Where is passionate boulevard. Strastnoy boulevard. Better to see with your own eyes
Strastnoy Boulevard on the Yandex panorama
Strastnoy Boulevard on the map of Moscow
Strastnoy boulevard - a boulevard in the Tverskoy district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. It is located between Pushkinskaya Square and Petrovsky Gate Square. The length of the boulevard is 550 m.
Strastnoy Boulevard in Moscow - history, name
Strastnoy Boulevard was broken up at the beginning of the 19th century. Named after the Strastnoy Monastery, dismantled in 1937. In the 1820s. the boulevard was a narrow alley between Tverskaya Street and Petrovsky Gates. At first, she walked along the wall of the Strastnoy Monastery, on the site of which Pushkinskaya Square is now located. After the current Naryshkinsky passage to the garden near house 15, Sennaya Square adjoined the alley, where hay, straw, coal and firewood were traded from wagons twice a week.
In 1872, the owner of the mansion at 9, Strastnoy Boulevard, Elizaveta Alekseevna Naryshkina, decided to put an end to the disgrace under her windows and, on the site of the square, laid out a square at her own expense. In gratitude, the City Duma named the square Naryshkinsky. In 1937 it was attached to Strastnoy Boulevard.
The length of the boulevard is 550 m, but its green part does not exceed 300 m. The initial 250 m, located to the right of Pushkinskaya Square, when the monastery was dismantled, became a simple passage. But it is the widest boulevard of the Boulevard Ring. Its width is 123 m.
Monuments on Strastnoy Boulevard:
- at the beginning of the boulevard in 2013, a monument to A.T. Tvardovsky by the sculptor V.A. Surovtsev. In 1950-1954 and 1958-1970. Tvardovsky was the editor-in-chief of the Novy Mir magazine, the editors of which in 1947-1964. was in the corner house 1/7 on Malaya Dmitrovka;
- in the center of the boulevard in 1999 a monument to S.V. Rachmaninov, performed by O.K. Komov and A.N. Kovalchuk. Rachmaninov in 1905-1917 lived in the house Strastnoy Boulevard, 5;
- at the end of the boulevard in 1995, a monument to Vladimir Vysotsky by G.D. Raspopov.
 Monument to A.T. Tvardovsky |
 Monument to S.V. Rachmaninoff |
 Monument to Vladimir Vysotsky |
Houses on Strastnoy Boulevard
Strastnoy Boulevard, 5. 1st Women's Gymnasium . The building was built in 1874-1878. designed by architect N.A. Tyutyunov for the 1st Women's Gymnasium. The musical part of the gymnasium in 1905-1917. led by S.V. Rachmaninov, who lived here with his family. Some apartments were rented out. One of them was filmed by the famous obstetrician G.L. Grauerman.
Since 1938, the building housed the All-Union Radio Committee, from which in 1941-1945. announcer Yuri Levitan transmitted military reports of the Sovinformburo. In 1961-1980. The building was occupied by the Novosti press agency.
Strastnoy Boulevard, 8. Apartment building with a corner rotunda built by R.I. Klein in 1888. It was intended for renting out apartments. Built in 1930 on two floors.
Strastnoy Boulevard, 9. Mansion E.A. Naryshkina in 1849-1850 belonged to playwright A.V. Sukhovo-Kobylin. He sold the house in 1850 after the murder of his mistress Louise Simon-Demanche in the wing of the estate.
In 1872, Elizaveta Alekseevna Naryshkina, nee Princess Kurakina, planted a garden on Sennaya Square in front of the mansion at her own expense, which was called Naryshkinsky Square. Now only the Naryshkinsky passage coming from the house reminds of her.
In 2006, during the construction of the Pushkinsky Dom office center, the building was replaced with a remake.
Strastnoy Boulevard, 11. S.I. Elagina . The mansion was built in 1899 according to the project of A.A. Dranitsyn for hereditary honorary citizen Sergei Ivanovich Elagin. In 1910 the architect O.O. Shishkovsky added two stone volumes to the building, one of which was occupied by a winter garden.
