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      Rubtsovo: the tsar's church, Elizabeth's palace and the Yauza

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A loop from Elektrozavodskaya across the Yauza and back: Kekushev's Art Nouveau, a hospital church with tiles, the palace where Tsesarevna Elizabeth lived and Mikhail Romanov's votive church.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        🏛 Nosov Mansion on Elektrozavodskaya
        Электрозаводская ул., 12
        A wooden Art Nouveau mansion of 1903 by the architect Kekushev — a rare example of Art Nouveau in wood in Moscow, next to the Nosovs' factory.
        5 minutes north from Elektrozavodskaya metro along Elektrozavodskaya Street. The mansion is behind a fence — look from the street.
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        Nosov Mansion on Elektrozavodskaya
        © Mos.ru · CC BY 4.0
        Nosov Mansion on Elektrozavodskaya
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The house was built in 1903 to a design by L. N. Kekushev for the merchant Vasily Dmitrievich Nosov.
        • The Nosovs owned the neighbouring textile factory: shawls, down blankets, cloth for the army.
        • The merchant built the new house when his son married Efimia Ryabushinskaya and inherited the old estate.
        • The building is a cultural heritage site of federal significance.
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        🌅 Rusakovsky Footbridge
        между Русаковской и Преображенской набережными
        A single-span arched footbridge over the Yauza from the 1950s — a quiet crossing with a view of the river and embankments.
        Come out to the Yauza and cross the arched pedestrian bridge to Rusakovskaya Embankment.
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        Rusakovsky Footbridge
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The bridge was designed in 1955 by the architect S. P. Leontovich.
        • In structure and appearance it repeats the Tamozhenny Bridge over the Yauza.
        • For a long time the bridge had no name; it was named after Rusakovskaya Embankment.
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        🏛 Church of the Trinity at St Vladimir's Hospital
        Рубцовско-Дворцовая ул., 1/3
        A showy hospital church of the 1880s in the 17th-century style with ceramic tiles — the house church of the von Dervis children's hospital.
        Right beyond the embankment is the territory of St Vladimir's Hospital. The church is visible from the gate on Rubtsovsko-Dvortsovaya Street; don't go onto the hospital grounds without need.
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        Church of the Trinity at St Vladimir's Hospital
        © Lodo27 from Moscow, Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The children's hospital was founded by the industrialist Pavel von Dervis in 1872 in memory of his dead children.
        • The hospital always kept 100 free places for children from poor families.
        • The church was built in 1881-1883 to a design by the academician A. P. Popov; the von Dervis family crypt was made below.
        • The outside walls are decorated with coloured ceramic tiles.
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        🏛 Empress Elizabeth's Country Palace
        ул. Гастелло, 44
        A single-storey palace on the bank of the former Rybinka river, where Tsesarevna Elizabeth lived under Anna Ioannovna; now it houses a restoration institute.
        South along Rubtsovsko-Dvortsovaya, 7 minutes, to Gastello Street. The one-storey palace building is now a restoration institute — look from outside.
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        Empress Elizabeth's Country Palace
        © Sergey Ashmarin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • Elizabeth Petrovna lived here during the reign of Anna Ioannovna.
        • After a fire in 1737, a new palace was built in 1739; it is linked with the name of Rastrelli.
        • From 1872 the building was occupied by the Pokrovsky Community of Sisters of Mercy.
        • The pond in front of the palace was filled in in 1980, when Gastello Street was laid.
        • Today it houses the State Research Institute of Restoration.
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        🏛 Church of the Intercession in Rubtsovo
        Бакунинская ул., 83
        A votive church of Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich from the 1620s — built in memory of the repulse of Hetman Sahaidachny.
        Round the corner, on Bakuninskaya. A church from the 1620s with an added bell tower; across the street there's also the former village's Church of St Nicholas.
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        Church of the Intercession in Rubtsovo
        © Lodo27 from Moscow, Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich built a country palace here and lived in it in the first years while the Kremlin was being restored.
        • A wooden votive church was built in memory of the repulse of Hetman Sahaidachny on the Feast of the Intercession in 1618, and a stone one in the 1620s.
        • The royal garden at the palace was the first in Russia to grow double roses.
        • The village of Rubtsovo came to be called Pokrovskoye after the church; today there is an Edinoverie parish and the Patriarchal Centre of Old Russian Liturgical Tradition.
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        ☕️ Stolle pies on Bolshaya Semyonovskaya
        Большая Семёновская ул., 11, стр. 3
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        Along Bakuninskaya and Bolshaya Semyonovskaya, 7 minutes to the metro. A cabbage or lingonberry pie and tea — and you're at Elektrozavodskaya.
        🍴 A cafe of the Petersburg pie chain by Elektrozavodskaya metro. What to order: a slice of cabbage or lingonberry pie and tea.
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        • Stolle is a pie chain that started in St Petersburg.
        • Pies are sold by the slice or whole, and you can take them away.
        • The cafe is five minutes from Elektrozavodskaya metro.

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