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      Pokrovka and Gorky's childhood

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 3.5 km🍽 2📍 7 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      From Gorky Square along the main pedestrian street to the fairy-tale bank and the theater, then down Pochtovy Descent to the house where Alyosha Peshkov grew up.

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        🏛 Gorky Square
        пл. Максима Горького
        A square with a garden and a monument to Gorky at the start of Bolshaya Pokrovskaya, by Gorkovskaya metro station.
        Start at Gorkovskaya metro: the Gorky monument in the garden.
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        Gorky Square
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The square was designed in 1834–1839 by Ivan Yefimov and Pyotr Gotman on the site of old rope works — it was then called Novaya (New).
        • The square's building lines were laid out in 1842 by the city architect Georg Kiesewetter.
        • In 1939 an all-Union competition was announced for a monument to Gorky for Moscow, Gorky and Leningrad at once.
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        🚶 Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street
        Большая Покровская ул.
        The city's main pedestrian street from Gorky Square to Minin Square: mansions, the State Bank, a theater and bronze sculptures of townspeople.
        Pokrovka begins right off the square — head north, toward the kremlin.
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        Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street
        © Алексей Трефилов · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street
        © Readdiwiki · CC0
        • The street is 2,232 m long, of which 1,236 m is pedestrian.
        • Until 1917 Pokrovka was regarded as a street of the nobility.
        • In the 1621–1622 cadastre its precursor was called Bolshaya Nikolskaya.
        • For the All-Russian Exhibition of 1896 one of the first tram lines was run along the street.
        • In 1913 the State Bank was built on the street.
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        🏛 State Bank building
        Большая Покровская ул., 26
        A bank like a fairy-tale palace in the Neo-Russian style: it was opened for the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov.
        The fairy-tale bank of 1913: a clock-bell tower, wrought-iron gates and Neo-Russian window frames. We look from outside.
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        State Bank building
        © Bestalex · CC BY-SA 3.0
        State Bank building
        © Bestalex · CC BY 3.0
        • The complex was built in 1911–1913 to a design by the architect Vladimir Pokrovsky.
        • The occasions were the 50th anniversary of the State Bank in 1910 and the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov in 1913.
        • The building was consecrated on 14 May 1913, and that same year Nicholas II came to Nizhny for the celebrations.
        • The complex includes the main building, a staff wing, a wrought-iron fence with a gate, and a clock-bell tower.
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        ☕️ Stolovaya No. 1
        Большая Покровская ул., 24/22
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        A quick, inexpensive lunch next door, at the corner of Pokrovka and Ulyanova.
        🍴 An inexpensive canteen right on Pokrovka, open from 8 a.m. to 22:00. What to order: soup and a hot dish from the counter — quick and filling.
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        🏛 Gorky Drama Theater
        Большая Покровская ул., 13
        One of the oldest theaters in Russia, in the former Nikolaevsky Theater building of 1896 on Pokrovka.
        The building of the former Nikolaevsky Theater, opened for the 1896 exhibition.
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        Gorky Drama Theater
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The theater's history begins in 1798, when Prince Nikolai Shakhovskoy opened a public theater in Nizhny.
        • In 1827 the theater-lovers Rasputin and Klimov bought the theater with its scenery and company for 100 thousand rubles.
        • The site for the theater on Pokrovka was chosen in its day by Nicholas I.
        • The present building is the Nikolaevsky Theater, opened for the All-Russian Exhibition of 1896.
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        🖼 Kashirin House — Gorky's childhood museum
        Почтовый съезд, 21
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        The house of Maxim Gorky's grandfather, described in the novel "Childhood": rooms, a yard and the dye-works where the future writer grew up.
        Go down Pochtovy Descent to the house from "Childhood": the dye-works in the yard and the grandfather's rooms. The museum is closed on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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        Kashirin House — Gorky's childhood museum
        © Bestalex · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Kashirin House — Gorky's childhood museum
        © Olga-lisenkova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • This is the house of the writer's maternal grandfather, Vasily Kashirin; Alyosha Peshkov spent his early childhood here.
        • The house is described in detail in Gorky's novel "Childhood".
        • Vasily Kashirin bought the estate in 1852; before that the serf dyers, the Mozharovs, lived and worked here.
        • In the yard the outbuildings have been recreated: a carriage house, a barn and the dye-works.
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      13. 7
        🍽 Bezukhov Literary Café
        Рождественская ул., 6
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        Finish at the literary café at Rozhdestvenskaya, 6 — 10 minutes downhill from Kashirin House.
        🍴 A café-library at the start of Rozhdestvenskaya with Volga and Russian cuisine; open from 6 a.m. to 3 a.m. What to order: breakfast or Olivier salad with beef, borscht, beef stroganoff.

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