Under Soviet rule, the editorial office of the Ogonyok magazine was located in the mansion, the publication of which was resumed in 1923 at the initiative of M.E. Koltsov. In 1972, a memorial plaque with a sculptural portrait and the inscription was installed on the facade: "In this building from 1927 to 1938, an outstanding Soviet journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of the OGONYOK magazine Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov worked."
Strastnoy Boulevard, 12. House of A.F. Redlich . An apartment building with a shop was built in 1894 according to the project
Continuation of our cycle of walks along the Boulevard Ring.
We will walk from Pushkinskaya Square along Strastnoy and Petrovsky Boulevards to Trubnaya Square, looking along the way at the streets and alleys adjacent to the boulevards. The route will introduce you to the monument to Pushkin and the Pushkin Fountain, the museum-apartment. IN AND. Nemirovich-Danchenko, a monument to Sergei Rachmaninoff, as well as monuments to Vysotsky and the sculptural composition "Mimino".
Under Pushkinskaya Square there is a transfer hub of the Pushkinskaya-Tverskaya-Chekhovskaya metro station of the Tagansko-Krasno-Presnenskaya, Zamoskvoretskaya and Serpukhovo-Timiryazevskaya lines, respectively. It is better for us to get off from the Tverskaya or Pushkinskaya stations, since they are located at the beginning of Pushkinskaya Square (on Tverskaya Street), and the Chekhovskaya station is at the opposite end, and if we leave it, we will have to go back to Tverskaya street, otherwise we will miss a lot of interesting things
So, we exit the metro to Tverskaya street. Before us is a view of Pushkinskaya Square. We described its sights in detail in “Walk along Tverskaya Street. Part 1 ", so now we will only list them. The architectural dominant of the square is the monument to the great Russian poet A.S. Pushkin.
Behind the monument is a Stone in memory of the Holy Monastery.
This commemorative sign reminds us that since the 17th century, the Strastnoy Maiden Monastery has been located on the site of Pushkinskaya Square, after which Strastnoy Boulevard was named.
Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street goes in the opposite direction from Malaya Dmitrovka. Let's go through it a bit.
On the opposite side of the road - the monumental building of the Federation Council.
We will return to it in more detail later.
The building next to the Musical Theater (house No. 17A) is one of the buildings of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.
Another building on Bolshaya Dmitrovka, decorated with bas-reliefs depicting Lenin, Marx and Engels, is the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI), behind which is Tverskaya Square, which we described in detail in "Walking along Tverskaya Street. Part 1".
We return to Strastnoy Boulevard. The name of the boulevard comes from the Strastnoy Monastery, located here since the 17th century and demolished in the 1930s.
Vysotsky's childhood (from the age of 11, after the return of his family from Germany, where his father served) passed in Bolshoy Karetny Lane, located not far from the Petrovsky Gates.
"Where are your seventeen years?
On the Big Karten ... "
And yet, looking at this monument, one cannot help but recall the lines from another Vysotsky song, his kind of "anti-prophecy":
"They won't put up a monument to me in the park
Somewhere near the Peter's Gate..."
Vladimir Semenovich was wrong. The monument was erected. And it is in the place that he sings about - at the Petrovsky Gates, in the park.
House number 15 on Strastnoy Boulevard (to our left) - the mansion of the princes Gagarins.
Until 1812, the English Club was located here. Among other famous personalities, this institution was visited during his visit to Moscow by the famous French writer Stendhal (author of the novels "Parma Monastery", "Red and Black" and many other works). History has preserved the phrase he said about the English Club in Moscow: "There is not a single club in Paris that could compare with it."
During the fire of 1812, the building burned down completely. It was restored according to the surviving drawings in the 20s of the 19th century by the architect O.I. Beauvais. The building of the English Club is considered one of the best monuments of classicism in Moscow.
Since 1833, the Novo-Ekaterininskaya Hospital was located here (this date is indicated on the pediment of the building), then the clinics of the Moscow Medical and Surgical Academy and the Medical Faculty of the Imperial Moscow University. After 1917, the hospital continued to operate under the name "City Clinical Hospital No. 24" until 2009. Since 2009, the building has been under general reconstruction.
Let's turn left and go a little deeper along Petrovka street. On the right side of the street we see a multi-storey U-shaped building. This is the famous Petrovka, 38 - the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, first of the Soviet Union, and then, to this day - of the Russian Federation.
