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      Melnikov’s garage and Alabyan’s star

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 1.1 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A whole day in the Bakhmetevsky Garage by Melnikov and Shukhov: the interactive Jewish Museum and the Avant-Garde Centre, a kosher lunch in the same building, and on the way to the metro a star-shaped theatre and the mosaics of Dostoyevskaya.

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        🖼 Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
        ул. Образцова, 11, стр. 1А
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        A big interactive museum in Melnikov's Bakhmetevsky Garage: the history of Jews in Russia from the Pale of Settlement to today — with cinema halls, multimedia and reconstructions of a shtetl; the Avant-Garde Center is in the same building.
        Allow three hours for the museum: start with the 4D film, then follow the exhibition in order. Closed on Saturdays and Jewish holidays, on Fridays only until 15:00. Look separately into the Avant-Garde Centre.
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        Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum opened in 2012 in the Bakhmetevsky bus garage of 1926–1927.
        • The garage was built by Konstantin Melnikov, and Vladimir Shukhov calculated the truss roofing.
        • The exhibition area is about 8,500 square metres, making it one of the largest Jewish museums in the world.
        • It starts with a 4D cinema, then goes in order: a shtetl street, the revolution, the Great Patriotic War and the present day.
        • The building houses the Avant-Garde Center, which shows art of the 1910s–1920s.
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        ☕️ Rishon kosher café in the Jewish Museum
        ул. Образцова, 11, стр. 1А (Еврейский музей)
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        Lunch without leaving the building: kosher cuisine, hearty and unhurried. Meat and dairy are not mixed here — don’t be surprised by the menu.
        🍴 A kosher café right in the museum building: you can have lunch without going outside. What to order: ask for the dish of the day, and a pastry with coffee.
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        • Rishon is a kosher café in the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center.
        • The museum occupies the former Bakhmetevsky bus garage, built in 1926–1927 to a design by Konstantin Melnikov with roofing by Vladimir Shukhov.
        • "Rishon" means "first" in Hebrew.
        • On Fridays the café closes early, and on Saturday, Shabbat, it is closed.
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        🏛 Russian Army Theatre
        Суворовская пл., 2
        A huge 1930s theatre built on a five-pointed star plan — a monument of Stalinist Empire style on Suvorovskaya Square.
        Ten minutes along the street to Suvorovskaya Square. Walk around the colonnade — it makes it clearer that the plan is a star. We look from outside unless you’re going to a show.
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        Russian Army Theatre
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Russian Army Theatre
        © Александр Спиридонов · CC BY 3.0
        • The building was constructed in 1934–1940 to a design by Karo Alabyan and Vasily Simbirtsev.
        • In plan the theatre is a five-pointed star, with columns surrounding it on all sides.
        • The theatre's large stage is one of the biggest in Europe.
        • The star shape is best seen from above — from the ground only its faces are noticeable.
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        🏛 Dostoevskaya metro station
        Суворовская пл.
        A 2010 station whose hall walls are decorated with black-and-white mosaics based on Dostoevsky's novels.
        The finale underground: walk through the whole hall and look at the mosaics with scenes from four novels — better to warn kids, the plots are grim.
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        Dostoevskaya metro station
        © Florstein (Telegram:WikiPhoto.Space) · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The station opened on 19 June 2010 on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line.
        • The mosaics, from sketches by the artist Ivan Nikolaev, show scenes from Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons and The Brothers Karamazov.
        • Even before the opening, the gloomy subjects of the mosaics caused debate: they were called too heavy for the metro.
        • At the end of the hall is a portrait of Dostoevsky himself.

      ↩️ Getting back: From Dostoyevskaya on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line — 2 stops to the centre

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