Paveletskaya: from the Railway Station to the Churches of Zatsepa
A walk through the square of three railway stations, old manor houses, and churches near the Garden Ring
Stories along the route
Павелецкий вокзал · 0.0 km
You are standing in front of one of Moscow's ten railway stations, and this building has had quite an eventful fate. Paveletsky Station is not just a point on the map, but a true portal into history.
Церковь Флора и Лавра на Зацепе · 0.5 km
Before you stands a church that is more often called by the name of its side chapel — Florus and Laurus — even though the main altar was consecrated in honor of the icon 'Joy of All Who Sorrow.' This is a parish Orthodox…
Павелецкая (станция метро, Кольцевая линия) · 0.8 km
You are standing above a station that hides beneath the buildings just north of Paveletskaya Square, and you'd never guess that under your feet lies an entire underground palace.
Павелецкая (станция метро, Замоскворецкая линия) · 0.8 km
You are standing in a station that was born at the very height of the war — on November 20, 1943. Imagine: metro builders, in the harshest conditions, drove tunneling shields through the depths of the earth so that train…
Храм Троицы Живоначальной в Больших Лужниках · 1.3 km
Before you stands a school building, but beneath its foundation lies a history few people remember. Here, on Luzhnitskaya Street, in the very heart of the White City, once stood the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity.
Городская усадьба Варгина — Одинцовых · 1.4 km
You are standing in front of a house that holds the memory of two merchant families — the Vargins and the Odintsovs. This is a city estate, and it seems frozen in time amid the noisy streets of Zamoskvorechye.