Published on: 2026-09-18
Source: Moscow Government – Правительства Москвы –
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How to spend the weekend interestingly? Go on a cultural picnic! We have combined some of the city’s iconic spots into one route. You will find an exhibition of the Museum of Moscow about women who have been engaged in science for the last 150 years, the main entrance arch of Gorky Park, and the Alexander Shilov Gallery. And what picnic would be complete without treats? Only instead of resting on the lawn, we will visit the “Yesenin Center,” where the menu features coffee with a dessert inspired by the poem “The Black Man.” A lucky coincidence: the picnic falls on Moscow Museum Week — the event takes place from September 14 to 20, and some museums can be visited for free by booking a ticket through the service “Mosbilet”.
The first stop on the route: The Museum of Moscow
The museum occupies a complex of buildings of the Provision Warehouses—a monument of the Empire style, built in 1830. Once food supplies for the army were stored here, and today these walls house old maps, plans, and photographs of Moscow and many other valuable items. You can dive into history and learn more about the city on a tour of the permanent exhibition. “History of Moscow” — it is based on the everyday life of city dwellers. The exhibition tells what people did in different eras, what their homes looked like, and how daily life changed. Different sections are dedicated to crafts, trade, transport, and architecture. Tickets are available in the service “Mosbilet”.
The exhibition continues the theme of history “Scientist Ladies. Science Without Permission” — a multimedia project about women who, over the past 150 years, have engaged in science despite circumstances and prohibitions. Eight sections — physics, mathematics, chemistry, geology, microbiology, cognitive science, climatology, astronomy — tell the stories of those who made great discoveries. The exhibition runs until November 10, tickets can be purchased through the service “Mosbilet”.
If after the tour and exhibition you don’t want to leave the museum, drop by the “MosKino” network cinema — “Chtivo,” which is located right here. On September 19, the film “Modernism, Inc.” about architect Eliot Noyes, who taught the corporation to speak the language of design, will be shown. On September 20, the film “The Time of Brutalism” will tell the story of how Skopje (the capital of North Macedonia) was rebuilt after the 1963 earthquake. The film screenings will complement the impression of the exhibition: different eras and facets of art presented on screen will broaden your horizons and reveal new interesting facts. Tickets for the screenings can be purchased on the website. “Moskino”.
The second point of the route: the country’s main park
From the Provision Warehouses we move further, cross the bridge — and we are in Gorky Park. Let’s dive into history. Did you know that the park was founded in 1928 on the site of a former agricultural exhibition? Already in 1929, its director became 26-year-old Betty Glan — a Komsomol member and stenographer for Anatoly Lunacharsky. She was the one who came up with a new type of park — not just a place for walks, but “factories for reshaping consciousness.” Betty herself wrote holiday scripts and handled artistic design. Seven years of her leadership historians later called the golden age of the park.
“Gorky Park is a unique space on the map of Moscow, where cultural and natural heritage harmoniously coexist. To learn about the first Soviet agricultural exhibition and the last implemented project of Fyodor Shekhtel, to see the filming location of the legendary TV game ‘What? Where? When?’, to imagine yourself on the veranda of the Krynkina restaurant at the end of the 19th century — these experiences make it worth visiting our tours,” says Andrey Klyuev, head of the historical and cultural sector of Gorky Park.
You can learn even more interesting facts about the park during a ride on the electric bus. You will be able to comfortably tour the vast area and examine the main attractions, while also finding out where the foxtrot was danced in the 1930s and how the arch of the main entrance became a symbol of the new country. You will be told that the 29-meter-high arch was actually built as a triumphal one in 1955, to mark the 10th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War, designed by architects Yuri Shchuko and Assen Spassov.
The route will also pass through Neskuchny Garden: here you will learn about the stories of the estates and their owners on the right bank of the Moscow River, hear about balls, masquerades, and love intrigues. Tickets are available on the service “Mosbilet”.
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At the Pushkinskaya Embankment near the Park Gorky — 2 pier, there is a shop with interesting souvenirs and stylish merchandise: clothing collections, books about the history of Moscow, badges, magnets, and postcards — all available for purchase. Presenting a ticket for the park’s paid events grants a discount on all souvenir products, and points are awarded for purchases as part of the city loyalty program “Million Prizes.”
