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      A Zamoskvorechye quest with ice cream

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A walking quest for ages 7-12: riddles on the bridges, by the Tretyakov Gallery and old churches, lunch on Pyatnitskaya and GUM ice cream as the prize.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture
      👶 7–12 years · ✗ hard with a stroller

      The route is almost all on flat pavements, but Grabli has steps at the entrance and its halls are on several floors with stairs and no lift; Tretyakovskaya and Novokuznetskaya metro also have no lifts. With a stroller — only with a helper and only if you eat on the ground floor.

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      1. 1
        🌅 Luzhkov Bridge and the “Love Trees”
        через Водоотводный канал, от Болотной наб. к Кадашёвской
        A pedestrian bridge over the Vodootvodny Canal with metal trees for “wedding” padlocks.
        Riddle 1: find the iron "love trees" with padlocks on the bridge — who hangs them, why, and where is the key thrown afterwards? Have the kids find the most unusual padlock — write the answer on the "quest sheet"
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        Luzhkov Bridge and the “Love Trees”
        © Andrey Korzun · CC BY 4.0
        Luzhkov Bridge and the “Love Trees”
        © kishjar? from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • Officially the bridge is called Tretyakovsky, as it is part of the Tretyakov Gallery ensemble; it is also nicknamed the “Kissing Bridge”.
        • The unofficial name comes from Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, although the official version traces it to Tsaritsyn Meadow, the old name of Bolotnaya Square.
        • The bridge opened in mid-1994; Zurab Tsereteli drew the railing with medallions and the lamps from his own sketches.
        • Moscow's first “love tree” for padlocks appeared here in April 2007, and six months later there was no room left, so two more were added.
        • On one side the bridge leads to the Ilya Repin monument on Bolotnaya Square, on the other to Lavrushinsky Lane.
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      3. 2
        🖼 Tretyakov Gallery
        Лаврушинский пер., 10
        🎟 ticket
        The main collection of Russian art in a fairy-tale building to Vasnetsov's design, from ancient icons to painting of the early 20th century.
        Riddle 2: on the fairy-tale facade by Vasnetsov, find the horseman — who is he and whom is he slaying? Hint: he is also on Moscow's coat of arms. Then: who stands in bronze in front of the entrance?
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        Tretyakov Gallery
        © Concierge.2C · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Tretyakov Gallery
        © Adavyd · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The founding date is considered to be 1856, when the merchant Pavel Tretyakov bought his first paintings by Russian artists.
        • In 1892 Tretyakov donated the collection and the house in Lavrushinsky Lane to Moscow.
        • The fairy-tale facade with Old Russian motifs was built in 1902–1904 to a drawing by Viktor Vasnetsov.
        • Repin's painting Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan has been damaged by vandals twice, in 1913 and in 2018.
        • Alexander Ivanov painted The Appearance of Christ to the People for about 20 years, and a separate hall was built for the canvas.
        • Until 2026 the Vladimir Icon was kept in the Church-Museum of St Nicholas in Tolmachi; it is now in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, and Tolmachi has a copy.
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        🏛 Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadashi
        2-й Кадашёвский пер., 7/4, стр. 14
        A Naryshkin-baroque church of 1687–1695 with five domes, white-stone ornament and a slender bell tower.
        Riddle 3: the Kadashi bell tower is called the "candle of Zamoskvorechye" — count its tiers. You don't have to go inside
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        Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadashi
        © SJabberwocky · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadashi
        © Александр Сигачёв · CC0
        • A Church of the Resurrection is first mentioned in this area in 1493, and early documents call it the church “on the Gryazi (mud)” because of the river's floods.
        • The present church was built with money from the Kadashi merchants Kondrat Dobrynin and his son Longin; the south apse and undercroft survive from its 1656 predecessor.
        • Researchers consider the church part of a major urban axis running from Ivan the Great via Kadashi to the Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye.
        • The open second-floor gallery originally went even around the apses, which is rare in church architecture.
        • In 1812 the French used the lower church as a stable, and after its closure in 1934 it housed a KGB archive and a sports club of a sausage factory.
