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      Ostozhenka: photography and the history of Moscow

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      MAMM, the Museum of Moscow in the Provision Warehouses and Ostozhenka's "golden mile".

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
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        🚶 Ostozhenka Street
        A street from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour to the Moskva River with 19th-century mansions and upscale new buildings.
        Mansions and contemporary architecture
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        Ostozhenka Street
        © Shakko · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The name comes from the Ostozhye tract: haystacks used to be stacked on the river's flood meadows.
        • From 1935 to 1986 the street was called Metrostroyevskaya: the first metro line was built under it by the cut-and-cover method.
        • In 1986 Ostozhenka was the first Moscow street to get its historic name back.
        • No. 37 was the home of Ivan Turgenev's mother, where the story "Mumu" is set; since 2009 the house has held the writer's museum.
        • Mansion no. 21 looks like a medieval castle in miniature: Lev Kekushev built it for his own family in 1900–1903.
        • The corner turret of no. 3/14 was nicknamed "the wineglass" because it looks like an upside-down glass.
        • No. 41 (1925–1928) was the first multi-story residential building in the USSR with monolithic reinforced-concrete structures.
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        🖼 Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM)
        ул. Остоженка, 16
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        A museum of photography and media art in a modern building on Ostozhenka with exhibitions from different eras.
        Photography exhibitions
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        Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM)
        © Shakko · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM)
        © RG72 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM)
        © RG72 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum grew out of the Moscow House of Photography, founded in 1996, and became the Multimedia Art Museum in 2003.
        • On this site stood the house where the philosopher Vladimir Solovyov was born in 1853; in 2006 only its facade was preserved.
        • In even-numbered years MAMM holds the Photobiennale, and in odd-numbered years the festival "Fashion and Style in Photography".
        • The collection holds more than 80,000 original prints and negatives, with authors including Penson, Baltermants and Shagin.
        • In 2006 the Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia opened at the museum.
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        🖼 Museum of Moscow
        Зубовский б-р, 2
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        A museum in the former Provision Warehouses of the 1830s about the life of the city from ancient times to today.
        The city from antiquity to the present day
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        Museum of Moscow
        © shakko · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The museum was founded in 1896 by the City Duma as the Museum of Municipal Services and was first housed in the Krestovsky water towers.
        • From 1926 the museum worked in the Sukharev Tower, until it was demolished in 1935.
        • The warehouses were built in 1835; they were long attributed to Gilardi, but it turned out they were built by Vasily Stasov and Fyodor Shestakov.
        • From the 1930s the Provision Warehouses were the General Staff's motor pool, and only in 2009 were they given to the museum.
        • About 800,000 exhibits were moved when the museum relocated to Zubovsky Boulevard.
        • The oldest finds in the archaeological collection are 20,000–25,000 years old.
        • The collection includes a lifetime portrait of Peter I by the Dutchman Nicolaas Verkolje, 1717.
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        ☕️ BUF a39 Café in the Museum of Moscow Courtyard
        Зубовский бульвар, 2, стр. 5
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        Lunch in a courtyard
        🍴 The café of the a39 theater in the courtyard of the Provision Warehouses: open kitchen, terrace, good coffee. What to order: a sandwich, the "Dachny" salad with feta, a chocolate cookie, a glass of wine.
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      9. 5
        🚶 Prechistenka Street
        A street from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour to the Garden Ring with 19th-century estates and mansions.
        Back along noble Prechistenka
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        Prechistenka Street
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The name was given in 1658 after the Smolensk icon of the Most Pure Mother of God in the Novodevichy Convent, to which the street led.
        • From 1921 to 1990 the street was called Kropotkinskaya, after the anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin, who was born in a nearby lane.
        • No. 24 is the "Kalabukhov House", where Bulgakov settled Professor Preobrazhensky from "Heart of a Dog".
        • In no. 20 General Alexey Yermolov died in 1861, and in the 1920s Isadora Duncan's studio worked there and Sergei Yesenin lived there.
        • The Lopukhin-Stanitsky estate (no. 11) has housed the State Leo Tolstoy Museum since 1920.
        • Morozov's mansion (no. 21) housed the Museum of New Western Art in 1918–1948.
        • The "White Chambers" (no. 1/2) are the main house of Prince Boris Prozorovsky's estate, built in 1685.

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