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      Mummies, David and bronze giants

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A short museum walk from GES-2 over the Patriarshy Bridge: Egyptian mummies and the plaster David at the Pushkin Museum, syrniki on Gogolevsky and an atrium with Tsereteli’s giant sculptures on Prechistenka.

      👶 With kids🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
      👶 3–6, 7–12 years · ✗ hard with a stroller

      Stairs lead onto the Patriarshy Bridge, with no lifts. At the Pushkin Museum and Tsereteli’s the stroller is left in the cloakroom — bring a sling or carrier for little ones.

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        ✨ GES-2 House of Culture
        Болотная наб., 15
        🎟 partly ticketed · the building is free with registration, exhibitions require a ticket
        A former power station across from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, rebuilt by Renzo Piano into an open house of culture with exhibitions and cafés.
        Start at 11:00 at GES-2: free entry with free registration on the website. Walk right through the huge hall of the former power station and check the programme — family workshops and tours for kids run on a schedule and need booking
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        GES-2 House of Culture
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        GES-2 House of Culture
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        • The power station was built in 1905–1907, designed by Vasily Bashkirov, to power the Moscow tram.
        • The reconstruction was carried out by the studio of Italian architect Renzo Piano, who also designed the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
        • The House of Culture opened in December 2021; it was created by Leonid Mikhelson's V–A–C Foundation.
        • Four steel chimneys about 70 metres tall serve as air intakes, bringing fresh air into the building.
        • At the opening, Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson spent months re-filming the series Santa Barbara here, live for visitors.
        • Inside there is a library, a cinema, a concert hall and open workshops.
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        🌅 Patriarshy Bridge
        A pedestrian bridge over the Moskva River from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour to Bersenevskaya Embankment.
        From the middle of the bridge you see the Kremlin, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and Krasny Oktyabr all at once. Then 7 minutes along Volkhonka to the museum
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        Patriarshy Bridge
        © Andrey Korzun · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The pedestrian bridge opened in September 2004; construction began in 2002.
        • The bridge is 203 m long and crosses the Moskva River; in 2007 it was extended over Bolotny Island and the Vodootvodny Canal.
        • The project was designed by architect Mikhail Posokhin, and Zurab Tsereteli took part in the decoration.
        • It is styled after 19th-century bridges, with arches, wrought-iron railings and lamps.
        • Over Bolotny Island the bridge is raised 10 m, and over the main channel 12.5 m.
        • In the evening the bridge is lit by more than 200 lamps and 500 floodlights.
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        🖼 Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
        ул. Волхонка, 12
        🎟 ticket
        A classical columned building of 1912 housing European art from the ancient world to modern times.
        Go straight to the ground floor, the Egyptian Hall — sarcophagi and real mummies, then the Greek Courtyard and the Italian Courtyard with Michelangelo’s full-size plaster David: next to him an adult is knee-high. An hour to an hour and a half is enough. Classes for children and teens are held at the Museion in Kolymazhny Lane — book on the museum website; the museum is closed on Monday
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        Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum was created on the initiative of Professor Ivan Tsvetaev, the father of Marina Tsvetaeva.
        • The main sponsor of the construction was the industrialist Yuri Nechaev-Maltsov.
        • The building, in the form of an ancient temple, was designed by Roman Klein, with Ivan Rerberg as chief engineer.
        • The museum opened on 31 May 1912 in the presence of Nicholas II as the Alexander III Museum of Fine Arts; it has borne Pushkin's name since 1937.
        • It was conceived as a teaching museum of plaster casts: under Tsvetaev, about two thousand copies were made to his order.
        • The Egyptian collection was bought in 1909–1911 from the orientalist Vladimir Golenishchev.
        • According to legend, the first visitor to the still-closed museum was the stoker Alexei, who worked for Tsvetaev.
        • In 1981 the Moscow – Paris exhibition was held here, with works by Kandinsky, Malevich and Tatlin.
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        ☕️ Shokoladnitsa coffee shop on Gogolevsky
        Гоголевский бул., 3
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        A break at the start of Gogolevsky Boulevard: syrniki, blini, hot chocolate. Quick and cheap
        🍴 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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        🖼 Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery
        ул. Пречистенка, 19/11, стр. 1
        🎟 ticket
        The Academy of Arts exhibition complex in an old estate on Prechistenka: halls with Tsereteli's portraits and enamels and a glass atrium filled with huge bronze figures — kids like it here more than adults expect.
        Opens at 12:00, closed on Monday. Go straight into the glass atrium: bronze figures several metres tall — kids walk among them as among giants, and photos are allowed freely. It’s 8 minutes from here to Kropotkinskaya metro
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        Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery
        © Sigwald · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The gallery opened in 2001 in the former Dolgorukov estate, a late-18th to 19th-century landmark.
        • It is the museum and exhibition complex of the Russian Academy of Arts, which Tsereteli headed for almost thirty years.
        • The covered atrium holds bronze sculptures many metres tall; photography is freely allowed.
        • A separate display is copies of ancient sculpture made from models in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.
        • Zurab Tsereteli (1934–2025) is the author of the monument to Peter the Great on the Moskva River and the sculptures on Manezhnaya Square.

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