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      Old Izmailovo: the pond, a church and the manufactory

      ⏱ 1 h 35 min🚶 3.9 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      An hour and a half through old Izmailovo beyond the island: the tsars' ring pond, a church of Kostroma masters from the 1670s, a coffee shop and the buildings of a cotton-spinning mill.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        🌳 Serebryano-Vinogradny Pond
        Измайловский пр., у Измайловского острова
        A ring-shaped 17th-century pond around Izmailovo Island: water, willows and a view of the tent roofs and domes of the royal estate.
        From Partizanskaya metro, 15 minutes north along the pond's west shore. From the shore you can see the domes of the Intercession Cathedral on the island.
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        Serebryano-Vinogradny Pond
        © Stolbovsky · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Serebryano-Vinogradny Pond
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        Serebryano-Vinogradny Pond
        © Artyom Svetlov · CC BY 4.0
        • Ponds on the Serebryanka river began to be built in the 1660s, when Alexei Mikhailovich was turning Izmailovo into a model farm.
        • Vinogradny (Vineyard) Pond is named after the gardens where southern fruit and grapes were grown.
        • The Silver and Vineyard ponds were joined by a dam, forming a 2.3 km ring around the island.
        • The pond covers 17.5 hectares and has an average depth of 2.5 m.
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        🏛 Church of the Nativity of Christ in Izmailovo
        Измайловский пр., 28
        A five-domed church of the 1670s, built by a Kostroma craftsmen's guild for the peasants of the royal Izmailovo, with a Baroque bell tower from Peter's time.
        10 minutes north along Izmailovsky Proyezd. A five-domed church with three tiers of kokoshniks and a Baroque bell tower; next to it is the old Izmailovo cemetery.
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        Church of the Nativity of Christ in Izmailovo
        © Mitrius · Public domain
        Church of the Nativity of Christ in Izmailovo
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        Church of the Nativity of Christ in Izmailovo
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The church was consecrated by Patriarch Joachim in 1678-1679; it was built by a guild of Kostroma architects.
        • It stood in the New Quarter, where peasants from various districts were resettled to serve the royal estate.
        • The three iconostases of 1678 were created by the Kostroma master Sergei Rozhkov.
        • The church never closed in Soviet times; in 1945 the future Archimandrite John (Krestiankin) was ordained here.
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        ☕️ Esse coffee shop on Nikitinskaya
        Никитинская ул., 13
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        5 minutes east along Nikitinskaya. Cappuccino and a homemade dessert; opens at 10:00, at 11:00 on weekends.
        🍴 A cosy neighbourhood coffee shop in quiet Izmailovo, open since 2004: coffee, desserts, breakfasts and hot dishes. What to order: a cappuccino and a homemade dessert.
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        • The coffee shop opened in 2004.
        • It is between the Church of the Nativity of Christ and the old buildings of the Izmailovo Manufactory.
        • Open until 11 p.m. every day.
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        🏛 Izmailovo Manufactory
        3-я Парковая ул., 41А
        Red-brick buildings of a 19th-century cotton-spinning mill — industrial Izmailovo, which grew out of a cloth workshop.
        Another 5 minutes to 3rd Parkovaya: red-brick 19th-century factory buildings. The grounds are used for offices — look from the street.
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        • The first workshop of the cloth works was laid down in the 1830s on a stream flowing into Serebryano-Vinogradny Pond.
        • The first three-storey brick building was put up in 1847 by the owner, a man named Mertvago.
        • In the 1850s the Englishman Rodion Hill took over the factory: he ordered a steam engine from England and brought the number of looms to 435.
        • Barracks, a hospital, baths and shops were built for the workers.

      ↩️ Getting back: 15–20 minutes along 3rd Parkovaya to Pervomayskaya metro

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