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The Nativity Monastery was built in honor of the valiant victory of the Russian army on the Kulikovo Field. The churches of the Nativity Monastery, crowned with onion-shaped domes, delight the eye from afar, towering majestically above the streets and greenery of squares.
The monastery was dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, its founder was Princess Maria. She was the mother of one of the glorious heroic participants in the Battle of Kulikovo - Prince Vladimir, who received the nickname Brave. The first nuns and novices to settle in the monastery were mothers, widows and orphans of soldiers who laid down their lives on the battlefield.
The site chosen for the construction of the monastery was a hill on the banks of the Neglinnaya River, at the very edge of Kuchkov Field, where the ancient road leading to the Kremlin walls ran. At first, the monastery buildings were wooden. And only the Nativity Monastery, built in the early 1500s, became stone.
Fires often broke out in medieval Moscow. The fiery element did not spare the monastery either. In 1547, when a fire of unprecedented scale broke out in Moscow, the buildings of the monastery burned down and the main cathedral was damaged. The monastery was rebuilt by the first wife of Ivan the Terrible, Anastasia.
IN early XVI In the 1st century, battles with Polish troops took place near the walls of the monastery, and many soldiers who died in these battles found rest in the monastery graveyard. During the War of 1812, the monastery churches were plundered by the enemy.
In the period 70–80 years of the 17th century, a cathedral was erected in honor of St. John Chrysostom using donations allocated by Princess Lobanova-Rostovskaya. The territory of the monastery was also surrounded by a stone fence with four towers, which was later rebuilt; a new gate church appeared above the gates. At the beginning of the last century, a temple in the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and a refectory were founded in the monastery. At the monastery there was a shelter for orphan girls, and a parochial school was opened.
In the 20s, the Nativity Monastery suffered the same fate as all the monasteries in Moscow; it was closed. The silver frames and vestments were torn off the icons, and the images themselves were moved to other churches. The premises housed various institutions and offices. The monastic cells were turned into communal apartments, the monastery graveyard was destroyed, and part of the walls of the stone fence were demolished. The Nativity Cathedral was completely disfigured by various reconstructions that were carried out to adapt the premises to the desired purpose of the services housed in it. Only in the 70s of the last century did the Moscow authorities decide to organize a museum-reserve in the Nativity Monastery.
And already in the 90s, at first only the Church of the Nativity, and then all the buildings of the monastery were returned to the church. All three temples and the bell tower have survived to this day.
Dear parishioners of the Sretensky Monastery!
On October 3, 2012, an open competition for the preliminary design of the Church of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia on Blood, in Lubyanka, was announced and ended on December 10, 2012.
The need for a new, spacious church in our monastery has been long overdue: who, if not you, knows, that often many parishioners cannot fit in the only surviving cathedral and are forced to listen to the broadcast of the service while standing on the street.
The goals and objectives of the competition emphasized the following requirements for the future project.
“The temple should reflect the idea of the House of God, traditional for Russian church architecture, as well as the feat and triumph of the spiritual victory of the New Martyrs of Russia.” This became the most important task for designers.
We expected a creative solution that could express the idea of the heavenly triumph of the New Martyrs, carry within itself the joy and light of the victory of the Resurrection of Christ, the Church of Christ over the evil of this world, Eternal Life over death. Built to mark the centenary of the beginning of the tragic events of the past century, this cathedral should be precisely the Temple-Monument to the victory of the Lord Jesus Christ and His holy disciples -.
There were also indispensable technical aspects in the competition task.The temple must be spacious: ideally for two thousand people.
Another requirement is to provide for open-air services in warm time year, as this is done, in particular, in the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery, with a special gathering of people.
Due to the particularly cramped area of the monastery, the designers had to take into account the possibility of a religious procession along the gallery around the temple.
Also, due to the extremely small territory of the Sretensky Monastery (and it is indeed the smallest and at the same time the most populated monastery in Moscow - 42 monks and novices and 200 students of the Sretensky Theological Seminary live here), we asked the designers to provide the maximum number of additional premises: for sacristies, workshops, other technical services, as well as for the Sretensky Sunday school, an educational and catechetical center for adults and a monastery publishing house, the building of which will be demolished.
Finally, underground premises are needed for the vehicles of the monastery services.
All these economic problems had to be solved without damaging the image of the temple.
The competition brief also stated that the architecture of the temple should be made in Russian traditions (Moscow, Vladimir-Suzdal, Novgorod, Pskov, neo-Byzantine), but may also contain elements modern forms and designs.
