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      Lesnoy: Silver Pond and the Church on Orbeli

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The dacha-style Lesnoy by Ploshchad Muzhestva: naturalist Kaygorodov's house, a garden by Silver Pond, Prussakov's church and the ornate Olga's Shelter.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        🏛 Kaigorodov Mansion
        Институтский пр., 21
        A wooden mansion of 1905 that in Lesnoy was called “the house by the golden pond”.
        From Ploshchad Muzhestva, 15 minutes along 2nd Murinsky and Institutsky Prospekts. Look at the wooden mansion over the fence.
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        Kaigorodov Mansion
        © ElenaLitera · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Kaigorodov Mansion
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The house was built for the naturalist Dmitry Kaigorodov, a professor of the Forestry Institute.
        • The architects were I. N. Kaigorodov, P. P. Maresev and F. A. Korzukhin.
        • For decades Kaigorodov kept phenological observations of nature in Lesnoy.
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      3. 2
        ☕️ Lesnoye Kafe
        Институтский пр., 21 (НИИ лесного хозяйства)
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        A canteen-bakery in the next building: an inexpensive lunch or coffee with pastries. Closed at weekends.
        🍴 A canteen-bakery opposite the Danilevsky estate, cheap and filling. What to order: business lunch, pastries, coffee.
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        🌳 Serebryany Pond (Silver Pond)
        ул. Орбели / аллея Академика Лихачёва
        🚪 entrance from Institutsky Prospekt
        A landscape garden of the 1860s around an elongated pond — in Lesnoy it is called “Serebka”.
        Walk around the pond in a loop and find the sculpture “Memory of Childhood” on the shore.
        🚪 exit to Malaya Obyezdnaya Street
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        Serebryany Pond (Silver Pond)
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Serebryany Pond (Silver Pond)
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Serebryany Pond (Silver Pond)
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The 210-metre pond was dug on the lands of the Forestry Institute.
        • In the early 20th century there were a bathing house, a tea pavilion and a summer theatre here.
        • In 2002 the garden was restored and the sculpture “Memory of Childhood” installed.
        • The garden is officially named “Park on Malaya Obyezdnaya Street”, but everyone calls it after the pond.
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        🏛 Transfiguration Church in Lesnoy
        ул. Орбели, 25, корп. 1
        A church of 1887–1889 by the architect Prussakov at the former House of Mercy; under restoration since 2003.
        Across Orbeli Street. The church is being restored in stages — compare the renovated facades with the old ones.
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        Transfiguration Church in Lesnoy
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The church was built with private donations at the girls' department of the House of Mercy.
        • The side chapel of Sergius of Radonezh is in memory of Prince Sergey Maximilianovich, killed in the Russo-Turkish war.
        • Closed in 1932, returned to the Church in 2003; the bell tower has already been recreated.
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        🏛 Olga's Shelter (Olgin Priyut)
        2-й Муринский пр., 12, корп. 3
        An elegant building of 1913 — Countess Perovskaya's clinic for children and women.
        5 minutes along 2nd Murinsky: an ornate 1913 building on the grounds of a clinic, look from the gate.
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        Olga's Shelter (Olgin Priyut)
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Countess Vera Perovskaya named the shelter in memory of her sister Olga, who died of diphtheria.
        • In the new building there were fireplaces, carpets and pictures inside, and the wards looked like children's rooms.
        • During the First World War a Red Cross infirmary worked here.
        • From 1919 it was a hospital for treating bone tuberculosis, and is now a children's clinic.

      ↩️ Getting back: Back to Ploshchad Muzhestva — about 25 minutes along 2nd Murinsky Prospekt, or by any bus along it toward the square.

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