The courtyard of the building is surrounded by a cast-iron fence; tourists and other passers-by are not welcome here. Entrance to the territory - strictly by passes. However, through the fence we can see the bust, located in the center of the courtyard. This monument "Iron Felix" - F.E. Dzerzhinsky.
The name of Dzerzhinsky is usually associated with the NKVD-KGB-FSB, which are based on the VChK (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission) he created. However, Dzerzhinsky's contribution to the formation of the Internal Affairs Bodies is also not small, which is why he was awarded a monument near the main building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In August 1991, after the well-known events associated with the suppression of the GKChP putsch, the bust of Dzerzhinsky, as well as his "elder brother" - the famous monument on Lubyanka Square, was dismantled. However, if the monument to Dzerzhinsky is still located in the Park of Arts among many other deposed heroes of the Soviet regime, then the bust was returned to the building on Petrovka in 2005.
We return back. On the way, behind the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, we turn into 2 Kolobovsky lane. Here we see the Church of the Sign of the Mother of God outside the Petrovsky Gates at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the city of Moscow.
Returning to the square, before continuing along the Boulevard Ring, we will pass along Petrovka in the other direction.
Two houses from the square (house number 25) we see a three-story building of light beige finish. This is the House of Gubin, an architectural monument of the 19th century.
Entering the territory of the monastery, right in front of us we see the Cathedral of the Bogolyubskaya Mother of God.
This is the oldest of the monastery churches, it was built in 1514-1517 (rebuilt in the 90s of the 17th century). Here is stored the main shrine of the monastery - the relics of St. Metropolitan Peter.
Having passed between the buildings of the churches of the Tolga Mother of God and St. Peter, we find ourselves at the stairs leading to the entrance to the Cathedral of St. Sergius of Radonezh.
Under the stairs of the cathedral is the monastery refectory. It is not closed to the laity, you can come here and taste real monastic food.
Let's go through the arch between the Cathedral of St. Sergius of Radonezh and the monastery wall.
This part of the monastery is currently reconstructed less than the others. Ancient brickwork is visible everywhere, the Cathedral of Sts. Apostles Peter and Paul (before 1814 the Church of Pachomius the Great) has yet to be restored.
Having examined the territory of the monastery, we return to Petrovka. The monastery wall, stretching along the street, is also an architectural monument of the 18th century. These are the Naryshkin Chambers.
On the outside of the monastery (entrance from Petrovka Street) in the chambers there is the Chapel of the Kazan Mother of God and the Literary Museum.
Let's turn to Petrovsky Lane. On house number 5 we see a memorial plaque saying that poet Sergei Yesenin lived and worked in this house from 1910 to 1923.
And the next building along Petrovsky Lane is the Theater of Nations (until 1917 - the Korsh Theater, in honor of its founder F.A. Korsh).
We return to the Petrovsky Gate Square. Now it's time to move on to Petrovsky Boulevard.
Having rounded the building on the right, we find ourselves on the even side of the boulevard. Another picturesque view of the domes of the Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery opens from here.
The building at the intersection of the boulevard and Krapivensky lane (house number 10) is an architectural monument of the 19th century - the Patriarchal Compound of Constantinople.
Recently, I came across an advertisement for the sale of a huge apartment in a new building located at the very beginning of Strastnoy Boulevard. The living space occupied the entire last floor, and from special delights, a two-level storage room was attached to it. Despite the fact that the apartment itself is one-story. But I was interested not so much in the quirks of planning, but in the very fact of the presence of a new house in the place where, it would seem, the density of the existing building does not allow anything to be erected .. So where did the new building come from?
Recently, I came across an advertisement for the sale of a huge apartment in a new building located at the very beginning of Strastnoy Boulevard. The living space occupied the entire last floor, and from special delights, a two-level storage room was attached to it. Despite the fact that the apartment itself is one-story. But I was interested not so much in the quirks of planning, but in the very fact of the presence of a new house in the place where, it would seem, the density of the existing building does not allow anything to be built. So where did the new building come from?