48 projects were submitted to the competition. Many of them deserve the most serious attention from anyone interested in church architecture. Some of the works are truly talented, traditional in the best sense of the word. On behalf of His Holiness the Patriarch, I, as the vicar of the monastery, sent out thank you letters to everyone who took part in this creative competition. And three winners were awarded in accordance with the terms of the competition.The jury of the competition, in addition to two representatives of the Sretensky Monastery, included famous Moscow architects and art historians.
Below we publish all the submitted projects: readers will be able to correlate the creative and technical tasks formulated by the terms of the competition with the creative solutions proposed to us.
After viewing and discussions, the jury selected three projects, and among them was the winning project presented by D. Smirnov’s workshop. The decision of the jury was soon approved by the Rector of our monastery, His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill.What made this work stand out from all the others?
The main task of the competition was to create the image of the Temple-monument, the Temple-the triumph of the victory of Christ and His disciples, the New Martyrs, and this is what, in the opinion of the jury, the authors of the winning project did better than others.
The image of the temple presented is unusually bright and majestic. The fact that the authors erected the temple on a stylobate pedestal visually emphasizes the idea of the monument.
We were truly pleased with how the authors of the project were able to find an eschatological image of the victory of the Church, the image of the Heavenly City, the New Jerusalem, in the center of which is the Lamb - our Lord Jesus Christ in the triumph of His victory.And I saw a great white throne and Him sitting on it, from whose face heaven and earth fled, and no place was found for them. (Rev. 20:11). The artists embodied this idea by placing iconographic images of the Savior on the throne surrounded by the New Martyrs on the outer wall of the temple. For some reason, by the way, this is precisely what caused the harshest criticism, up to and including reproaches for modernism, although we can see exactly this solution on the facade of the main cathedral of the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery, and in in this case this artistic parallel seems significant to us, since the Moscow Sretensky Monastery has a special spiritual relationship with the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery.
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Together with the internal balconies, the temple will accommodate two thousand worshipers, which corresponds to the technical specifications. And at the same time, the cathedral was designed in such a way that, while standing on a par with the street houses, it does not face the line of Rozhdestvensky Boulevard (unlike most of the presented projects) - which, while high density development, still makes it possible to look at it from a considerable distance.
Unfortunately, not all projects provided for the possibility of holding open-air services. When giving this task, we expected that a balcony or small platform would be designated for such a service, but the authors of the winning project proposed a much better option.During a particularly crowded service, the gallery on the stylobate becomes an altar - a portable Altar is installed here - and the parishioners are located in the monastery courtyard.
The solution, in my opinion, is very simple, elegant, successful and at the same time practical. And the icons of the Savior and New Martyrs on the internal facade of the temple will remind of the iconostasis, creating the correct image of worship.
It is convenient to conduct religious processions along the stylobate gallery without going out onto Rozhdestvensky Boulevard and without interfering with city traffic (which would be inevitable if we accept the project of directly connecting the walls of the temple to the city street).
Finally, in the spacious stylobate, which serves as the artistic and architectural pedestal of the Temple-Monument, we will be able, incomparably better than in the three-story extensions proposed by other projects, to accommodate an educational center with a lecture hall, a Sunday school with classes, and numerous technical services, a publishing house and even several lecture halls for our seminary.We do not yet know what the material of the external and internal decoration of the temple will be, what the technique of images will be, what specific subjects of the bas-reliefs dedicated to the New Martyrs will be on the facades of the stairs. All this is in the process of the most serious work and discussions.
As for another most important component of the project - the need to create an architectural concept for the new temple in conjunction with the existing buildings in the monastery - here I give the floor to the professionals who spoke on this topic.
Academician V.D. Shmykov, architect-restorer, head of the architectural design workshop of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Institute “Spetsproektrestavratsiya”, full member of the Academy of Architectural Heritage: “The architectural and artistic image created by the authors contains the idea of the spiritual triumph of the New Martyrs in the name of Christ and Orthodox Church, corresponds to the high spirituality of the Russian Orthodox people and supports high status monastery At the same time, it fits well into the existing urban planning situation and the existing surrounding historical buildings.”
Professor of Moscow Architectural Institute Timur Bashkaev: “In general, this is an impressive work, accurately reflecting the needs and self-awareness of the modern Church, but requiring careful verification of the urban planning and space-planning solutions of the complex while maintaining the bright author’s style of the façade solutions.”
I appeal to our parishioners with a request for prayers, so that the Lord will bless this endeavor and allow the construction and improvement of the temple to be completed on time - by February 2017.