        • From 1966 the building was occupied by the Grabar Restoration Centre; it was handed back to the Church on 1 December 2006.
        • In 2010 an attempt to demolish the neighbouring old houses for a new development sparked protests known as the “Battle of Kadashi”.
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      7. 4
        🏛 Church of St Clement
        Климентовский пер., 7
        A huge red-and-white five-domed 18th-century church, a rare example of Elizabethan Baroque in Moscow.
        Riddle 4: how many domes does the Church of St Clement have (five) and what colour are they? And while you count, there's a metro exit nearby in Klimentovsky Lane — a landmark in case anyone gets lost
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        Church of St Clement
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Church of St Clement
        © Cons Ph · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The present five-domed church was built in 1762–1769; the architect is unknown, supposedly Pietro Antonio Trezzini.
        • Tradition says that 70,000 rubles for the construction were given by Chancellor Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, whose estate was nearby; the church was completed by the merchant Kuzma Matveev.
        • The main altar is consecrated to the Transfiguration, so the church is also called Spaso-Preobrazhensky.
        • In the 1930s the church was closed and given over to a book depository of the Lenin Library, which is why the iconostasis and interior survived.
        • The building was returned to believers in 2008, and after restoration in 2014 it was consecrated by Patriarch Kirill.
        • Apollon Grigoryev in his memoirs singled it out among the Zamoskvorechye churches as "five-domed, magnificent".
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      9. 5
        🍽 Tutta La Vita restaurant · 🧸 play area
        ул. Большая Ордынка, 20, стр. 7
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        Instead of Grabli — Tutta La Vita in Ordynsky Tupik, 3 minutes from Kadashi. The kids' room is free, on weekdays from 13:00 an entertainer watches the kids, with workshops at weekends. The average bill is about 2000 ₽ — more than Grabli.
        🍴 An Italian trattoria in a mansion a couple of steps from the Tretyakov Gallery: a kids' room with board games, books and toys, plus entertainers and workshops on weekends. Try: pizza, pasta, fire-grilled fish; for kids, turkey pelmeni and spaghetti with duck meatballs.
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      11. 6
        🌅 Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge
        A 1938 bridge over the Moskva River with views of the Kremlin, Red Square and Zamoskvorechye.
        Riddle 5: from the bridge find the round corner tower of the Kremlin right by the river — the Beklemishevskaya — and St Basil's Cathedral: does it have two identical domes? (no — all are different)
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        Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        • This is one of the oldest crossings in Moscow: a pontoon bridge stood here from 1498.
        • The present bridge was built in 1936–1938 to a design by architects Alexey Shchusev and P. M. Sardaryan and engineer V. S. Kirillov.
        • Under the 1935 General Plan the bridge was raised 14 m above the water so that Volga ships could pass beneath it.
        • With its approaches the bridge is 554 m long and 40 m wide, with three spans of monolithic reinforced concrete.
        • On 28 May 1987 West German amateur pilot Mathias Rust landed his light aircraft on the bridge.
        • On 27 February 2015 the politician Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on the bridge.
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      13. 7
        🏛 GUM
        Late-19th-century trading rows under glass vaults, with openwork bridges over three arcades.
        The finale: the prize is GUM's signature ice cream (creme brulee or eskimo) from the stalls on the first line. Toilet and baby-changing are inside GUM
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        GUM
        © Marcin Konsek · CC BY-SA 4.0
        GUM
        © AlixSaz · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Upper Trading Rows building was built in 1890–1893 to a design by Alexander Pomerantsev, and trading began on 2 December 1893.
        • The glass vaults over the arcades were made by the St Petersburg Metal Works using engineer Otto Krell's system; Shukhov's involvement is an urban legend.
        • The name "State Universal Store" appeared in 1921.
        • From the early 1930s the building housed people's commissariats and offices, and it became the GUM store again only in December 1953.
        • The fountain in the middle of the first line is a long-time meeting place: Muscovites have been saying "meet me at the fountain in GUM" for generations.
        • Since 2006 a skating rink has been flooded in winter by the GUM walls on Red Square.

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