How the son of a friend of Pushkin traded horses for development
The house mentioned in the ad is located. This corner of Moscow belonged to the ancient noble family of Gorchakovs since ancient times. The most famous of the Gorchakovs is Alexander Mikhailovich: a great Russian diplomat, privy councilor, minister of foreign affairs, chancellor of the Russian Empire, Pushkin's classmate at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum and his bosom friend. Or even more than a friend: three poems by the famous poet dedicated to Gorchakov, and several portraits made by his hand - is this not proof of a true, albeit restrained, friendship? Pushkin's best friends, Delvig and Pushchin, also sympathized with the future chancellor, and for good reason. Here, for example, is the story that happened at the very beginning of his career, immediately after the events on Senate Square in December 1825. In which he himself did not take part, unlike some of his comrades in the lyceum. Having found out what fate awaited the Decembrists, the next day after the uprising, Alexander Mikhailovich sought out Pushchin and offered him a foreign passport to flee to another state. Pushchin appreciated the act, but due to his convictions, he refused to accept help. The result was hard labor in the Chetinsky prison, which ended only in 1856.
Portrait of the future chancellor Alexander Gorchakov, made by Pushkin
But that is another story. As, in fact, the story about Alexander Mikhailovich is also different. Indeed, it is not the chancellor himself who is related to Strastnoy Boulevard, 4, but his son, Konstantin Alexandrovich, the master of the horse of His Imperial Majesty, who later received the title of lordship. The master of the horse is the head of the stable, in whose subordination were all the grooms, herds and all the estates where the royal horses were kept and bred. The latter is especially important for us, because, in fact, it means nothing more than real estate management, in which Konstantin Aleksandrovich became so good that he began to use these skills not only in the service. Hence the construction of an apartment building initiated by him on the same Strastnoy Boulevard. Hence his other "real estate transactions".
Ringmaster Konstantin Gorchakov
Here, for example, is an announcement that was published in September 1908 in the then popular newspaper Russkoye Slovo (the original spelling has been preserved). “Plots for summer cottages with a measure of about 600 square meters. sazhen are sold at a price of 1 to 2 r. sq. soot On the 27th verst (platform) of the Moscow-Brest railway. at the Vlasikha estate (former O. M. Wagau), the possession of His Serene Highness Prince Konstantin Aleksandrovich Gorchakov. The terrain is high, dry, sidewalks are arranged in the plots and driveways are highwayd. On the plots there is mixed forest up to 35 years old and 5 ponds for common use...”.
Translating into modern language, our hero organized a cottage settlement with a developed infrastructure on his own lands and sold plots in it without a contract. The village was located 13 km from the modern Moscow Ring Road (although a verst is almost equal to a kilometer, the pre-revolutionary suburban developer also counted not from the border of the city, but from the station), in a very status area both then and now - between the current Minsk and Rublevsky highways. The more striking are the prices (even adjusted for their pre-revolutionary origin). A square sazhen is approximately 4.55 square meters. m or 0.0455 acres. That is, plots located in a prestigious place cost from 22 to 44 rubles per hundred square meters. For comparison: in 1908, the average worker earned 20 rubles a month, and, for example, a titular adviser received 140 rubles. That is, the latter, in order to accumulate a plot of 27 acres (this is the equivalent of six hundred square sazhens), would take 5-9 months. Unless, of course, you do not take into account the current costs of living. And here is another information for comparison. Now, in the vicinity of Vlasikha, prices for plots are in the range of 0.65 - 1.2 million rubles per hundred square meters. Well, you can imagine the average level of current salaries.
How a temple architect designed a residential building
But let's return from the Moscow region to Moscow, to Strastnoy Boulevard at the very end of the 19th century. Profitable houses were then at the peak of popularity: each rented apartment, depending on its size and features of the house, monthly brought its owner from 3 to 50 rubles, or even more. It is not surprising that Konstantin Aleksandrovich was also interested in this business. He ordered the design of his apartment building, designed for fairly wealthy residents, to the architect Ivan Felitsianovich Meisner - to tell the truth, he was not treated with special glory. Much more famous is his brother, Alexander Felitsianovich, the personal architect of the Sheremetevs' house, who, as they write about him in modern classifications of architects, has "his own recognizable style."
