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      From Pushkin along Tverskoy to Povarskaya

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Opekushin's Pushkin, the boulevard where 19th-century literary Moscow strolled, the house where Gogol burned the second volume and quiet Povarskaya with the “Rostovs' house”.

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        🏛 Pushkin Square
        A square on Tverskaya with a garden, fountains and Opekushin's bronze Pushkin of 1880.
        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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        🚶 Tverskoy Boulevard
        A long, wide boulevard of lime trees and lawns between Pushkin Square and Nikitskiye Vorota, passing the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre.
        The boulevard where all of literary 19th-century Moscow strolled
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        Tverskoy Boulevard
        © Valeri Pizhanski from Odintsovo, Russia · CC BY-SA 2.0
        Tverskoy Boulevard
        © Perituss · CC0
        • The boulevard was laid out in summer 1796; it is the oldest and longest boulevard of the Boulevard Ring, almost 900 m.
        • At first it was simply called "the Boulevard": there were no other boulevards in Moscow then.
        • In 1812 French soldiers cut down almost all the boulevard's trees for firewood.
        • Opekushin's Pushkin monument stood at the end of the boulevard from 1880, and in 1950 it was moved to the other side of the square.
        • Alexander Herzen was born in 1812 at No. 25; it now houses the Gorky Literary Institute.
        • RAPP and MAPP, which met in Herzen's house in the 1920s, became the prototype of Bulgakov's MASSOLIT.
        • Sergey Merkurov's monument to Timiryazev (1923) was knocked off its pedestal by a blast wave in 1941 and later restored.
        • In 1960 the World Chess Championship match was held in the building of the former Tairov Kamerny Theatre, now the Pushkin Theatre.
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        🖼 Gogol House
        Никитский б-р, 7А
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        A manor on Nikitsky Boulevard where Gogol spent his last years and burned the second volume of Dead Souls.
        The house where the second volume of “Dead Souls” was burned; we look from outside; inside is separate, another hour
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        Gogol House
        © Eden87 · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • Gogol lived here, in Count Alexander Tolstoy's manor, from 1848 until his death in 1852.
        • The first stone chambers on this plot appeared as early as the 17th century.
        • Almost none of Gogol's own belongings survive: the exhibition has, for example, Alexander Ostrovsky's sofa and Mikhail Pogodin's desk.
        • The fireplace in the drawing room is a symbol: Gogol scholar Igor Zolotussky pointed out that the manuscript burned in a stove, not in a fireplace.
        • A library has operated in the house since the 1920s, and it is now part of Gogol House.
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        🚶 Povarskaya Street
        A street in the Arbat area with 18th–19th-century mansions and embassies, a quiet corner just steps from New Arbat.
        The “Rostovs' house” from “War and Peace”
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        Povarskaya Street
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Povarskaya Street
        © Andreykor · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The name comes from the palace Povarskaya (cooks') settlement: in 1573 the tsar's kitchen was served by 477 people.
        • The neighbouring Khlebny, Skatertny, Stolovy and Nozhovy lanes are named after the trades of kitchen servants.
        • From 1923 to 1992 the street was called Vorovskogo Street.
        • The Dolgorukov-Sollogub estate (no. 52) is traditionally considered the prototype of the Rostovs' house in War and Peace.
        • The Church of St Simeon the Stylite was built in 1676–1679; Gogol's death is recorded in its parish register.
        • Bunin lived on Povarskaya from October 1917 to May 1918, and in 2016 a small park on the street was named after him.

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