Funeral Moscow

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Must show all the offices in Moscow. Not only do they create clouds of traffic jams and a lot of people - demolished historic buildings.
Conclusion offices in Moscow, in my opinion, the best solution. We have created the same reservation for gaming zones (though no one there not being built), it is also possible to create a reservation for offices.

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-bis History of St. Petersburg in the same city.
 
Sergey Nosov

I wrote here once in the spring a little essay on the cadet rebellion and its suppression, the first - in the long term civil war - bloody of murder, which occurred on the fourth day after the almost bloodless coup. And how the Leningrad authorities immortalized in his day a memorable sign, depicting the cannon, the very place from which the revolutionary sailors point-blank shot Vladimirskoye Infantry School. I wanted to return to the subject a few days later - still on the nose round date: those events will soon be ninety years old.

And now contemplated to talk about the names of our city. Zavarov strong tea, and sit up in the morning for your computer and knock the first sentence: "For some time I was not feeling that I live where I live, not in St. Petersburg."

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Here - the phone. Phoned my friend, a resident of the Petrograd side, he rides a bike on his own Pioneer Street. "I put you on notice that toppled Vladimirskoye ..."

I do not believe it. First, the building of the former Vladimirsky infantry school - a whole block, and secondly, it is protected zone of St. Petersburg, and thirdly, the historical monument in the fourth, Wednesday, her element ... Fifth ... Sixth ... etc.

From Haymarket to Chkalovsky the subway two stops. Twenty minutes.

Came, he saw. What can I say? That failed in October the seventeenth year, in an exemplary performed in October zero six. After suppressing the revolt in October released a postcard with a view of the school, disfigured by two breaches of artillery shells, you can compare. Feeling of October this: bombed quarter as if from an airplane.

Everything has been largely destroyed by tall heaps of brick crawl excavator, the boom which is written in large letters "Terminator". Through a cloud of dust comes out a piece of land protruding from the walls, adorned with unpretentious-sweeping graffiti: "The sun! Good morning! Everything will be fine! "Six months ago, passing by, took pictures - I do not know why - a strange appeal of the mysterious sun worshipers. For some, perhaps mysterious reasons, has not been touched.

Due to the blue fence, go chiefs in colorful helmets, go past me. "And that will be built here?" - One (grimly): "Our business is to clear the area. - "I do not leave?". - "Nothing." - "And when the end?" - "Last month'll manage."

Unbelievable. I have many ways to understand ... interests, buying and selling ... but here's the notorious mystic St. Petersburg: a month and just turns ninety years since that day. Okay, sryli, but the prohibitive expressiveness, it is something where? It is a why? Well it can not be such that podgadali special!

Unable to explain the fantastic coincidence, I start myself to indulge in fantasies. Here, I present to high-ranking person in the room comes from somewhere below the proposal to install a memorial plaque: "In this building October 29, 1917 ..." How? Anniversary? What the hell story? Set the board - then will not be torn up. Then what about a business center?

Otherwise I can not explain.

It is now almost night, I stuffed these letters, and seven hundred meters from the fortress are operating TERMINATOR.

So you can find and set. Why not touch on attractions, with all sort of nonsense is obtained. Invented a hero of the job - to guard the warehouse linseed oil in the industrial zone near the abandoned cemetery Gromov, and immediately pulled it awake highway, and the asphalt is already moving to the graves. Posted heroine in the 80 years of working as a typist in the Palace of Culture. Kapranov - and then, in our days, demolished this monument of constructivism. And rapidly growing in its place a multi-mnogozhilischnoe something resembling a tower of Babel. Here - referred Vladimirskoye infantry, staring at him with a gun-pillar, and ...

After some thought, you know, however, that it's not in your vision and even less in the magic power of words - all much easier. Here, you know, working principle of "wherever tkni ...". Wherever tkni, everywhere in St. Petersburg that something happens. Somewhere break, somewhere clearing, somewhere buried previously dug, seal noncontractible, calling something loudly not St Petersburg.

Man-of-Gazprom said loudly: Petersburg-de needs new characters.

How to know him, what needs to Petersburg? In a prophetic dream told him to St. Petersburg on their aspirations?

What is St. Petersburg and needs - so this is not to cut down on the living. And so he did not impose foreign concepts, not tailored to "world standards", was compelled to imitate Moscow.

One might think that a new symbol - from the Babylonian pointless high skyscraper - a readable any meaning other than literal humiliation of the old and enduring symbol of the city - the golden guardian angel Petersburg stodvadtsatimetrovuyu ascended to the heights.

City is experiencing break-up - in both senses. His break, and it breaks. He ceases to understand who he is.

High-ranking city officials with a simple proudly declare: "Saint Petersburg - is already a brand."

And we thought, even the name.

And I do not think is that the name "Saint Petersburg" is the correct name of our city.

I easily called it St Petersburg, when it was Leningrad. In Leningrad, even after all the destruction, the real Petersburg remained higher than in the current city.

