Galleries in the courtyards of a former wine factory
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        Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art
        © This is Andy · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Centre for Contemporary Art opened in 2007; it was founded by businessman Roman Trotsenko.
        • In 1810 the merchant Nikifor Prokofyev opened a mead and beer brewery in a former manor.
        • In 1851 the estate was bought by the "tax-farming tsar" Vasily Kokorev, a collector of Bryullov and Kiprensky.
        • From 1873 the factory belonged to the Moscow Bavaria joint-stock company.
        • To the right of the entrance stands the estate's main house with a portico; the monogram of the brewer Ludwig Danielson survives on its pediment.
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        ☕️ Tsurtsum café at Winzavod
        4-й Сыромятнический пер., 1/8, стр. 6 (Винзавод, подъезд 6)
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        Lunch
        🍴 A long-standing café at Winzavod, open daily 10:00–23:00, with a business lunch on weekdays. What to order: borscht with salo and Borodino bread, pike cutlets with mashed potatoes, shakshuka, syrniki (cottage cheese pancakes).
      8. 🚶 on foot
      9. 5
        ✨ Artplay Design Centre
        🎟 partly ticketed · the grounds are free, exhibitions require a ticket
        A creative cluster in the buildings of a former factory near Kursky Station, with exhibitions and furniture and design showrooms.
        A design factory
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        Artplay Design Centre
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The design centre was founded in 2003 and moved into the buildings of the former Manometr factory on the Yauza in 2008.
        • Before the move the centre worked on Miusskaya Square, and then on Timura Frunze Street.
        • The Manometr factory was founded in 1886 by Fyodor Gakenthal, a townsman from Podolsk; it made manometers, valves and thermometers.
        • During the war production was evacuated to Tomsk, and in 1948 the factory returned to the reconstructed workshops.
      10. 🚕 taxi, about 7-10 min
      11. 6
        🚶 Khokhlovsky Lane and the Ukraintsev Chambers
        A steep, curving lane with the chambers of a 17th-century duma clerk and a courtyard covered in graffiti.
        17th-century chambers and street art
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        Khokhlovsky Lane and the Ukraintsev Chambers
        © NVO · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The name comes from the area of Khokhly, where in the 17th century Cherkassy Cossacks settled next to the Little Russian Court.
        • From 1697 the chambers belonged to the duma clerk and diplomat Yemelyan Ukraintsev.
        • After Poltava, Peter I granted the chambers to Prince Mikhail Golitsyn.
        • From 1770 the Moscow Main Archive of the College of Foreign Affairs was kept here.
        • At the Jurgenson music press attached to the chambers, almost all of Tchaikovsky's works were first printed.
        • The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Khokhly was built in 1696.
        • On the corner with Kolpachny Lane the steep left bank of the little Rachka river has survived.
      12. 🚶 on foot
      13. 7
        🏛 Khitrovskaya Square
        A small square-park on the slope of Ivanovskaya Gorka, on the site of the famous 19th-century flophouse market.
        Legends of Khitrovka
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        Khitrovskaya Square
        © Roman Balabin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The square was laid out at his own expense and given to the city in 1824 by Major General Nikolai Khitrovo, hence the name.
        • In 1902 Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko came here to study the life of the flophouse residents for their staging of The Lower Depths.
        • The flophouses in the Yaroshenko, Bunin, Kulakov and Rumyantsev houses faced the square.
        • The image of Khitrovka at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries was preserved in the books of Vladimir Gilyarovsky.
        • In 1935 the square and the lane were named after Gorky; the lane's historic name was restored in 1994.
        • The current park appeared after a 1930s school building was demolished in 2010.
      14. 🚇 7 min on foot to Kitay-Gorod metro, 1 stop on the purple line to Kuznetsky Most, change to Lubyanka, 1 stop to Okhotny Ryad, 7 min on foot
      15. 8
        🍽 Ugolёk
        Б. Никитская ул., 12
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        Dinner: dishes cooked over open fire
        🍴 A restaurant on Bolshaya Nikitskaya where almost everything is cooked over coals and in a wood-fired oven. What to order: chicken with mashed potatoes, black veal, tartare, chamomile and verbena lemonade.
      16. 🚶 on foot
      17. 9
        🍸 Mendeleev Bar
        ул. Петровка, 20/1 (цокольный этаж)
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        A speakeasy in a basement; open Tue-Sat from 18:00, better to book
        🍴 A hidden cocktail bar on Petrovka with Asian food and live music; open Tue–Sat from 18:00, and without a reservation you may not be let in. What to order: the Ninja and Vseslav cocktails, a handroll with spicy scallop, salmon tartare.
      18. 🚶 on foot
      19. 10
        🍸 Noor Electro (Noor Bar)
        Тверская ул., 23/12
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        One last cocktail on Tverskaya
        🍴 A legendary cocktail bar in a courtyard on Tverskaya: in the evening there are DJs and dancing. What to order: a cocktail to your taste (the bartenders make it to order), a classic Margarita, and a sandwich with them.

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