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Khitrovka: Moscow’s Former Slum Quarter, Lanes and Old Mansions
A quiet quarter of lanes and old mansions off Solyanka Street, once Moscow's notorious market and slum, now with 17th and 18th-century…
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Pokrovka: Pokrovsky Gates, Art Nouveau Houses and Old Churches
An old street east of Kitay-Gorod, named after a lost church and the Pokrovsky Gates, with Art Nouveau tenement houses, the Church…
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Novodevichy: Convent, Cemetery and UNESCO Walk in Khamovniki
A UNESCO-listed walled convent from 1524 on a bend of the Moskva River in Khamovniki, with the Smolensk Cathedral, a pond and…
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Tsvetnoy Boulevard: Nikulin Circus, Clowns Fountain and Market
A short green boulevard north of the center, known for the Nikulin Circus, the Clowns fountain, the Tsvetnoy Central Market and a…
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Lubyanka: Square, Children’s Store, Solovetsky Stone and Metro
A large square north-east of Red Square with the Central Children's Store and its giant clock, the Solovetsky Stone memorial, the Lubyanka…
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Sretenka: Moscow’s Old Pilgrim Road, Monastery and Boulevards
An old street north of the Boulevard Ring, named after the Sretensky Monastery, with Sretensky and Rozhdestvensky boulevards, the Nativity Convent and…
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Bolshaya Nikitskaya: Conservatory, Pushkin’s Church and Mansions
A radial street from Mokhovaya Street to the Garden Ring with the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the church where Pushkin married, the Zoological Museum…
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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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Arbat Architecture and Literature Walking Tour
Explore Moscow's Arbat district on a walking tour connecting neoclassical architecture, Russian music, Asian art, theatre, experimental design and Pushkin's former home.
Bulgakov’s Moscow: From Patriarch’s Ponds to Theatre Square
A literary walk from the Bulgakov Museum and Patriarch's Ponds past the church where Pushkin married to the Maly Theatre and Theatre…
Along the Moskva: From Patriarshy Bridge to Neskuchny Garden
A riverside walk from the pedestrian Patriarshy Bridge past the Muzeon sculpture park and Krymsky Bridge to Gorky Park and the quiet…
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