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      The Kremlin, Red Square and Zaryadye

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 2📍 9 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Postcard Moscow in half a day: from the Eternal Flame along Nikolskaya to the Floating Bridge.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture
      👶 3–6, 7–12, 13+ years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      Red Square and Varvarka are cobblestones — a bumpy ride. St Basil's Cathedral can't be entered with a stroller (narrow stairs), so admire it from outside. GUM has lifts, and the Floating Bridge has a lift and gentle paths.

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        🌳 Alexander Garden
        🚪 entrance by the Kutafya Tower
        A garden along the Kremlin wall in three parts: the Eternal Flame, the Ruins Grotto and flower beds by the Manege.
        Changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier — every hour
        🚪 exit to Kremlyovsky Passage
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        Alexander Garden
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        Alexander Garden
        © Shakko · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The garden was laid out in 1819–1823 to a design by Osip Bove on the site of the Neglinnaya River, which was put into an underground pipe.
        • It was named Alexander Garden in 1856 after Alexander I, under whom Moscow was rebuilt after the fire of 1812.
        • Bove built the Ruins Grotto by the Middle Arsenal Tower in 1820; its masonry includes fragments of buildings destroyed in 1812.
        • The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was opened on 8 May 1967: a soldier's remains were moved here from the 41st kilometre of Leningradskoye Shosse.
        • Guard of Honour Post No. 1 was moved from the Mausoleum to the Eternal Flame in 1997; the guard changes every hour.
        • The 1914 obelisk for the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov was converted in 1918 into a monument to revolutionary thinkers, and in 2013 it got its original look back.
        • The garden is divided into three parts, Upper, Middle and Lower, and stretches along the Kremlin's western wall for about 865 metres.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Red Square
        The country's main square, paved with cobblestones, between the Kremlin, GUM, the State Historical Museum and St Basil's Cathedral.
        Enter through the Resurrection Gate
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        Red Square
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        Red Square
        © Олег Токарев · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Red Square
        © Leokand · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The name "Red" ("beautiful") stuck to the square in the second half of the 17th century; before that it was called Torg ("the Market") and Pozhar ("the Burnt Place").
        • The square measures about 330 by 75 metres.
        • In 1990 Red Square, together with the Kremlin, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
        • The Lobnoye Mesto is mentioned from 1549; contrary to legend, executions were usually held not on it but next to it.
        • The Minin and Pozharsky monument by Ivan Martos was unveiled in 1818 and moved to St Basil's Cathedral in 1931.
        • GUM, formerly the Upper Trading Rows, was built in 1890–1893 to a design by Alexander Pomerantsev.
        • The present granite Lenin Mausoleum was built to a design by Alexey Shchusev in 1930.
        • On 7 November 1941 troops leaving the parade marched from here straight to the front.
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      5. 3
        🚶 Nikolskaya Street
        A pedestrian street from Red Square to Lubyanka with the Kazan Cathedral, the Print Yard and garlands overhead.
        The most elegant pedestrian street in the centre
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        Nikolskaya Street
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Nikolskaya Street
        © Uwe Brodrecht · CC BY-SA 2.0
        Nikolskaya Street
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        • It is named after the Old St Nicholas Monastery, founded here in 1390.
        • In 1564 Ivan Fyodorov printed the Apostol at the Print Yard on Nikolskaya, the first dated Russian printed book.
        • The Gothic Synodal Printing House with a lion and a unicorn was built in 1814; the press worked there until 1918.
        • In 1687 the Slavic Greek Latin Academy opened here, Moscow's first institution of higher education, where Lomonosov later studied.
        • In the Slavyansky Bazar restaurant (No. 17) in 1897, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, over many hours of conversation, agreed to found the Moscow Art Theatre.
        • Ferrein's pharmacy at No. 21 was built in 1894–1899 to a design by Adolf Erichson.
        • The street became pedestrian in August 2013 and is about 630 m long.
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      7. 4
        🍽 Osteria Mario in Central Children's Store (TsDM) on Lubyanka · 🧸 play area
        Театральный пр., 5, стр. 1, ЦДМ, 4-й этаж
