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      Chistye Prudy, Myasnitskaya and the lights of Nikolskaya

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 3 km🍽 2📍 8 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      From Chistye Prudy along the evening Myasnitskaya to Lubyanka: the pagoda house, the Kremlin from the roof of Detsky Mir, dinner and a walk down Nikolskaya to Red Square.

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        🌳 Chistye Prudy (Clean Ponds)
        A boulevard with a pond in the middle, swan houses and a floating café on the water.
        Begin around sunset, about 17:30: the sky is still reflected in the pond, and the lamps are lighting up along the boulevard
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        Chistye Prudy (Clean Ponds)
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Chistye Prudy (Clean Ponds)
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • According to a popular version, the pond was called Pogany (Foul) because of butchers' waste, and in 1703 it was cleaned on Menshikov's orders.
        • Of several ponds, only one has survived to this day.
        • Nearby stands the Menshikov Tower of 1704–1707 by architect Ivan Zarudny; its top burned down after a lightning strike in 1723.
        • The monument to Griboyedov at the start of the boulevard was erected in 1959.
        • Since 1974 the Sovremennik Theatre has been housed in the building of the former Colosseum cinema of 1914.
        • The Annushka tram, route A, runs along the boulevard; in summer swans live on the pond.
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        🏛 Menshikov Tower (Church of the Archangel Gabriel)
        Архангельский пер., 15А, стр. 9
        A church built for Menshikov higher than the Ivan the Great Bell Tower; its tall spire burned from lightning in 1723.
        Five minutes along Arkhangelsky Lane: the candle-shaped tower is best seen from the lane
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        Menshikov Tower (Church of the Archangel Gabriel)
        © yeowatzup · CC BY 2.0
        • The church was built in 1704–1707 to a design by Ivan Zarudny in the Naryshkin Baroque style.
        • At 84 meters the tower exceeded the Ivan the Great Bell Tower by 3 meters and became Moscow's tallest building.
        • The occasion was an icon of the Mother of God from Polotsk, believed to have been painted by the Evangelist Luke.
        • Menshikov also ordered the Poganye Ponds by the church cleaned up, and ever since they have been the Chistye (Clean) Ponds.
        • In 1708 an English clock with chimes was installed on the tower and 50 bells were hung.
        • In 1773 the church was restored by the Freemason Gavriil Izmailov, and Masonic symbols and inscriptions appeared on the walls.
        • Since 1948 the church has belonged to the Representation of the Antiochian Orthodox Church.
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        🏛 Moscow Central Post Office
        Мясницкая ул., 26А, стр. 1
        A 1912 building on Myasnitskaya, Moscow's main post office; under restoration since 2020, so you can't go inside now (work was planned to finish in 2027), but you can look from outside.
        The building is under restoration — look from outside, from the corner of Myasnitskaya and the boulevard
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        Moscow Central Post Office
        © AKfounder · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Moscow Central Post Office
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The building was built in 1910–1912 to a design by the engineer Leonid Novikov and the architect Oskar Munts with the participation of Leonid Vesnin.
        • The post office was ceremonially opened on 14 May 1912; the first Museum of Postal Communication began working in it at the same time.
        • The facade was to be clad in striped brick "in the Byzantine style", but brick got more expensive, so artificial stone imitating marble was used.
        • The glass dome of the main hall is often attributed to Shukhov, but that is an urban legend.
        • The post office stands on the site of an estate once owned by Alexander Menshikov.
        • In 1913 about 12% of all the country's correspondence passed through the Moscow Post Office.
        • In October 1917 there was fighting at the post office between cadets and Red Guards.
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        ☕️ Tea shop in Perlov House
        Мясницкая ул., 19
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        Go in before closing: weekdays until 21:00, Saturday until 20:00, Sunday until 19:00
        🍴 The Chai-Kofe shop in the 1890s pagoda-style Perlov House: it is a shop for buying by weight, with no tables or seating hall. What to get: loose tea (more than 800 varieties), ground coffee, chocolate and sweets as gifts.
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        ✨ Central Children's Store on Lubyanka (Detsky Mir)
