The main streets are not Chinese cities.

I invite you to the excursion "The main streets of China-City are not Chinese".

Kitay-Gorod is a charming district of Moscow, within which there are three main streets and two squares.

On the excursion we will talk about the history of the shopping center of the city, the Chinatown wall, merchants, industrialists and bankers, monasteries and farmsteads, as well as numerous shopping arcades.

During the tour you will find out:

• In what place, at the end of the XIX century, you could see a real bear.
• What was the name of the first restaurant in Moscow and where it was located?
• Where did the saying “breakfast before cranes” come from?
• Are the Chinese related to the Chinatown Wall and where it can be seen?
• Which street is considered the shortest?
• When and where the first book in Russia was published;
• Where was the Moscow University founded?
• what commercial rows were built in the late XIX century;
• where the first sales came from and what they were called.
• How the merchants played the buyers;
• On which street was the center of Moscow’s financial life?
• what was sold on the first Moscow stock exchange;
• What the bank of merchants Ryabushinsky looked like;
• which monasteries were located on Ilyinka;
• We will also learn many other interesting stories of the Moscow shopping center.

The duration of the tour is 2 hours.

The cost is 4000 rubles (per group from 1 to 20 people).

• Guide services.