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      Art in and around the kremlin

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 1.8 km🍽 2📍 6 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The Pushkin Museum in the former arsenal, Russian painting in the governor's house with the giant "Minin's Appeal", Russian avant-garde on Minin Square and Europe in the Sirotkin mansion.

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        🖼 Arsenal — the Pushkin Museum in the kremlin
        Кремль, корп. 6
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        A Neoclassical arsenal of the 1840s in the kremlin, now a branch of the Pushkin Museum with big exhibitions of 20th–21st-century art.
        Opens at 12:00, closed on Monday. Current exhibitions are on the museum website.
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        Arsenal — the Pushkin Museum in the kremlin
        © Алексей Белобородов · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Arsenal — the Pushkin Museum in the kremlin
        © Алексей Трефилов · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The building was built in 1841–1843 by order of Nicholas I, to store weapons and equipment for the reserve troops.
        • The design was drawn up by the War Department in St Petersburg.
        • For a long time it was a warehouse, and in 2003 the building was handed to the State Center for Contemporary Art.
        • In 2009–2014 the monument was restored and adapted as a museum.
        • Since 2020 Arsenal has been the Volga-Vyatka branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
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        🖼 Art Museum: Russian art
        Кремль, корп. 3
        🎟 ticket
        The former military governor's house in the kremlin: Russian painting of the 18th–20th centuries and a separate hall with Makovsky's huge "Minin's Appeal".
        Across the square is the governor's house. Don't miss the separate hall with Makovsky's "Minin's Appeal".
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        Art Museum: Russian art
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The museum opened on 25 June (7 July) 1896 — one of the first public museums in the Russian provinces.
        • Among the first visitors in July 1896 were Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna.
        • The military governor's house was built in 1837–1841 on a spot chosen by Nicholas I himself.
        • Konstantin Makovsky's "Minin's Appeal to the People of Nizhny Novgorod" is the museum's largest canvas; a separate pavilion was built for it in 1968.
        • After 1917 the collection was enlarged by the holdings of the Sheremetevs, Orlov-Davydovs and Abamelek-Lazarevs.
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        ☕️ Krasa Buffet in the Art Museum
        Кремль, 3
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        Coffee and dessert at the buffet inside the museum.
        🍴 A buffet-coffee shop inside the art museum in the kremlin, open during museum hours. What to order: coffee with a dessert from Krasa's chef — a breather between galleries.
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        🖼 Art Museum: 20th-century art
        пл. Минина и Пожарского, 2/2
        🎟 ticket
        A branch of the art museum in the Upper Posad Trading Rows building on Minin Square: Russian avant-garde, painting and sculpture.
        Russian avant-garde in the trading rows by the Dmitrovskaya Tower.
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      9. 5
        🖼 Art Museum: foreign art (Sirotkin House)
        Верхне-Волжская наб., 3
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        The Neoclassical mansion of mayor Sirotkin on Verkhne-Volzhskaya: European painting and interiors with painted ceilings.
        The Sirotkin mansion: European painting and painted ceilings.
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        Art Museum: foreign art (Sirotkin House)
        © Olga-lisenkova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The house was built in 1913–1916 to a design by the Moscow architects, the brothers Leonid, Viktor and Alexander Vesnin.
        • The client was Dmitry Sirotkin, a first-guild merchant and mayor of Nizhny Novgorod.
        • Inside, oak parquet and a staircase, columns, stucco and ceiling paintings have survived.
        • In 1916 Sirotkin opened a school of artistic woodworking in Semyonov with his own money.
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      11. 6
        ☕️ Skuratov Coffee on Verkhne-Volzhskaya
        Верхне-Волжская наб., 2А
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        Coffee by the Chkalov Stairs — two minutes from the mansion.
        🍴 A coffee shop by the Chkalov Stairs, from 7 a.m. to 23:00. What to order: a cappuccino, a babka with currant and chocolate, a croissant with turkey.

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