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      Arzamas: a cathedral, monasteries and goose

      ⏱ 12 h🚶 2.5 km + 🚆🍽 2📍 10 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Merchant Arzamas in a day: the huge Resurrection Cathedral on the hill, monasteries by Cathedral Square, the patriarchs museum, Gaidar's house and goose with blini for lunch and dinner.

      🏛 History and architecture🚆 Out of town
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      Getting there
      🏛 Moskovsky Station
      пл. Революции, 2А
      Suburban train to Arzamas-2 at 7:08 every day (about 3 h) or, on weekends, the Lastochka to Saransk at 7:35 (1 h 42 min to Arzamas-1).
      🚆 by suburban train to Arkady Gaidar House-Museum
      suburban train at 7:08 to Arzamas-2 (about 3 h) or the Lastochka at 7:35 on weekends to Arzamas-1 (1 h 42 min); from the station about 15 min by taxi to Gorkogo Street
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        🖼 Arkady Gaidar House-Museum
        ул. Горького, 18, Арзамас
        🎟 ticket
        The house where the schoolboy Arkady Golikov — the future writer Gaidar — lived in 1912–1918.
        Start with the house where the schoolboy Arkady Golikov, the future Gaidar, lived: open from 9:00.
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        Arkady Gaidar House-Museum
        © Алексей Белобородов · CC BY-SA 3.0
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        🖼 Arzamas History and Art Museum
        Соборная площадь, 9, Арзамас
        🎟 ticket
        Arzamas's main museum in the house of the pharmacist Moskvin on Cathedral Square — about the history of the town and the region.
        The town's main museum on the edge of Cathedral Square; closed on Wednesday.
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        🏛 Arzamas Cathedral Square
        Соборная пл., Арзамас
        Arzamas's main square on the hill: the Resurrection Cathedral, St Nicholas Monastery and the 1721 town magistrate building in one frame.
        The main square on the hill — all the cathedrals and monasteries are around it.
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        Arzamas Cathedral Square
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • Arzamas's main streets branch off from here — Sovetskaya, Kirova, Karla Marksa, Lenina.
        • 1578 is conventionally taken as the official founding date of Arzamas.
        • By the early 19th century 36 church buildings had been built in Arzamas.
        • The town was famed for its onions and geese, which is why people from Arzamas were teased all over Russia as "onion folk".
        • Until 1861 Alexander Stupin's painting school operated here — the first art school in Russia for children of all social classes.
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        🖼 Town Magistrate Museum
        Соборная площадь, 1А, Арзамас
        🎟 ticket
        A museum in the 1721 town magistrate building on Cathedral Square — one of the oldest civic buildings in Arzamas.
        Across the square is the town magistrate building of 1721 — the museum is open until 17:00.
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        Town Magistrate Museum
        © Alexxx Malev · CC BY-SA 3.0
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        🏛 Resurrection Cathedral in Arzamas
        Соборная площадь, 19, Арзамас
        A huge Neoclassical cathedral at the top of the hill, built to mark the victory of 1812 — you can see it from anywhere in the town.
        Step inside: under the huge dome it's bright, like in the St Petersburg cathedrals.
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        Resurrection Cathedral in Arzamas
        © Дмитрий Сазанов · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Resurrection Cathedral in Arzamas
        © Vaccarium · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The cathedral was built in gratitude for the victory in the Patriotic War of 1812; the main altar was consecrated in 1840.
        • The construction used 5.5 million bricks, 1,000 cubic meters of rubble stone and 164 tons of iron.
        • In 1926 the restorer Nikolai Pomerantsev compared the cathedral only with Stasov's St Petersburg cathedrals.
        • In 1932 the church was closed and turned into a museum of atheism; services returned in 1947.
        • Today it is the second cathedral of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese.
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        🖼 Museum of the Russian Patriarchate
        Соборная площадь, 19, Арзамас
        🎟 ticket
        The only museum devoted entirely to the Russian patriarchs, in the undercroft of the Resurrection Cathedral.
        In the undercroft of the cathedral is the museum of Patriarchs Nikon and Sergius, until 18:00.
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        • The museum opened on 1 August 2013 — a branch of the Nizhny Novgorod State Museum-Reserve, created together with the metropolia.
        • The main figures of the exhibition are the Patriarchs Nikon and Sergius, natives of the Nizhny Novgorod land.
        • Patriarch Sergius (Stragorodsky) was born in Arzamas.
        • Since July 2023 the museum has been in the undercroft of the Resurrection Cathedral; earlier it was in the town magistrate building.
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        🍽 Lepo da Syto Restaurant
        Соборная площадь, 2, Арзамас
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        Lunch on the square: an assortment of goose and shchi (cabbage soup) in a bread bowl.
        🍴 Russian cuisine right on Cathedral Square, with a kids' menu. What to order: an assortment of goose delicacies, shchi (cabbage soup) in a bread bowl from the oven, borscht with boiled beef.
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        🏛 St Nicholas Monastery
        Соборная площадь, 1, Арзамас
        A 16th-century convent on Cathedral Square with the Epiphany and St Nicholas cathedrals.
        The convent by the square — wear modest clothing in the churches.
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        St Nicholas Monastery
        © Дмитрий Сазанов · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The monastery was founded under Ivan the Terrible in 1580; it was built by Feofilakt Yakovlev of Arzamas.
        • The stone Epiphany Church was built in 1811 on the site of wooden churches.
        • The Great Consecration of the Epiphany Cathedral took place on 28 December 2015.
        • By 2024 the monastery had been fully revived.
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        🏛 Transfiguration Monastery
        ул. Красной Милиции, 2, Арзамас
        🚪 entrance from Uritsky Street
        A 16th-century monastery for men near Cathedral Square; the bell tower gives a view of the domes of the whole center.
        Climb the monastery bell tower (until 17:00): the whole center of Arzamas with its domes from above.
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        • The monastery was founded around 1555 on the shore of a lake and was subordinate directly to the metropolitans, and later to the patriarchs.
        • In 1927 it was closed, looted and badly damaged.
        • The Synod decided to revive the monastery on 20 April 2005.
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        🍽 Reavil Restaurant
        ул. Карла Маркса, 10, Арзамас
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        Dinner before the train: blini with goose and Arzamas skoblyanka (a local stew); from here it's about 15 minutes by taxi to Arzamas-2.
        🍴 A hotel restaurant at Karla Marksa, 10, from 7 a.m. to 23:00, with a kids' menu. What to order: blini with goose, caviar and sour cream, Arzamas skoblyanka (a local stew), a tincture made with Arzamas onion.

      ↩️ Getting back: Lastochka (high-speed train) from Arzamas-2 station at 20:16 daily, in Nizhny at 21:49; earlier — a suburban train from the same station at 16:20 (about 3 h 20 min). To the station about 15 min by taxi; check the times in Yandex Schedules

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