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        It's 5 minutes from the top of Nikolskaya to Detsky Mir; the restaurant is on the 4th floor, and Detsky Mir has lifts, so it's easy with a stroller. The play area is free, with an entertainer and workshops on weekend afternoons; afterwards, the Detsky Mir viewing platform.
        🍴 A family Italian trattoria in the Central Children's Store: an eco play area with wooden toys, entertainers and free workshops on weekends. Try: pizza and pasta; for kids, meatballs, nuggets and vegetable sticks.
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        🏛 GUM
        Late-19th-century trading rows under glass vaults, with openwork bridges over three arcades.
        A fountain and GOST-standard ice cream
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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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        ☕️ Canteen No. 57 in GUM
        Красная пл., 3, 3-я линия
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        A cheap lunch in a 1960s interior
        🍴 A Soviet-style canteen on the third line of GUM: everything is on the serving counter, and cutlets and fish are sold by weight. What to order: herring under a fur coat, olivier salad, cutlets, pastries with kompot.
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        🏛 St Basil's Cathedral
        🎟 ticket · a branch of the Historical Museum
        The 16th-century Cathedral of the Intercession with colourful onion domes, the symbol of Moscow at the edge of Red Square.
        Inside — a maze of nine churches
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        St Basil's Cathedral
        © Anton Zelenov · CC BY-SA 3.0
        St Basil's Cathedral
        © Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The cathedral was built in 1555–1561 on the orders of Ivan the Terrible in memory of the capture of Kazan in 1552.
        • Its official name is the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God on the Moat.
        • According to the chronicle, it was built by the architects Barma and Postnik; they may be one person, Postnik Yakovlev, nicknamed Barma.
        • The chapel over the grave of the holy fool Basil the Blessed was added in 1588, and the church got its popular name from it.
        • The colourful painting of the domes appeared only in the 17th century; originally the church was red and white.
        • The legend of the architects blinded on the tsar's orders is not confirmed: Postnik later built in Kazan.
        • Since 1928 the cathedral has been a branch of the Historical Museum, and since 1991 services have been held in it again.
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        🌳 Zaryadye Park
        🎟 partly ticketed · the park is free; the media centre and ice cave are ticketed
        A park by the Kremlin walls with landscapes of Russia's different zones, hills, underground pavilions and a concert hall.
        The Floating Bridge and a view of the Kremlin
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        Zaryadye Park
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Zaryadye Park
        © Alina Vozna · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The park opened on 9 September 2017, City Day, on the site of the Rossiya Hotel, which closed in 2006.
        • The Rossiya Hotel, opened in 1967, was at the time the largest in the world.
        • The project was created by a consortium led by the New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro, which won the 2013 competition.
        • Four Russian landscapes have been recreated over 13 hectares: tundra, steppe, forest and swamp.
        • The Floating Bridge juts out 70 m over the Moskva River and has no supports in the water.
        • Zaryadye Concert Hall opened on 8 September 2018: the main hall has about 1,500 seats, and the organ has 85 stops.
        • In 2018 Time magazine named Zaryadye one of the world's greatest places, and in 2019 the park won the jury's top prize at the MIPIM Awards in Cannes.
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        🚶 Varvarka Street
        A short ancient street in Kitay-gorod with a string of churches, the Old English Court and the Romanov boyars' chambers on the slope down to the river.
        The Romanov Chambers and the oldest churches of Kitay-gorod
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        Varvarka Street
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Varvarka Street
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Varvarka Street
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The street is named after the Church of St Barbara; the present building was built in 1796–1804 by the architect Rodion Kazakov.
        • From 1933 to 1990 the street was called Razin Street; tradition says Stepan Razin was taken along it to his execution in 1671.
        • According to tradition, Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich was born in the Romanov boyars' chambers; a museum opened here in 1859, one of the first in Moscow.
        • Ivan the Terrible gave the 16th-century Old English Court to the English merchants of the Muscovy Company in 1556.
        • The street still has the churches of Maxim the Blessed and of George on Pskovskaya Hill, and the 17th-century Znamensky Monastery.
        • The south side of the street was occupied by the Rossiya Hotel until 2006; Zaryadye Park opened on its site in 2017.

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