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      The Naval Museum, Blok's Apartment and St Nicholas Cathedral

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.8 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The Naval Museum, the house where Blok lived and the white-and-blue St Nicholas Naval Cathedral by the canals of Kolomna. A quiet maritime corner of the city.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
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        🖼 Central Naval Museum
        пл. Труда, 5 (Крюковы казармы)
        🎟 ticket
        One of the oldest military museums in the world, in restored barracks by the Kryukov Canal.
        The Naval Museum
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        Central Naval Museum
        © Sergpavl · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum traces its history to Peter's Model Chamber, first mentioned in a letter from Peter I in January 1709.
        • The collection has more than 700,000 items, including over 2,000 ship models.
        • The main relic is Peter I's boat, the "grandfather of the Russian fleet".
        • Exhibits include the Naval Regulations of 1720 and bronze cannons cast by Semyon Chugunkin in 1618.
        • From 1939 the museum occupied the Exchange building, and in April 2013 it moved into the restored Kryukov Barracks.
        • The museum has branches, including the cruiser Aurora — the USSR's first museum ship (since 1956).
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      3. 2
        🖼 Blok Apartment Museum
        ул. Декабристов, 57
        🎟 ticket
        The poet's apartment, where he spent his last nine years: a study, a dining room and a literary exhibition.
        Blok's apartment
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        Blok Apartment Museum
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Blok lived in this building from July 1912 until his death in August 1921, occupying two apartments in turn.
        • The museum opened on 28 November 1980, for the poet's 100th anniversary.
        • Blok's archive and belongings were kept by his wife Lyubov Dmitrievna; after her death in 1939 they were handed over to Pushkin House.
        • Nearby is the Bannoy Bridge, nicknamed the Bridge of Sighs: admirers used to stand on it and look at the poet's windows.
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      5. 3
        🏛 St Nicholas Naval Cathedral
        Никольская пл., 1–3
        A two-storey church with golden domes and a separate four-tier bell tower by the canal.
        The Naval Cathedral
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        St Nicholas Naval Cathedral
        © Wolfgang Moroder · CC BY-SA 3.0
        St Nicholas Naval Cathedral
        © Wolfgang Moroder · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The cathedral was built in 1753–1762 to a design by Savva Chevakinsky as the regimental church of sailors.
        • The freestanding 74-metre bell tower was built in 1755–1758.
        • The lower church is consecrated to St Nicholas the Wonderworker, patron of seafarers, and the upper one to the Epiphany.
        • At the consecration in 1762 Catherine II ordered the church to be called a cathedral; naval victories were celebrated here.
        • The cathedral was not closed in Soviet times, and in 1941–1999 it was the cathedral church of the diocese.
        • On 10 March 1966 the funeral service for Anna Akhmatova was held in the lower church.
        • In the garden stands the Tsushima obelisk of 1908, in memory of the crew of the battleship ‘Emperor Alexander III’.

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