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      All day: Zamoskvorechye and Ostozhenka

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 8 km🍽 3📍 12 stops
      🏃 A lot — over 7 km

      Merchant lanes, the Tretyakov Gallery, Red October, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and the Museum of Moscow — the centre without the crowds.

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      1. 1
        ☕️ Grabli on Pyatnitskaya
        Пятницкая ул., 27
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        Breakfast
        🍴 A three-floor self-service restaurant: display cases of home-style food, and the veranda is open in summer. What to order: crêpes with meat, mushroom julienne, a dessert from the display.
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      3. 2
        🚶 Pyatnitskaya Street
        Zamoskvorechye's main street with low-rise 19th-century houses, churches and cafés on the ground floors.
        Merchants' mansions
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        Pyatnitskaya Street
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        Pyatnitskaya Street
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        • The street is named after the Church of St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa, known from 1564; in the 15th–16th centuries it was called Bolshaya, the road to Serpukhov and Tula.
        • The Church of St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa was demolished in 1934, and in 1943 the vestibule of Novokuznetskaya metro was built on its site.
        • In 1857 Leo Tolstoy lived at No. 12 after the defence of Sevastopol.
        • The House of Radio operates at No. 25, with studios of Orfey, Govorit Moskva and other radio stations.
        • Sytin's printing house at Nos. 71–73 was built in 1903 with the participation of the engineer Vladimir Shukhov; Sergei Yesenin worked there in 1913.
        • The Halperin trading house at No. 13 was built in 1908 by Fyodor Shekhtel.
        • The Church of Pope Clement at the corner of Klimentovsky Lane is Zamoskvorechye's largest church, a monument of late Baroque.
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      5. 3
        🏛 Church of St Clement
        Климентовский пер., 7
        A huge red-and-white five-domed 18th-century church, a rare example of Elizabethan Baroque in Moscow.
        The Baroque Church of St Clement
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        Church of St Clement
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Church of St Clement
        © Cons Ph · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The present five-domed church was built in 1762–1769; the architect is unknown, supposedly Pietro Antonio Trezzini.
        • Tradition says that 70,000 rubles for the construction were given by Chancellor Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, whose estate was nearby; the church was completed by the merchant Kuzma Matveev.
        • The main altar is consecrated to the Transfiguration, so the church is also called Spaso-Preobrazhensky.
        • In the 1930s the church was closed and given over to a book depository of the Lenin Library, which is why the iconostasis and interior survived.
        • The building was returned to believers in 2008, and after restoration in 2014 it was consecrated by Patriarch Kirill.
        • Apollon Grigoryev in his memoirs singled it out among the Zamoskvorechye churches as "five-domed, magnificent".
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        🏛 Marfo-Mariinsky Convent
        Б. Ордынка, 34
        A convent founded by Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, with a church in the spirit of Pskov-Novgorod architecture.
        Convent of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna
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        Marfo-Mariinsky Convent
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Marfo-Mariinsky Convent
        © Lodo27 from Moscow, Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The convent was founded in 1909 by Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna after her husband, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, was killed by a terrorist's bomb in 1905.
        • The Intercession Cathedral was built in 1908–1912 to a design by Alexey Shchusev, with interior paintings by Mikhail Nesterov.
        • The convent was closed in 1926, and in Soviet times Grabar's restoration workshops worked in the cathedral.
        • Elizabeth Feodorovna was killed in 1918 near Alapayevsk; in 1992 the Russian Orthodox Church canonised her.
        • Vyacheslav Klykov's monument to Elizabeth Feodorovna has stood in the courtyard since 1990.
        • The convent's sisters still do charity work today, helping sick children, the elderly and the homeless.
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        🖼 Tretyakov Gallery
        Лаврушинский пер., 10
        🎟 ticket
        The main collection of Russian art in a fairy-tale building to Vasnetsov's design, from ancient icons to painting of the early 20th century.
        Tretyakov Gallery
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        Tretyakov Gallery
        © Concierge.2C · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Tretyakov Gallery
        © Adavyd · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The founding date is considered to be 1856, when the merchant Pavel Tretyakov bought his first paintings by Russian artists.
        • In 1892 Tretyakov donated the collection and the house in Lavrushinsky Lane to Moscow.
        • The fairy-tale facade with Old Russian motifs was built in 1902–1904 to a drawing by Viktor Vasnetsov.
        • Repin's painting Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan has been damaged by vandals twice, in 1913 and in 2018.
        • Alexander Ivanov painted The Appearance of Christ to the People for about 20 years, and a separate hall was built for the canvas.
        • Until 2026 the Vladimir Icon was kept in the Church-Museum of St Nicholas in Tolmachi; it is now in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, and Tolmachi has a copy.
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        ☕️ Khleb-2 bakery and Ostanovka café at GES-2
        Болотная наб., 15
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        Lunch
        🍴 After the 2026 relaunch, the Khleb-2 bakery (9:00–21:00), the Ostanovka café (11:00–22:00) and, on weekdays, the Stolovaya canteen (11:00–18:00) are open again. What to order: sourdough bread, croissants and coffee at the bakery, and lunch at the canteen on weekdays. Check the GES-2 website before you go to see whether the cafés are open.
