Where to Stay in Klin, Moscow Oblast

What is Klin known for?

The Tchaikovsky State House-Museum keeps the rooms where the composer finished his last major work, the Sixth Symphony known as the Pathétique, and it draws most of the visitors who come to Klin. The Gaidar house-museum comes next. Older trade left the Trading arcades and the Post Yard on the market ground.

Church towers mark the skyline, among them the Trinity cathedral and the Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos. Skaters fill the Kharlamov ice palace.

What are the main landmarks in Klin?

The Tchaikovsky State House-Museum is the one most visitors come for. It is not alone. The Trinity cathedral holds the centre, the Church of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk and the Church of the Theotokos Joy of All Who Sorrow stand among the streets nearby, and the Demyanovo estate keeps a church of its own.

Trade left the Trading arcades and the Post Yard, and the railway left the Depot building. Papivina street keeps the old female gymnasium building.

What is the history of Klin?

Klin is an old town, and its plan came from the road. The Post Yard survives from the coaching traffic that passed through on the way out of Moscow, and the Trading arcades were raised for the market that traffic fed. Then came the district offices.

Klin acquired the ensemble of a district seat, a treasury, a police administration, a hospital, an almshouse chapel and a prison building, along with a parish school and the female gymnasium on Papivina street. The Depot building marks the railway's arrival. Churches carried the older town: the Trinity cathedral, the Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos, the Church of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk and the Church of the Theotokos Joy of All Who Sorrow.

Demyanovo, on the town's edge, kept an estate and its own Church of the Dormition. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky settled here in his last years and wrote the Sixth Symphony, the Pathétique, in the house that is now the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum. War graves lie in the town.

Soviet soldiers and civilians killed in bombing are buried in common graves, and the Gaidar house-museum keeps another strand of the twentieth century in view.

Where is Klin?

Klin lies 85 kilometres north-west of Moscow. The town is the administrative centre of Klinsky District, and its ground covers roughly 17 square kilometres, which is small enough to walk from the Trading arcades out to Demyanovo. Demyanovo sits on the edge of the town with its own church.

Moscow Oblast surrounds it.

What is the climate of Klin?

Klin keeps a temperate inland year. No coast lies near enough to soften it, so the cold months settle in hard over the Klinsky District, and the warm ones arrive quickly across the same open ground. The Kharlamov ice palace keeps its rink going whatever the season outside.

Snow suits the Demyanovo park, and a summer walk to the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum needs no boots at all.

How do you get to Klin?

Trains from Moscow serve Klin. The old Depot building beside the line shows how long the railway has worked here, and the track still sets how most people arrive from the capital. Road traffic is older still, and the Post Yard survives from the days when coaches changed horses on the run north-west out of Moscow.

Klin sits 85 kilometres out. Within the town, the Trading arcades make the obvious point to start from.