Wednesday Walk: walk from the metro to the Tretyakov Gallery and back

Hi everybody!

Today I want to tell you about my walk around the center of Moscow, which I made yesterday. I hope I understood the rules of the community correctly - you need to publish a story about a walk on Wednesday, and the walk itself can be on any day of the week.

So, yesterday I walked along the route: Komsomolskaya metro station - Tretyakov Gallery - Okhotny Ryad metro station.

My walk began from the metro station "Komsomolskaya":

This is one of the most beautiful stations of the Moscow metro:

After passing two stations on the metro, I got off at the Boulevard Ring and went to the Sretensky Monastery. Whenever I come from my suburb to Moscow, I try to visit the Sretensky Monastery. I love this place very much. It's beautiful and calm there. This is a corner of silence in the center of a noisy metropolis.

From the Sretensky Monastery, I decided to walk to the Tretyakov Gallery. Sometimes I photographed beautiful buildings that came across my way.

For example, this is a former apartment building of the Rossiya insurance company, built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in the eclectic style. It can be viewed indefinitely, but I had another goal for the walk:

The Orlov-Denisov estate is also beautiful, but it is under restoration, so I did not linger around it:

Further, my route ran along Kuznetsky Most Street:

I got to Red Square and stayed there a bit to look at the preparations for the Flower Jam landscape design festival. The festival will begin its work on July 22, but some venues are already ready. I photographed these flower arrangements near the GUM shopping center, which is located on Red Square:

Then I crossed the Bolshoy Vasilyevsky Bridge across the Moscow River...

... passed by the Drainage Canal ...

...and came to the Tretyakov Gallery:

There is an exhibition of icons depicting St. Nicholas and the exhibition "Faces of Art Nouveau". These are small exhibitions located in a separate building called Engineering.

After visiting the gallery, I wanted to have lunch and bought myself a hamburger:

After lunch, I decided to return to the Red Square area to go to the shopping center for shopping and then take the subway.

I went to Red Square along Pyatnitskaya Street:

Bolshoy Vasilyevsky Bridge again and a view of Zaryadye Park:

While I was walking, clouds appeared in the sky:

I was afraid that it would start to rain - it was promised according to the weather forecast, and when I left the house, I forgot to take an umbrella. So I took the subway to get to the suburban station and go home.

During my walk, I took more than 20 thousand steps and walked more than 15 kilometers.