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      Patriarshy Bridge and Ostozhenka's Golden Mile

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3.2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The view of the Kremlin from Patriarshy Bridge, the white Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Ostozhenka's mansions and the Provision Warehouses. You can finish with dinner by a window overlooking the Cathedral.

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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.
        The 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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        🚶 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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        🖼 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.
        The Provision Warehouses of the 1830s; we look from outside; inside is separate, another 1.5–2 hours
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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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      9. 5
        🍽 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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