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      Evening in the centre: theatres, dinner and three bars

      ⏱ 6 h🚶 4.2 km🍽 4📍 10 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The same evening from the Bolshoi Theatre to Patriarch’s Ponds, but with dinner in the Egyptian House, a stroll along the boulevards and a third bar on Patriki.

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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 illuminated 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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      3. 2
        🚶 Kamergersky Lane (Kamergersky Pereulok)
        A pedestrian lane between Tverskaya and Bolshaya Dmitrovka, with the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre building and monuments at its entrance.
        A pedestrian lane by the Moscow Art Theatre — lanterns, Chekhov and street cafés
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        Kamergersky Lane (Kamergersky Pereulok)
        © Rakoon · CC0
        • The name comes from the officials who lived here with the court title of kammerherr (chamberlain); in 1923–1992 it was Art Theatre Passage.
        • The lane became pedestrian on 26 October 1998.
        • The remodelling of the building for the Moscow Art Theatre was paid for by Savva Morozov, 300,000 roubles, while Fyodor Shekhtel did the design free of charge.
        • The street lamps in the lane were made to Shekhtel's drawings.
        • In the 1920s the Tenth Muse café operated here, visited by Mayakovsky, Yesenin and Bryusov.
        • The lane has two museums, the Moscow Art Theatre Museum and the Sergei Prokofiev Museum.
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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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        🍽 Savras Restaurant
        ул. Большая Дмитровка, 9, стр. 1 (Египетский дом)
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        Dinner before the bars in the Egyptian House: scallops and a Caesar salad prepared at your table; book ahead
        🍴 A Russian-French restaurant with a pastry shop and a hidden bar in the Egyptian House, opened in April 2026. What to order: Sakhalin scallops, Caesar salad prepared at the table, pelmeni with crab in bisque sauce.
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      9. 5
        🍸 Mendeleev Bar
        ул. Петровка, 20/1 (цокольный этаж)
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        A speakeasy in the basement — entrance through the Oshi Izakaya restaurant; open Tue–Sat from 18:00, 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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        🚶 Petrovsky Boulevard
        A short boulevard between Trubnaya and Petrovskiye Vorota, with lindens and mansions on both sides.
        A short walk along the evening boulevard to Strastnoy and Pushkinskaya
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        Petrovsky Boulevard
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The boulevard was laid out in the early 19th century on the site of the White City walls, demolished in the 1780s.
        • In the fire of 1812 the houses and trees on the boulevard burned, and it was restored only in 1818.
        • House no. 14/29 held Lucien Olivier's Hermitage restaurant; today the building houses the School of Modern Play theatre.
        • In house no. 5 the composer Reinhold Glière wrote the music for the first Soviet ballet, The Red Poppy, in 1926–1927.
        • The cast-iron fence and the vases on granite pedestals at the Trubnaya entrance were installed in 1947.
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        🏛 Pushkin Square
        A square on Tverskaya with a garden, fountains and Opekushin's bronze Pushkin of 1880.
        The illuminated Pushkin and the Rossiya cinema — on the way to Noor
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        Pushkin Square
        © Shakko · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The square was called Strastnaya, after the Passion Monastery demolished in 1937; it became Pushkinskaya in 1931.
        • The Rossiya cinema, now Pushkinsky, was built in 1961 on the monastery's site.
        • Alexander Opekushin's Pushkin monument was unveiled on Tverskoy Boulevard in 1880, and in the mid-20th century it was moved across the square.
        • The 1880 unveiling celebrations are remembered for Dostoevsky's Pushkin Speech.
        • The Izvestia building of 1927 by the architect Grigory Barkhin is a notable monument of Constructivism.
        • On 31 January 1990 the USSR's first McDonald's opened here; on the first day the queue stretched for hundreds of metres.
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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 walk 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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      19. 10
        🍸 Bus hand roll bar
        Малый Козихинский пер., 8/18
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        The finale in a listening bar: vinyl from Tokyo and cocktails, no reservations, open until midnight (from 17:00 on weekdays)
        🍴 A Japanese listening bar from Lucky Group on Patriarshiye: vinyl from Tokyo, cocktails by Maxim Gorelik's team, no reservations. What to order: hand rolls, gyoza, ramen.

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