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      Khovrino: "Monte Carlo" and the reservoir

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 4 km + 🚌🍽 2📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A merchant's palace considered a copy of the casino in Monte Carlo, Ossetian pies, Vietnamese soup and sunset on a quiet shore of the Khimki Reservoir.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
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        ☕️ Lakomka.rf bakery
        ул. Маршала Федоренко, 3, стр. 2
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        Start from Khovrino metro. A snack: an Ossetian pie with cheese and herbs, and coffee. A big pie can be taken for a picnic
        🍴 A small Ossetian pie bakery by Khovrino metro, with a couple of tables and coffee inside. What to order: the Ossetian pie with cheese and green onion, with marbled beef, or the sweet one with cherry.
      2. 🚶 on foot
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        🏛 Grachyovka estate
        Клинская ул., 2, стр. 1
        An eclectic late-19th-century palace with caryatids and lions — according to legend, a copy of the casino in Monte Carlo; under restoration since 2025, the park with a pond on the Likhoborka is open.
        A palace with caryatids behind a fence: restoration has been under way since 2025. Walk around the pond on the Likhoborka — the dam gives the best view of the facade
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        Grachyovka estate
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Grachyovka estate
        © SergeLab · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Grachyovka estate
        © Anastasiya Lvova · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The village was originally called Khovrino: by one version, from the nickname "Khovra" — "untidy" — of its 15th-century owner Georgy Safarin.
        • In 1700 Peter I granted Khovrino to Fyodor Golovin — the first knight of the Order of St Andrew.
        • In 1812 the estate was looted and burned by Napoleon's soldiers; it was then owned by Natalya Stolypina, sister of Lermontov's grandmother.
        • The estate got its name from the merchant Mitrofan Grachyov, who bought it in 1895; the present palace was built to a design by Lev Kekushev.
        • In 1918 the Grachyovs were evicted; later the place housed a tuberculosis clinic, a kumis-therapy facility, a military hospital and, since 1947, a physiotherapy hospital.
        • In 2020 a sign reading "Moscow's oldest tree" was hung on the old oak in the park — it was then counted as 432 years old.
        • In 1975 a monument was erected in the park to the soldiers who died in the military hospital at the estate and were buried here.
      4. 🚶 on foot
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        🏛 Church of the Sign of the Mother of God in Khovrino
        Фестивальная ул., 77
        An estate church of 1868–1871 designed by Mikhail Bykovsky.
        An estate church from 1868-1871 a stone's throw from the palace
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        • The church was commissioned by the factory owner Evgraf Molchanov, who bought the former Golovin estate in 1860; it was founded in 1868 and consecrated in 1871.
        • Molchanov died a year before the end of construction, and his widow took care of the interior decoration.
        • In a small church Bykovsky combined Moscow Baroque with the Italian Renaissance; contemporaries praised the mosaic floor and the marble iconostasis.
        • The church was closed in 1939; during the war there was a hospital here, and from 1960 the premises of a cooperative of the blind.
        • The church was returned to believers in 1991, and the upper Znamenie church has been active again since 1997.
        • One of the side chapels is consecrated in the name of the martyr Evgraf — namesake of the church's builder Evgraf Molchanov.
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        ☕️ Com Pho Vietnamese café
        Петрозаводская ул., 19, корп. 1, стр. 2
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        Lunch: pho bo or tom yum. Portions are big
        🍴 A small Vietnamese café in Khovrino: honest soup and a small dining room. What to order: pho bo, tom yum, banh bao with pork, fried nem rolls.
      8. 🚌 bus along Leningradskoye Shosse to Levoberezhnaya Street, about 10 min, or a taxi, about 8 min
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        🌳 Levoberezhny Park and the beach on Khimki Reservoir
        Левобережная ул., 10
        A park on the reservoir's shore with a city beach, wooden decks along the water and sports grounds.
        Walk along the shore to the beach: on the wide water you can see boats heading to the River Station. Return by bus to Khovrino or Belomorskaya metro
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        Levoberezhny Park and the beach on Khimki Reservoir
        © Sunny365days · CC BY 4.0
        Levoberezhny Park and the beach on Khimki Reservoir
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The park and beach appeared soon after the construction of the Moscow Canal in the 1930s.
        • In 1977 an episode of the film "School Waltz" was shot here: the characters come to relax on the city beach.
        • The park got the name "Levoberezhny" in 2015 following a vote on the Active Citizen portal.
        • A wooden-decked embankment stretches along the beach, with a 200 m pergola for resting in the shade.
        • The Soyuz skate park is named after the Soviet hotel Soyuz that stood nearby on Levoberezhnaya Street.

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