However, Ivan Felitsianovich was not alien to his architectural style. Another thing is that he realized himself on such objects in which you can’t jump much beyond the canons of style. For example, according to his project in the village of Olgovo, Dmitrovsky district, Moscow region, the Church of the Presentation of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple, as well as the Church of Stefan Makhrishsky in the Trinity Stefanov Makhrishsky Monastery, in the Vladimir region, were built. Perhaps that is why, drawing the kennels of the future apartment building on Strastnoy Boulevard (and in fact - a complex of five buildings that occupied the entire block to Kozitsky Lane), he was rather restrained. The result was a six-story brick house with a symmetrical facade and a central arch for passage. The main architectural accent of the building is four two-column porticos of Corinthian columns, which cover the height of the floors from the third to the fifth and are united by a decorated cornice above the windows of the fifth floor. This is a prototype of the current bay windows, very popular in Russian architecture at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Stefan Makhrishsky Church in the Trinity Stefan Makhrishsky Monastery, designed by Ivan Meisner
The result is a simple and rather laconic back, not without its charm. True, six decades later, Yuri Fedosyuk, a popular Muscovite scholar in the Soviet years, in his guidebooks "The Boulevard Ring" spoke about this house not at all flattering. “It is worth going deep into the courtyard to see the typical capitalist principle of building this property: every square meter is used for housing - at the cost of depriving the residents of light, air, greenery,” he wrote. It is curious that the Muscovite discerned the “capitalist principle of development” at the very height of the era of building hyper-minimalism, so this judgment was clearly not without political overtones.
The courtyard of Gorchakov's tenement house, which surprised Muscovite Yuri Fedosyuk
How the profitable house brought the revolution closer
But that was later. And then, in 1899, the construction of the house was just starting, but already in 1991 the first tenants moved in here: actors, doctors, lawyers. In one of the apartments, for example, Clara Rosenberg, a well-known dentist in Moscow, settled. However, she became famous not only for her ability to skillfully put fillings and pull rotten teeth, but also for her loyalty to the Social Democrats. It was in this apartment that on October 8, 1902, representatives of this party met with Maxim Gorky, after which the writer decided to provide them with material support. The support consisted of financing the newspaper Iskra, created by Lenin in Germany. Later, after the October Revolution, when Gorky realized who and what he was helping, he was disappointed. But at the beginning of the century the situation was different for him.
Strastnoy Boulevard, photograph from the beginning of the 20th century (Gorchakov's apartment building in the background, Chizhov's mansion in the foreground)
In the same 1902, the well-known journalist and theater critic Vlas Mikhailovich Doroshevich rented an apartment in the house of Prince Gorchakov. The new profitable house came in handy for him: not far from Strastnoy Boulevard, in the outbuilding at 22 Petrovka, the editorial office of the newspaper Russkoye Slovo (the same one in which Gorchakov would place his advertisement for the sale of plots a few years later) was located, where he was invited to work by the publisher Ivan Sytin. It is believed that with each of his publications in the Russian Word, Vlas Mikhailovich "brought the revolution closer." Although, perhaps, this is another delusion of another talented Russian person. “He is not one of those animals that fell into the ark,” Korney Chukovsky wrote about Doroshevich. - Of course, when the revolutionary flood began, he climbed a hillock, but did not go higher - and here he is a drowned man. Others - they begged Noah for a warm place, and they do not grieve that the even, hollow water has flooded all the fragrant gardens, all the flowering valleys, and that the lonely peak - Tolstoy - will soon be covered with smooth surface.
As a Passionate, he acquired 4 own Electrotheatre
The house on Strastnoy Boulevard became famous not only for its revolutionary sentiments. In the summer of 1905, a completely secular event took place here: the tradesman Karl Ivanovich Alksne opened a cinema for 50 spectators here, one of the first in Moscow. The owner called the establishment “Electrotheatre”, the audience on the posters was invariably addressed by “the most respectable audience”, inviting them to visit his “modest theater”, promised “really complete pleasure”, always signed with the words “Respectfully, Karl Ivanovich”. This “promotion concept” quickly bore fruit: Alksne soon became rich, and by April 1906 his establishment had moved to a neighboring house - Chizhov’s two-story mansion at the corner of Tverskaya and Strastnoy Boulevard, in which he equipped a more spacious cinema - already for 160 seats. So Strastnoy, 4 was left without a polite and resourceful tenant.
