Moscow, places to visit - Part 2. To WALK. Kamergersky pereulok

Summer in the city! Besides it's time to think of the vacation, and perhaps you have already chosen Moscow or some other cities as a place to travel. Recently we gave you an example of some nice restaurants, and we will go on sharing this interesting info with you. For example, where to drink coffee and eat delicious cakes.

But today I'd like to tell you about one of my favourite places to walk in Moscow.  Камергерский переулок - Kamergersky lane, see it on the map. 

Kamergersky lane is a lane that leads from Bolshaya Dmitrovka to Tverskaya street, 2 more minutes - and you are near the Red Square. It is an old pedestrian lane closed for the traffic. Here are many beautiful old-style building of high cultural significance.  Here lived such famous people as Leo Tolstoy (writer), Edward Bagritsky (poet), Mikhail Sholokhov (writer), Lubov Orlova (actress), A.Tropinin (artist), Sergio Prokofiev (composer) and many others. 

Now the lane is also famous for that here is located one of the most known theaters in Moscow - МХАТ (Moscow Art Theatre).  It is know not only because of good talented actors, famous actor's school, but also for that the plays of Anton Chekhov were staged there.  


Besides, if you have read 'Doctor Zhivago' by Boris Pasternak, you of course remember the poem 'A candle burned upon the table, A candle burned...'  SO according to the plot of the novel, Yura Zhivago wrote it when he was passing the Kamergersky lane and saw a candle in the window frozen by winter frost, there behind the window Lara and Pasha were talking. 

As for the present-day lane, it's a great place to relax, of course. To walk, to visit some shops, among which is a large book-shop. Then you may relax in one of the cafes there. Pasticceria Pinocchio (в переводе "Кондитерская Пиноккио") is a cafe of  Italian pastry,  bakery  "Le Pain Quotidien" ("Лё Пэн Котидьян"), the restaurant 'Ancient China' (it would be funny to meet chinese culture in Moscow, if you have come from Hong Kong to meet Russian culture!!)) and many other cafe. I would suggest you to visit Moscow's traditional coffee-shops, that in Russian we call 'кофейня' - 'Chocoladnitsa' ("Шоколадница").
But I'd love to focus on it in our next post...


Enjoy your walk!