Moscow

Here the route introduces its main theme: who changed memory in the country’s most public place, and through what decisions.

A private laboratory will link a merchant family project with a major state institute.

This modern building will continue the route with a debate over how much engineering complexity is worth accepting for the sake of a single space.

The surviving decor will reveal exactly what remained hidden behind the technical cladding for decades.

The final stop will show how the pilgrims' road fed local families and brought income to the Posad.

This stop will show how townspeople’s donations supported a construction project that the church authorities considered too risky.

Here it will become clear why the dispossessed prince established a new court specifically in Kolomna.

This stop shows how an image created by the state was revised, hidden, and returned to public view together with the traces of its alterations.

This stop explains which craft enabled the residents of the sloboda to build stone houses amid wooden Moscow.

The family museum will show how a convincing image of the dynastic past was created in the nineteenth century.

The proximity of the church and the residential house explains the origin of an unusual literary address.

Here it will become clear why paying for the walls was not enough, and how a merchant provided for the parish's future life.

The record of the tsar's donation will allow you to reconstruct an order intended to be carried out forever.

The cathedral's layout shows how a sequence of military events was translated into the language of church dedications.

The story of one bell that was taken down will reveal an unexpected consequence of the church’s closure.

The space exhibition will become the setting for a story about the night after which a new club culture began to grow in Moscow.

The fate of one family makes it possible to see nationalization not in documents, but within a familiar courtyard.

This stop will show how a new regime could change a place and the degree of posthumous honor.

Behind the ceremonial allegories lies the story of a young musician whose name did not make it onto the fountain.

The shopping galleries will link a state decision to a queue for scarce goods.

This stop will show how a monastic fortress could become a stronghold in the struggle to govern the country.

This stop traces the restoration of a lost craft, from old manuals to a working oven.

The request for stone shop premises leads to a dispute among merchants, the city, and the owner of the land.

The passage between two fortifications shows how the design of a gate could decide people's fate.

The stone platform will provide the setting for an episode in which a religious dispute was turned into a public victory.

The final stop will show how a private estate was adapted for a hospital, a shelter, and the work of the Sisters of Mercy.

Here the route begins by testing a famous legend against archaeological finds.

The final stop will connect the fate of the old factory with the revived production of pastila.

The merchants' chambers shift the route from a public square to closed negotiations over trade and alliance.

This is where the story begins of a merchant's house that preserved its ceremonial rooms but lost the family collection.

The current facade will preserve the architect's response to the threat of demolishing his first pavilion right before the opening.

This point will restore the monastery walls to their direct purpose—to withstand a siege and prevent a breach from being opened.

Through the surviving ceremonial entrance, the route will move from the defensive fortress to the commercial Posad.

The fate of one icon will show how the residents of the settlement defended access to their sacred object.

Here, a vanished Moscow church will live on in a newly assembled iconostasis.

A single water standpipe will show how a private donation changed the city’s water supply.

Here, completed hydraulics, a tale by Bazhov, and the rush before opening come together in the story of a single structure.

The route’s main stop shows how a private house and a painting collection became a municipal museum.

Here, sacred authority will collide with a broken promise and armed force.

Here you will see how the postwar designers changed the old emblem and made it define the beginning of the entire walk.

The final stop will explain why the exhibition rocket needed wheels and what had to be saved from destruction.

The final panorama makes it possible to compare the open park with the vanished mass of the hotel.