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      Central Market, Myasnitskaya and Chistye Prudy: big route

      ⏱ 6 h🚶 2.7 km🍽 3📍 10 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The same route from the market via Sretensky Monastery to Chistye Prudy, but with the Sandunovsky Baths, the Post Office, Menshikov Tower and a fish dinner on Myasnitskaya.

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        🚶 Kuznetsky Most
        A pedestrian street on the site of an old bridge over the Neglinka, lined with early 20th-century apartment buildings and shops.
        Start at the metro
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        Kuznetsky Most
        © Stas Lobov · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Kuznetsky Most
        © Sigwald · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The street is named after the bridge over the Neglinnaya River near the Kuznetskaya settlement; a stone bridge was built in the 1750s.
        • When the Neglinnaya was put into a pipe in the 1810s, the bridge was filled in with earth.
        • In the 19th century it was home to fashionable French shops; Griboyedov wrote: "And it's all Kuznetsky Most, and the eternal French."
        • Kuznetsky Most metro station opened in 1975.
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        ✨ Sandunovsky Baths (Sanduny)
        Неглинная ул., 14, стр. 3–7
        🎟 ticket · bathhouse visits are paid
        Baths of 1896 with palatial interiors, the main bathhouse of Moscow.
        Along Neglinnaya to the 1896 bathhouse — look at the facade with caryatids in Zvonarsky Lane
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        Sandunovsky Baths (Sanduny)
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Sandunovsky Baths (Sanduny)
        © Jaimrsilva · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Sandunovsky Baths (Sanduny)
        © Andreykor · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The baths are named after their founder, the actor Sila Sandunov, and have operated since 1808.
        • The plot was bought with diamonds that Catherine II gave as a wedding present to the actress Elizaveta Uranova, Sandunov's wife.
        • The present building was begun by Boris Freudenberg and finished by Sergei Kalugin; it opened on 14 February 1896.
        • Norwegian and Italian marble were brought for the finishing, and tiles from England, Germany and Switzerland.
        • Fyodor Chaliapin called Sanduny the "Tsar Bathhouse".
        • Leo Tolstoy, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Sergei Eisenstein took steam baths here.
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        🧺 Tsentralny Market
        Рождественский б-р, 1
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        A food market with dozens of corners
        🍴 A food hall on Trubnaya: around fifty corners with cuisines from around the world, and music in the evenings. What to order: pho bo at PhoBo, tom yum at Tom Yam, pinsa at Pinzeria by Bontempi, khinkali (Georgian dumplings) at Gruziny Zdes.
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        🚶 Rozhdestvensky Boulevard
        A boulevard that drops steeply to Trubnaya Square, with shady lindens and the Nativity Convent at the foot of the slope.
        The most “hilly” boulevard, with a view over the city
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        Rozhdestvensky Boulevard
        © XAKxRUSx · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Rozhdestvensky Boulevard
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The name comes from the Nativity of the Virgin Convent, founded in 1386.
        • The boulevard, about 600 m long, was laid out in the 1820s; it descends steeply to Trubnaya Square.
        • In the house of the Fonvizin brothers (no. 12/8) it was decided in 1821 to dissolve the Union of Welfare, and in 1826 Decembrists were arrested there.
        • In the Rostopchina mansion (no. 14) in the 1840s writers gathered, among them Gogol and Fet.
        • A 1936 fire in a house on the boulevard formed the basis of Marshak's poem The Story of an Unknown Hero.
        • On 6 March 1953 a crush occurred on the boulevard and Trubnaya Square during the farewell to Stalin.
        • A tram ran along the boulevard from 1911 to 1971.
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        🏛 Sretensky Monastery
        A 14th-century monastery on Lubyanka with the Church of the Presentation of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God and a seminary behind its walls.
        The Cathedral of the New Martyrs and the monastery courtyard
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        Sretensky Monastery
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Sretensky Monastery
        © Андрей Колычев · CC BY 3.0
        • The monastery was founded in 1397 by Grand Prince Vasily I in memory of Moscow's deliverance from Tamerlane in 1395.
        • The name comes from sretenie, meaning "meeting": this is where Muscovites met the Vladimir Icon brought from Vladimir.
        • The Cathedral of the Presentation of the Vladimir Icon was built in 1679 under Feodor Alexeyevich, with murals from 1707.
        • In 1925 the monastery was closed, some buildings were demolished and the bells were sold to England.
