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      All day: bar-hopping Moscow, from brunch to night

      ⏱ 11 h 30 min🚶 7 km + 🚕🍽 4📍 11 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A late brunch by Patriarch's Ponds, a stroll past the mansions of the Nikitskie streets, dinner on Yauzskaya and two well-known bars on Solyanka and Pokrovka.

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      1. 1
        🍽 Aist restaurant
        ул. Малая Бронная, 8/1
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        Brunch for midday; at weekends it's better to book a table
        🍴 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.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🌳 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.
        A loop around the pond and the bench with Woland — straight from Bulgakov
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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.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🖼 Ryabushinsky Mansion (Gorky Museum)
        ул. Малая Никитская, 6/2
        🎟 ticket
        A Shekhtel mansion of 1900 with a wave-like staircase, stained glass and mosaics.
        Shekhtel's wave staircase; check opening hours on the website
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        Ryabushinsky Mansion (Gorky Museum)
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Ryabushinsky Mansion (Gorky Museum)
        © Ted.ns · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Shekhtel built the house in 1900–1903 for Stepan Ryabushinsky, whose icon collection was considered the largest in Russia.
        • In 1921–1925 an experimental psychoanalytic kindergarten operated here, attended by Stalin's son Vasily.
        • Maxim Gorky, who moved in here in 1931, called the mansion a "ridiculous house".
        • At meetings of Stalin and Gorky with writers here in October 1932, the term "socialist realism" was discussed and given meaning.
        • During restoration in the mid-1970s a bulky eavesdropping device was found in a wall.
        • The windows of the four floors look identical but get smaller toward the top, which makes the house look taller.
        • The basement kitchen was connected to the dining room by a lift so that dishes reached the table instantly.
        • Gorky's library in the mansion has 12,000 volumes.
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        🏛 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 Rotunda of Pushkin and Natalia Goncharova by the church where they were 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.
      8. 🚶 on foot
      9. 5
        🏛 Moscow Conservatory
        Б. Никитская ул., 13/6
        A late 19th-century building with the Great Hall, where the world's best musicians perform.
        Check the programme: daytime concerts happen on weekdays too
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        Moscow Conservatory
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Moscow Conservatory
        © Perituss · CC0
        • The conservatory was founded by Nikolai Rubinstein; it opened on 1 September 1866.
        • The plot was bought in 1766 by Princess Ekaterina Dashkova; later the conservatory bought her house for 185,000 roubles.
        • The current building was laid down on 27 June 1895 to a design by Vasily Zagorsky.
        • The Great Hall opened on 7 April 1901.
        • The monument to Tchaikovsky in front of the Great Hall was unveiled in 1954.
        • On 18 March 1958 the first International Tchaikovsky Competition began here.
      10. 🚶 on foot
      11. 6
        🖼 MSU Zoological Museum
        Б. Никитская ул., 2
        🎟 ticket
        A museum in a 19th-century building with huge halls, display cases and skeletons of large animals.
        Old display cases with stuffed animals; closed on Monday
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        MSU Zoological Museum
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        MSU Zoological Museum
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        MSU Zoological Museum
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The official founding date is 1791, when the university's Natural History Cabinet was turned into a museum.
        • The core of the collection is that of Akinfy Demidov, bought in the 1740s from the Freiberg mineralogist Johann Henkel.
        • In 1804 Gotthelf Fischer became head of the museum, and in 1805 he initiated the Moscow Society of Naturalists.
        • The building, designed by Konstantin Bykovsky, was completed by 1902, one of the first in Moscow built specifically for a museum.
        • The collections number more than 10 million items, about 3 million of them insects.
      12. 🚕 taxi, about 10 min
      13. 7
        🚶 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.
        Ukraintsev Chambers and graffiti in Khokhlovsky Lane
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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.
      14. 🚶 on foot
      15. 8
        🏛 Ivanovsky Convent on Ivanovskaya Gorka
        A convent behind high walls on a hillside, with a 19th-century cathedral and a quiet courtyard.
        A quiet monastery on Ivanovskaya Gorka; go down Petroverigsky Lane
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        Ivanovsky Convent on Ivanovskaya Gorka
        © Carbonkidka · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The convent was founded in the 15th century in Zamoskvorechye, and in the 1530s it was moved here, to Kulishki, and made a convent for women.
        • In the 17th century the wives of Tsar Vasily Shuisky and of Tsarevich Ivan were held here.
        • In 1812 the convent was plundered and burned, after which it was abolished.
        • The current Neo-Renaissance ensemble was built to a design by Mikhail Bykovsky and consecrated in 1879.
        • In the 1920s there was a concentration camp here, the "Ivanovsky Correctional House", which held up to 400 prisoners at once.
      16. 🚶 on foot
      17. 9
        🍽 Restaurant by Deep Fried Friends
        Яузская ул., 10/2, стр. 4
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        Dinner: booking essential, almost no tables in the evening
        🍴 A bistro with a wine room and a cocktail bar from the Deep Fried Friends party team, with dancing until morning on weekends. What to order: a katsu sando with a pozharsky cutlet, a doughnut with pulled duck, lemon chicken.
      18. 🚶 on foot
      19. 10
        🍸 Botafogo Bar
        ул. Солянка, 1/2, стр. 1
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        First cocktail: a daiquiri or a caipirinha
        🍴 A bar on Solyanka with Latin American classics. What to order: a mojito, a daiquiri, a caipirinha.
      20. 🚶 on foot
      21. 11
        🍸 Veladora Bar
        ул. Покровка, 2/1, стр. 1
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        The finale: mezcal and dancing; loud and dark — that's the idea
        🍴 A noisy basement bar with mezcal and dancing; the mezcal is poured into faceted veladora candle holders. What to order: the Tommy's Margarita, Pepino, the bartender's choice of mezcal.

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