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      Ilyinskoye and the Zadorozhny technology museum

      ⏱ 9 h 30 min🚶 4.5 km + 🚆🚌🍽 2📍 6 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A commuter train to the Moskva River and the former Romanov estate of Ilyinskoye — a church, a museum and pies — then half a day among the vintage cars, planes and tanks of the Zadorozhny museum.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains🚆 Out of town
      👶 3–6, 7–12, 13+ years · ✗ hard with a stroller

      From Ilyinskoye platform it’s 2 km along road shoulders and over a bridge; the Zadorozhny museum has several floors. With little ones, better to go without a stroller or take a taxi from the platform

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      Getting there
      🏛 Belorussky Railway Station
      пл. Тверская Застава, 7
      The museums on this route are closed on Mondays
      🚆 by suburban train to Bridge over the Moskva River at Ilyinskoye
      Train from Belorussky Station at 08:30 or 09:30 to Ilyinskoye, 36 min (hourly; on weekdays until 16 October some trips are cancelled); from the platform a 5-min taxi or 30 min on foot
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        🌅 Bridge over the Moskva River at Ilyinskoye
        Красногорский округ, с. Ильинское, Ильинское ш.
        A bridge with a view of the Moskva River bend and the Ilyinskoye church on the high bank.
        From the bridge you get a view of the bend of the Moskva and the church on the high bank
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        Bridge over the Moskva River at Ilyinskoye
        © Kobzarius · CC BY 3.0
        • From 1796 Ilyinskoye was owned by the future hero of 1812, Count Ostermann-Tolstoy, who laid out a romantic park here.
        • The writer Ivan Lazhechnikov once served as the estate's steward.
        • Alexander II gave Ilyinskoye to Empress Maria Alexandrovna, and later Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and Elizabeth Feodorovna spent their honeymoon here.
        • The grand-ducal house of 1889, built to a design by Sergey Rodionov, burned down in 1929.
      2. 🚶 on foot
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        🏛 Church of Elijah the Prophet in Ilyinskoye
        Красногорский округ, с. Ильинское, Ильинское ш.
        A baroque church of the 1730s at the former Romanov estate where Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and Elizabeth Feodorovna lived; the estate itself is closed, the church is open.
        The only open part of the former estate: the grounds with the rest home behind the fence are closed to visitors. Sergei Alexandrovich and Elizaveta Feodorovna prayed here
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        • The village is first mentioned under the name Ilyinskoye in 1618, after the wooden Church of Elijah the Prophet.
        • The stone church was built in 1735; some local historians attribute the design to Alexey Evlashev.
        • The side chapels were added in 1818, and the low three-tier bell tower with a spire in 1828.
        • The church was closed in 1937, and services resumed in 1991.
        • The 10×7 m iconostasis is assembled from 500 porcelain parts to a design by the Gzhel artist Valentin Rozanov and was installed by 2005.
        • The icons for the porcelain iconostasis were painted by the Palekh masters Yuri Shchanitsyn and Vladimir Brovkin.
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        🖼 Museum of Motherhood and Infancy
        Красногорский округ, с. Ильинское, ул. Ленина, 3, стр. 1
        🎟 ticket
        A museum in the 1892 maternity-shelter building next to Elizabeth Feodorovna's former Ilyinskoye infirmary; created in 2023 by the Elisavetinsko-Sergievskoye Educational Society foundation, with exhibits including items from the Zvenigorod Museum-Reserve's collections.
        A small museum in the former shelter-maternity home (its website belongs to the Zvenigorod Reserve): Tue–Sun 11:00–17:00, closed Mondays. About the infirmary and shelter that Elizaveta Feodorovna set up in Ilyinskoye
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        • The museum opened on 27 April 2023 as Russia's first museum of motherhood and childhood.
        • It occupies a maternity shelter building built in 1892 with Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich's personal funds.
        • The prince decided to found the shelter after his brother's wife, Princess Alexandra, died in childbirth.
        • The shelter helped women in labour from Ilyinskoye and nearby villages free of charge, and after the revolution a maternity hospital worked here until the 1970s.
        • The exhibition has more than 400 items; the installations include a grand-ducal wet nurse with an infant and an obstetric office of the early 20th century.
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        ☕️ Stolle Pie House in Ilyinskoye
        Красногорский округ, с. Ильинское, ул. Ленина, 30, стр. 4
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        A pie lunch: get a couple of unsweetened ones to share
        🍴 A pie house of the well-known chain by the 2nd Traktornaya Brigada stop, open daily 9:00–21:00. What to order: savoury pies (chicken-and-potato kurnik, fish pie, meat), and a berry pie with tea.
      8. 🚌 Bus 1549 from the “2-ya Traktornaya Brigada” stop towards Tushinskaya to “Lipovaya Alleya”, every 12 min, 8 min ride; 1540 and 34 also work
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        🖼 Vadim Zadorozhny Technical Museum
        Красногорск, пос. Архангельское, Ильинское ш., 4-й км, стр. 9
        🎟 ticket
        A private museum with more than a thousand exhibits: vintage cars, motorcycles, aircraft and military vehicles, Stalin's armoured ZIS-115; many exhibits can be touched.
        Tue–Fri 10:00–19:00, Sat–Sun until 20:00–21:00, ticket office an hour earlier; closed Mondays. Allow 3 hours: halls on several floors plus vehicles outdoors. Prices have changed over the past year — check tmuseum.ru
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        Vadim Zadorozhny Technical Museum
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Vadim Zadorozhny Technical Museum
        © Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0
        Vadim Zadorozhny Technical Museum
        © Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0
        • The museum began in 2001 as an outdoor site with 10 pieces of military equipment and officially opened on 12 April 2008.
        • It houses the oldest car in Russia, a 1908 Holsman “horseless carriage”.
        • The cars include a Mercedes-Benz 770K, the so-called “Führerwagen”, and the Delahaye 135 CC racing car “Blue Bird”.
        • Aircraft from the closed Yakovlev Design Bureau museum ended up here, including the last surviving Yak-15 and Yakovlev's first aircraft, the AIR-1.
        • The exhibition in the main building occupies three floors with an area of about 6,000 m².
        • The Voyenfilm film studio, created by Igor Ugolnikov and Vadim Zadorozhny, operates on the museum grounds.
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        ☕️ Polevaya Kukhnya (“Field Kitchen”) at the Zadorozhny Museum
        Красногорск, пос. Архангельское, Ильинское ш., 4-й км, стр. 9
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        A soldier-style dinner on the military-vehicle alley: porridge, fish soup, navy-style pasta, average bill ≈500 ₽; open until 21:00, on weekends until 22:00
        🍴 An inexpensive café on the military-equipment alley with a “soldier's lunch”, average bill about 500 ₽. What to order: porridge with meat, fish soup (ukha), navy-style pasta with minced meat and pirozhki (small pies).

      ↩️ Getting back: From the “Lipovaya Alleya” stop, buses 1549 (every 12–15 min, until 21:30), 1540, 541 and 568 to Tushinskaya metro, ≈25 min

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