Historic sights in Moscow
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Tverskaya ul
Moscow's main avenue, elegant Tverskaya ul, replete with fashionable shops and costly cafés and restaurants, meanders uphill from Red Sq and continues pretty much in a straight line all the way to St Petersburg. There are also the lovely pedestrianised side streets of Kamergersky per and Stoleshnikov per to walk down.
Further up on Tverskaya ul there's the equestrian statue of Yury Dolgoruky, the founder of the city, which now faces the Moscow Mayor's Office, where the Luzhkov administration concocts many of its hare-brained ideas.
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Kitay Gorod
This 13th-century neighbourhood was the first in Moscow to grow up outside the Kremlin walls. While its name means 'China Town' in modern Russian, do not expect anything Chinese - the name derives from an old Russian word meaning 'wattle', for the supports used for the walls that protected the suburb. This is the heart of medieval Moscow and parts of the suburb's walls are visible.
The main places of interest are the collection of churches in the neighbourhood.
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