And I go, walk across Moscow
Arbat
Arbat is a pedestrian street in Moscow, which seems to be even more famous than Tverskaya, the main street of the capital. Arbat is such a Moscow Montmartre, with street dancers, musicians, artists, cozy cafes and restaurants, souvenir shops. Arbat has been known since 1475.
Our tour starts from the Arbatskaya metro station. Or our guide can meet you at any other metro and come to the Arbat together.
End of the tour: a monument to the great Russian poet A. Pushkin and his beautiful wife Natalie Goncharova.
The duration of the tour is 3 hours. Please put on comfortable walking shoes. The tour is held at any time, at any time of the year, for any number of people.
We will see
- The mansion of the famous Russian merchant, Old Believer, nephew of Savva Morozov, Arseny Morozov on Vozdvizhenka. We also call it Morozov’s “openwork castle”. Built in the 19th century on the site of an equestrian circus. Now it is the Reception House of the Government of the Russian Federation.
- – Next, we will walk along the lane Sivtsev-Vrazhek. In house number 19 (built in 1911), the famous Russian poetess of the Silver Age Marina Tsvetaeva lived here at one time, who wrote poetry not only in Russian, but also in German and French. Her father Ivan Tsvetaev founded the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. In house number 27 there is a house-museum of writers, philosopher and revolutionary Alexander Herzen, where he lived from 1843 to 1847. Herzen is well known abroad.
- Monument to the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin and his beautiful wife Natalia Goncharova
- House (now museum) where A.Pushkin with the wife lived in 1831.
- Melnikov’s hive-shaped house
We will learn
- About the dangers of the dispute (why Arseniy Morozov won the dispute, but died after 3 days)
- What writers lived on the Arbat at different times
- Why did the Bolsheviks allow architect Melnikov to build a private house in 1925 in the form of a hive
- Where the US Ambassador lives in Moscow
- The history of the Arbat, why is it called so
- Why Arbat is called the Russian Montmartre
Kitay-Gorod
Arbat is a pedestrian street in Moscow, which seems to be even more famous than Tverskaya, the main street of the capital. Arbat is such a Moscow Montmartre, with street dancers, musicians, artists, cozy cafes and restaurants, souvenir shops. Arbat has been known since 1475.
Our tour starts from the Arbatskaya metro station. Or our guide can meet you at any other metro and come to the Arbat together.
End of the tour: a monument to the great Russian poet A. Pushkin and his beautiful wife Natalie Goncharova.
The duration of the tour is 3 hours. Please put on comfortable walking shoes. The tour is held at any time, at any time of the year, for any number of people.