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      Lefortovo: the German Cemetery and Annenhof Grove

      ⏱ 2 h🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A quiet autumn walk by Lefortovo: Moscow’s oldest non-Orthodox necropolis with the grave of Dr Haass and Art Nouveau tombstones, then the ponds and alleys of Lefortovo Park.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
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        ☕️ Coffeepie coffee shop-bakery on Nalichnaya
        Наличная ул., 3
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        Right at the exit from Lefortovo metro. Take a coffee and a pirozhok to go: there won’t be a café until the park.
        🍴 A small coffee shop with pies by the exit of Lefortovo metro. What to order: a slice of pie or a pirozhok and coffee to go — for the walk.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Vvedenskoye (German) Cemetery
        ул. Госпитальный Вал / Наличная ул.
        🚪 entrance from Nalichnaya Street
        🆓 free entry
        Lefortovo's old "non-Orthodox" cemetery on the hills of Vvedenskiye Gory: Gothic chapels, Art Nouveau gravestones, the graves of Dr Haass, Vasnetsov and Prishvin.
        5–7 minutes from the coffee shop along Nalichnaya Street. From October the cemetery is open until 17:00 — arrive no later than 16:00. The graves of Haass, Vasnetsov and Prishvin are easier to find with the cemetery map on your phone; half an hour is enough for the main alleys.
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        Vvedenskoye (German) Cemetery
        © Ксения Брагинская · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Vvedenskoye (German) Cemetery
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        Vvedenskoye (German) Cemetery
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        • The cemetery was founded in 1771 during a plague epidemic — beyond the Kamer-Kollezhsky Rampart, by the German Quarter.
        • Protestants, Catholics and Anglicans were buried here — the people called them all "Germans".
        • From 1840 the cemetery was attached to Moscow's Lutheran churches.
        • Dr Friedrich Haass, the "holy doctor" of Moscow's prisoners, is buried here; shackles hang on the fence of his grave.
        • The cemetery has a monument to French soldiers who died in 1812.
        • The relief of the Vvedenskiye hills survives, while the little Sinichka river below was piped into a collector.
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        🌳 Lefortovo Park
        🚪 entrance from Krasnokazarmennaya Street
        An 18th-century estate park with a cascade of ponds, islands and a Rastrelli grotto decorated with shells.
        From the cemetery along Soldatskaya Street and Gospitalny Val about 12 minutes to the entrance from Krasnokazarmennaya. Go down to the ponds and find Rastrelli’s grotto by the water.
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        Lefortovo Park
        © Михеев Никита · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Lefortovo Park
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Lefortovo Park
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The park grew out of the garden of Field Marshal Fyodor Golovin, laid out in the early 18th century, hence its first name, Golovin Garden.
        • Peter I bought the estate and charged his personal physician Nicolaas Bidloo with decorating the park with cascades, dams and sculptures.
        • Under Anna Ioannovna Rastrelli gave the park Versailles-like features, and contemporaries called it "Versailles on the Yauza".
        • According to legend, the Annenhof grove grew up in a single night: at the empress's whim, mature trees were brought here and planted.
        • In 1742 Elizabeth Petrovna opened the garden to the general public.
        • In 1904 the park was badly damaged by a hurricane.
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        🏛 Catherine Palace
        A huge late 18th-century Neoclassical palace with a colonnade of 16 columns, built for Catherine II.
        Leave the park onto Krasnokazarmennaya Square: the 16-column colonnade can be seen from the square. Back to Lefortovo is about 10 minutes along Krasnokazarmennaya Street.
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        Catherine Palace
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Catherine Palace
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The palace was built in 1773–1796 for Catherine II on the foundations of Anna Ioannovna's summer palace, Annenhof.
        • The design was by Prince Pyotr Makulov and Antonio Rinaldi, and Giacomo Quarenghi finished the facades and interiors.
        • The columns of the loggia on the street facade are of dark grey sandstone, "wild stone".
        • Paul I disliked the palace and, right after his mother's death, turned it into barracks, with a parade ground laid out in front.
        • After the destruction of 1812 the building was restored in 1823 for the Cadet Corps.
        • In Soviet times it housed the Military Academy of Armoured Forces, later the Combined Arms Academy.
        • In 2025 the palace was handed to the Tropinin Museum, which was renamed the Yekaterininsky museum complex.

      ↩️ Getting back: From Catherine Palace 10 minutes along Krasnokazarmennaya Street to Lefortovo metro

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