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      Sretenka at night: two monasteries and a Georgian dinner

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2.3 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      From Trubnaya up the boulevard, through Sretensky Monastery into the hunchbacked lanes of Sretenka and dinner until midnight by Sukharevskaya.

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        🏛 Rozhdestvensky Monastery (Nativity Convent)
        ул. Рождественка, 20/8
        A convent at the foot of Rozhdestvensky Boulevard with a white-stone cathedral from the early 16th century.
        Start at Trubnaya at 17:30: a white-stone cathedral of the early 16th century behind a fence at the corner of Rozhdestvenka
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        Rozhdestvensky Monastery (Nativity Convent)
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Rozhdestvensky Monastery (Nativity Convent)
        © Дмитрий Мозжухин · CC BY 3.0
        • The convent was founded in 1386 by Princess Maria, mother of Vladimir the Brave.
        • The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin was built in 1501–1505.
        • The convent was revived in 1993, after churches were returned to the Church.
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      3. 2
        🚶 Rozhdestvensky Boulevard
        A boulevard that drops steeply to Trubnaya Square, with shady lindens and the Nativity Convent at the foot of the slope.
        Climb the steep boulevard and look back: below are the lights of Trubnaya Square
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        Rozhdestvensky Boulevard
        © XAKxRUSx · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Rozhdestvensky Boulevard
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The name comes from the Nativity of the Virgin Convent, founded in 1386.
        • The boulevard, about 600 m long, was laid out in the 1820s; it descends steeply to Trubnaya Square.
        • In the house of the Fonvizin brothers (no. 12/8) it was decided in 1821 to dissolve the Union of Welfare, and in 1826 Decembrists were arrested there.
        • In the Rostopchina mansion (no. 14) in the 1840s writers gathered, among them Gogol and Fet.
        • A 1936 fire in a house on the boulevard formed the basis of Marshak's poem The Story of an Unknown Hero.
        • On 6 March 1953 a crush occurred on the boulevard and Trubnaya Square during the farewell to Stalin.
        • A tram ran along the boulevard from 1911 to 1971.
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      5. 3
        🏛 Sretensky Monastery
        A 14th-century monastery on Lubyanka with the Church of the Presentation of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God and a seminary behind its walls.
        Entrance from Bolshaya Lubyanka: the old Sretensky church and the new Cathedral of the New Martyrs; a service is often under way in the evening
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        Sretensky Monastery
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Sretensky Monastery
        © Андрей Колычев · CC BY 3.0
        • The monastery was founded in 1397 by Grand Prince Vasily I in memory of Moscow's deliverance from Tamerlane in 1395.
        • The name comes from sretenie, meaning "meeting": this is where Muscovites met the Vladimir Icon brought from Vladimir.
        • The Cathedral of the Presentation of the Vladimir Icon was built in 1679 under Feodor Alexeyevich, with murals from 1707.
        • In 1925 the monastery was closed, some buildings were demolished and the bells were sold to England.
        • The monastery was revived in the 1990s; from 1995 it was headed by Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov).
        • The Church of the Resurrection of Christ and the New Martyrs, about 60 m tall, was consecrated by Patriarch Kirill on 25 May 2017.
        • The Sretensky Theological Seminary has operated at the monastery since 2002.
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      7. 4
        🚶 Sretenka Street
        An old street with low 19th-century buildings, with shops and cafés on the ground floors.
        Turn into Pechatnikov and Kolokolnikov lanes — they drop steeply to Trubnaya
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        Sretenka Street
        © Bogunilia · CC BY 4.0
        • The name comes from the Sretensky Monastery, founded where in 1395 Muscovites met (sretali) the Vladimir Icon.
        • The street was the start of the road to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery: pilgrims walked 68 versts on foot.
        • The Church of the Dormition in Pechatniki (no. 3/27) was built in 1695.
        • The Church of the Trinity in Listy (no. 27/29) was built in 1650–1661.
        • In the Kiryakov estate (no. 17), the founder of the Moscow Conservatory, Nikolai Rubinstein, lived in the early 1860s.
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      9. 5
        ☕️ Natakhtari café on Sretenka
        ул. Сретенка, 24/2, стр. 1
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        Dinner until midnight: khinkali, khachapuri and charcoal-grilled shashlik, inexpensive
        🍴 An inexpensive Georgian café near Sukharevskaya with a grill, open until midnight. What to order: khinkali (Georgian dumplings), khachapuri, shashlik, chakhokhbili, homemade lemonades.
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        • The café is named after the Georgian village of Natakhtari near Mtskheta, known for its spring water and lemonades.
        • The menu is Georgian classics: khinkali, khachapuri, grilled shashlik and lula kebab.
        • The café is open every day until midnight, and coffee is available to take away.
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      11. 6
        🏛 Sukharevskaya Square
        A square on the Garden Ring with the Sheremetev Hospital, now the Sklifosovsky Institute.
        The finale: the semicircular colonnade of the Sheremetev Hospital, with Sukharevskaya metro next to it
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        Sukharevskaya Square
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Sukharevskaya Square
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The square is named after Sukharev Tower, built in 1695 to a design by Mikhail Choglokov and demolished in 1934.
        • The tower took its name from the streltsy regiment of Lavrenty Sukharev, which guarded the gate of the Earthen Town here.
        • Yakov Bruce set up Russia's first astronomical observatory on the upper floors of the tower.
        • According to legend, Bruce hid a "black book" granting power in the tower's foundation; people called the tower Ivan the Great's bride.
        • The Hospice House, now the Sklifosovsky Institute, was built in 1792–1810; its authors include Giacomo Quarenghi.
        • From 1939 to 1994 the square was called Bolshaya Kolkhoznaya.

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