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      Pyatnitskaya, Masa Madre and Khokhlovsky Lane

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.3 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Merchants' Pyatnitskaya, across Ustinsky Bridge to a bakery with an open kitchen, and the hilly lanes of Ivanovskaya Hill with graffiti in the courtyard of a 17th-century chamber house.

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        🚶 Pyatnitskaya Street
        Zamoskvorechye's main street with low-rise 19th-century houses, churches and cafés on the ground floors.
        Next, across Bolshoy Ustinsky Bridge to Solyanka
        📖 More about the placeCollapse
        Pyatnitskaya Street
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        Pyatnitskaya Street
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        • The street is named after the Church of St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa, known from 1564; in the 15th–16th centuries it was called Bolshaya, the road to Serpukhov and Tula.
        • The Church of St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa was demolished in 1934, and in 1943 the vestibule of Novokuznetskaya metro was built on its site.
        • In 1857 Leo Tolstoy lived at No. 12 after the defence of Sevastopol.
        • The House of Radio operates at No. 25, with studios of Orfey, Govorit Moskva and other radio stations.
        • Sytin's printing house at Nos. 71–73 was built in 1903 with the participation of the engineer Vladimir Shukhov; Sergei Yesenin worked there in 1913.
        • The Halperin trading house at No. 13 was built in 1908 by Fyodor Shekhtel.
        • The Church of Pope Clement at the corner of Klimentovsky Lane is Zamoskvorechye's largest church, a monument of late Baroque.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        ☕️ Masa Madre Bakery
        ул. Солянка, 1/2, стр. 1
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        Lunch: a tartine or a mortadella sandwich; there can be a queue on weekends
        🍴 A bakery with an open kitchen, one of the best in Moscow. What to order: a tartine, a sandwich with homemade mortadella, a cinnamon bun, Basque cheesecake.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🚶 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.
        The lanes of Ivanovskaya Hill — the hilliest in the centre
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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.

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