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      Evening in the centre: theatres and cocktails

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 2📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      From the Bolshoi Theatre through Stoleshnikov to two famous cocktail bars, finishing at Patriarch's Ponds.

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        🏛 Bolshoi Theatre
        The country's main opera and ballet theatre, with an eight-column portico and Apollo's quadriga above the entrance.
        The lit-up facade and Teatralnaya Square
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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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        🚶 Stoleshnikov Lane (Stoleshnikov Pereulok)
        A short pedestrian lane in the centre, with 19th-century apartment buildings and expensive shops.
        A pedestrian lane with boutiques
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        Stoleshnikov Lane (Stoleshnikov Pereulok)
        © Andreykor · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The name comes from stoleshnik, an old word for tablecloth: in the 17th century weavers lived here.
        • The lane is first mentioned as Rozhdestvenskaya Street in Ivan III's will of 1504.
        • In 1922 Kosmodamianovsky Lane was added to it, and it doubled in length.
        • Vladimir Gilyarovsky lived at no. 9; the estate now houses his museum and exhibition centre, a branch of the Museum of Moscow.
        • In Soviet times the lane was famous for its second-hand bookshops, considered the best in Moscow.
        • In 2007 Jones Lang LaSalle named it the second most expensive shopping street in the world after the Champs-Élysées.
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        🍸 Mendeleev Bar
        ул. Петровка, 20/1 (цокольный этаж)
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        A basement speakeasy — the entrance is through the Oshi Izakaya restaurant; open Tue-Sat from 6 p.m., better to book
        🍴 A hidden cocktail bar on Petrovka with Asian food and live music; open Tue–Sat from 18:00, and without a reservation you may not be let in. What to order: the Ninja and Vseslav cocktails, a handroll with spicy scallop, salmon tartare.
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        🍸 Noor Electro (Noor Bar)
        Тверская ул., 23/12
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        Signature cocktails on Tverskaya
        🍴 A legendary cocktail bar in a courtyard on Tverskaya: in the evening there are DJs and dancing. What to order: a cocktail to your taste (the bartenders make it to order), a classic Margarita, and a sandwich with them.
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        🌳 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 night stroll around the pond
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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.

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