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      Nekrasov, Transfiguration Cathedral and Maltsevsky Market

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Nekrasov's house-museum, a cathedral with a fence made of captured cannons, snacks from Maltsevsky Market and a stroll along Nekrasov Street with its bars.

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        🖼 Nekrasov Apartment Museum
        Литейный пр., 36
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        The poet's apartment with his study and reception room, where the magazine's authors gathered and his desk still stands.
        The poet's apartment and the editorial office of Sovremennik
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        Nekrasov Apartment Museum
        © Anastasia Galyamicheva · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Nekrasov Apartment Museum
        © Anastasia Galyamicheva · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Nekrasov Apartment Museum
        © Artyom Svetlov · CC BY 4.0
        • Nekrasov lived in this apartment for twenty years — from 1857 until his death in 1877.
        • Throughout those years the editorial offices of Sovremennik, founded by Pushkin, and Otechestvennye Zapiski were also based here.
        • The museum opened in 1946 by decree of the USSR Council of Ministers.
        • The building belonged to the publisher Andrei Kraevsky; his former apartment is also part of the exhibition.
        • Locals nicknamed the house "Five Nikolais" after the memorial plaques to Nekrasov, Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov, Pirogov and Figner.
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        🏛 Transfiguration Cathedral
        Преображенская пл., 1
        A yellow-and-white Empire-style guards' cathedral with five domes, rebuilt by Stasov.
        A fence made of captured cannons
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        Transfiguration Cathedral
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Transfiguration Cathedral
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        Transfiguration Cathedral
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        • The first church was built in 1743–1754 in memory of the Preobrazhensky Regiment placing Elizabeth Petrovna on the throne.
        • In 1796 Paul I gave the cathedral the honorary title of “cathedral of the whole Guards”.
        • In August 1825 the cathedral burned down, and Vasily Stasov rebuilt it in the Empire style by 1829.
        • The fence of 1832–1833 was assembled from 102 barrels of captured Turkish cannons, set muzzle-down.
        • The fence barrels still bear the Turkish names of the guns — for example, “Wrath of Allah” and “I Give Only Death”.
        • The cathedral was never closed for services, even in Soviet times.
        • On the feast of the Transfiguration, the Apple Saviour, a fruit market used to be held by the church.
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        🧺 Maltsevsky Market
        ул. Некрасова, 52
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        Snacks from the market
        🍴 A covered market from 1914 in the city centre: dairy and meat stalls, fish, cheeses, pickles, herbs. What to order: cottage cheese and sour cream from the farmers, smoked fish and caviar at Rybny Kult, vegan pizza at Stay Gold Pizza Spot on the ground floor.
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        🚶 Nekrasova Street
        A central street with Art Nouveau and eclectic apartment buildings, small cafés and shops.
        A walk down the street
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        Nekrasova Street
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Nekrasova Street
        © Anastasiya Lvova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Nekrasova Street
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • In the 18th century the street was called "9th Company" — companies of the Preobrazhensky Regiment were quartered here.
        • Its other old name was Basseynaya: the street led to a pond that supplied water for the Summer Garden fountains.
        • The street has carried Nekrasov's name since 1922.
        • Buildings 3–5 are the Nekrasov telephone exchange, built in 1928–1930 to a design by Alexander Nikolsky.
        • Maltsevsky Market (no. 52) is named after the merchant Ivan Maltsev, who bought the plot in 1906.

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