        🎟 partly ticketed · the store is free to enter, the rooftop viewing platform requires a ticket
        The country's largest children's store, in a 1957 building with an atrium and a rooftop viewing platform.
        Detsky Mir is open until 22:00; go up to the viewing deck via the 6th floor until 21:00 — from the top you see the Kremlin and Lubyanka lit up
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        Central Children's Store on Lubyanka (Detsky Mir)
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        Central Children's Store on Lubyanka (Detsky Mir)
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The building was built in 1953–1957 to a design by Alexey Dushkin on the site of the demolished Lubyansky Passage, using its foundations and basements.
        • The department store opened on 6 June 1957 and was the first building in the USSR to install escalators.
        • Pavel Korin's mosaic panels were never made: the project was simplified during the fight against "excesses".
        • During the 2008–2015 reconstruction a seven-story atrium replaced the three-story one; eight bronze floor lamps and the marble staircases remain from the old interior.
        • The atrium clock's mechanism weighs 4.5 tonnes and has 5,000 parts, and its pendulum is 13 meters long; the clock was made by the Petrodvorets Watch Factory.
        • The carousel with horses that stood for many years in the old Detsky Mir returned to the main atrium in 2021.
        • Under the roof is the Museum of Childhood, with about a thousand exhibits, including Soviet toys.
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        🍽 Ryby Net meat restaurant (No Fish)
        Никольская ул., 12, 1 этаж (отель St. Regis Nikolskaya)
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        Dinner on the ground floor of the St. Regis: steaks and slow-braised meat, open until midnight
        🍴 A Novikov Group meat restaurant on Nikolskaya: steaks, grill and slow-cooked meat. Try: a truffle burger, ribs, slow-cooked beef cheeks, ribeye.
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        🚶 Nikolskaya Street
        A pedestrian street from Red Square to Lubyanka with the Kazan Cathedral, the Print Yard and garlands overhead.
        After dinner walk the pedestrian Nikolskaya to the end: shop windows, lamps and the Kazan Cathedral ahead
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        Nikolskaya Street
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Nikolskaya Street
        © Uwe Brodrecht · CC BY-SA 2.0
        Nikolskaya Street
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        • It is named after the Old St Nicholas Monastery, founded here in 1390.
        • In 1564 Ivan Fyodorov printed the Apostol at the Print Yard on Nikolskaya, the first dated Russian printed book.
        • The Gothic Synodal Printing House with a lion and a unicorn was built in 1814; the press worked there until 1918.
        • In 1687 the Slavic Greek Latin Academy opened here, Moscow's first institution of higher education, where Lomonosov later studied.
        • In the Slavyansky Bazar restaurant (No. 17) in 1897, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, over many hours of conversation, agreed to found the Moscow Art Theatre.
        • Ferrein's pharmacy at No. 21 was built in 1894–1899 to a design by Adolf Erichson.
        • The street became pedestrian in August 2013 and is about 630 m long.
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        🏛 Red Square
        The country's main square, paved with cobblestones, between the Kremlin, GUM, the State Historical Museum and St Basil's Cathedral.
        The finale: the Kremlin towers lit up and GUM in lights. If the square is closed for an event, look from the Kazan Cathedral
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        Red Square
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        Red Square
        © Олег Токарев · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Red Square
        © Leokand · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The name "Red" ("beautiful") stuck to the square in the second half of the 17th century; before that it was called Torg ("the Market") and Pozhar ("the Burnt Place").
        • The square measures about 330 by 75 metres.
        • In 1990 Red Square, together with the Kremlin, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
        • The Lobnoye Mesto is mentioned from 1549; contrary to legend, executions were usually held not on it but next to it.
        • The Minin and Pozharsky monument by Ivan Martos was unveiled in 1818 and moved to St Basil's Cathedral in 1931.
        • GUM, formerly the Upper Trading Rows, was built in 1890–1893 to a design by Alexander Pomerantsev.
        • The present granite Lenin Mausoleum was built to a design by Alexey Shchusev in 1930.
        • On 7 November 1941 troops leaving the parade marched from here straight to the front.

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