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      A spring, a forest tea house and the Ivankovo Ponds

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.8 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A woodland hour in Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo: a spring right from a ravine's slope, loose-leaf tea with lingonberry pie in the middle of the forest and a cascade of old estate ponds with ducks.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        🌳 Tsarevna-Lebed spring (Swan Princess)
        парк «Покровское-Стрешнево», Елизаветинский овраг
        A small landscaped spring in a shady wooded ravine, reached by a path.
        A spring in Elizavetinsky Ravine, the water comes right out of the slope; bring a bottle
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        Tsarevna-Lebed spring (Swan Princess)
        © maik_zh · CC BY 3.0
        • The spring flows by the Khimka river, on the park's northwestern edge.
        • In 2009 the Swan Princess was called the only clean source of drinking water in Moscow.
        • "Springs in the Khimka river valley" is a separate natural monument within the park's boundaries.
        • Above the spring, on Elizavetinskaya Hill, you can see the foundations of the 1770s Elizavetino pavilion.
      2. 🚶 on foot
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        ☕️ Totem tea house in Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo
        парк «Покровское-Стрешнево»
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        A snack: loose-leaf tea and lingonberry pie at a tea house in the middle of the forest
        🍴 A tiny tea house right in the park's woods: you can smell the loose-leaf teas and pick one. What to order: loose-leaf tea, lingonberry pie, sochnik (sweet curd pastry).
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        🌳 Ivankovo Ponds (Ivankovskiye Prudy)
        парк «Покровское-Стрешнево»
        🚪 entrance from Ivankovskoye Highway
        Ponds on the site of the former village of Ivankovo, surrounded by old trees and meadow banks.
        A cascade of old estate ponds, with ducks along the banks and anglers
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        Ivankovo Ponds (Ivankovskiye Prudy)
        © Gordon01 · CC0
        Ivankovo Ponds (Ivankovskiye Prudy)
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The ponds are a cascade on the Chernushka, a tributary of the Khimka, most of which has been piped underground.
        • In 1685 Rodion Streshnev ordered ponds dug in the upper reaches of the Chernushka and stocked with fish.
        • The middle ponds of the cascade were dug around 1968 in a marshy floodplain.
        • The name comes from the village of Ivankovo, where dachas appeared in the late 19th century, favorites of Moscow Art Theatre actors.

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