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      Yakimanka: the giant Lenin, the French terem and Peter's church

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      From Moscow's biggest Lenin along Bolshaya Yakimanka: the gingerbread house of the French ambassador, a church built to Peter I's design, quiet Golutvinsky Lane and coffee on Polyanka.

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        🏛 Lenin Monument on Kaluzhskaya Square
        Калужская пл.
        Moscow's biggest Lenin: 22 metres tall, and below it a whole revolution in bronze — soldiers, workers, sailors.
        Exit from Oktyabrskaya toward Kaluzhskaya Square. Walk round the pedestal: behind it is a woman with children, the “rear of the revolution”.
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        Lenin Monument on Kaluzhskaya Square
        © Nickolas Titkov from Moscow, Russian Federation · CC BY-SA 2.0
        • The monument was unveiled in 1985; the sculptors were Lev Kerbel and Vladimir Fyodorov.
        • The monument is 22 metres high, the largest monument to Lenin in Moscow.
        • The bronze Lenin is the author's copy of the 1978 monument in Birobidzhan.
        • At the base is a multi-figure composition: soldiers, workers and sailors, a woman with a banner and a woman with children.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Igumnov House
        ул. Большая Якиманка, 43
        A gingerbread terem with tiles and tented roofs — the house of the Yaroslavl merchant Igumnov, today the residence of the French ambassador.
        5 minutes along Bolshaya Yakimanka. This is the ambassador's residence: look from the pavement and don't linger by the fence.
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        Igumnov House
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The mansion was built in 1895 to a design by the Yaroslavl architect Nikolai Pozdeev.
        • The brick was ordered from Holland, and the coloured tiles were made by the Kuznetsov porcelain factory.
        • In the 1920s the USSR's first Blood Transfusion Institute opened here.
        • Since 1979 the house has been the residence of the French ambassador; the facade restoration was finished in 2014.
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        🏛 Church of St John the Warrior on Yakimanka
        ул. Большая Якиманка, 46
        A Baroque church of Peter's time — according to tradition, Peter I himself drew its plan in memory of the Poltava victory.
        Across the road. A Baroque church of Peter's time — notice the tiers and the dome.
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        Church of St John the Warrior on Yakimanka
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Church of St John the Warrior on Yakimanka
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The church was built in 1704–1713; its presumed author is Ivan Zarudny.
        • After the flood of 1709 Peter I ordered a new church built farther from the river, in memory of the Battle of Poltava.
        • According to tradition, the tsar made the church's drawing himself.
        • In 1928 the iconostasis from the demolished Church of the Three Hierarchs at Krasnye Vorota was moved here.
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        🏛 Church of St Maron the Hermit
        ул. Большая Якиманка, 32, стр. 2
        A small church in Babyegorodsky Lane, where Moscow's first parish school was opened in 1885.
        5 minutes along Yakimanka and into Babyegorodsky Lane. A small church deep in the block.
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        Church of St Maron the Hermit
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The church is first mentioned in 1642 as the Annunciation church "in Babiy Gorodok".
        • The stone church with the Maron side chapel was built in 1731–1747 by decree of Anna Ioannovna.
        • In 1885 Moscow's first parish school was opened here.
        • The church was closed in 1930, and by the 1990s the building was half-ruined.
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        🏛 Church of St Nicholas in Golutvino
        1-й Голутвинский пер., 14
        A Baroque church with a gate bell tower in a quiet lane off Yakimanka; since 2011 a representation church of the Chinese Orthodox Church.
        Through 1st Golutvinsky — 4 minutes. The gate bell tower has been restored; it is now the compound of the Chinese Orthodox Church.
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        Church of St Nicholas in Golutvino
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The name Golutvino is linked to the compound of the Kolomna-Golutvin Monastery, known here since 1472.
        • The church was closed in 1923, and the bell tower was destroyed in the 1930s.
        • The gate bell tower and the Nikolsky side chapel have been restored.
        • Since 7 February 2011 the church has been the Patriarchal representation church of the Chinese Orthodox Church.
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      11. 6
        ☕️ Erna Coffee Shop
        ул. Большая Полянка, 44/2
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        Across Yakimanka and past Polyanka — 10 minutes along Bolshaya Polyanka. Specialty coffee and breakfasts; it's 5 minutes back to the metro.
        🍴 A minimalist specialty coffee shop with panoramic windows, a favorite even among baristas themselves. What to order: an English breakfast, granola, filter coffee, an espresso-cappuccino-filter tasting set.

      ↩️ Getting back: from the coffee shop, 5 minutes along Bolshaya Polyanka to Polyanka metro

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