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      Petrovsky Palace and the former airstrip

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The palace's red brick and white turrets, then the central avenue of Khodynka Field, laid along the old airstrip. You can finish with a dinner of mussels.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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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
        © Aniacra · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Petrovsky Travel Palace
        © Ted.ns · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Petrovsky Travel Palace
        © евгений измайлов · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • 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 walk to Khodynka, ≈25 minutes. The park's central avenue is the former airstrip
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        Khodynskoye Pole Park
        © Комплекс градостроительной политики и строительства город… · CC BY 4.0
        Khodynskoye Pole Park
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        • 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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        🍸 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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