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      Taganka under a roof: books, icons and Vysotsky

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 1.2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A quiet day around Taganka: the reading rooms of the Foreign Literature Library, an icon collection in Goncharnaya Sloboda, khinkali and the Vysotsky museum by his theatre — walks of 5–7 minutes between stops.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
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        🏛 Library of Foreign Literature (Inostranka)
        Николоямская ул., 1
        🆓 free entry
        "Inostranka" by the Yauza: open reading rooms, a bookshop and a courtyard with busts of writers and thinkers from many countries — you can drop in just to warm up and leaf through books.
        The library opens at 11:00, free entry. Sit in the open reading room and look into the courtyard with busts — it’s a couple of minutes even in the rain.
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        Library of Foreign Literature (Inostranka)
        © Marseya · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Library of Foreign Literature (Inostranka)
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The library was founded in 1921 by Margarita Rudomino, and has borne her name since 1991.
        • It began as a small library of modern languages, and its holdings now include books in hundreds of languages.
        • The library took over the building on Nikoyamskaya in 1967.
        • The courtyard has busts of writers, poets and public figures from many countries.
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        🖼 Museum of Russian Icons
        Гончарная ул., 3, стр. 3
        🆓 free entry · introductory tours are free too
        A private museum in Goncharnaya Sloboda with one of the largest icon collections in the country — from Old Russian images to the 20th century.
        Five minutes up Goncharnaya Street. The museum is closed on Wednesdays and open until 21:00 on Thursdays and Fridays. Don’t rush: going round all the floors takes an hour to an hour and a half.
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        Museum of Russian Icons
        © Museum of the Russian icon · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The museum was founded in 2006 by the businessman and collector Mikhail Abramov, and bears his name.
        • The collection has thousands of icons — from Old Russian to 20th-century images — as well as cast copper.
        • The exhibition occupies several floors.
        • The museum stands in Goncharnaya Sloboda, among 17th-century churches.
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        ☕️ Starik Khinkalych khinkali house
        ул. Верхняя Радищевская, 13, стр. 2
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        Lunch: about 7 minutes to Verkhnyaya Radishchevskaya. Handmade khinkali and hot khachapuri are the best thing to eat on a wet day.
        🍴 An inexpensive Georgian khinkali house five minutes from Bunker-42 and Taganskaya metro. What to order: lamb khinkali (Georgian dumplings), mini khinkali in pepper sauce, crispy aubergine salad, Adjarian khachapuri.
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        🖼 Vysotsky House on Taganka
        ул. Высоцкого, 3, стр. 1
        🎟 ticket
        The Vladimir Vysotsky museum a stone's throw from the Taganka Theatre, where he played Hamlet: manuscripts, guitars, stage costumes and recordings.
        Across the road from the Taganka Theatre. Closed on Mondays, open until 21:00 on Thursdays; on weekends until 17:00, so don’t linger over lunch.
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        Vysotsky House on Taganka
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        Vysotsky House on Taganka
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Vysotsky Cultural Centre-Museum was founded in 1992 and is headed by the poet's son Nikita Vysotsky.
        • The museum stands next to the Taganka Theatre, where Vysotsky worked from 1964 until his death in 1980.
        • The street the museum stands on bears Vysotsky's name.
        • The collection includes song drafts, guitars, photographs and posters of performances.

      ↩️ Getting back: Taganskaya metro — 3 minutes on foot

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