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      Sretensky Hill, Petrovsky Boulevard and Pushkinskaya

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 3.1 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      From Sretensky Monastery down into the Neglinka valley and up again along Petrovsky Boulevard to Pushkin on Tverskoy Hill. You can finish with dinner near Patriarch's Ponds.

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        🏛 Sretensky Monastery
        A 14th-century monastery on Lubyanka with the Church of the Presentation of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God and a seminary behind its walls.
        Sretensky Hill: step into the new cathedral
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        Sretensky Monastery
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Sretensky Monastery
        © Андрей Колычев · CC BY 3.0
        • The monastery was founded in 1397 by Grand Prince Vasily I in memory of Moscow's deliverance from Tamerlane in 1395.
        • The name comes from sretenie, meaning "meeting": this is where Muscovites met the Vladimir Icon brought from Vladimir.
        • The Cathedral of the Presentation of the Vladimir Icon was built in 1679 under Feodor Alexeyevich, with murals from 1707.
        • In 1925 the monastery was closed, some buildings were demolished and the bells were sold to England.
        • The monastery was revived in the 1990s; from 1995 it was headed by Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov).
        • The Church of the Resurrection of Christ and the New Martyrs, about 60 m tall, was consecrated by Patriarch Kirill on 25 May 2017.
        • The Sretensky Theological Seminary has operated at the monastery since 2002.
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        🚶 Petrovsky Boulevard
        A short boulevard between Trubnaya and Petrovskiye Vorota, with lindens and mansions on both sides.
        Down into the Neglinka valley and up again — the boulevard keeps the change in height
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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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        🏛 Pushkin Square
        A square on Tverskaya with a garden, fountains and Opekushin's bronze Pushkin of 1880.
        Tverskoy Hill: the summit of the seventh hill, 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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        🍽 Aist restaurant
        ул. Малая Бронная, 8/1
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        Dinner: book a table for a weekend evening in advance
        🍴 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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