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      Ivanovskaya Hill and an evening on Pokrovka

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The most "hilly" lanes of the centre, the legends of Khitrovka and bars to finish.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture
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        🚶 Maroseyka Street
        An old street from Kitay-Gorod to Pokrovka with mansions, churches and small cafés.
        Start at Kitay-gorod metro
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        Maroseyka Street
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        • The name comes from the 17th-century Little Russian Court: Maloroseyka gradually became Maroseyka.
        • From 1954 to 1990 the street was called Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street.
        • In 1638, of the 83 houses on Maroseyka, 62 belonged to boyar families.
        • In 1702 Pastor Glück's gymnasium worked in the Naryshkin chambers (no. 11).
        • The Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian on Maroseyka was built in 1791–1793, designed by Matvey Kazakov.
        • The former house of Field Marshal Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky, bought by him in 1793, is now occupied by the Embassy of Belarus.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Ivanovsky Convent on Ivanovskaya Gorka
        A convent behind high walls on a hillside, with a 19th-century cathedral and a quiet courtyard.
        A quiet monastery on the hill
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        Ivanovsky Convent on Ivanovskaya Gorka
        © Carbonkidka · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The convent was founded in the 15th century in Zamoskvorechye, and in the 1530s it was moved here, to Kulishki, and made a convent for women.
        • In the 17th century the wives of Tsar Vasily Shuisky and of Tsarevich Ivan were held here.
        • In 1812 the convent was plundered and burned, after which it was abolished.
        • The current Neo-Renaissance ensemble was built to a design by Mikhail Bykovsky and consecrated in 1879.
        • In the 1920s there was a concentration camp here, the "Ivanovsky Correctional House", which held up to 400 prisoners at once.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🏛 Khitrovskaya Square
        A small square-park on the slope of Ivanovskaya Gorka, on the site of the famous 19th-century flophouse market.
        Formerly the most dangerous district of Moscow, according to Gilyarovsky
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        Khitrovskaya Square
        © Roman Balabin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The square was laid out at his own expense and given to the city in 1824 by Major General Nikolai Khitrovo, hence the name.
        • In 1902 Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko came here to study the life of the flophouse residents for their staging of The Lower Depths.
        • The flophouses in the Yaroshenko, Bunin, Kulakov and Rumyantsev houses faced the square.
        • The image of Khitrovka at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries was preserved in the books of Vladimir Gilyarovsky.
        • In 1935 the square and the lane were named after Gorky; the lane's historic name was restored in 1994.
        • The current park appeared after a 1930s school building was demolished in 2010.
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        🚶 Khokhlovsky Lane and the Ukraintsev Chambers
        A steep, curving lane with the chambers of a 17th-century duma clerk and a courtyard covered in graffiti.
        17th-century chambers and street art in the courtyard
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        Khokhlovsky Lane and the Ukraintsev Chambers
        © NVO · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The name comes from the area of Khokhly, where in the 17th century Cherkassy Cossacks settled next to the Little Russian Court.
        • From 1697 the chambers belonged to the duma clerk and diplomat Yemelyan Ukraintsev.
        • After Poltava, Peter I granted the chambers to Prince Mikhail Golitsyn.
        • From 1770 the Moscow Main Archive of the College of Foreign Affairs was kept here.
        • At the Jurgenson music press attached to the chambers, almost all of Tchaikovsky's works were first printed.
        • The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Khokhly was built in 1696.
        • On the corner with Kolpachny Lane the steep left bank of the little Rachka river has survived.
      8. 🚶 on foot
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        🍸 Zinziver ryumochnaya
        Покровский бульвар, 2/14
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        The finale in the bars of Pokrovka
        🍴 A down-to-earth ryumochnaya (small shot bar) with fruit liqueurs and snacks by Pokrovskiye Vorota, with another dozen bars around it on Pokrovka. What to order: sea buckthorn and blackcurrant liqueurs, yorsh (beer and vodka), vareniki (dumplings), pâté sandwiches.

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