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      The Basmannyes in 90 min: Peter, Bauman, Decembrists

      ⏱ 1 h 35 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A short walk from Krasnye Vorota to Baumanskaya through the former settlements: Petrine baroque, a garden with an 18th-century grotto, a coffee shop and the house from which three Decembrists came.

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        🏛 Church of Sts Peter and Paul on Novaya Basmannaya
        Новая Басманная ул., 11
        A rare Petrine Baroque church for Moscow — an "octagon on a quadrangle" with a tall bell tower, built under Peter I in the Kapitanskaya Sloboda.
        5 minutes from Krasnye Vorota along Novaya Basmannaya. Walk around the church through the yard: the galleries and bell tower look good from every side. You can go in during the day; women with a covered head.
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        Church of Sts Peter and Paul on Novaya Basmannaya
        © Neily NQ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • A wooden church in the Kapitanskaya Sloboda is mentioned from 1695, and construction of the stone one began in 1705.
        • According to tradition, the church was built on Peter I's personal order and drawings; it is known for certain that the tsar granted 2,000 roubles for the building.
        • The construction is linked with Ivan Zarudny, and Ivan Michurin finished the church in 1723.
        • The bell tower was erected in 1745–1746 under the direction of Karl Blank.
        • In 1856–1868 the galleries were taken down and rebuilt, preserving the style of Peter's time.
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        🌳 Bauman Garden
        Старая Басманная ул., 15
        🚪 entrance from Novaya Basmannaya Street
        A small green garden with a summer stage, a playground and shady paths.
        The garden lies between Novaya and Staraya Basmannaya, a stone’s throw from the church. Walk right through it past the bandstand and the Belvedere grotto to the exit onto Staraya Basmannaya.
        🚪 exit to Staraya Basmannaya Street
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        Bauman Garden
        © karel291 · CC BY 3.0
        Bauman Garden
        © Artyom Svetlov · CC BY 4.0
        • In the late 18th century Prince Mikhail Golitsyn opened his estate garden to everyone: Muscovites were "allowed to walk in it freely".
        • The park officially opened in spring 1920 as the "1st of May Garden", and it has borne Bauman's name since 1922.
        • The garden still has the artificial Belvedere grotto of the 18th century; in Soviet times there was a café in it.
        • On the garden's stage, built in the 1920s–1930s, Leonid Utesov and Klavdiya Shulzhenko performed.
        • A bust of Bauman by Vladlen Odinokov was put up in 1972 and moved in 1992.
        • The 2012 reconstruction was done by the Wowhaus bureau.
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        ☕️ Drugaya Kofeynya (The Other Coffee Shop) on Staraya Basmannaya
        Старая Басманная ул., 21/4, стр. 2
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        Across the road from the garden. A good place to wait out the rain: an almond croissant and filter coffee. Open until 21:00.
        🍴 A cozy coffee shop with retro furniture and signature drinks, with pastries and sandwiches. Try: an almond croissant, a sandwich, pancakes, filter coffee or matcha.
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      7. 4
        🖼 Muravyov-Apostol House Museum
        Старая Басманная ул., 23/9, стр. 1
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        A Neoclassical estate restored by the family's descendants, with memorial items and documents of the Decembrists.
        The neighbouring house with a yellow facade is a rare pre-fire mansion. We look from outside; the museum admits visitors on tours, with the schedule on the museum’s website.
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        Muravyov-Apostol House Museum
        © Sergey Ashmarin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The mansion was built in 1803 on the base of mid-18th-century textile manufactories.
        • In 1815–1826 Senator Ivan Muravyov-Apostol lived here; three of his sons, Sergei, Matvei and Ippolit, took part in the Decembrist uprising.
        • The house survived the fire of 1812, a rare pre-fire mansion for Moscow.
        • The restoration since the 2000s was started by a descendant of the family, Christopher Muravyov-Apostol, who came from Brazil.
        • The walls were painted with English paint on mineral pigments, and the stoves in the house are real and working.
        • The first Decembrists Museum opened here in 1986, but closed by 1991 because of the building's dilapidated state.
        • The exhibition includes letters of Sergei Muravyov-Apostol written before his execution.
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        🏛 Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhovo
        A five-domed Empire-style cathedral with rich decoration, for a long time Moscow's cathedral church.
        Along Staraya Basmannaya and Spartakovskaya Street, about 12 minutes. Go in to see the gilded iconostasis; from the cathedral to Baumanskaya is 3 minutes.
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        Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhovo
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • In 1799 Alexander Pushkin was baptised here, in the earlier church; a plaque of 1991 at the entrance recalls this.
        • The current cathedral was built from 1835 to 1845, designed by Yevgraf Tyurin; its domed rotunda echoes St Peter's in Rome.
        • The wooden Epiphany church in the village of Yelokhovo is first mentioned in 1694.
        • From 1938 to 1991 the church was the Patriarchal cathedral; enthronements of patriarchs took place here in 1943, 1945, 1971 and 1990.
        • Patriarchs Sergius and Alexy II are buried in the cathedral; Sergius's tombstone of 1949 was Alexei Shchusev's last work.

      ↩️ Getting back: Baumanskaya metro — 3 minutes from the cathedral along Spartakovskaya Street

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