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      Varvarka, the Bolshoi Theatre and caviar by the Kremlin

      ⏱ 45 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Ancient Varvarka with the Romanov Chambers, the illuminated portico of the Bolshoi and windows onto the Kremlin. You can finish with a caviar dinner at Beluga in the National hotel.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
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      1. 1
        🚶 Varvarka Street
        A short ancient street in Kitay-gorod with a string of churches, the Old English Court and the Romanov boyars' chambers on the slope down to the river.
        The Romanov Chambers
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        Varvarka Street
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Varvarka Street
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Varvarka Street
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The street is named after the Church of St Barbara; the present building was built in 1796–1804 by the architect Rodion Kazakov.
        • From 1933 to 1990 the street was called Razin Street; tradition says Stepan Razin was taken along it to his execution in 1671.
        • According to tradition, Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich was born in the Romanov boyars' chambers; a museum opened here in 1859, one of the first in Moscow.
        • Ivan the Terrible gave the 16th-century Old English Court to the English merchants of the Muscovy Company in 1556.
        • The street still has the churches of Maxim the Blessed and of George on Pskovskaya Hill, and the 17th-century Znamensky Monastery.
        • The south side of the street was occupied by the Rossiya Hotel until 2006; Zaryadye Park opened on its site in 2017.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🏛 Bolshoi Theatre
        The country's main opera and ballet theatre, with an eight-column portico and Apollo's quadriga above the entrance.
        The illuminated theatre; you can buy a ticket for an evening performance
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        Bolshoi Theatre
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        • The theatre's founding day is considered to be 28 March 1776, when Prince Pyotr Urusov received from Catherine II the right to maintain theatrical performances.
        • The current building, designed by Osip Bove, opened on 18 January 1825 with the prologue The Triumph of the Muses.
        • After the fire of 1853 only the walls and colonnade survived; Albert Cavos rebuilt the theatre in three years, and it reopened on 20 August 1856.
        • The bronze quadriga of Apollo by Pyotr Klodt replaced the earlier alabaster sculpture after the fire of 1853.
        • The famous golden brocade curtain, designed by Fyodor Fyodorovsky, appeared in 1955.
        • The Historic Stage was reconstructed from 2005 to 2011 and reopened on 28 October 2011.
        • From October 1941 to July 1943 the theatre worked in evacuation in Kuibyshev.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🍽 Beluga Restaurant
        ул. Моховая, 15/1, гостиница «Националь», 2 этаж
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        Dinner: caviar and windows onto the Kremlin, booking required
        🍴 A caviar restaurant in the National hotel with a view of the Kremlin and Manezhnaya Square. What to order: the Burlak breakfast, a caviar sandwich, mimosa salad with sturgeon, pike dumplings.

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