Soviet Time: The Second House of the Unions. Plenums and meetings where great minds decided the fate of Russia. The walls of the building - now a cultural heritage site of federal importance - keep echoes of Lenin's speeches.
In the 19th century Petrovskaya Street becomes one of the main shopping streets of the city - and with the light hand of writer Peter Boborykin it is called "Moscow Paris". Now Naryshkin Baroque and Viennese Art Nouveau reign here. An architectural walk will give you a real pleasure: the High Petrovsky Monastery, amazing stucco of apartment houses, infants-putties, Corinthian columns... |
Let's go a little further - to the Sandunov baths, in common parlance - Sandunov.
Luxury combined with an authentic Russian bathhouse. Can it be? Yes! It's easy to check - the bathhouses have been extremely popular since the day they were founded. And you can join a piece of this history, fearlessly dipping into the pools of the "Tsar Bath", as Fyodor Chaliapin called this place.