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      Petrovsky Park and Khodynka: from the palace to the airfield

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 4.3 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A road of tsars and pilots: Kazakov’s travel palace, where Napoleon took shelter from the fire, the dacha-style Petrovsky Park and the former Central Airfield, now a park.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
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        🏛 VTB Arena — Dynamo Stadium
        Ленинградский пр., 36
        A new sports complex inside the bowl of the old Dynamo stadium: the historic east facade with its colonnade was preserved, and football and hockey arenas are hidden behind it.
        Exit Dinamo metro towards the stadium: look at the preserved 1928 facade with its colonnade
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        VTB Arena — Dynamo Stadium
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        VTB Arena — Dynamo Stadium
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        • The complex was built on the site of the 1928 Dynamo stadium.
        • Two arenas share one roof: the football Lev Yashin Arena and the hockey Arkady Chernyshov Arena.
        • The first concept was devised by the Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat, the final design by the American David Manica.
        • Under the sports part are a shopping centre and underground parking.
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        🌳 Petrovsky Park
        Ленинградский пр., Петровский парк
        An old 19th-century dacha park around the Petrovsky Palace: avenues fan out from the palace, and the former out-of-town Moscow can still be felt all around.
        Walk along the Left Palace Alley — it leads straight to the palace
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        Petrovsky Park
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        Petrovsky Park
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        Petrovsky Park
        © WM wm WM · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The park was laid out in the 1830s under Nicholas I, and Petrovskoye quickly became a fashionable dacha spot.
        • The park's avenues — the Left and Right Palace avenues — meet at the Petrovsky Travel Palace.
        • People came here to carouse: the famous Yar restaurant with its Gypsy choir operated nearby.
        • In front of the palace stand monuments to Zhukovsky and Tsiolkovsky — a memory of the Air Force Academy.
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        🏛 Petrovsky Travel Palace
        Ленинградский пр., 40
        Matvey Kazakov's red-brick "Gothic" palace on the Petersburg road — tsars rested here before entering Moscow, and in 1812 Napoleon sheltered here from the fire.
        We look from outside: red brick, white turrets and monuments to Zhukovsky and Tsiolkovsky by the fence
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        Petrovsky Travel Palace
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        Petrovsky Travel Palace
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        Petrovsky Travel Palace
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        • The palace was built by Matvey Kazakov in 1776–1780 on Catherine II's commission.
        • Emperors travelling from Petersburg to their coronation made their last stop before Moscow here.
        • In September 1812 Napoleon waited out the fire of Moscow here.
        • From the 1920s the palace was occupied by the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy.
        • It now houses the Moscow Government Reception House and a hotel.
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        🌳 Khodynskoye Pole Park
        🚪 entrance from Khodynsky Boulevard
        A large modern park on a former airfield with lawns, paths and a view of Aviapark.
        Cross Leningradsky Prospekt by the underpass and head to Khodynka, ≈25 minutes. The park’s central alley is the former runway
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        Khodynskoye Pole Park
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        Khodynskoye Pole Park
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        • The park's central alley follows the runway of the former airfield.
        • Khodynka Meadow is mentioned as early as Dmitry Donskoy's will of 1389; it takes its name from the Khodynka River.
        • In 1775 Catherine II celebrated peace with the Ottoman Empire here; the pavilions were built by Vasily Bazhenov.
        • In 1896, during the celebrations for the coronation of Nicholas II, more than 1,300 people died here in a crush.
        • On 3 May 1922 Russia's first international flights began from the Frunze Central Airfield.
        • The park appeared after residents protested against development: in 2013 they united in the "For the Park" movement.
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      9. 5
        🍸 Brasserie Lambic on Khodynsky Boulevard
        Ходынский бул., 2
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        Dinner at a Belgian brasserie 3 minutes from CSKA metro: mussels and lambic
        🍴 A Belgian brasserie next to Aviapark: a beer list from Trappists to fruit lambics, each beer in its own glass. Try: lambic, mussels in Roquefort sauce, cordon bleu, picanha roast beef.

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