Below we present photographs of all projects participating in the competition.
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Rozhdestvensky Boulevard (Artistic) - boulevard in the Meshchansky district of Central administrative district city of Moscow. It starts from Trubnaya Square in the west to Sretensky Gate in the east. Known since the fourteenth century.
In 1760, the wall of the White City was destroyed, and the Boulevard Ring was later founded in its place.
Rozhdestvensky Boulevard in Moscow is a 500-meter-long bank slope that runs down to the Neglinnaya River. The boulevard is named after the Mother of God Nativity Convent, built at the end of the 14th century. The arrangement began with money raised by the spouses of the soldiers who died in the battle on the Kulikovo Field. Today's stone wall with small towers surrounded the monastery already in the 17th century. A little later, the Sretensky Monastery was built near the modern Sretensky Gate. At the beginning, these monasteries were surrounded by wooden walls, which later became stone.
Beyond the stream to the north of the rampart there were arable lands inhabited by workers who took part in the construction, as well as by plowmen, gardeners and craftsmen. A hundred years later, behind the wall of the White City, along the stream between today’s Sretenka and Trubnaya Street, the settlement of Pechatnoy Dvor (currently Pechatnikov Lane) appeared. At the end of the 17th century, the Church of the Assumption was erected on the corner of Rozhdestvensky Boulevard and Sretenka Street. Holy Mother of God in Pechatniki (Sretenka St., 3). At that time, in this territory, according to the area plan of 1117, there were 5 wooden shops, a little to the west there were 5 wooden forges, behind them there was a large wooden almshouse of the Church of the Assumption in Pechatniki. In addition to the surviving Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Pechatniki, the Trinity Church in Listy, located at the end of Rozhdestvensky Boulevard at the very end of Sukharevskaya Square, has survived to this day.
In Soviet and subsequent times, Rozhdestvensky Boulevard was remodeled and restored. In 1922, the Nativity Monastery was disbanded, but some nuns and novices continued to live in their cells. Its final restoration stopped only after 70 years.
The boulevard received a bad reputation due to the events that happened on March 6, 1953, here and on Trubnaya Square, there was a terrible stampede that occurred due to the fact that an immense number of people came to say goodbye to Stalin.
And now we will go through the sights of Rozhdestvensky Boulevard. We cross Trubnaya Square and we immediately find ourselves at Shopping Center“Neglinnaya Plaza” (Trubnaya Square, 2). This is where Rozhdestvensky Boulevard begins.
Behind Neglinnaya Plaza we turn right onto Rozhdestvenka Street. Immediately on the left side, we will see the wall of the Mother of God Nativity Convent (Building 14, Rozhdestvenka Street, 20/8) with the gate Church of Evgeniy Khersonsky (Rozhdestvenka Street, Building 20). Rozhdestvensky Boulevard and Rozhdestvenka Street got their names in honor of the monastery.
At the intersection of Rozhdestvenka and Zvonarsky Lane there is the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Zvonary (Rozhdestvenka St., 15/8). The Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Zvonary in Moscow was an Orthodox church, which since 1996 has belonged to the Moscow courtyard of the Pukhtitsa convent in Estonia. The building was built by architect Karl Blank in 1762. The ancient name of the district “Ringer”, and later Zvonarsky Lane, received its name in honor of the fact that the bell ringers of the main Moscow bell tower of Ivan the Great (John the Ladder) in the Kremlin lived here.
If you enter the monastery gate, located under the Church of Eugene of Kherson, into the territory of the monastery, you will see the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Rozhdestvenka St., 20/8). The temple that is located to the right of it is the Church of St. John Chrysostom (Rozhdestvenka St., 20/8).
The building located behind the monastery, the mansion of G.K. Ushkova (Rozhdestvensky Boulevard, house No. 10) (the interiors of the building were designed in 1897 by architect F. O. Shekhtel) is a monument of architecture of the 19th century. After the revolution, the building was nationalized and given over to housing stock.
City estate of A.I. Fonvizin (Rozhdestvensky Boulevard, house No. 12). Meetings were held here secret society, and in 1821 a congress of the Welfare Union took place. After the Decembrist uprising, M.A. was arrested here. Fonvizin and the Decembrist V.S. who lived with him. Norov. These buildings are architectural monuments of the 19th century. On the twelfth house we can see 2 memorial plaques. The first belongs to the Polish violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski. Second - to the Hero Soviet Union Ishkov Alexander Akimovich.
