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      All day: theatrical Moscow

      ⏱ 12 h🚶 5 km🍽 3📍 9 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A tour of the Bolshoi, Kamergersky Lane with the Moscow Art Theatre museum and Yermolova's house, an evening performance and a late dinner at the National.

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        ☕️ Coffeemania at the Conservatory
        Б. Никитская ул., 13/6
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        Breakfast: in the Conservatory building, with the Tchaikovsky monument on the way
        🍴 A coffee shop in the Conservatory building with a summer terrace, handy before a concert. What to order: coffee, breakfast, mango-passion fruit tea, panna cotta.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Bolshoi Theatre
        The country's main opera and ballet theatre, with an eight-column portico and Apollo's quadriga above the entrance.
        Theatre tour: dates on the Bolshoi website, tickets sell out weeks ahead
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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.
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        🏛 Maly Theatre
        Театральный пр-д, 1
        A classic building of the 1820s on Teatralnaya Square next to the Bolshoi, where Ostrovsky and the Russian classics are staged.
        Moscow's oldest drama theatre, with a monument to Ostrovsky at the entrance
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        Maly Theatre
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The first performance in the present building was given on 14 (26) October 1824.
        • The theater was set up in the merchant Vargin's mansion, rebuilt to a design by Osip Bove.
        • The company dates back to 1756, when by decree of Elizabeth Petrovna a theater was created at Moscow University.
        • Ostrovsky's plays gave the theater its unofficial name, "Ostrovsky's House".
        • On 27 November 1831 "Woe from Wit" was first performed in full in Moscow here.
        • The monument to Ostrovsky at the entrance was put up in 1929, by the sculptor Nikolai Andreev and the architect Fyodor Shekhtel.
        • In 1822 the former serf Mikhail Shchepkin joined the company; according to Herzen, he "was the first to create truth on the Russian stage".
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        🍽 Savras Restaurant
        ул. Большая Дмитровка, 9, стр. 1 (Египетский дом)
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        Lunch: scallops and Caesar salad at a table in the Egyptian House
        🍴 A Russian-French restaurant with a pastry shop and a hidden bar in the Egyptian House, opened in April 2026. What to order: Sakhalin scallops, Caesar salad prepared at the table, pelmeni with crab in bisque sauce.
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        🚶 Kamergersky Lane (Kamergersky Pereulok)
        A pedestrian lane between Tverskaya and Bolshaya Dmitrovka, with the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre building and monuments at its entrance.
        Teatralny Lane with the Chekhov monument
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        Kamergersky Lane (Kamergersky Pereulok)
        © Rakoon · CC0
        • The name comes from the officials who lived here with the court title of kammerherr (chamberlain); in 1923–1992 it was Art Theatre Passage.
        • The lane became pedestrian on 26 October 1998.
        • The remodelling of the building for the Moscow Art Theatre was paid for by Savva Morozov, 300,000 roubles, while Fyodor Shekhtel did the design free of charge.
        • The street lamps in the lane were made to Shekhtel's drawings.
        • In the 1920s the Tenth Muse café operated here, visited by Mayakovsky, Yesenin and Bryusov.
        • The lane has two museums, the Moscow Art Theatre Museum and the Sergei Prokofiev Museum.
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        🖼 MKhAT Museum
        Камергерский пер., 3, стр. 1
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        A museum at the theater showing the dressing rooms of Stanislavsky and Yefremov and Nemirovich-Danchenko's study.
        Sketches, costumes and models of Stanislavsky's first productions
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        MKhAT Museum
        © ElenaLitera · CC BY-SA 4.0
        MKhAT Museum
        © ElenaLitera · CC BY-SA 4.0
        MKhAT Museum
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The museum was founded in 1923 and was first housed in the theater building itself.
        • House 3a was built by Fyodor Shekhtel in 1915 for Georgy Lianozov.
        • Before the museum there was Nikita Balieff's "Bat" (Letuchaya Mysh) cabaret, a hospital and a workers' faculty dormitory.
        • The collection includes set sketches by Dobuzhinsky, Golovin, Benois and Kustodiev, and Mikhail Bulgakov's personal belongings.
        • The permanent exhibition covers the theater's history from 1898 to 1943.
        • The Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio's training theater operates in the same building.
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        🖼 Yermolova House Museum (branch of the Bakhrushin Museum)
        Тверской б-р, 11
        🎟 ticket
        A mansion on Tverskoy Boulevard where the actress spent the last decades of her life; her apartment and drawing rooms are preserved.
        A branch of the Bakhrushin Museum: the main building is closed for restoration, while here are the great actress's drawing rooms
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        Yermolova House Museum (branch of the Bakhrushin Museum)
        © Shakko · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The house was built in late 1773; in the 19th century the owners changed often and rebuilt it, and after 1873 its look was no longer changed.
        • In 1889 the mansion was bought by the lawyer Nikolai Shubinsky, Yermolova's husband.
        • Maria Yermolova, an actress of the Maly Theatre, lived here from 1889 to 1928.
        • The museum apartment opened on 15 May 1970, and the house museum in 1986.
        • The main curiosity is the diorama "Teatralnaya Square in the 1870s" by Yefim Deshalyt.
        • The White Hall hosts concerts, performances and creative evenings.
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        🏛 Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre (MKhT)
        Камергерский пер., 3
        A building rebuilt by Shekhtel in 1902 in the Art Nouveau spirit, the very theater with the seagull on its curtain.
        Evening performance: tickets on the theatre website one to two months ahead
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        Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre (MKhT)
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre (MKhT)
        © Butsenin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • In 1882, on commission from the merchant Georgy Lianozov, Mikhail Chichagov converted an old mansion into a theater.
        • Above the entrance is Anna Golubkina's bas-relief "The Swimmer"; the curtain sketches and the emblem were also drawn by Shekhtel.
        • The first "Seagull" badges were given to the actors by Chekhov himself in 1901.
        • Since 1908 everyone who has served 10 years at the MKhT receives a "Seagull" pin.
        • In 1987 the MKhAT split into two theaters: the Gorky one on Tverskoy and the Chekhov one in Kamergersky.
        • The monument to Chekhov opposite the theater, by Mikhail Anikushin, was put up for the MKhT's 100th anniversary.
        • In 2024 the Bank of Russia issued a silver coin for the theater's 125th anniversary with the curtain and the seagull.
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      17. 9
        🍽 Doctor Zhivago restaurant
        ул. Моховая, 15/1, гостиница «Националь»
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        Dinner: late, with a view of the Kremlin; book a table for after the performance
        🍴 A modern Russian restaurant by Rappoport in the National hotel with a view of the Kremlin, open around the clock. What to order: pirozhki (small pies), pelmeni (dumplings), crayfish, and for dessert the Tsvetaeva pie.

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