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      Under the vaults of GUM to Varvarka via Zaryadye

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 1 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The glass arcades of GUM, the colourful domes of St Basil’s and the Zaryadye Floating Bridge with a view of the Kremlin, and at the end ancient Varvarka with its churches and the Romanov chambers.

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

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

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        🏛 GUM
        Late-19th-century trading rows under glass vaults, with openwork bridges over three arcades.
        The 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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      3. 2
        ☕️ Canteen No. 57 in GUM
        Красная пл., 3, 3-я линия
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        An inexpensive 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.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🏛 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 is 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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      9. 5
        🚶 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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