* Along the alleys of Kitay-gorod. The tour involves acquaintance with the central, but least visited by tourists part of the center, where the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Moscow still reigns. On the route: quiet alleys and courtyards in the area of Ivanovskaya Gorka, Ivanovsky Monastery, Lutheran Cathedral of Peter and Paul, Mazepa's chambers, Baron Knop's Castle, the Wall of the White City, Pokrovsky Boulevard, Levitan's Shed, Morozova Mansion, Khokhlovka, Khitrovka. Moscow! Big, noisy and dazzling. Getting into it for the first time, you get lost, you don't know where to look. Excursions help in historical and cultural terms. Of course, Moscow cannot be known immediately. Gradually, slowly, looking at the details and remembering the details — that's the right way. Moscow needs to be breathed, tasted, measured by steps, and then it will reveal amazing secrets to the inquisitive traveler. But one way or another, the history of Moscow cannot be understood without the history of Kitay-Gorod, which emerged as a fortified area for the city that grew beyond the Kremlin during the reign of Elena Glinskaya, the mother of Ivan the Terrible. It is worth mentioning to begin with that Russian book printing was formed here, and the Russian stock exchange also grows from here. In the cultural and historical sense, this small area is a great reserve of fortress architecture at all. During the tour of Kitay-Gorod, we will wander through the cozy web of streets and alleys built here over several centuries, temples, ancient chambers, monastery-prisons, estates and residential buildings that arose in the past centuries, and try to restore the five-century chronicle of the district.