Third point of the route: Alexander Shilov Gallery
From Gorky Park we head to Moscow State Art Gallery of the People’s Artist of the USSR A. Shilov. The route goes across the Crimean Bridge, along the Prechistenskaya Embankment past the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, then along Volkhonka and Znamenka. The journey takes about 40 minutes on foot — and during this time you will see Moscow in its ceremonial and historic appearance: church domes, boulevards, old mansions.
The gallery opened on May 31, 1997, in a beautiful building of a long-gone era. It occupies an Empire-style mansion built in 1829 — designed by Evgraf Tyurin. For nearly 30 years now, this house’s halls have housed a priceless gift from the master: Alexander Shilov, Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation, People’s Artist of the USSR, and academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, has generously donated about two thousand of his paintings and graphic works to the state and the city of Moscow.
Among them are portraits of completely different people. Alexander Maksovich emphasizes: “In the Hall of Military Glory ‘They Fought for the Motherland!’, there are portraits of ordinary soldiers, cultural figures, actors, doctors, clergy, scouts, counterintelligence officers — people of various professions, all those who fought for the Motherland. Since then, I have painted more than 50 portraits of front-line soldiers in painting and graphics.”
Next to the portraits are landscapes, still lifes, and genre paintings. The gallery’s collection is constantly being expanded with new works, including portraits of heroes of our time. Tickets are available through the service “Mosbilet”.
The fourth point of the route: “Yesenin Center”
From the gallery, we head to Chernyshevsky Lane — the walk will take 25 minutes on foot. The grand Znamenka gives way to old income houses and cozy courtyards, where the city becomes almost intimate.
The history of the final point of the journey begins at the end of the 19th century, when the Moscow architect Maximilian Heppener designed an estate commissioned by the entrepreneur Karl Meyer, which included the main wooden house and a stone wing. The stone wing, where the “Yesenin Center” is located today, is of particular value.
In 1905, Heppener updated its appearance, adding asymmetrical elements in the Art Nouveau style and decorative details to the facades, carefully designing the artistic decoration. In the 1910s, members of the Surikov literary and musical circle gathered here, of which the young Sergey Yesenin was an active participant. The circle became the poet’s first literary school and support.
On September 19 at 12:30, there will be a family program called “Become a Poet” — it will especially appeal to children. Participants will learn how Sergey Yesenin created his masterpieces, what rhyme and meter are in poetry, where to find inspiration, and how memorable lines are born. At the end of the event, everyone will try to compose their own quatrain and recite it in the exhibition space. Tickets are available on the service. “Mosbilet”.
And until September 20 inclusive, the exhibition “‘And Your Tunes Never Cease’: Yesenin in the Memories of Writers of Peredelkino” is open here. It tells about 20th-century writers who knew the poet personally and preserved memories of him. Tickets are available through the service “Mosbilet”.
“The ‘Yesenin Center’ is a space where getting acquainted with the work and biography of Sergey Yesenin goes beyond the usual museum format. Here, you can not only see memorial items and learn facts from the poet’s life, but also create something with your own hands at a workshop, listen to the organ, attend a fashion show, or even dance at a coffee rave. It is important to us that every visitor can find a format close to them here and, through it, discover Yesenin in their own way,” emphasizes Ksenia Nemova, director of the Moscow State Museum of S.A. Yesenin.
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And after vivid aesthetic impressions, we head for gastronomic ones — to the “Yesenin” café. It is located in the same building, and its assortment resonates with the biography, creativity, and poetic images of Sergey Yesenin. For the 100th anniversary of the poem “The Black Man,” a special menu was created here. The pastry with the same name (black biscuit under white glaze) is a metaphor for the dark side of the soul. The espresso “Black Night” with cherry tartness and delicate cream conveys the atmosphere of melancholy and loneliness permeating the work. The cappuccino “Shadow” with a pinch of salt gives a barely perceptible bitterness, and acorn coffee and birch lemonade have long been hits — they take you back to that Russia glorified by Yesenin.
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