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Kuznetsky Most: Moscow’s Old Shopping Street and French Shops
A curving street inside the Boulevard Ring that was Moscow's shopping street of French boutiques until 1917, now partly pedestrian, near TsUM,…
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Myasnitskaya: Moscow’s Butchers’ Street, Tea House and Post Office
An old radial street of central Moscow, the butchers' street, running from Lubyanka toward Chistye Prudy, with the Chinese-style Tea House, the…
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Yakimanka: Gorky Park, Muzeon and the Tretyakov Galleries
A riverside district south of the Kremlin with Gorky Park, Neskuchny Garden, the Muzeon sculpture park, the two Tretyakov Galleries and the…
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Taganka: Taganskaya Square, the Theatre and Moscow’s Old Sloboda
A historic neighborhood on the south-eastern Garden Ring, centered on Taganskaya Square with the Taganka Theatre, the Kotelnicheskaya skyscraper, old churches and…
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Krasnaya Presnya: 1905 Barricades, Moscow Zoo and Metro Art
The old Presnya district west of the Garden Ring, the center of the 1905 uprising, with the Presnya Museum, the Moscow Zoo,…
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Prechistenka: Moscow Mansions, Pushkin and Tolstoy Museums
A street of 19th-century mansions in Khamovniki, branching off Volkhonka near the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, with the Alexander Pushkin and…
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Khamovniki: Novodevichy Convent, Prechistenka and the Golden Mile
A central district southwest of the Kremlin, from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and the Pushkin Museum to the Novodevichy Convent…
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Zamoskvorechye: Pyatnitskaya Street, Ordynka and Old Churches
The old merchants' quarter across the Moskva River from the Kremlin, with Pyatnitskaya and Bolshaya Ordynka streets, baroque churches and quiet lanes;…
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Basmanny: Chistye Prudy, Old Churches and the German Quarter
A district in the northeast of central Moscow, from the Clean Ponds to the Yauza River, with old Basmannaya churches, Bauman Garden,…
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Chistye Prudy: Clean Pond, Boulevard and Menshikov Tower
A boulevard on the Boulevard Ring built around a single pond, with the baroque Menshikov Tower, the Griboyedov monument, the Sovremennik Theatre…
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