The next building (Rozhdestvensky Boulevard, house No. 14) is the mansion of Countess E.P. Rostopchina. In the 1840s, N. Pavlov owned the house. He organized here the famous literary and philosophical “Pavlovian Thursdays” throughout Moscow, which were attended by Gogol, Baratynsky, Polonsky, Fet.
On the other side (Rozhdestvensky Boulevard, house No. 13) is the estate of M.A. Lagofita (recreated in the 1980s), built at the beginning of the 19th century. These are two residential buildings located at the heart of the estate. Both buildings are identical, at the second floor level the facades have four-column Tuscan porticoes, at first they were made of wood. In the eighties of the last century, the houses were restored; during the period of work, the facades of historical buildings were recreated.
The city estate of A.P. Karamysheva (Rozhdestvensky Boulevard, house No. 16) is not only an architectural monument, but also a historical monument, because The writer Demyan Bedny lived here from 1933 to 1943. Later the building housed his museum.
Also, in memory of the heavenly patroness of the capital - the Venerable Euphrosyne, Princess of Moscow, a worship cross was installed on Rozhdestvensky Boulevard and was opened on December 1, 2012.
The boulevard ends with a small park with benches and flower beds.
Sources used.
We continue our walks along the Boulevard Ring. Today I want to talk about the Monastic side, as I called it, in the area Rozhdestvenskyboulevard. An interesting corner of the city with a varied, albeit gloomy, history.
Rozhdestvensky Boulevard.
The surroundings of Trubnaya Square have been known since the end of the 14th century, when the Christmas female And Sretensky Monastery . The arable land on the outer side began to be built up only in the 16th century. Their working people settled near the monasteries, and in the 17th century, behind the wall of the White City, the settlement of Pechatny Dvor (Pechatnikov Lane) settled. After the demolition of the walls of the White City in 1760, despite the order of Catherine II to develop boulevards (1775), the site of the current boulevard was spontaneously built up with shops. In the fire of 1812, the inner side of the boulevard survived, but the outer side was destroyed along with the shops near the former fortress walls. Only then, in the 1820s, was a green boulevard built, steeply descending to Trubnaya Square.
Previously, between Bolshaya Lubyanka Street, Bolshoi Kiselny Lane and Varsonyevsky Lane there was Varsonofevsky Women's Monastery of the White City. It was founded at the end of the 15th - beginning of the 16th centuries. At the monastery there was a huge “shameful cemetery”, where beggars and those who died a violent death were taken for burial. To be buried here was considered a great shame among Muscovites, so in Time of Troubles False Dmitry I ordered the bodies of Boris Godunov and his family to be buried here. In 1765, the monastery was abolished, the monastery Ascension Cathedral became the usual parish church of the Ascension. And later, the Bolsheviks demolished all the buildings and monuments of the monastery, including the Church of the Ascension. Since then, almost the entire area has been occupied by numerous buildings of the FSB of the Russian Federation - Federal Service Security Russian Federation(and the USSR too).
New building of the Russian FSB Directorate for Moscow and the Moscow Region in Bolshoi Kiselny Lane
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The old buildings are located to the left, closer to Lubyanka Square.
This is probably why, thanks to the historically unpleasant “glory” of this area, it has a gloomy history. Very! The Bolsheviks continued the terrible “monastic” traditions - here, in the secret courtyards of their buildings, they carried out mass executions followed by “burial” on the territory of that shameful cemetery, which no longer existed officially. And still, there, among these streets, there is some kind of fear. The architecture of the area is heavy, as if pressing from all sides. In general, I didn’t feel comfortable there at all. It was even scary, being there, to imagine what was happening behind the walls of these buildings...
And so, among such a gloomy environment, literally like the Light in a window, on Bolshaya Lubyanka Street one encounters the first ancient shrine of ancient Moscow in the Rozhdestvensky Boulevard area -
Sretensky stauropegic monastery.
In my opinion, it is very symbolic that the monastery is for men. It was not far from the “neighbors” who worked a block from the monastery to go and atone for their sins.
The monastery was founded in 1397 by Prince Vasily I on Kuchkovo field(the name has been known since the 14th century and is associated with the name of the boyar S.I. Kuchka, who owned lands in the territory of the future Moscow in the mid-12th century) in memory of a miraculous event reported by chronicle sources. According to the chronicles, on August 26, 1395, a religious procession led by Saint Cyprian met the miraculous image of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, brought from Vladimir-on-Klyazma. A day later, Timur-Tamerlane turned south. Defenseless Moscow lying in front of him was saved. And so, in memory of deliverance from the invasion on the spot meeting Sretensky Monastery was founded on the miraculous image of the Mother of God. Every year on August 26, the Vladimir Icon was transferred here in a procession from the Assumption Cathedral. The Feast of the Presentation of the Vladimir Icon was the main local holiday in Moscow.
