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      From the Eternal Flame along Nikolskaya to Detsky Mir

      ⏱ 55 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Alexander Garden by the Kremlin wall, the cobblestones of Red Square and the festive Nikolskaya under garlands. You can finish with lunch at an Italian trattoria with a children’s play room.

      👶 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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        🌳 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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        🏛 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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        🚶 Nikolskaya Street
        A pedestrian street from Red Square to Lubyanka with the Kazan Cathedral, the Print Yard and garlands overhead.
        The most festive 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.
      6. 🚶 on foot
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        🍽 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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        From the top of Nikolskaya it’s 5 minutes to Detsky Mir; the restaurant is on the 4th floor, and Detsky Mir has lifts, so it’s stroller-friendly. The play room is free, with an animator and workshops on weekend afternoons; after lunch, the Detsky Mir viewing deck.
        🍴 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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