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      Averky Kirillov Chambers, GES-2 and Kadashi

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.7 km🍽 0📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Patterned 17th-century chambers, a warm house of culture in a former power station, padlocks on the “love trees” by the canal and the lit-up domes of Kadashi and Klement.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
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        🏛 Averky Kirillov Chambers
        Берсеневская наб., 18–20–22
        A 17th-century chamber house of a Duma clerk, with an ornate window frame and the Church of St Nicholas on Bersenevka: pre-Petrine Moscow across from the Kremlin.
        17th-century chambers right by the bridge — the patterned window frames are easy to see from Bersenevskaya Embankment
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        Averky Kirillov Chambers
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Averky Kirillov Chambers
        © Aniacra · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The chambers took on their current look in 1656–1657 under Duma clerk Averky Kirillov.
        • The plot used to belong to Ivan Bersen-Beklemishev, executed in 1525.
        • In 1703–1711 the clerk A. F. Kurbatov, who built the Kremlin Arsenal, added an extension in the Petrine taste with volutes and a little "terem" tower.
        • The Church of St Nicholas on Bersenevka used to be connected to the chambers by a covered passage.
        • From 1868 to 1923 the Moscow Archaeological Society was housed here.
        • In February 2026, restoration work here uncovered a hoard of 20,000 silver coins from the 16th–17th centuries.
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        ✨ GES-2 House of Culture
        Болотная наб., 15
        🎟 partly ticketed · the building is free with registration, exhibitions require a ticket
        A former power station across from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, rebuilt by Renzo Piano into an open house of culture with exhibitions and cafés.
        Open daily until 22:00, free entry: exhibitions, a library and a warm hall where you can warm up
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        GES-2 House of Culture
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        GES-2 House of Culture
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        • The power station was built in 1905–1907, designed by Vasily Bashkirov, to power the Moscow tram.
        • The reconstruction was carried out by the studio of Italian architect Renzo Piano, who also designed the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
        • The House of Culture opened in December 2021; it was created by Leonid Mikhelson's V–A–C Foundation.
        • Four steel chimneys about 70 metres tall serve as air intakes, bringing fresh air into the building.
        • At the opening, Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson spent months re-filming the series Santa Barbara here, live for visitors.
        • Inside there is a library, a cinema, a concert hall and open workshops.
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        🌅 Luzhkov Bridge and the “Love Trees”
        через Водоотводный канал, от Болотной наб. к Кадашёвской
        A pedestrian bridge over the Vodootvodny Canal with metal trees for “wedding” padlocks.
        Through Bolotnaya Square to the canal: padlocks on the “love trees” and lights along the water
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        Luzhkov Bridge and the “Love Trees”
        © Andrey Korzun · CC BY 4.0
        Luzhkov Bridge and the “Love Trees”
        © kishjar? from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • Officially the bridge is called Tretyakovsky, as it is part of the Tretyakov Gallery ensemble; it is also nicknamed the “Kissing Bridge”.
        • The unofficial name comes from Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, although the official version traces it to Tsaritsyn Meadow, the old name of Bolotnaya Square.
        • The bridge opened in mid-1994; Zurab Tsereteli drew the railing with medallions and the lamps from his own sketches.
        • Moscow's first “love tree” for padlocks appeared here in April 2007, and six months later there was no room left, so two more were added.
        • On one side the bridge leads to the Ilya Repin monument on Bolotnaya Square, on the other to Lavrushinsky Lane.
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        🏛 Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadashi
        2-й Кадашёвский пер., 7/4, стр. 14
        A Naryshkin-baroque church of 1687–1695 with five domes, white-stone ornament and a slender bell tower.
        Through the Kadashi lanes to the church: five domes and a bell tower against the dark sky
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        Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadashi
        © SJabberwocky · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadashi
        © Александр Сигачёв · CC0
        • A Church of the Resurrection is first mentioned in this area in 1493, and early documents call it the church “on the Gryazi (mud)” because of the river's floods.
        • The present church was built with money from the Kadashi merchants Kondrat Dobrynin and his son Longin; the south apse and undercroft survive from its 1656 predecessor.
        • Researchers consider the church part of a major urban axis running from Ivan the Great via Kadashi to the Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye.
        • The open second-floor gallery originally went even around the apses, which is rare in church architecture.
        • In 1812 the French used the lower church as a stable, and after its closure in 1934 it housed a KGB archive and a sports club of a sausage factory.
        • From 1966 the building was occupied by the Grabar Restoration Centre; it was handed back to the Church on 1 December 2006.
        • In 2010 an attempt to demolish the neighbouring old houses for a new development sparked protests known as the “Battle of Kadashi”.
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        🏛 Church of St Clement
        Климентовский пер., 7
        A huge red-and-white five-domed 18th-century church, a rare example of Elizabethan Baroque in Moscow.
        Look from Klimentovsky Lane — the Baroque domes rise above the rooftops
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        Church of St Clement
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Church of St Clement
        © Cons Ph · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The present five-domed church was built in 1762–1769; the architect is unknown, supposedly Pietro Antonio Trezzini.
        • Tradition says that 70,000 rubles for the construction were given by Chancellor Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, whose estate was nearby; the church was completed by the merchant Kuzma Matveev.
        • The main altar is consecrated to the Transfiguration, so the church is also called Spaso-Preobrazhensky.
        • In the 1930s the church was closed and given over to a book depository of the Lenin Library, which is why the iconostasis and interior survived.
        • The building was returned to believers in 2008, and after restoration in 2014 it was consecrated by Patriarch Kirill.
        • Apollon Grigoryev in his memoirs singled it out among the Zamoskvorechye churches as "five-domed, magnificent".

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