After the revolution, the same fate awaited the house, which befell many buildings in the city center: the old tenants were evicted, and the apartments turned into communal apartments. Then the communal apartments gradually became apartments again, and the house itself is still alive today. No one demolished it and no one is going to: although it was not given the status of an architectural monument, the rear one was included in the register of historically valuable ones. “So where is the new building?” - you ask. And nowhere. It's just that the owner of the apartment being sold made a mistake in terms and confused "new construction" with "overhaul". Some parts of the building were put in order by the new owners and tenants a few years ago. By the way, they now house as many as three hostels - relatively cheap small hotels. So the former apartment building partly returned to its original purpose. But that part of the house, where now mostly ordinary apartments are located, was thoroughly restored only last year, moreover, at the expense of the city budget allocated under the program “Major repairs and modernization of the housing stock”. Here is such a new building in 1901, the release turned out. However, next door, closer to Tverskaya, there is a real new building (or rather, a “long-term building”): a future hotel with underground parking, which is “assigned” to the address of ul. Tverskaya, vl.16/2, although the facade is turned towards Strastnoy. It was supposed to start functioning in 2005, but is still under construction. But that's definitely a different story.
A hotel is being built next to the former apartment building of Gorchakov
Daria Kuznetsova, correspondent of the GdeEtoDom.RU portal
Strastnoy boulevard
Strastnoy Boulevard got its name from the Strastnoy Convent standing near it. The boulevard, arranged at the beginning of the 19th century, stretched from Tverskaya Street to Petrovka in one alley. Since 1872, part of it between Bolshaya Dmitrovka and Petrovka entered the arranged Naryshkinsky square, and the boulevard remained only between Tverskaya street and Bolshaya Dmitrovka. In the 1930s, when Pushkinskaya Square was planned, it was destroyed, and Naryshkinsky Square was turned into a boulevard. Now Strastnoy Boulevard is called the boulevard and the driveways on both sides of it.
In the 18th century, part of the free square at the Petrovsky Gates was occupied by a garden in front of the house of the Gagarins (now a clinical hospital). In the middle part of the square, opposite Bolshaya Dmitrovka, Sennaya Square was built, where they sold hay, firewood, charcoal, etc.
Sennaya and part of the square to Petrovka, occupied since the 1830s no longer by the garden, but by the front gardens of the Catherine's hospital (located in the former Gagarin's house), in 1872 were turned into a public garden, arranged at the expense of E. A. Naryshkina and therefore named Naryshkinsky. In 1874, the western part of the square went under the passage opposite Bolshaya Dmitrovka and the building of the 1st Women's Gymnasium (now the Radio Broadcasting House). Later, a large residential building was also built up on a part of the land between this gymnasium and the Strastnoy Monastery.
Of the houses standing on the modern Strastnoy Boulevard, the house on the corner of Bolshaya Dmitrovka is remarkable. It was bought in 1811 by the treasury from two owners: Vlasov - along the boulevard and Talyzina - along Bolshaya Dmitrovka street. In 1816–1817, on the site of the first, the architect F. Buzhinsky built a three-story house in the Empire style; in 1822, another four-story house was built in the same style on the site of Talyzina's house. Both of them were given to the university printing house. The editor of Moskovskie Vedomosti, which was published at the university, the printing house officials lived in the first house, and the university bookstore was located. The latter belonged to A. S. Shiryaev in the 1820s and 1830s and was considered the best bookstore in Moscow. Shiryaev was also a commission agent for the sale of works by the best Russian writers, and A. S. Pushkin often visited him. He also visited this house with Prince P. I. Shalikov, editor and publisher of the then popular Ladies' Journal.
In the 1860s, I. S. Turgenev, L. N. Tolstoy and others visited the editor of Russkiy Vestnik M. N. Katkov, who lived here.
