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      The Provision Warehouses and aristocratic Prechistenka

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The modern MAMM building, the Empire-style Provision Warehouses with coffee in the courtyard and the mansions of Prechistenka. A quiet district between Ostozhenka and the Garden Ring.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so
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      1. 1
        🖼 Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM)
        ул. Остоженка, 16
        🎟 ticket
        A museum of photography and media art in a modern building on Ostozhenka with exhibitions from different eras.
        Photography exhibitions; we look from outside; inside is separate, another hour
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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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      3. 2
        🖼 Museum of Moscow
        Зубовский б-р, 2
        🎟 ticket
        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; we look from outside; inside is separate, another 1.5–2 hours
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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.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        ☕️ BUF a39 Café in the Museum of Moscow Courtyard
        Зубовский бульвар, 2, стр. 5
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        Lunch in the 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.
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        🚶 Prechistenka Street
        A street from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour to the Garden Ring with 19th-century estates and mansions.
        Aristocratic Prechistenka with its manor houses
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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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