        • The monastery was revived in the 1990s; from 1995 it was headed by Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov).
        • The Church of the Resurrection of Christ and the New Martyrs, about 60 m tall, was consecrated by Patriarch Kirill on 25 May 2017.
        • The Sretensky Theological Seminary has operated at the monastery since 2002.
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        ☕️ Tea shop in Perlov House
        Мясницкая ул., 19
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        Loose-leaf tea in a pagoda-style building from the 1890s
        🍴 The Chai-Kofe shop in the 1890s pagoda-style Perlov House: it is a shop for buying by weight, with no tables or seating hall. What to get: loose tea (more than 800 varieties), ground coffee, chocolate and sweets as gifts.
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        🍽 Atlantica Bistro
        Мясницкая ул., 24/7, стр. 2
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        Dinner across the road from the tea house: a cold seafood platter for two
        🍴 A fish bistro on Myasnitskaya: oysters, seafood and wine in a quiet room where you can talk. Try: the cold and hot seafood platters, Pacific shrimp in chili-coconut sauce, oysters.
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        🏛 Moscow Central Post Office
        Мясницкая ул., 26А, стр. 1
        A 1912 building on Myasnitskaya, Moscow's main post office; under restoration since 2020, so you can't go inside now (work was planned to finish in 2027), but you can look from outside.
        From outside only: the 1912 main post office building has been under restoration since 2020 (completion planned for 2027), and the main hall is closed
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        Moscow Central Post Office
        © AKfounder · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Moscow Central Post Office
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The building was built in 1910–1912 to a design by the engineer Leonid Novikov and the architect Oskar Munts with the participation of Leonid Vesnin.
        • The post office was ceremonially opened on 14 May 1912; the first Museum of Postal Communication began working in it at the same time.
        • The facade was to be clad in striped brick "in the Byzantine style", but brick got more expensive, so artificial stone imitating marble was used.
        • The glass dome of the main hall is often attributed to Shukhov, but that is an urban legend.
        • The post office stands on the site of an estate once owned by Alexander Menshikov.
        • In 1913 about 12% of all the country's correspondence passed through the Moscow Post Office.
        • In October 1917 there was fighting at the post office between cadets and Red Guards.
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        🏛 Menshikov Tower (Church of the Archangel Gabriel)
        Архангельский пер., 15А, стр. 9
        A church built for Menshikov higher than the Ivan the Great Bell Tower; its tall spire burned from lightning in 1723.
        Through Krivokolenny Lane to the baroque tower of 1707 — once taller than the Ivan the Great Bell Tower
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        Menshikov Tower (Church of the Archangel Gabriel)
        © yeowatzup · CC BY 2.0
        • The church was built in 1704–1707 to a design by Ivan Zarudny in the Naryshkin Baroque style.
        • At 84 meters the tower exceeded the Ivan the Great Bell Tower by 3 meters and became Moscow's tallest building.
        • The occasion was an icon of the Mother of God from Polotsk, believed to have been painted by the Evangelist Luke.
        • Menshikov also ordered the Poganye Ponds by the church cleaned up, and ever since they have been the Chistye (Clean) Ponds.
        • In 1708 an English clock with chimes was installed on the tower and 50 bells were hung.
        • In 1773 the church was restored by the Freemason Gavriil Izmailov, and Masonic symbols and inscriptions appeared on the walls.
        • Since 1948 the church has belonged to the Representation of the Antiochian Orthodox Church.
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        🌳 Chistye Prudy (Clean Ponds)
        A boulevard with a pond in the middle, swan houses and a floating café on the water.
        A finale by the water
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        Chistye Prudy (Clean Ponds)
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Chistye Prudy (Clean Ponds)
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • According to a popular version, the pond was called Pogany (Foul) because of butchers' waste, and in 1703 it was cleaned on Menshikov's orders.
        • Of several ponds, only one has survived to this day.
        • Nearby stands the Menshikov Tower of 1704–1707 by architect Ivan Zarudny; its top burned down after a lightning strike in 1723.
        • The monument to Griboyedov at the start of the boulevard was erected in 1959.
        • Since 1974 the Sovremennik Theatre has been housed in the building of the former Colosseum cinema of 1914.
        • The Annushka tram, route A, runs along the boulevard; in summer swans live on the pond.

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