Indigenous Muscovites consider the center of Moscow the entire territory inside the Garden Ring. This historical center of Moscow is relatively small in area - eighteen square meters. km or about two percent, if not less, of the area of the capital.
A bit of history
The garden ring arose at the end of the sixteenth century and at first was an earthen rampart, fortified with an oak wall. When the dangers of raids from the south and west disappeared, then gradually they began to tear it down. The remains burned in the fire of 1812. When all the rubble was dismantled, ring roads lined with front gardens were made on the freed up square. In the 30s of the last century, gardens were cut down, and in the 40s and 50s the entire Garden Ring was already an asphalt highway, on which stood three famous Stalin's skyscrapers.
Moscow - city center
Moscow is a huge city, and everyone living in it will find what it considers the center. But the most natural way to look for it is about zero kilometer. It always started from the Central Telegraph. And now, for roads, this sign is installed in front of the Resurrection Gate, which connects Red Square with Manezhnaya.
The second zero sign also stands on Red Square. If you draw a line that connects the Mausoleum and GUM, then this zero mark will be in the center.
the Red Square
This is the source of all the radial streets in the capital and the very, very center of Moscow. On it stands the newly reconstructed GUM, the Historical Museum and the restored Resurrection Gate. After passing through them, we find ourselves in the Alexander Garden and the hotels Moscow and Four Seasons (three stars). Bypassing them, you can look into the underground shopping complex Okhotny Ryad. And here, just a stone's throw, or rather three minutes, is the five-star National Hotel. He stands at the intersection of Mokhovaya and Tverskaya streets near the Okhotny Ryad metro station. Nearby are the hotels Aquarelle and Budapest.
Up Tverskaya
Right next to it is the equally sophisticated but brand new Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Moving up, we will meet the Inter-Continental, and even higher - the Sheraton Palace.
These are modern five-star hotels. Hotels in the center of Moscow are densely located.
On one of the oldest streets - Tverskaya - from the 12th century, a highway passed that led to a neighboring principality. It became the main one in the seventeenth century. And under Peter the Great, she became the road leading to the new capital. It has always stood the most beautiful houses and shops. Eliseevsky deli was built one hundred and fourteen years ago. He immediately attracted attention with luxurious Empire-style interiors, fine wines and exotic freshest products that were sold there.
An interesting fact: slightly spoiled products were eaten by the store employees every evening. It was strictly forbidden to take them out or throw them away. Both guests and residents of the capital love to visit it. It is impossible not to mention the nearby Filippovskaya bakery, which was the first to bake rolls with raisins. It has a coffee room. The hotel, which is called "Suite", is attached to the building.
theatre square
If you go to it, then you can’t avoid the Bolshoi and Maly theaters and the Metropol Hotel (five stars).
It was built in the Art Nouveau style, decorated with ceramic panels "Princess Dreams", which is made according to Vrubel's drawings. Right next to Teatralny Proezd and Neglinnaya Street are the Savoy Hotel and Ararat Park Hyatt Moscow. The center of Moscow is simply packed with extra-class hotels.
Triumphal Square
It is located at the intersection of Tverskaya Street and the Garden Ring. This is also the center of Moscow. It used to be called Mayakovsky Square. It houses the Satire Theater, the Beijing Hotel (three stars), which is famous not only for comfort, but also for its restaurant. Music lovers a stone's throw from Mayakovskaya metro station will find them. P.I. Tchaikovsky.
Streets in the center
Streets depart radially from Red Square, which is the center of Moscow. To the north are Tverskaya, Petrovka, Karetny Ryad, Neglinnaya, Tsvetnoy Boulevard. The eastern direction is represented by the streets Myasnitskaya, Orlikov lane, Maroseyka, Pokrovka, Old Basmannaya. To the south we get along the Bolshoi Moscow Bridge, Bolshaya Ordynka. From Borovitskaya Square, which is adjacent to the Kremlin (center of Moscow), the streets lead to the south-west. This is Bolshoi Kamenny Bridge, Udarnik Cinema, Bolshaya Polyanka. The West is the streets Volkhonka, Ostozhenka, Vozdvizhenka, Novy Arbat, Bolshaya Nikitskaya, Krasnaya Presnya. Pedestrian Arbat is also a peculiar center of Moscow. This short street stretches from Smolenskaya metro to Arbatskaya metro. It houses the theater to them. Vakhtangov, a monument to Bulat Okudzhava, who sang it, the wall of the wailing of Viktor Tsoi, numerous shops.
You can buy an author’s painting right on the street, as the artists turned the street into an opening day. And playing musicians gather around them an audience who want to listen to them. On the New Arbat are the Paradise Hotel and the Marriott Hotel (ten minutes walk from the Arbat). Near the Arbat metro station, you can find at least fifteen first-class hotels. These are all hotels in the center of Moscow.
Subway
In the 30s, the first metro line opened. And immediately in Utesov’s repertoire appeared the song “The Old Cabman”. There are about two hundred stations in the modern metro.
In order not to get confused in them, each carriage has their scheme. Stations are designed according to the radial-ring principle. The actual ring line is one. All other radial, often having branches. The three oldest lines - Sokolnicheskaya, Zamoskvoretskaya and Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya - were opened in the prewar years. During the war, Muscovites used them as bomb shelters. The center of
Moscow metro covers completely. It’s easy to get to any object of interest by metro and most importantly - quickly.
To cover everything that is interesting and useful in Moscow, you need to write at least a brochure, or rather a book. This short article is just an incomplete listing of the streets, hotels and shops that you can find in the center.