Police arrested 1,500 people nationwide, including more than 1,000 in Moscow, and a handful are being prosecuted for attacking police.
But on the eve of the demonstration, Navalny issued a video message calling for protesters to instead come to the city's main avenue, Tverskaya, a broad, four-lane thoroughfare. But riot police were eventually obliged to move the crowd through the re-enactment festival, meaning that the demonstrators, many shouting "Putin is a thief", found themselves mingling with men dressed as medieval Russian knights.
Protests against Putin were held in more than a hundred cities and towns across the country on Monday, the patriotic Russia Day holiday, but Navalny was arrested at his home in Moscow before he could join them.
Medvedev dismissed Navalny's allegations as politically motivated "nonsense" and called the opposition politician a muck-raking charlatan.
Video posted on social media showed police in Moscow kicking protesters and striking them with batons. Dozens more were detained across Russian Federation in cities such as Vladivostok in the far east and Novosibirsk in Siberia.
Although it was not immediately clear if Monday's protests were larger than those in March, they underlined the deep dismay with the government.
Navalny's wife posted a picture of the moment her husband was arrested on his official Twitter feed, saying, "Alexei has been arrested in the entrance to our block of flats".
European Parliament President Antonio Tajani voiced his concern after Navalny's arrest and an EU spokesman deplored "the detention of hundreds of peaceful protesters and the violence used by Russian authorities against them".
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"What we are seeing now is a sort of telegram sent from the Kremlin, saying that they believe that I, my team, and the people whose views I voice, are too risky to allow us to take part in the election campaign", Navalny told reporters after receiving the ruling, "We don't recognize this ruling". Protests unfolded Monday in more than 100 cities, even in some where they had been banned outright.
"We are concerned for our children's future", Konstantin Kozlov, a lawyer who brought his teenage children to a rally told Financial Times.
Some activists make quacking sounds or held up plastic ducks, which have become a symbol of the anti-corruption rallies since a Navalny expose early this year alleged the prime minister had built a house for the waterfowl at one of his estates.
At least 200 people are believed to have been detained in the anti-corruption protests across Russian Federation so far.
Moscow authorities had initially authorized a venue for the protest away from the city center. According to the New York Times, numerous demonstrators were teenagers who've never known a Russian Federation that hasn't been government by Vladimir Putin.
Navalny is trying to get on the ballot for the March 2018 presidential election, in which Putin is widely expected to seek and secure a fourth term as president. It remains unclear too whether the Kremlin will let Navalny run for the presidency.
"I want changes", wrote Navalny. "I want changes. I want to live in a modern democratic state and I want our taxes to be converted into roads, schools and hospitals, not into yachts, palaces and vineyards", he said.
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