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      Bryusov and the Bronnaya streets: Putinki, Herzen and Rostropovich

      ⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 3.1 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      From the tent-roofed church at Pushkinskaya through lanes to Nikitskaya: the church where Herzen was baptised, Rostropovich with his cello and the church that actors asked not to close.

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        🏛 Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putinki
        ул. Малая Дмитровка, 2
        A snow-white church with three tent roofs near Pushkinskaya — one of the last tent-roofed churches, since Nikon banned them right after it was built.
        From Pushkinskaya, 3 minutes along Malaya Dmitrovka. Stand opposite: over the church there are three tents at once.
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        Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putinki
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putinki
        © Alina Vozna · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The church was founded in 1649 after a fire and finished in 1652, under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich.
        • It is one of the last large tent-roofed churches: in 1653 Patriarch Nikon banned the building of tent-roofed churches.
        • The church is built of specially moulded bricks.
        • The name is linked to the Putevoy Embassy Court, where ambassadors arriving in Moscow used to stay.
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      3. 2
        ☕️ V60 Coffee&Bakery café
        Малый Палашёвский пер., 5 (отель V Tverskaya)
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        Across Tverskaya into Maly Palashevsky — 5 minutes. Coffee and pastries from noon.
        🍴 A coffee shop-bakery in a quiet side street by Tverskaya: breakfast all day and desserts. Try: an English breakfast, a warm beef salad, a croissant, the Mont Blanc dessert.
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        🏛 Church of St John the Theologian on Bronnaya
        Богословский пер., 4
        A modest 17th-century church in Bogoslovsky Lane, where Alexander Herzen was baptised in 1812.
        Along Bolshaya Bronnaya into Bogoslovsky Lane — 5 minutes. Herzen was baptised here.
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        Church of St John the Theologian on Bronnaya
        © karel291 · CC BY 3.0
        • The church is known since 1625; the stone building went up in 1652-1665, funded by parishioners.
        • Alexander Herzen was baptised here in spring 1812, and a few years later so was his future wife, Natalya Zakharyina.
        • In 1932 the Kamerny Theatre proposed demolishing the building, but the proposal failed.
        • The domes were restored in 1990, and the church was returned to the Church in 1991.
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        🏛 Church of the Resurrection on Uspensky Vrazhek
        Брюсов пер., 15/2
        A church in Bryusov Lane that stayed open even during the Soviet "godless five-year plan" — actors living nearby pleaded for it.
        Across Tverskoy Boulevard into Bryusov Lane — 8 minutes. The church wasn't closed even in the 1930s.
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        Church of the Resurrection on Uspensky Vrazhek
        © Shakko · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • A church on this spot is known since 1548 and appears on the Petrov Plan of Moscow of 1596-1598.
        • In the fire of 1629 Uspensky Vrazhek burned to the ground, and residents began building stone churches.
        • In the 1930s the church was not closed thanks to appeals from famous actors who lived next door.
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        🏛 Rostropovich Monument
        Брюсов пер., сквер Мстислава Ростроповича
        A bronze Rostropovich with his cello in a small square on Bryusov Lane — it feels as if the music is about to start.
        In the little park behind the church. A little further along the lane is a monument to Khachaturian.
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        Rostropovich Monument
        © Александр Сигачёв · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The monument was unveiled in 2012; the sculptor is Alexander Rukavishnikov, the architect Igor Voskresensky.
        • The musician is shown playing the cello.
        • The square where the monument stands is named after Rostropovich.
        • Nearby, in Bryusov Lane, stands a monument to Aram Khachaturian.
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        🏛 Church of the Lesser Ascension
        ул. Большая Никитская, 18
        A 17th-century church on Bolshaya Nikitskaya, opposite the Conservatory; it was called "Lesser" to tell it apart from the Greater Ascension at Nikitskiye Vorota.
        Along Bryusov come out onto Bolshaya Nikitskaya and turn left. The church is opposite the Conservatory.
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        Church of the Lesser Ascension
        © Shakko · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The church is mentioned from 1548; the current stone building dates from 1634.
        • The name "Lesser Ascension" stuck from the 1830s, to distinguish it from the new Church of the Greater Ascension.
        • In 1929 the bells were sent to be melted down, and in 1937 the church was closed.
        • The church was returned to the Church in 1992, and its main altar was consecrated on 3 June 1992.

      ↩️ Getting back: from the church, 8–10 minutes along Bolshaya Nikitskaya to Biblioteka imeni Lenina or Okhotny Ryad metro

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