The famous Chistye Prudy is rich and attractive not only with its amazing history, but also with its interesting facilities: theaters, restaurants, fitness clubs, cinemas, business centers and shops. Especially these places are attractive with beautiful and convenient park areas for hiking.
Chistoprudny Boulevard is fenced off from large transport highways and is a quite quiet and comfortable place for a relaxing holiday. And Moscow can rightfully be proud of it . Chistye Prudy attractions, the names of which we will specify in this article, are quite interesting.
This corner of Moscow is an excellent resting place, where not only local residents try to get, but also numerous guests of the city. There is something to admire: magnificent nature, cultural monuments. Even the name of this picturesque corner of the capital evokes pleasant associations.
Chistye Prudy (Moscow)
Sights in this wonderful corner of the city are rich in their unique history. Of course, it is difficult to believe, but once this place was a stinking terrible puddle contaminated with various wastes of the meat trade. This is due to the fact that in the neighborhood (Myasnitskaya Street) there were a huge number of butcher shops.
For a long time already everything has changed: the associate of Peter I Alexander Menshikov in 1703 acquired a small plot with a house nearby. This place was ennobled by his order, and the pond was cleaned up. Since then, the pond began to be called Clean. A more familiar name for today has come into use gradually. So there is no cascade of ponds here.
But Chistye Prudy has become one of the favorite vacation spots for residents of nearby neighborhoods and other metropolitan areas and guests whom Moscow welcomes.
Chistye Prudy: attractions, description
This is an amazing district of Moscow, the history of which is preserved not only in chronicles and textbooks. Like more than a hundred years ago, white swans are floating on the mirror surface of the water, couples and young mothers with strollers are walking along the alleys. You can often see more mature couples walking along the alleys here.
Like many years ago, limes, willows, and chestnuts bloom here. Even the new modern houses that have appeared around the boulevard in recent years have joined the ensemble and do not destroy the usual habitual appearance of the old quarters, which is observed in many parts of the vast city of Moscow.
Chistye Prudy, the sights of which are magnificent and beautiful, are very popular among tourists. One of the main advantages of the park is its magnificent building (d. 19a), built in 1912-14. It has a colonnade stylized as antique. The building was built for the cinema "Coliseum" R.I. Klein (famous architect). However, after its reconstruction in the 70s, it was transferred to the drama theater Sovremennik.
In a neighboring house (d.21), built in the 1890s, literary meetings of N. Teleshov took place, in which M. Gorky, A. Chekhov, D. Mamin-Sibiryak, A. Kuprin, I. Bunin and other famous writers and poets. Very close to this house (d.23) in 1920-34 lived the famous film director Sergei Eisenstein.
Monuments
Unimaginable without monuments to the great people installed in different parts of the city, Moscow. Chistye Prudy, whose sights tell the history of the city, can not be imagined without a monument to A. Griboedov. The great Russian writer lived in 42 Myasnitskaya Street and often walked along the green cozy alleys of the then new boulevard. This monument was built in 1959.
There is also a monument to M. Bakunin (ideologist of Russian anarchism) erected in 1918 at the Myasnitsky Gate. But the sculpture, which was not entirely successful, was removed after a protest by anarchists who believed that such a monument offends the memory of their teacher.
Traditions
The city of Moscow, Chistye Prudy has an amazing history. The sights of the boulevard and the surrounding area have their own history of formation and origin. According to legend, this place, formerly called Pogany, is closely connected with the origin of the great city.
According to legend, there was a village that belonged to the boyar Stepan Kuchka. He did not show respect to Prince Y. Dolgoruky who visited him and offended him, after which the prince ordered to kill the boyar and throw his body away. Legend has it that it was after this that the pond began to be called Pogany.
There is one more guess about the name. When the spread of Christianity began, pagan idols destroyed and threw into the water. And the word "pagan", in Latin paganus, and means "filthy." This is where the name Pogany Pond came from.
The most common version is as follows. About it has been said above. The pond got its name due to the fact that garbage from meat slaughterhouses on Myasnitskaya Street was poured here. There are scholars who reject this version because the Myasnitskaya Sloboda was at a great distance from the pond (r. Sretenki St.).
It should be remembered that during the time of Ivan the Terrible, a terrible tragedy occurred in this place. In 1570, 120 boyars and service people were tortured to death for treason.
Boulevard Formation
Many interesting historical events are fraught with Moscow. Chistye Prudy, the sights of which can tell a lot about the events taking place here in ancient times, arose thanks to the dam. In those days, the Rachki River (a tributary of the Yauza River) flowed here along the walls of the White City . This river has long ceased to exist, and today the reservoir is fed by the waters from the water supply system.
And then the pond was a favorite place among the townspeople. They rode here in the summer on boats, and in the winter on skates.