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      The German Quarter and Lefortovo

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 7.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
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      Peter's Moscow: the palaces of Lefort and Catherine, a formal park and the Yauza to Andronikov Monastery.

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        🏛 Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhovo
        A five-domed Empire-style cathedral with rich decoration, for a long time Moscow's cathedral church.
        The cathedral where Pushkin was baptised
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        Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhovo
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • In 1799 Alexander Pushkin was baptised here, in the earlier church; a plaque of 1991 at the entrance recalls this.
        • The current cathedral was built from 1835 to 1845, designed by Yevgraf Tyurin; its domed rotunda echoes St Peter's in Rome.
        • The wooden Epiphany church in the village of Yelokhovo is first mentioned in 1694.
        • From 1938 to 1991 the church was the Patriarchal cathedral; enthronements of patriarchs took place here in 1943, 1945, 1971 and 1990.
        • Patriarchs Sergius and Alexy II are buried in the cathedral; Sergius's tombstone of 1949 was Alexei Shchusev's last work.
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      3. 2
        ☕️ Mu-Mu on Baumanskaya
        Бауманская ул., 35/1
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        Fuel up before a long walk
        🍴 An inexpensive Mu-Mu café between Yelokhovo Cathedral and Lefortovo, with homemade food at the serving counter. What to order: a business lunch, breakfast, soup, meat French-style.
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      5. 3
        🏛 Lefortovo Palace
        2-я Бауманская ул., 3
        A two-storey stone palace of the late 17th century, built for Franz Lefort, now a military archive.
        The palace Peter gave to Lefort
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        Lefortovo Palace
        © Александр Сигачёв · CC0
        Lefortovo Palace
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The palace was built in 1696–1699 by order of Peter I for his associate Franz Lefort.
        • The housewarming was celebrated on 12 February 1699, and three weeks later Lefort died.
        • Under Lefort the main hall had a gallery for an orchestra with an organ.
        • In 1706 Peter gave the palace to Menshikov, who rebuilt it with the help of architect Francesco Fontana.
        • In 1729 Peter II got engaged here to Ekaterina Dolgorukova, but died of smallpox in January 1730, shortly before the wedding.
        • Since 1804 military archives have been kept in the palace; in the 20th century it housed the Russian State Military History Archive.
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      7. 4
        🏛 Catherine Palace
        A huge late 18th-century Neoclassical palace with a colonnade of 16 columns, built for Catherine II.
        A colonnade of 16 columns
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        Catherine Palace
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Catherine Palace
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The palace was built in 1773–1796 for Catherine II on the foundations of Anna Ioannovna's summer palace, Annenhof.
        • The design was by Prince Pyotr Makulov and Antonio Rinaldi, and Giacomo Quarenghi finished the facades and interiors.
        • The columns of the loggia on the street facade are of dark grey sandstone, "wild stone".
        • Paul I disliked the palace and, right after his mother's death, turned it into barracks, with a parade ground laid out in front.
        • After the destruction of 1812 the building was restored in 1823 for the Cadet Corps.
        • In Soviet times it housed the Military Academy of Armoured Forces, later the Combined Arms Academy.
        • In 2025 the palace was handed to the Tropinin Museum, which was renamed the Yekaterininsky museum complex.
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        🌳 Lefortovo Park
        🚪 entrance from Krasnokazarmennaya Street
        An 18th-century estate park with a cascade of ponds, islands and a Rastrelli grotto decorated with shells.
        Moscow's first formal park, Rastrelli's grotto
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        Lefortovo Park
        © Михеев Никита · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Lefortovo Park
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Lefortovo Park
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The park grew out of the garden of Field Marshal Fyodor Golovin, laid out in the early 18th century, hence its first name, Golovin Garden.
        • Peter I bought the estate and charged his personal physician Nicolaas Bidloo with decorating the park with cascades, dams and sculptures.
        • Under Anna Ioannovna Rastrelli gave the park Versailles-like features, and contemporaries called it "Versailles on the Yauza".
        • According to legend, the Annenhof grove grew up in a single night: at the empress's whim, mature trees were brought here and planted.
        • In 1742 Elizabeth Petrovna opened the garden to the general public.
        • In 1904 the park was badly damaged by a hurricane.
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        🚶 Yauza Embankment
        The embankment of the small Yauza River, with walking paths, small bridges and views of old factory buildings.
        Along the Yauza to the south
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        Yauza Embankment
        © Александр Спиридонов · CC BY 3.0
        Yauza Embankment
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        • The Yauza is the largest tributary of the Moskva River within the capital: it is 48 km long, 27.6 km of it in the city.
        • The river is first mentioned in a chronicle under the year 1156 as the Auza.
        • The embankments of the navigable stretch were mostly built by 1940; the Syromyatnichesky Lock appeared 3 km from the mouth at the same time.
        • There are 33 pedestrian bridges across the Yauza.
        • Beyond Lefortovo Bridge, on the right bank, stands the Tupolev design bureau building, which once housed the "Tupolev sharashka" (prison design bureau).
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      13. 7
        🖼 Andronikov Monastery and the Rublev Museum
        🎟 partly ticketed · the monastery grounds are free, the museum exhibition requires a ticket
        A 14th-century monastery above the Yauza behind white walls, where, according to tradition, Andrei Rublev lived and was buried.
        The finale at Moscow's oldest cathedral
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        Andronikov Monastery and the Rublev Museum
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Andronikov Monastery and the Rublev Museum
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Andronikov Monastery and the Rublev Museum
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The monastery was founded in 1357 by Metropolitan Alexius and named after its first abbot, Andronik, a disciple of Sergius of Radonezh.
        • According to the saint's life, Alexius vowed to build a church when he was caught in a storm on the way to Constantinople.
        • The white-stone Cathedral of the Saviour of 1420–1427 is the oldest surviving church in Moscow.
        • Fragments of murals from about 1428 by Andrei Rublev, a monk of this monastery, survive in the cathedral.
        • In 1653 Archpriest Avvakum was held here under guard.
        • After the monastery was closed in 1918, one of the first Cheka concentration camps operated on its grounds until 1922.
        • The monastery's bell tower, the second tallest in Moscow after Ivan the Great, was demolished in 1929–1932.
        • The Rublev Museum was officially opened in 1960, for the 600th anniversary of the icon painter.

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