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      Kuntsevo: a hill fort, an estate and dacha slopes

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 5.2 km🍽 2📍 6 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A high bank of the Moskva River where a fortified settlement stood a thousand years ago and where all of merchant Moscow holidayed at dachas in the 19th century.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
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        🌳 Mazilovsky Pond
        Мазиловская ул., Фили-Давыдково
        A small landscaped pond with a path along the shore and benches in the shade of trees.
        3 minutes from Pionerskaya metro: the pond of the former village of Mazilovo, surrounded by Stalin-era and Khrushchev-era courtyards
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        Mazilovsky Pond
        © Tess Mattew · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The pond appeared when the Filka river was dammed; it is already mentioned in a decree of Tsarevna Sophia of 1689.
        • The pond is 580 m long, up to 115 m wide in its eastern part, with an area of 4 hectares.
        • In the early 1960s the Filka was piped underground when the Filyovskaya line was built, and the water level dropped by 1–1.5 m.
        • In the western part grows narrowleaf cattail, a rarity in Moscow.
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        ☕️ Usadba café in Kuntsevo Park
        Большая Филёвская ул., 22, стр. 25
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        Lunch: shashlik and chebureki by the pond in the forest park
        🍴 A café in the forest park by a pond: a big tent veranda in summer, a fireplace and blankets in winter. What to order: shashlik, veal chebureki (fried meat pies), khachapuri.
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        🏛 Kuntsevo estate (Naryshkins' — Soldatyonkov's)
        Ворошиловский парк, 5
        A late 19th-century main house on a high bank, surrounded by an old park with ravines and centuries-old trees.
        The estate of the Naryshkins, then the merchant Soldatenkov, under whom Kuntsevo became Muscovites' favourite place for dacha outings; view the main house from outside
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        Kuntsevo estate (Naryshkins' — Soldatyonkov's)
        © Andreykor · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Naryshkins owned Kuntsevo from 1690 to 1865 — it was received by Peter I's uncle Lev Naryshkin.
        • The 1818 obelisk honoring the Prussian king Frederick William III is misdated: the king was here on 1 June, not 4 July.
        • Kozma Soldatyonkov bought the estate in 1865 for 200,000 rubles and built a new house in 1874.
        • The house was wooden until the fire of 1974; in 1976 it was restored to its original look, but in brick.
        • Here Savrasov painted "View of Kuntsevo near Moscow", and Tchaikovsky wrote down the song "Solovushka" from a peasant woman.
        • Lermontov stayed here as a teenager, and Leo Tolstoy wrote that he "delighted to tears in the nature" of Kuntsevo.
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        🌅 Kuntsevo hillfort (Kuntsevskoye Gorodishche)
        Суворовский парк, над Филёвской набережной
        A cape overgrown with old forest, with the remains of a settlement of the Dyakovo culture of the early Iron Age.
        A promontory above the river with the rampart of the fortified settlement; the best view of the Krylatskoye hills and the Moskva River
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        Kuntsevo hillfort (Kuntsevskoye Gorodishche)
        © Lapchenko · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The first inhabitants appeared here in the 6th–5th centuries BC; in the 11th–13th centuries the Vyatichi lived on the cape.
        • The hillfort's platform is 72 m long and 20–30 m wide; the ramparts and ditches are still visible.
        • In the 13th–16th centuries the Church of the Intercession "on the Gorodishche" stood here; it was ruined in the Time of Troubles.
        • In the 1840s Ivan Zabelin found a gravestone here dated 1557.
        • The place was called "Accursed" and thought to be a pagan shrine; a landowner's "stone woman" once stood here in the hollow of an elm.
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        🌳 Holy spring of St Seraphim of Sarov
        склон над Филёвской набережной
        A revered spring at the foot of a slope, where people from nearby districts come for water.
        Go down the slope to the spring: a piece of old dacha Kuntsevo survives here — steep paths and century-old lindens
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        🍽 Kano restaurant
        Ярцевская ул., 31
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        Dinner: mushroom risotto by the fireplace; 7 minutes from here to Molodyozhnaya metro
        🍴 A spacious restaurant with a fireplace, a terrace and a big wine list. What to order: mushroom risotto, smoked trout salad, chorizo pizza.

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