Znayu mestoI know a place
RUENESTR中文عربيفارسی
Русский English Español Türkçe 中文 العربية فارسی

Walking routes in Moscow

    🚶 Routes 📍 Places
    Where do you start
    Start typing an address, metro station or place in the search box above — or tap the map where you will start
    How much walking
    Interests
    Child's age pick one or more
    Food we'll pick places along the way
      ← All routes

      Nikitsky Boulevard: Gogol, the East and cinema

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 1.3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Two estates on one boulevard — the house where Gogol burned “Dead Souls” and the Museum of the Orient with Japanese prints and the Roerich hall — then pho bo on the Arbat and an evening screening at Khudozhestvenny.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
      🗺 Open in Yandex Maps
      1. 1
        🖼 Gogol House
        Никитский б-р, 7А
        🎟 ticket
        A manor on Nikitsky Boulevard where Gogol spent his last years and burned the second volume of Dead Souls.
        Opens at 12:00 (closed on Mondays). See the room with the fireplace where Gogol burned the second volume — and look into the reading room of the museum’s library.
        📖 More about the placeCollapse
        Gogol House
        © Eden87 · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • Gogol lived here, in Count Alexander Tolstoy's manor, from 1848 until his death in 1852.
        • The first stone chambers on this plot appeared as early as the 17th century.
        • Almost none of Gogol's own belongings survive: the exhibition has, for example, Alexander Ostrovsky's sofa and Mikhail Pogodin's desk.
        • The fireplace in the drawing room is a symbol: Gogol scholar Igor Zolotussky pointed out that the manuscript burned in a stove, not in a fireplace.
        • A library has operated in the house since the 1920s, and it is now part of Gogol House.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🖼 Museum of Oriental Art (Museum of the East)
        Никитский б-р, 12А
        🎟 ticket
        The State Museum of the Art of the Peoples of the East in the Lunin estate: Japan, China, Iran, Central Asia, the Caucasus and a separate Roerich hall.
        Five minutes along the boulevard. If you’re short of time, go straight to the Japanese and Chinese halls and the Roerich hall; the whole collection takes about two hours.
        📖 More about the placeCollapse
        Museum of Oriental Art (Museum of the East)
        © Panther · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Museum of Oriental Art (Museum of the East)
        © GgvlaD · CC0
        • The museum was founded in 1918 as "Ars Asiatica".
        • Since the 1980s it has occupied the Lunin estate on Nikitsky Boulevard — Empire style by Domenico Gilardi, 1818–1823.
        • The collection includes Japanese prints and lacquerware, Chinese porcelain, Iranian carpets and bronzes, and the art of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
        • The museum holds a large collection of paintings by Nicholas and Svetoslav Roerich.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        ☕️ PhoBo café on the Arbat
        ул. Арбат, 13
        ▮▮▯▯▯
        Eight minutes across Arbatskaya Square: hot pho bo is just what you need after a museum on a cold day.
        🍴 A Vietnamese café on Old Arbat with a summer terrace: quick, filling and inexpensive. Try: pho bo, tom yum, spring rolls with shrimp and mango, seasonal lemonade.
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        ✨ Khudozhestvenny Cinema
        Арбатская пл., 14, стр. 1
        🎟 ticket
        One of Moscow's oldest cinemas, on Arbatskaya Square: a building rebuilt by Fyodor Shekhtel in 1912–1913, with restored foyers and halls.
        The finale — a screening at the cinema that Shekhtel rebuilt. Buy tickets in advance and come 15 minutes early to see the foyer.
        📖 More about the placeCollapse
        Khudozhestvenny Cinema
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Khudozhestvenny Cinema
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The cinema opened in 1909.
        • In 1912–1913 the building was rebuilt by Fyodor Shekhtel, with an antique frieze on the facade.
        • After a long restoration, the cinema shows films again.
        • It is one of the few pre-revolutionary cinemas in Moscow that still work as intended.

      ↩️ Getting back: Arbatskaya metro — across the road from the cinema

      Find us on Telegram

      Partnerships and ideas

      ✉️ privet@znayumesto.ru

      Settings

      Data: © OpenStreetMap · DB-IP · weather — Open-Meteo
      The map did not load. You can still browse routes in the list and open them in Yandex Maps.

      We use cookies and Yandex Metrica to understand which routes are useful. Without your consent we keep only our own cookie-free statistics.