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      13. 7
        🚶 Krasny Oktyabr Island
        The tip of Bolotny Island, with the buildings of a former chocolate factory that now house bars, offices and exhibitions.
        A former confectionery factory
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        Krasny Oktyabr Island
        © Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Krasny Oktyabr Island
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The island appeared in the 1780s, when the Vodootvodny Canal was dug, cutting part of Zamoskvorechye off from the bank.
        • The Einem confectionery company dates its history from 1849, and construction of the factory on Bersenevskaya Embankment began in 1889.
        • After the revolution the factory was nationalised, and in 1922 it was renamed Krasny Oktyabr (Red October).
        • In 2007 production was moved to the Babayevsky factory, and the workshops were taken over by offices, exhibition halls, clubs and restaurants.
        • Nearby on the island are the 17th-century Averky Kirillov Chambers and Boris Iofan's House on the Embankment of 1931.
        • Patriarshy Bridge, which links the island to the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, opened in 2004.
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        🌅 Patriarshy Bridge
        A pedestrian bridge over the Moskva River from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour to Bersenevskaya Embankment.
        A view of the Kremlin
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        Patriarshy Bridge
        © Andrey Korzun · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The pedestrian bridge opened in September 2004; construction began in 2002.
        • The bridge is 203 m long and crosses the Moskva River; in 2007 it was extended over Bolotny Island and the Vodootvodny Canal.
        • The project was designed by architect Mikhail Posokhin, and Zurab Tsereteli took part in the decoration.
        • It is styled after 19th-century bridges, with arches, wrought-iron railings and lamps.
        • Over Bolotny Island the bridge is raised 10 m, and over the main channel 12.5 m.
        • In the evening the bridge is lit by more than 200 lamps and 500 floodlights.
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        🏛 Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
        🚪 entrance from Prechistenskaya Embankment
        🎟 partly ticketed · the cathedral is free, the observation deck requires a ticket with a guided tour
        Russia's largest Orthodox cathedral, rebuilt in the 1990s, with white walls and golden domes.
        Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
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        Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
        © Gabriele Sotgiu · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The idea of a cathedral-monument to the victory over Napoleon was put forward in December 1812 by General Pyotr Kikin.
        • The first cathedral was laid down in 1817 on the Sparrow Hills to a design by Karl Witberg, but construction was halted and Witberg was exiled to Vyatka.
        • The cathedral on Volkhonka was built to Konstantin Thon's design until 1860, and consecrated only in 1883 under Alexander III.
        • The names of officers killed in the war of 1812 and the foreign campaigns are inscribed on the cathedral's walls.
        • On 5 December 1931 the cathedral was blown up to make way for the Palace of Soviets, which was never built; the Moskva swimming pool was made on the site instead.
        • The current building was recreated in 1994–1999 on the old plinth, but from different materials.
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      19. 10
        🚶 Ostozhenka Street
        A street from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour to the Moskva River with 19th-century mansions and upscale new buildings.
        The "Golden Mile"
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        Ostozhenka Street
        © Shakko · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The name comes from the Ostozhye tract: haystacks used to be stacked on the river's flood meadows.
        • From 1935 to 1986 the street was called Metrostroyevskaya: the first metro line was built under it by the cut-and-cover method.
        • In 1986 Ostozhenka was the first Moscow street to get its historic name back.
        • No. 37 was the home of Ivan Turgenev's mother, where the story "Mumu" is set; since 2009 the house has held the writer's museum.
        • Mansion no. 21 looks like a medieval castle in miniature: Lev Kekushev built it for his own family in 1900–1903.
        • The corner turret of no. 3/14 was nicknamed "the wineglass" because it looks like an upside-down glass.
        • No. 41 (1925–1928) was the first multi-story residential building in the USSR with monolithic reinforced-concrete structures.
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      21. 11
        🖼 Museum of Moscow
        Зубовский б-р, 2
        🎟 ticket
        A museum in the former Provision Warehouses of the 1830s about the life of the city from ancient times to today.
        Museum of Moscow
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        Museum of Moscow
        © shakko · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The museum was founded in 1896 by the City Duma as the Museum of Municipal Services and was first housed in the Krestovsky water towers.
        • From 1926 the museum worked in the Sukharev Tower, until it was demolished in 1935.
        • The warehouses were built in 1835; they were long attributed to Gilardi, but it turned out they were built by Vasily Stasov and Fyodor Shestakov.
        • From the 1930s the Provision Warehouses were the General Staff's motor pool, and only in 2009 were they given to the museum.
        • About 800,000 exhibits were moved when the museum relocated to Zubovsky Boulevard.
        • The oldest finds in the archaeological collection are 20,000–25,000 years old.
        • The collection includes a lifetime portrait of Peter I by the Dutchman Nicolaas Verkolje, 1717.
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      23. 12
        🍽 Vanil Restaurant
        ул. Остоженка, 1/9
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        Dinner
        🍴 A restaurant on Ostozhenka opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, with an Italian menu and its own baking. What to order: vitello tonnato, focaccia, tiramisu, profiteroles.

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