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In this walk we will visit one of the most famous streets in Moscow - Tverskaya street. The walk starts from Troilinsky lane to Manezhnaya square. The history of the street: Tverskaya street leads Northwest from the Kremlin. It starts from Manezhnaya square and ends at Triumfalnaya square. From 1932 to 1990, Tverskaya was called Gorky street and was much longer. Gorky street included the First Tverskaya-Yamskaya street, which runs from Triumfalnaya square to Tverskaya Zastava square. The name Maxim Gorky was given by Tverskaya in connection with the 40th anniversary of the writer’s creative activity during his lifetime. There are two squares on Tverskaya street. This is Tverskaya square opposite the house of the Governor-General (later the Mossovet, the government of Moscow). It was created in 1792 and served for the daily divorce of the guard. Pushkin square is located at the intersection with the Boulevard ring, built on the site of the walls of the White city. Until 1937, it was called Strastnaya square. Tverskaya street was formed from the main road to Tver, the capital of the neighboring Principality and a rival of Moscow. Since the XV century, the Tver road has been connected with the road to Novgorod and its importance has grown. In 1504, the street was built up from the beginning only to the modern Pushkin square. Beyond it, the road to Tver ran through fields and groves. Already in the XVII century, Tverskaya was perceived as the main street of the city. Both foreign ambassadors and tsars entered Moscow in state on Tverskaya street. After the Foundation of St. Petersburg, Tverskaya became the road to the new capital. Since the reign of Peter the Great, it was customary to arrange triumphal arches on the squares along Tverskaya street on the occasion of holidays, military victories or coronations. Solemn processions along Tverskaya and other streets to the Kremlin played a big role in the life of the city. Thus, one of the processions under Peter I carried a real warship on ice rinks. The triumphal arches on Tverskaya street were temporary, wooden, and had to be dismantled after the festival. The memory of the triumphs of the past is preserved in the name of the triumphal square. The width of the main street of Moscow in the XVII century was only from 8.5 to 15 meters. In the XVIII century, the minimum width for large streets of the city was set at about 20 meters. Tverskaya remained this way until reconstruction in the 1930s. Due to the demolition of houses on the red lines, the width of Tverskaya was brought to 40 meters. During the reconstruction process, four large buildings were moved to new locations. These are Savvinsky farmstead of the architect I. S. Kuznetsov (1907, Tverskaya, 6 p. 6, in the courtyard), Mossovet (Tverskaya, 13), Eye hospital (Mamonovsky lane, 7) and house 21 in Bryusov lane. The fifth and so far the last house moved-Tverskaya, 18, the house of I. D. Sytin, stood in a new place in 1979. Along Tverskaya street, the rich and noble Muscovites preferred to build their own houses. The street consisted of large manors with services, among which were visible parish and house churches, as well as monasteries. Moiseyevsky monastery was located at the beginning of Tverskaya street, on the modern Manezhnaya square, abolished by decree in 1764 and soon demolished. The resurrection monastery existed from the XV century until the middle of the XVII century, when it was transformed into the courtyard of the Savvino-Storozhevsky monastery (Tverskaya street, 6). Strastnoy monastery stood on Pushkin square, was abolished in 1919, but the nuns lived in it until 1928. Destroyed in the late 1930s. In addition to the monasteries, it is worth noting two destroyed parish churches. Dmitry Solunsky Church - on the corner of Tverskaya and Tverskoy Boulevard and the Church of the Annunciation on the site of house 25/12, on the corner of Blagoveshchensk lane. The first intercity stagecoach that ran until 1851 passed through Tverskaya in 1820 to St Petersburg. In 1872, on the occasion of the opening of the Polytechnic exhibition, a horse – drawn railway was launched along the street-a horse-drawn tram, which was replaced in the early twentieth century by a tram. In 1933, the first trolleybus began to run along Tverskaya street. Today Tverskaya street is still the main street in Moscow. It is home to expensive hotels (national, Ritz Carlton, MARRIOTT Grand), well-known stores (yeliseyevsky, Moscow bookstore), cafes, restaurants, museums and theaters. The type of street is defined by houses in the style of Soviet classics of the mid-twentieth century. Information about the day: March 14, Saturday, the air Temperature is 10 #moscow #москва #walking #прогулка #тверская #tverskaya
