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      Prechistenka's lanes: Obydensky, Mogiltsy and Vlasyevsky

      ⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 3.4 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A loop through quiet lanes between Ostozhenka and the Arbat: a church built in a single day, the church where Levin and Kitty were married and the wooden house Bulgakov visited.

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        🏛 Church of Elijah the Ordinary (Ilya Obydenny)
        2-й Обыденский пер., 6/3
        An old parish church in a lane between Ostozhenka and the embankment. "Obydenny" — according to tradition, the first wooden church was put up in a single day.
        From Kropotkinskaya along Ostozhenka and left into 2nd Obydensky — 5 minutes. Go inside: the iconostasis has an image of the Saviour from 1675 from the old wooden church.
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        Church of Elijah the Ordinary (Ilya Obydenny)
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The stone church was built in 1702–1703 on the site of a wooden one.
        • The first church was probably built "obydenno", in one day, on a vow during a drought.
        • According to Avraamy Palitsyn's Tale, on 24 August 1612 Prince Pozharsky prayed at this spot before the decisive battle with the Poles.
        • The iconostasis preserves icons from the old wooden church, including a Saviour Not Made by Hands of 1675.
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        🚶 Mansurovsky Lane
        Мансуровский пер.
        A short quiet lane between Ostozhenka and Prechistenka with an early-19th-century wooden house that Bulgakov used to visit.
        Along Ostozhenka to Mansurovsky and up to Prechistenka. Wooden house No. 9 with the mezzanine is the one Bulgakov visited.
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        Mansurovsky Lane
        © Valbaro · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Mansurovsky Lane
        © Valbaro · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The lane links Ostozhenka and Prechistenka; it is named after one of the property owners.
        • No. 9 is a wooden mansion of the 1810s; in 1926–1932 Mikhail Bulgakov often came here.
        • The mansion at No. 11/12 was rebuilt by the architect Alexander Kuznetsov for himself in 1915; it is now a federal heritage site.
        • The Syrian embassy is in the lane.
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        🏛 Church of the Dormition on Mogiltsy
        Большой Власьевский пер., 2/2
        A neoclassical church surrounded by four lanes. Here Tolstoy had Levin and Kitty married in Anna Karenina.
        Cross Prechistenka and go into Prechistensky Lane. Walk round the church — four lanes meet around it.
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        Church of the Dormition on Mogiltsy
        © Александр Сигачёв · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • A church on this spot is known from the 14th century; the present building was begun in 1791 to a design by Nicolas Legrand.
        • The church occupies a whole mini-block: around it are Bolshoy Vlasyevsky, Bolshoy Mogiltsevsky, Bolshoy Lyovshinsky and Prechistensky lanes.
        • "Mogiltsy" most likely comes from the hilly, "grave-like" terrain rather than from a cemetery.
        • In War and Peace Natasha Rostova and Sonya come here, and in Anna Karenina Levin and Kitty are married here.
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        🏛 Church of St Blaise in Staraya Konyushennaya
        Гагаринский пер., 20
        A small 17th-century church in Gagarinsky Lane — the former parish church of the palace Konyushennaya Sloboda (stable settlement).
        Through Bolshoy Vlasyevsky into Gagarinsky — 3 minutes. The small church is easy to miss: it is set back, behind a fence.
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        Church of St Blaise in Staraya Konyushennaya
        © Aljudmila · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The church is known from the 16th century as the parish church of the palace Bolshaya Konyushennaya Sloboda.
        • In 1644 permission was given to add four side chapels to it.
        • After 1812 the church stood ruined and was reconsecrated on 2 February 1815.
        • In 1939 the church was closed and turned into school workshops; it was returned to the Church in 1993.
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        🏛 Church of Sts Athanasius and Cyril on Sivtsev Vrazhek
        Филипповский пер., 3
        An early-18th-century church on the corner of Sivtsev Vrazhek and Filippovsky Lane; in 1812 the Smolensk Icon was brought here.
        Along Gagarinsky and Filippovsky Lanes come out to Sivtsev Vrazhek. The church is on the corner; in 1812 the Smolensk icon was here.
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        Church of Sts Athanasius and Cyril on Sivtsev Vrazhek
        © Дмитрий Мозжухин · CC BY 3.0
        • The church became stone in the early 18th century; the side chapel of Athanasius and Cyril was added in 1749, which gave the church its name.
        • In 1812 the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, taken out of Smolensk, was first placed here and from here moved to the Dormition Cathedral in the Kremlin.
        • In 1932 the church was closed: it held warehouses, workshops and dormitories.
        • The building was returned to the Church on 7 April 1992.
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      11. 6
        ☕️ Shokoladnitsa coffee shop on Gogolevsky
        Гоголевский бул., 3
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        Five minutes along Sivtsev Vrazhek to Gogolevsky Boulevard. Tea with dessert — and across the road is the entrance to Kropotkinskaya.
        🍴 A coffee shop at the start of Gogolevsky Boulevard: a quick breakfast or snack by Kropotkinskaya metro. Try: syrniki, blini, a croissant, cappuccino.

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