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      Timiryazevka: larches, Peter and a grotto by the pond

      ⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A little over an hour through the old Petrovsko-Razumovskoye estate: a larch avenue, a terrace with statues, a grotto by the Great Garden Pond and the academy with a clock on its tower.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        ☕️ Shokoladnitsa coffee shop near Petrovsko-Razumovskaya
        Локомотивный пр., 4
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        At the exit from Petrovsko-Razumovskaya metro toward Lokomotivny Proyezd: take a coffee to go — there will be no more cafés on the route.
        🍴 A chain coffee shop a few steps from Petrovsko-Razumovskaya metro: coffee, syrniki (fried cottage-cheese pancakes), soups and desserts. Handy for grabbing a coffee to go before a walk around Timiryazevka.
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        • Shokoladnitsa is one of the largest coffee shop chains in Russia.
        • The coffee shop is by the exit towards Lokomotivny Proyezd, next to the MCD-1 interchange.
        • Breakfasts — syrniki, omelettes, porridges — are served all day.
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        🚶 Listvennichnaya Alley (Larch Alley)
        Лиственничная аллея, Тимирязевский район
        A pedestrian alley from Dmitrovskoye Highway to the Timiryazev Academy: 19th-century Siberian larches and Constructivist academic buildings.
        Cross Dmitrovskoye Shosse and turn onto the pedestrian avenue. Schroeder's larches on both sides, and on right and left the academy's constructivist buildings.
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        Listvennichnaya Alley (Larch Alley)
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The road to the Petrovskoye estate was laid in the 1750s under Razumovsky.
        • The larches along it were planted in 1863 by Professor R. I. Schroeder of the Petrovsky Academy, and the alley got the name "Listvennichnaya" in 1925.
        • In the late 1920s and early 1930s Constructivist academy buildings and dormitories went up along the alley, including some designed by B. M. Iofan.
        • During the war, an evacuation hospital operated at No. 14, where the future marshals Rokossovsky and Yeryomenko were treated.
        • The alley was closed to cars in the mid-1990s.
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        🏛 Sculpture terrace behind the Timiryazev Academy main building
        Тимирязевская ул., 49, парк академии
        The upper terrace of the formal park of the Petrovskoye-Razumovskoye estate: allegorical statues, vases on the fence pylons and a monument to Peter I. From here the central alley leads down to the Great Garden Pond.
        The avenue leads to Timiryazevskaya Street; go round the main building on the right and come out onto the park's upper terrace. From here the central avenue goes down to the pond.
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        Sculpture terrace behind the Timiryazev Academy main building
        © Andreykor · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The formal terraced park was laid out under Count K. G. Razumovsky in the second half of the 18th century.
        • The allegorical sculptures on the terrace were brought here from the Razumovskys' city estate.
        • Under Razumovsky the fence pylons were crowned with busts of Roman emperors — now there are vases in their place.
        • The park borders the Schroeder Arboretum and the Timiryazev Forest.
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        🏛 Grotto at the Great Garden Pond
        Тимирязевский парк, восточный берег Большого Садового пруда
        An 18th-century stone grotto on the bank of the Razumovsky estate pond — one of the few surviving park structures of Petrovskoye-Razumovskoye.
        Go down the central avenue to the water — the grotto is on the shore. You don't go inside, so look from outside; in autumn the whole pond is easy to see from the shore.
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        Grotto at the Great Garden Pond
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The grotto was built under Count Kirill Razumovsky; the pavilion that stood above it has not survived.
        • Another grotto of the estate, where in 1869 the Nechayev group "People's Reprisal" murdered the academy student Ivanov, has not survived — this story inspired Dostoevsky's "Demons".
        • The Great Garden Pond was dug in the second half of the 18th century by damming the Zhabenka river; it covers 19 hectares.
        • Since 1939 the pond has been part of the Likhobory irrigation system, which feeds the Yauza with Volga water.
      8. 🚶 on foot
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        🏛 Timiryazev Academy main building and Timiryazev monument
        Тимирязевская ул., 49
        A building with a small clock tower on the site of the main house of the Petrovskoye-Razumovskoye estate, and in front of it a square with a monument to K. A. Timiryazev.
        Climb back to the main building: a turret with a clock, and in front of the facade a little park with a monument to Timiryazev. Tram stops are right here, on Timiryazevskaya Street.
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        Timiryazev Academy main building and Timiryazev monument
        © Sergey Norin from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        Timiryazev Academy main building and Timiryazev monument
        © Sergey Norin from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • Over the centuries the Petrovskoye estate was owned by the Shuiskys, Naryshkins and Razumovskys; in the 1860s the state bought it for the Petrovsky Agricultural Academy.
        • The dilapidated main house was pulled down, and in the 1860s an academy building in the neo-Baroque style, designed by N. L. Benois, was built on its foundations.
        • The roof is crowned with a clock tower with a bell.
        • The academy has borne Timiryazev's name since 1923; the monument to him in the square between the buildings is by the sculptor M. Strakhovskaya.

      ↩️ Getting back: by tram along Timiryazevskaya Street toward Dmitrovskaya metro, ≈15 min

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