True, the original buildings of the monastery did not survive. The five-domed Cathedral that is now located in the monastery was built in 1679 at the expense of Tsar Feodor Alekseevich. And the Cathedral is the only thing left from ancient history.
Cathedral of the Presentation of the Icon of the Vladimir Mother of God. Or rather, his belfry...
Other buildings of the monastery, including the ancient Temple of St. Mary of Egypt, were also demolished by the Bolsheviks in the 1927-1930s, as stated in newspapers and official documents, “to expand street traffic.” The surviving monastery buildings housed a dormitory for NKVD officers. During the years of terror, hundreds of people were also shot on the territory that previously belonged to the monastery. Before the revolution, there was also a cemetery on the territory of the monastery, where participants were buried Patriotic War 1812. IN Soviet times a secondary school building was built on the site of the monastery graveyard.
Building former school No. 1216, now - Sretenskaya Theological Seminary.
As I understand it, the cemetery of 1812 was in this very place.
In the fall of 1999, classes began here at the Sretensky Higher Orthodox Monastic School. By the decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on July 17, 2001, the school was given the status of a Theological Seminary, and on December 26, 2002, the Holy Synod renamed the school Sretensky Theological Seminary.
The modern history of the monastery is also no less interesting. In July 1996, by decision of the Synod, the metochion was transformed into Sretensky stauropegial (a status assigned to Orthodox monasteries, laurels and brotherhoods, as well as cathedrals and theological schools, making them independent of local diocesan authorities and subordinate directly to the patriarch or synod. The literal translation - “planting of the cross” indicates that in stauropegial monasteries the cross was erected by the patriarchs personally. Stavropegial status is the highest) monastery , whose viceroy was appointed abbot (now archimandrite) Tikhon (Shevkunov). The latter often appeared in the press as “Putin’s confessor.”
Entering the walls of the monastery from Lubyanka, you find yourself in paradise... literally... The territory is well-groomed, gardens and flower beds are laid out everywhere. Now, in the fall, it doesn’t look as great as in the summer: numerous roses have already faded, and the leaves have fallen from the trees... But!!! Even despite the bad weather, you feel like you are in a beautiful garden.
It is planned to build another temple on the territory of the monastery - the “Church on Blood” in honor of the new martyrs and confessors of Russia: in the spring of 2011, Patriarch Kirill spoke in favor of perpetuating on the territory of the monastery the memory of those who died for their faith during the years of persecution of the Church. Project accepted! And despite numerous protests from various cultural and historical heritage services, construction began. The status “stauropygial” means “independent and independent”; it allows you to do whatever you want without any special permissions.
But this is a completely different story... And we move on...
The name of the boulevard - Rozhdestvensky - was actually given by the name of another ancient monastery located in these places -
Mother of God-Rozhdestvensky convent. Refectory chamber.
Single-headed stone Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was erected in 1501-1505 in the traditions of early Moscow architecture. After the fire of 1547, for 150 years it was surrounded by extensions that distorted the original appearance.
On November 25, 1525, in the Nativity Monastery, the wife of Vasily the Third, Solomonia Saburova, was forcibly tonsured under the name Sofia. She lived in the monastery before being transferred to the Suzdal Intercession Monastery. In the summer of 1547, during a severe Moscow fire, the buildings of the monastery burned down and the stone cathedral was damaged. It was soon restored according to the vow of Tsarina Anastasia Romanovna, the wife of Ivan the Terrible. In 1676-1687, at the expense of Princess Photinia Ivanovna Lobanova-Rostovskaya, a stone church of St. John Chrysostom was erected with a refectory (first photo) and chapels of St. Nicholas, Righteous Philaret the Merciful and St. Demetrius of Rostov. It was built at her own expense in 1671. stone fence with four towers...
In 1835-1836, a bell tower with the church of the Holy Martyr Eugene, Bishop of Kherson...
The monastery operated a shelter for orphan girls and a parochial school.
