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      All day: cuisines of the former USSR

      ⏱ 10 h 30 min🚶 6 km + 🚇🍽 4📍 11 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A Georgian breakfast by Patriarch's Ponds, an Armenian lunch by the Pashkov House, plov at Uzbekistan, and between them the Arbat, a market and the centre.

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      1. 1
        🍽 Mama Tuta
        ул. Малая Бронная, 24, стр. 1
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        Breakfast: an omelette with hummus or shakshuka
        🍴 A Georgian restaurant near Patriarch's Ponds with breakfasts from the morning. What to order: an omelet with hummus, shakshuka, slow-braised lamb shank with saffron risotto.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🌳 Patriarch's Ponds (Patriarshiye Prudy)
        A square pond surrounded by old lime trees and benches, a calm park amid quiet lanes and the setting of The Master and Margarita.
        A loop around the pond after breakfast
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        Patriarch's Ponds (Patriarshiye Prudy)
        © Dimа · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Patriarch's Ponds (Patriarshiye Prudy)
        © Shuvaev · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Patriarch's Ponds (Patriarshiye Prudy)
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • In 1683 Patriarch Joachim ordered the local Goat Marsh drained and three fish ponds dug.
        • After the fire of 1812 two ponds were filled in and one remained; Trekhprudny Lane recalls the three.
        • From 1932 to 1992 the pond was officially called Pionersky ("Pioneer").
        • The 1976 Krylov monument (sculptors Andrei Drevin and Daniel Mitlyansky) is surrounded by scenes from 12 fables.
        • The stone pavilion by the water was built in 1986 on the site of a wooden one from 1938.
        • The Master and Margarita begins here; the sign banning talking to strangers refers to the novel's first chapter.
        • A skating rink has been flooded on the pond since 1900, with an area of about 12,000 m².
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🚶 Povarskaya Street
        A street in the Arbat area with 18th–19th-century mansions and embassies, a quiet corner just steps from New Arbat.
        A street of mansions — go via Malaya Nikitskaya and Povarskaya
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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.
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        🚶 Old Arbat (Staryi Arbat)
        A pedestrian street about a kilometre long, with 19th-century mansions, cafés and street artists.
        Walk the whole Arbat to Smolenskaya Square
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        Old Arbat (Staryi Arbat)
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Old Arbat (Staryi Arbat)
        © Елена Нечипоренко · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Old Arbat (Staryi Arbat)
        © Valeri Pizhanski from Odintsovo, Russia · CC BY-SA 2.0
        • The name Arbat has been known since the late 15th century; its origin is disputed, either from the Turkic arba (cart) or the Arabic rabad (suburb).
        • In 1986 the Arbat became Moscow's first pedestrian street.
        • Andrei Bely was born and raised at no. 55, and Pushkin spent the first months of his marriage in the neighbouring house, no. 53.
        • The Vakhtangov Theatre (no. 26) grew out of Evgeny Vakhtangov's studio; its building was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1941.
        • The Tsoi Wall in Krivoarbatsky Lane appeared in 1990, after the musician's death.
        • Krivoarbatsky Lane is also home to Konstantin Melnikov's house-studio of 1927–1929, made of two merged cylinders.
        • On the corner with Plotnikov Lane stands a monument to Bulat Okudzhava, who sang about the Arbat in his songs.
      8. 🚇 metro from Smolenskaya to Kievskaya (blue line), 1 stop, then about 7 min on foot
      9. 5
        🧺 Dorogomilovsky Market
        ул. Можайский Вал, 10
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        A snack: rows of spices, tropical fruit, meat and fish
        🍴 A large food market by Kievsky Station with Eastern-style stalls. What to order: plov from the Uzbeks, Korean salads and pickles, fresh Georgian lavash with cheese, burrata at pavilion A58.
      10. 🚇 metro from Kievskaya to Aleksandrovsky Sad (light blue line), 3 stops with no changes
      11. 6
        🍽 Mouflon
        Староваганьковский пер., 19, стр. 7
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        Lunch: Armenian — duck dolma and something from the coals
        🍴 A modern Armenian cuisine restaurant in the courtyards near Pashkov House, with a big section of charcoal dishes. What to order: dolma with duck, an Armenian breakfast, dishes from the mangal grill.
      12. 🚶 on foot
      13. 7
        🏛 Pashkov House
        🎟 ticket · inside by guided tour only
        A snow-white Neoclassical manor of 1784–1786 with a belvedere; today the building belongs to the Russian State Library.
        Walk around the Pashkov House from the Starovagankovsky side
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        Pashkov House
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        Pashkov House
        © Perituss · CC0
        • The client was Captain-Lieutenant Pyotr Pashkov, son of Peter I's orderly; Bazhenov is considered the author of the house, but there are no documents.
