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      All day: warm Moscow in the freeze

      ⏱ 12 h🚶 6.5 km🍽 4📍 10 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A banya at Sanduny, lunch at an indoor market, the Historical Museum and GUM, tea with a tea master and an evening skating rink on Red Square.

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        🍽 Café Pushkin
        Тверской б-р, 26А
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        Breakfast: Guryev porridge and syrniki (cottage-cheese pancakes) while it's freezing outside
        🍴 A restaurant of Russian aristocratic cuisine in an old-style mansion on Tverskoy Boulevard, open since 1999. What to order: beef stroganoff with Pushkin potatoes, a Pozharsky cutlet with mushroom sauce, dumplings with three kinds of meat.
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      3. 2
        ✨ Sandunovsky Baths (Sanduny)
        Неглинная ул., 14, стр. 3–7
        🎟 ticket · bathhouse visits are paid
        Baths of 1896 with palatial interiors, the main bathhouse of Moscow.
        General session for 2-3 hours; you can borrow a venik (birch whisk) and a felt hat on site
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        Sandunovsky Baths (Sanduny)
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Sandunovsky Baths (Sanduny)
        © Jaimrsilva · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Sandunovsky Baths (Sanduny)
        © Andreykor · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The baths are named after their founder, the actor Sila Sandunov, and have operated since 1808.
        • The plot was bought with diamonds that Catherine II gave as a wedding present to the actress Elizaveta Uranova, Sandunov's wife.
        • The present building was begun by Boris Freudenberg and finished by Sergei Kalugin; it opened on 14 February 1896.
        • Norwegian and Italian marble were brought for the finishing, and tiles from England, Germany and Switzerland.
        • Fyodor Chaliapin called Sanduny the "Tsar Bathhouse".
        • Leo Tolstoy, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Sergei Eisenstein took steam baths here.
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      5. 3
        🧺 Tsentralny Market
        Рождественский б-р, 1
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        Lunch: a market and food court under one roof, choose by the counters
        🍴 A food hall on Trubnaya: around fifty corners with cuisines from around the world, and music in the evenings. What to order: pho bo at PhoBo, tom yum at Tom Yam, pinsa at Pinzeria by Bontempi, khinkali (Georgian dumplings) at Gruziny Zdes.
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        🚶 Kuznetsky Most
        A pedestrian street on the site of an old bridge over the Neglinka, lined with early 20th-century apartment buildings and shops.
        Dash from window to window toward Lubyanka
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        Kuznetsky Most
        © Stas Lobov · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Kuznetsky Most
        © Sigwald · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The street is named after the bridge over the Neglinnaya River near the Kuznetskaya settlement; a stone bridge was built in the 1750s.
        • When the Neglinnaya was put into a pipe in the 1810s, the bridge was filled in with earth.
        • In the 19th century it was home to fashionable French shops; Griboyedov wrote: "And it's all Kuznetsky Most, and the eternal French."
        • Kuznetsky Most metro station opened in 1975.
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        🖼 State Historical Museum
        Красная пл., 1
        🎟 ticket
        A red-brick Russian-style building of the 1870s–80s with tent-roof towers, the largest history museum in Russia.
        Halls from the Stone Age to the 19th century; closed on Tuesday
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        State Historical Museum
        © Alvesgaspar · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The building was constructed in 1875–1883 to a design by the architect Vladimir Sherwood and the engineer Anatoly Semyonov; the old Main Pharmacy building was demolished for it.
        • In 1755 the first Russian university, Moscow University, opened on this spot, in the former town hall building.
        • The museum opened to the public on 2 June 1883, when only a few rooms on the first floor were ready.
        • Viktor Vasnetsov, Valentin Serov, Ivan Aivazovsky and Ilya Repin worked on the decoration of the halls.
        • Exhibit No. 1 in the inventory book is a twisted bronze bracelet from the Caucasian village of Koban, donated by Count Uvarov in 1881.
        • The gilded lions and unicorns on the tower spires were removed in 1935 and returned only in December 2003.
        • The collections hold more than 5 million items, and the permanent exhibition on Red Square shows only about 0.5% of them.
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        🏛 GUM
        Late-19th-century trading rows under glass vaults, with openwork bridges over three arcades.
        It's warm under the glass roof: the fountain at the crossing of the lines and GUM ice cream
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        GUM
        © Marcin Konsek · CC BY-SA 4.0
        GUM
        © AlixSaz · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Upper Trading Rows building was built in 1890–1893 to a design by Alexander Pomerantsev, and trading began on 2 December 1893.
        • The glass vaults over the arcades were made by the St Petersburg Metal Works using engineer Otto Krell's system; Shukhov's involvement is an urban legend.
        • The name "State Universal Store" appeared in 1921.
        • From the early 1930s the building housed people's commissariats and offices, and it became the GUM store again only in December 1953.
        • The fountain in the middle of the first line is a long-time meeting place: Muscovites have been saying "meet me at the fountain in GUM" for generations.
        • Since 2006 a skating rink has been flooded in winter by the GUM walls on Red Square.
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        🏛 Ploshchad Revolyutsii metro station
        Under the hall's arches are 76 bronze figures by Manizer: workers, soldiers, students, athletes and families of the Soviet era.
        Rub the bronze dog's nose for luck
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        Ploshchad Revolyutsii metro station
        © Cossrad · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • There were originally 80 figures, but in 1947 four were removed when a blast door was built; in all, the station has 20 different characters.
        • In 1941 the sculptures were evacuated to Central Asia and returned in pieces in 1944.
        • All the figures except the pioneers sit, kneel or lean over, otherwise they would not fit in the arches.
        • The prototype of the student was the USSR high-jump record holder Arkady Gidrat, who died in 1941.
        • Students rub the nose of the border guard's bronze dog before exams, which is why it shines.
        • The end of the hall was decorated with Manizer's bas-relief "Stalin and Lenin"; it was removed in 1947.
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        ☕️ Chainaya Vysota Tea Club on Tverskaya
        Тверская ул., 6, стр. 1
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        To warm up: order a chaban (tea ceremony), the master will show you how to brew; 18+ only
        🍴 A tea club with hundreds of teas, brewing on a chabani with the master's story, its own tea ice cream; 18+ only. What to order: tea on a chabani, tea ice cream, tea sorbet.
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        🍽 Doctor Zhivago restaurant
        ул. Моховая, 15/1, гостиница «Националь»
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        Dinner: Russian cuisine by windows facing the Kremlin; book for the evening
        🍴 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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      19. 10
        ✨ GUM Ice Rink on Red Square
        Красная площадь (у ГУМа)
        🎟 ticket · the rink is open in winter, skating by ticket
        A seasonal rink by the walls of GUM, usually open from early December to 1 March, with one-hour sessions until late evening.
        The rink runs from early December to 1 March; the rest of the time, take an evening walk on Red Square
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        GUM Ice Rink on Red Square
        © Katya from Moscow, Russia · CC BY-SA 2.0
        • The rink by GUM has been flooded since 2006: the 2025/26 season was its twentieth.
        • The ice area is about 2,700–3,000 square meters.

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