On the other side of the boulevard, the vast house of the princes Gagarins on the corner of Petrovka is remarkable, originally built in 1716, and in its present form at the end of the 18th century by M.F. Kazakov. For more than a hundred years it belonged to the indicated owners. From 1802 until the fire of 1812 it housed the English Club. I. A. Krylov read his fables here; other remarkable Russian people also visited the club, and in 1806 it honored Prince P.I. Bagration, who in 1805 near Shengraben heroically fought off a whole Napoleonic army with a handful of Russian troops. (After the expulsion of the French from Moscow in 1812, the English Club was opened on March 1, 1813 in Benckendorff's house [on Pushkin Square, between Bolshaya Dmitrovka and Tverskaya Streets, No. 6]. On July 31 of the same year, the club moved to Muraviev's house on Bolshaya Dmitrovka [ No. 11]. Only on April 22, 1831, the club moved from here to the house of Countess Razumovskaya on Tverskaya [now occupied by the Museum of the Revolution].)
In 1812, this house housed the headquarters of the Chief Quartermaster of the Napoleonic army, in which the famous writer Stendhal (Bayle) served. A fire broke out in the house after the departure of the French.
In 1828, the house was bought by the treasury and it housed the Catherine's hospital.
Behind the house stretched a vast garden. According to legend, here in the 16th century there was one of the country palaces of Vasily III, later turned into a travel palace, where foreign ambassadors stayed in the 16th-17th centuries. Some confirmation of this is the names of the neighboring Church of the Assumption "which is in the Old Ambassadorial Yard" and the area "Putinki".
Of the other houses on the boulevard, one can note on the same side at the turn into Naryshkinsky Proezd a small wooden mansion (No. 9), which belonged to the famous playwright A.V. and "The Death of Tarelkin", which to this day do not leave the stage of our theaters.
Strastnoy Boulevard is beautifully described in N. V. Davydov’s “Memoirs”.
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From the author's bookSIRENEVIY BOULEVARD Lilac Boulevard runs between Yesenin and Rudnev streets. It was named on December 4, 1974. The resolution on the name said: “... the passage is located in the area of the names of streets dedicated to artists. In the design of the boulevard
From the author's bookGogolevsky Boulevard Gogolevsky Boulevard in 1924 was named after the monument to N.V. Gogol that had stood on it since 1909. Its former name is Prechistensky Boulevard. When you walk along the shady Gogolevsky Boulevard from Arbatskaya Square to the Prechistensky Gates, then
From the author's bookNikitsky Boulevard At present, this is the name not only of the boulevard, but also of the passages on its sides between the Arbat Gate Square and the Nikitsky Gate Square. The latter gave the former name to the boulevard - "Nikitsky", as from the fortress gates of the White City they received their
From the author's bookTverskoy Boulevard Tverskoy Boulevard is widely known to the entire reading public. It is mentioned in the works of Pushkin, Lermontov, in the novels of Leo Tolstoy, in essays by Chekhov and other writers. The boulevard was arranged and opened in 1796. Initially, the boulevard was lined
From the author's bookPetrovsky Boulevard The road from the Petrovsky Gates goes downhill to Trubnaya Square. This part of the Boulevard Ring is called Petrovsky Boulevard, which refers both to the boulevard itself and to the passages on its sides. The boulevard is named after the Petrovsky Gates and
From the author's bookSretensky Boulevard Sretensky Boulevard used to reach almost to the Myasnitsky Gates. Now it is limited by passage to Ulansky Lane and the building of the Turgenev Reading Room built in 1885 on its former site. Sretensky Boulevard is the shortest on the Boulevard Ring.
From the author's bookChistoprudny Boulevard The boulevard got its name from the Chisty Pond located on it. Of the boulevards built on the site of the walls of the former White City and forming a green necklace around the oldest part of Moscow, Chistoprudny Boulevard is the most
It is Strastnoy Boulevard, laid in 1820 on the site of the former wall of the White City.
Where is the boulevard
It got its name in honor of the Strastnoy Monastery, along the southeastern wall of which it originally walked from Tverskaya Street to Petrovka.
Now this cultural heritage site, located in the very center of the capital, stretches from Petrovsky Gate Square (located between Petrovka Street, Strastnoy and Petrovsky Boulevards) to Pushkinskaya Square (located in Zemlyanoy Gorod between Strastnoy and Tverskoy Boulevards).
