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      Peredelkino: Pasternak’s dacha and the writers’ village

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 4.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A writers’ village among pines 20 minutes from Kievsky Station: the dacha where “Doctor Zhivago” was finished, Pasternak’s grave on the hill and Chukovsky’s house.

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        🏛 Peredelkino platform
        Переделкино, МЦД-4
        A MCD-4 station where the writers' village begins: this is where Pasternak took the train to Moscow.
        MCD-4 from Kievsky Station ≈20 minutes. From the platform walk west, to the church on the hill
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        Peredelkino platform
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        Peredelkino platform
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        • The writers' village appeared in 1934–1935: dachas were built for members of the Writers' Union.
        • The name comes from the old village of Peredelki on the Setun River.
        • Peredelkino is now part of Moscow; it is about 20 minutes to Kievsky Station on MCD-4.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Peredelkino Cemetery
        Переделкино
        A village cemetery on a hill by the church where Pasternak, Chukovsky and Arseny Tarkovsky are buried.
        Pasternak’s grave is under three pines on the slope facing the field. A path leads up from the church
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        Peredelkino Cemetery
        © Bogdanov-62 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Peredelkino Cemetery
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        • Boris Pasternak was buried here on 2 June 1960; thousands came to the funeral, although the newspapers barely reported his death.
        • The profile on Pasternak's gravestone was made by the sculptor Sarra Lebedeva.
        • Nearby are the graves of Korney Chukovsky and the poet Arseny Tarkovsky.
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      5. 3
        🖼 Boris Pasternak House Museum
        ул. Павленко, 3, Переделкино
        🎟 ticket
        The dacha where Pasternak spent his last twenty years, finished Doctor Zhivago and learned of the Nobel Prize: the rooms are kept as he left them.
        ≈15 minutes across the field and along Pavlenko Street. Closed Monday, ticket office until 17:30 — come at opening, while it’s not crowded
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        Boris Pasternak House Museum
        © RG72 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Boris Pasternak House Museum
        © RG72 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Pasternak lived at this dacha from 1939 until his death on 30 May 1960.
        • Doctor Zhivago was finished here; in 1958 the novel earned the Nobel Prize, which the writer was forced to decline.
        • The museum opened in 1990, for the poet's centenary.
        • From the window of the second-floor study you can see the field and the cemetery where Pasternak is buried.
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      7. 4
        🍽 Biblioteka restaurant at the Writers' Creative House
        ул. Погодина, 4, корп. 3, Переделкино
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        Lunch on the grounds of the House of Creativity — where writers once dined
        🍴 A Russian-cuisine restaurant on the grounds of the Peredelkino Creative House — where writers once had lunch. What to order: shchi or borscht, cutlets, pies with tea.
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        • The restaurant occupies a bright mid-century-style pavilion on the grounds of the Peredelkino Creative House.
        • The interior by the APAA studio is inspired by the Creative House's historic library, writers' studies and the architecture of Mies van der Rohe.
        • The shelves hold books about Peredelkino and second-hand editions by writers who lived here; you can read them right at the table.
        • The menu is based on 18th-century Russian cuisine and products of Russian origin.
        • Four literary tea blends were created for dacha tea parties: "Mint Lev", "Dostoevsky's Dreams", "The Cherry Orchard" and "Russian Caravan".
        • Laptops are asked to stay closed here — the Creative House has a coworking space for work.
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        🏛 Korney Chukovsky House
        ул. Серафимовича, 3, Переделкино
        The dacha where Chukovsky lived for more than thirty years and gathered children for his famous "bonfires". The house is closed for restoration — we look from outside.
        The house is under restoration, so we look over the fence. Nearby is the clearing where Chukovsky held children’s “bonfires”
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        Korney Chukovsky House
        © Pinnoke · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Korney Chukovsky House
        © karel291 · CC BY 3.0
        • Chukovsky lived in Peredelkino from the late 1930s until his death in 1969.
        • Every summer he held "bonfires" for children — festivals with poetry readings, where a pine cone was the entrance ticket.
        • After her father's death, Lydia Chukovskaya let visitors into the house for years; it officially became a museum in the 1990s.
        • The house is now under restoration, and it is promised to reopen no earlier than 2029.

      ↩️ Getting back: ≈20 minutes on foot back to Peredelkino platform past the church, then MCD-4 to Kievsky Station ≈20 min.

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