The history of the monastery is very diverse. Many great people of their eras turned their gaze to him. For example, it is known that boyar Mikhail Vasilyevich Sobakin, a distant relative of Marfa Sobakin, the third wife of Ivan the Terrible, had a large courtyard here. Here was the property of Prince A.I. Lobanov-Rostovsky, whose family descended from Rurik himself. In 1740, shortly before her death, Empress Anna Ioannovna sent the monastery a gift of brocade vestments in honor of the birth of Ivan Antonovich, to whom she denied the throne with the regency of his mother and her niece Anna Leopoldovna. During the Patriotic War of 1812, a Napoleonic general settled in the monastery and the refectory chamber of the Nativity Cathedral was turned into a stable.
During the revolutionary years, the monastery, like many others, was also closed. Office, scientific and educational institutions. Communal apartments were set up in the cells; they were even located in the Nativity Cathedral. Some of the nuns were allowed to remain in the former monastery; two nuns lived on the territory of the monastery until the late 1970s. The monastery cemetery, along with the grave of the founder of the monastery, Princess Maria Andreevna, was destroyed, part of the walls was demolished. Then a correctional labor house was located here, from where prisoners were taken to work.
In 1922, the monastery was thoroughly robbed: more than 17 pounds of silver and 16 pounds of pearls were seized. That same year, the monastery was closed, its bells were thrown to the ground, and the most revered icons were moved to a neighboring church on Rozhdestvenka Street - St. Nicholas Church in Zvonary...
It was a former house church in an 18th-century estate, which was built by Count I.I. Vorontsov. Later, the Stroganov School and the now famous MArhI (Moscow Architectural Institute) were located in the buildings of that estate.
Almost all monasteries were persecuted during the revolutionary years. All church buildings (both monasteries and churches) were looted, many were partially destroyed and desecrated, many were simply wiped off the face of the earth. But by destroying the Temples, monasticism was not destroyed. And for some time it still existed secretly... underground... They even had their own secret community... But I’ll tell you where it was located in the next part of the story about the walk...
The weather is raging in Moscow, there is an ice invasion. It's a pity for trees that break. I feel very sorry for people who fall, slide, and get wet in giant puddles on the roadway. By the way, where are the utilities? This morning in our area, two street cleaners scraped a little in the yard with shovels, and one did a little near the metro, a drop in the ocean of ice and water.
But yesterday before the onset freezing rain We managed to walk a little around the center of Moscow.
Rozhdestvensky is my favorite boulevard in Moscow. I love it for its lack of crowds, especially in winter, for the once beautiful descent to Trubnaya Square, for its two monasteries,
House 14 – the estate was owned by the widow of Count F.V. Rostopchina Ekaterina Petrovna; in 1837 it was bought by professor of medicine K.I. Janisch, his daughter Caroline married the writer N.F. Pavlov. Their house becomes the center of literary life; people have been here in different times M. Yu. Lermontov, N. V. Gogol, E. A. Baratynsky, A. A. Fet, Ya. P. Polonsky, K. S. Aksakov, Kireevsky brothers, A. S. Khomyakov, S. P. Shevyrev , A. I. Herzen, N. P. Ogarev, T. N. Granovsky, P. Ya. Chaadaev, composer Franz Liszt. In 1867, the owner of the house was the French merchant E. Mattern, and from 1912 - L.O. Vyazemskaya.
House 12 is now occupied by the Federal Fisheries Agency (Rosrybolovstvo). Built at the end of the 18th century by Princess A. Golitsyna, then belonged to the Fonvizin family. In 1821, a secret congress of the Union of Welfare took place in the house, which was attended by: the owners of the house M. A. and I. A. Fonvizin, N. I. Turgenev, I. G. Burtsov, S. G. Volkonsky, F. N. Glinka, P. X. Grabbe, P. I. Koloshin, N. I. Komarov, M. F. Orlov, K, A. Okhotnikov, I. D. Yakushkin. In 1825 M.A. Fonvizin was arrested here, from this house in 1828 Natalya Dmitrievna left for Siberia to the place of exile of Fonvizin’s husband. The house belonged to various people, then it was purchased by philanthropist N.F. von Meck, who sold it in 1881, and the house was owned by various entrepreneurs.
View of Maly Kiselny Lane
House 10 – built in the 1830s. D.N. Satin, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the architect Kokorin built the house up to five floors. Here was the L. V. Rosenpletner Women's Gymnasium.
This was once my favorite Moscow panorama
Now there is an unfinished restaurant nicknamed “the dung beetle”
Only the view of the Nativity Monastery inspires optimism
The refectory building with the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was built in 1904-06, architect P.A. Vinogradov
Residential building, con. 18th century, has an address on Trubnaya Square, rebuilt.
Another rebuilt building - Neglinnaya Plaza
