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      All day indoors: museums by the kremlin

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 4📍 11 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      For a rainy day: a merchant estate, the Sirotkin mansion, Arsenal, Russian painting in the kremlin, avant-garde and toys — short transfers, with lunch and dinner close by.

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      1. 1
        ☕️ Shtolle on Minin Square
        пл. Минина и Пожарского, 2, корп. 2
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        Pie breakfast by Minin Square (from 8:30, on weekends from 9:00).
        🍴 A pie shop of the St Petersburg chain right by Minin Square. What to order: a pie with cottage cheese and cherry, a pie with apple and lingonberry, a hearty meat pie to go with soup.
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      3. 2
        🖼 Rukavishnikov Estate
        Верхне-Волжская наб., 7
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        A lavish mansion of the wealthy Rukavishnikov merchant family with a grand staircase, a ballroom and merchant interiors.
        Opens at 10:00: the grand staircase, ballroom and merchant interiors.
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        Rukavishnikov Estate
        © Dmitriy Markov · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The mansion was built in 1875–1877 to a design by the Moscow architect Pavel Boytsov.
        • Today it is the main building of the Nizhny Novgorod State Museum-Reserve.
        • The estate stands on the site of the Maly Ostrog fortifications — perhaps the wooden Georgievskaya Tower was here.
        • Live music sounds in the house again: concerts and 19th-century dance classes are held here.
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      5. 3
        🖼 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 neighboring Sirotkin mansion — European painting.
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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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        ☕️ Lepi Testo Dumpling House
        ул. Минина, 12
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        Lunch: hand-made pelmeni at Minina, 12.
        🍴 A hand-made dumpling house opposite the Rukavishnikov estate, from 8 a.m.; kids' menu available. What to order: "Taste of Russia" pelmeni, "Blueberry Nights" vareniki (sweet dumplings), tom yum pelmeni.
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      9. 5
        🖼 Arsenal — the Pushkin Museum in the kremlin
        Кремль, корп. 6
        🎟 ticket
        A Neoclassical arsenal of the 1840s in the kremlin, now a branch of the Pushkin Museum with big exhibitions of 20th–21st-century art.
        By midday, head to Arsenal: big Pushkin Museum exhibitions.
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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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      11. 6
        🖼 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".
        Russian painting and the Makovsky hall.
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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 without leaving 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.
        Avant-garde in the trading rows on Minin Square.
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      17. 9
        🖼 Kladovka. Gallery of Stories
        Большая Покровская ул., 8 (вход со двора)
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        An intimate exhibition space of the Nizhny Novgorod State Museum-Reserve in the courtyard of house No. 8 on Pokrovka.
        A small exhibition in the courtyard of Pokrovka, 8.
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      19. 10
        🖼 Toy Museum
        Большая Покровская ул., 8 (вход вниз по лестнице)
        🎟 ticket
        A small toy museum in a basement on Pokrovka: the collection of the artist Alexander Lavrov, plus tours and workshops for children.
        The Toy Museum in the basement of the same building — until 18:00.
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        • The museum is a joint project of the Nizhny Novgorod State Museum-Reserve and the artist Alexander Lavrov, first opened in 2011.
        • Overview tours and workshops are held here for children and parents.
        • The entrance is down the stairs, into the basement of the three-story building No. 8.
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      21. 11
        🍽 Krasa restaurant-lounge
        Октябрьская ул., 9
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        Dinner at Krasa on Oktyabrskaya: pelmeni and Pozharsky cutlet.
        🍴 Russian cuisine in a 19th-century merchant mansion — "what the kitchen might have been without 1917". What to order: a pirozhok (small pie) with cabbage and egg, borscht with prunes, Pozharsky veal cutlet, pelmeni (dumplings).

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