From Botanichesky Sad metro station to the Sviblovo estate: parks, churches and rivers

Stories along the route

1. Ботанический сад (станция метро, Москва) · 0.1 km

   You're standing at a station that could have had a very different name. In the plans, it was to be called 'Rostokino' — after a village and an old station on the Small Ring of the railway that were nearby.

2. Леоновское кладбище · 0.5 km

   Вы стоите у тихого Леоновского кладбища, и, возможно, не сразу заметите, что это не просто погост, а место, где время словно замедлилось.

3. Сад будущего (парк) · 1.1 km

   You are standing in a park that was once part of a noble estate. Imagine: three hundred years ago, here on the northern bank of the Yauza, gardens rustled and the mansions of the Khovansky princes stood.

4. Храм Ризоположения в Леонове · 1.1 km

   Перед вами храм, чьё полное имя звучит как целая история — Положение Ризы Пресвятой Богородицы во Влахерне. Но москвичи привыкли называть его проще: храм Ризоположения в Леонове.

5. Лихоборка · 2.3 km

   You are standing on the bank of a river that is almost invisible, yet it is the longest of the capital's small rivers. The Likhoborka stretches for thirty kilometers, but only ten of them flow under the open sky.

6. Свиблово (усадьба) · 3.4 km

   You are standing on the high bank of the Yauza, and it is here, in this very place, that time seems to slow down. Before you lies the former noble estate of Sviblovo, which was once part of grand country life.