        • It was the first secular building in Moscow from whose windows people looked at the Kremlin not from below.
        • On Paul I's orders the statue of Minerva, a symbol of the victories of his mother's reign, was removed from the dome.
        • After the fire of 1812 the belvedere was rebuilt in 1815–1818, presumably by Osip Bove.
        • From 1861 the Rumyantsev Museum and its library, the future "Leninka", were housed here.
        • Repairs to the building took almost twenty years, from 1988 to 2007.
        • In Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita", Woland, Azazello and Levi Matthew meet on the roof of Pashkov House.
      14. 🚶 on foot
      15. 8
        🌳 Alexander Garden
        🚪 entrance from Borovitskaya Square
        A garden along the Kremlin wall in three parts: the Eternal Flame, the Ruins Grotto and flower beds by the Manege.
        The avenue along the Kremlin wall
        🚪 exit to Kremlyovsky Passage
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        Alexander Garden
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        Alexander Garden
        © Shakko · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The garden was laid out in 1819–1823 to a design by Osip Bove on the site of the Neglinnaya River, which was put into an underground pipe.
        • It was named Alexander Garden in 1856 after Alexander I, under whom Moscow was rebuilt after the fire of 1812.
        • Bove built the Ruins Grotto by the Middle Arsenal Tower in 1820; its masonry includes fragments of buildings destroyed in 1812.
        • The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was opened on 8 May 1967: a soldier's remains were moved here from the 41st kilometre of Leningradskoye Shosse.
        • Guard of Honour Post No. 1 was moved from the Mausoleum to the Eternal Flame in 1997; the guard changes every hour.
        • The 1914 obelisk for the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov was converted in 1918 into a monument to revolutionary thinkers, and in 2013 it got its original look back.
        • The garden is divided into three parts, Upper, Middle and Lower, and stretches along the Kremlin's western wall for about 865 metres.
      16. 🚶 on foot
      17. 9
        🏛 Red Square
        The country's main square, paved with cobblestones, between the Kremlin, GUM, the State Historical Museum and St Basil's Cathedral.
        Through the Resurrection Gate onto Red Square
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        Red Square
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        Red Square
        © Олег Токарев · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Red Square
        © Leokand · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The name "Red" ("beautiful") stuck to the square in the second half of the 17th century; before that it was called Torg ("the Market") and Pozhar ("the Burnt Place").
        • The square measures about 330 by 75 metres.
        • In 1990 Red Square, together with the Kremlin, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
        • The Lobnoye Mesto is mentioned from 1549; contrary to legend, executions were usually held not on it but next to it.
        • The Minin and Pozharsky monument by Ivan Martos was unveiled in 1818 and moved to St Basil's Cathedral in 1931.
        • GUM, formerly the Upper Trading Rows, was built in 1890–1893 to a design by Alexander Pomerantsev.
        • The present granite Lenin Mausoleum was built to a design by Alexey Shchusev in 1930.
        • On 7 November 1941 troops leaving the parade marched from here straight to the front.
      18. 🚶 on foot
      19. 10
        🚶 Nikolskaya Street
        A pedestrian street from Red Square to Lubyanka with the Kazan Cathedral, the Print Yard and garlands overhead.
        The illumination over Nikolskaya is especially good after sunset
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        Nikolskaya Street
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Nikolskaya Street
        © Uwe Brodrecht · CC BY-SA 2.0
        Nikolskaya Street
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        • It is named after the Old St Nicholas Monastery, founded here in 1390.
        • In 1564 Ivan Fyodorov printed the Apostol at the Print Yard on Nikolskaya, the first dated Russian printed book.
        • The Gothic Synodal Printing House with a lion and a unicorn was built in 1814; the press worked there until 1918.
        • In 1687 the Slavic Greek Latin Academy opened here, Moscow's first institution of higher education, where Lomonosov later studied.
        • In the Slavyansky Bazar restaurant (No. 17) in 1897, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, over many hours of conversation, agreed to found the Moscow Art Theatre.
        • Ferrein's pharmacy at No. 21 was built in 1894–1899 to a design by Adolf Erichson.
        • The street became pedestrian in August 2013 and is about 630 m long.
      20. 🚶 on foot
      21. 11
        🍽 Uzbekistan Restaurant
        Неглинная ул., 29, стр. 5
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        Dinner: Uzbek — plov and kovurma lagman; book a table in advance
        🍴 A restaurant opened in 1951 as a showcase of the Uzbek SSR, with Eastern-style halls and a courtyard. What to order: plov, kovurma lagman, Tashkent salad.

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