Name history
Strastnoy Boulevard, like any object in the center of the capital, has its own interesting history. In the century before last, one half of it was occupied (after which the boulevard is named), erected by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in 1654. The place was not chosen by chance - it was here at the gates of the White City that Muscovites met the Passion Icon of the Mother of God, after which the convent got its name. And the icon itself was called so, because next to the face of the Mother of God, two angels are depicted on it, holding in their hands the instruments of the Passion of Christ, which brought physical and spiritual suffering to Christ in the last days of his life.
Boulevard monuments
Strastnoy Boulevard was constantly reconstructed. In the 19th century, the house owner E. A. Naryshkina rebuilt a narrow street at her own expense into a boulevard, which was called Naryshkinsky in her honor. Throughout the boulevard, monuments were erected at different times, of which there are 4 today:
- The famous monument to A. S. Pushkin, transferred from Tverskoy Boulevard in 1950.
- Further, next to the editorial office of the Novy Mir magazine, there is a monument to A. T. Tvardovsky, who for many years was the editor-in-chief of this magazine.
- In 1999, Strastnoy Boulevard was enriched with a monument to S.V. Rachmaninov, who lived and worked on Strastnoy Boulevard in 1905-1917.
- A little earlier, in 1995, a monument to V. S. Vysotsky was erected at the very end of the boulevard.
Some of the famous residents
At the beginning of the century, the All-Union Radio Committee was located in the former building of the Museum of Visual Aids in Natural History since 1938. It was from here that in 1941-1945 Yuri Levitan transmitted the Information Bureau Reports to the whole country.
Once upon a time, the playwright A. V. Sukhovo-Kobylin lived in house number 9. Later, the artist Andrei Gonsarov also lived on Strastnoy Boulevard, who in 1959 created four main panels for the Soviet exhibition in New York. Andrei Andreevich Gromyko also lived here.
historical objects
The decoration of the boulevard is the mansion of S. I. Elagina, which is an architectural monument. From 1920 to 1939, the editorial office of the Ogonyok magazine was located in it, Mikhail Koltsov worked in it. The Gagarin House (architect - the famous Osip Bove), the cinema "Russia", the house of the merchant F. Peak and many other objects are associated with a certain event in Russian history.
Modern popular objects
The numbering of houses on Strastnoy Boulevard starts from I and at number 4 there is a rather popular Venice trattoria in Moscow. There are more than 20 different restaurants on Strastnoy Boulevard for every taste. Venice also has its fans.
A trattoria is a certain type of Italian-style restaurant with a corresponding cuisine. It differs from the classic institution in less stiffness, the absence of printed menus, simpler service, and, accordingly, lower prices.
Family restaurant
In Italy, this type of restaurant belongs to the family, and in Moscow it is aimed at a permanent audience. Venice has good reviews: customers are satisfied with the design, furnishings, and quality of service. Neither the cuisine nor the wine list is satisfactory. In the fireplace hall, designed for 120 seats, there is always a cozy atmosphere, conducive to easy communication. In the decoration of the trattoria, only natural, natural for Venice materials of the corresponding color range were used. Terraces are open in summer.
"Venice" is one of the first trattorias in the city of Moscow. Strastnoy Boulevard was chosen to open a family restaurant more than 10 years ago. And he really had his own permanent clientele. The experience was successful, and now there are trattorias both in Stoleshnikov Lane and on Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street.
dating club
Many different interesting establishments are located on the central streets of the metropolis. One of them is located at Strastnoy Boulevard, 11. “Dating” has sharply opposite reviews, because the institution is extraordinary, so there is a certain interest in it. There are a lot of such clubs now, but higher requirements are imposed on the one located in the very center of the capital.
And there are very negative reviews about him, especially regarding the methods of work of individual female agents, which sometimes resemble the work of collectors. They talk about him as a closed dating club, which also does not make a favorable impression. Rumor has it that he caters exclusively to wealthy suitors who are looking for good wives.
Better to see with your own eyes
In fairness, it should be noted quite nice advertising and club logo. There are also enthusiastic and grateful reviews about this institution, photos of weddings and thanks to specific female agents.
To talk about anything in particular, it is obviously worth visiting the institution located at Strastnoy Boulevard, 11. The Dating Club has its own website, where staff and management are ready to listen to opinions about work, accept recommendations and advice.
