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      Myasnitskaya, Chistye Prudy and Khokhlovsky Lane

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      From the Art Nouveau post office to the Baroque Menshikov Tower, along the pond to Pokrovsky Gate and down steep Khokhlovsky Lane. You can finish with lunch in an old manor house.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
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        🏛 Moscow Central Post Office
        Мясницкая ул., 26А, стр. 1
        A 1912 building on Myasnitskaya, Moscow's main post office; under restoration since 2020, so you can't go inside now (work was planned to finish in 2027), but you can look from outside.
        From outside only: the 1912 building has been under restoration since 2020 (completion was planned for 2027), the main hall is closed
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        Moscow Central Post Office
        © AKfounder · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Moscow Central Post Office
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The building was built in 1910–1912 to a design by the engineer Leonid Novikov and the architect Oskar Munts with the participation of Leonid Vesnin.
        • The post office was ceremonially opened on 14 May 1912; the first Museum of Postal Communication began working in it at the same time.
        • The facade was to be clad in striped brick "in the Byzantine style", but brick got more expensive, so artificial stone imitating marble was used.
        • The glass dome of the main hall is often attributed to Shukhov, but that is an urban legend.
        • The post office stands on the site of an estate once owned by Alexander Menshikov.
        • In 1913 about 12% of all the country's correspondence passed through the Moscow Post Office.
        • In October 1917 there was fighting at the post office between cadets and Red Guards.
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        🏛 Menshikov Tower (Church of the Archangel Gabriel)
        Архангельский пер., 15А, стр. 9
        A church built for Menshikov higher than the Ivan the Great Bell Tower; its tall spire burned from lightning in 1723.
        A Baroque church from 1707 in a courtyard off Arkhangelsky Lane
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        Menshikov Tower (Church of the Archangel Gabriel)
        © yeowatzup · CC BY 2.0
        • The church was built in 1704–1707 to a design by Ivan Zarudny in the Naryshkin Baroque style.
        • At 84 meters the tower exceeded the Ivan the Great Bell Tower by 3 meters and became Moscow's tallest building.
        • The occasion was an icon of the Mother of God from Polotsk, believed to have been painted by the Evangelist Luke.
        • Menshikov also ordered the Poganye Ponds by the church cleaned up, and ever since they have been the Chistye (Clean) Ponds.
        • In 1708 an English clock with chimes was installed on the tower and 50 bells were hung.
        • In 1773 the church was restored by the Freemason Gavriil Izmailov, and Masonic symbols and inscriptions appeared on the walls.
        • Since 1948 the church has belonged to the Representation of the Antiochian Orthodox Church.
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        🌳 Chistye Prudy (Clean Ponds)
        A boulevard with a pond in the middle, swan houses and a floating café on the water.
        Walk along the pond to Pokrovsky Gate
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        Chistye Prudy (Clean Ponds)
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Chistye Prudy (Clean Ponds)
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • According to a popular version, the pond was called Pogany (Foul) because of butchers' waste, and in 1703 it was cleaned on Menshikov's orders.
        • Of several ponds, only one has survived to this day.
        • Nearby stands the Menshikov Tower of 1704–1707 by architect Ivan Zarudny; its top burned down after a lightning strike in 1723.
        • The monument to Griboyedov at the start of the boulevard was erected in 1959.
        • Since 1974 the Sovremennik Theatre has been housed in the building of the former Colosseum cinema of 1914.
        • The Annushka tram, route A, runs along the boulevard; in summer swans live on the pond.
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        🚶 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 17th-century Ukraintsev Chambers and steep 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.
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      9. 5
        🍽 öMANKö:Döm ("House") Restaurant
        Покровский б-р, 16–18, стр. 4
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        Lunch: pickles and barrel tomatoes in an old manor house; the kitchen opens at 12:00
        🍴 A Russian manor restaurant in the Teleshov–Karzinkin mansion, opened in summer 2026. What to order: pickles (sauerkraut, lightly salted cucumbers), barrel tomato with herbs, shrimp shashlik, peach clafoutis.

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