Area Worldwide more like the Haymarket than the current Hay, ceased to be an area of the World.

At the time of St. Petersburg Leningrad writers believed Nekrasov and Dostoevsky. In Leningrad times in this city lived Leningrad writers - including Anna Akhmatova, who saw himself Leningrader. And it is strange no one thought. I myself barely managed to capture the "Leningrad period. But suddenly, overnight, all of St. Petersburg became writers, like found themselves without invitations at a literary dinner at the table with Viazemsky and Zhukovsky. I long bothered khaljavnogo expression "Petersburg writer", which applies to our own, Leningrad person. To be honest, still not used to.

Leningradets - which means fate. Lenin here has nothing to do. Whatever the city was called, endured the siege, though his name - any! - Would be assured to experience unprecedented test.

Increasingly, talk about heaven Petersburg. Where can still be the soul of St. Petersburg, nor in the upper chambers of the world?

And that here on earth?

As ideas, as Eidos Petersburg and Leningrad in the same way that we are closed - as offering a sacrifice of their material embodiment in the space of the city. One could say "the future of St. Petersburg", if this was the name of the future. Becoming a brand name of "Saint Petersburg" is no longer true name of this place. Increasingly, "St. Petersburg" seems a pseudonym. And not one to me. The city was caught in the names and troubles of his own history. The true name is not given to us to guess. You can certainly find a suitable - in a first approximation to what we have.

St. Petersburg-bis, for example. "Encore" in an unchanged value - "double", "re". Required ostentatious cry of delight - in excess of mad applause deliberate new glitter and glamor.

October 12, 2007

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The name of the Cathedral of Transfiguration, that Bohr seemed speaks to its antiquity. It seems that during the construction of the first wooden cathedral around it still roaring wild forest, the age-old pine forest. However, archaeological excavations have revealed that in that place already in the XI century there was a village with a trading place, so that one can doubt the existence of close to the Kremlin wild forest, two centuries later.
More likely it can be assumed that the cathedral was built on the site of the ancient market place, because the word "bor" means more and tax, as well as the place where the tax was collected. Then the Church really was "in Bor", ie where there was trading outpost at the confluence of the rivers of Moscow and Neglinnoy, two roads of antiquity.
There is a version that the first wooden church appeared in the same year, when Daniel, the youngest son of Alexander Nevsky, was a lot of Moscow. But with the dates in this case, all very debatable. It is known that in 1319 in the old church had been temporarily laid the body of Prince Michael of Yaroslav of Tver, the victim in the struggle for power with Yury of Moscow defeated and slain at the command of Khan Uzbek. It was Yuri brought back from the Horde, the body of the defeated enemy and not just handed it to Tver.

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But the history of the stone Cathedral of Transfiguration, we can safely count on another son of the founder of Moscow dynasty.
According chronicle the news in 1330, Prince Ivan Kalita "laid the church stone in Moscow, near her yard ...". Stone construction in the once outskirts of the city was once again demonstrate the richness and power of the Prince of Moscow. After the construction of the cathedral Ivan Danilovich is "created that monastery, and special troops in he monk, and love him more than the INEGI monasteries, and often come at it pray for.

Monks he transferred because of the Moscow River, from the Danilov Monastery, founded by his father. Kremlin Spassky Monastery became the favorite child of Prince, he was "much alms dayashe Mnich that existent, yasti same, and pitii and clothes, and quit-rents and every requirement neskudno podavashe them, and harrow Velika tvoryashe they do not obidimym being nikim same." Samuel Church, he "will adorn the icons, and books, and vessels and all kinds of patterns the".
The monastery was granted the status of the palace. It Ivan Kalita took schema before his death, in 1340, but repose was in the Archangel Cathedral. Later, following the example of his father, a nun in the Spassky Monastery received and Simeon the Proud.
Spassky Cathedral of the monastery is considered one of the most respected, because in it to the base of the Kremlin Ascension Monastery buried grand duchess. The first burial took place in 1332, when she died the wife of Ivan Kalita, Elena. In 1345 it was buried the first wife of Simeon the Proud Anastasia, shortly before instigated by painting the cathedral: "a master sergeant and nachyalnitsy byst Russia was born, Grechistii student: Goitan, and Simon, Ivan, and others of their student and the squad." In the Spassky Cathedral found its resting place of the mother of Dmitry Donskoy, Grand Duchess Alexandra in 1364, the son of Dmitry Donskoy, Ivan in 1393 and Grand Duchess Maria, the third wife of Simeon the Proud (not to Ivan the Terrible, the grand dukes been controversial church marital affairs) Maria in 1399.
Disastrous for the Savior Cathedral was the defeat perpetrated Khan Tokhtamysh, who took to Moscow in 1382. Died abbot and many monks. Dmitry Donskoy resumed Spassky church, and gave annual donations to the monastery with a considerable sum for those times - 15 rubles. Many princes bestowed monastery villages, land and other lands.
Spassky Cathedral of the Transfiguration was the first chapel be Moscow's rulers, as the wooden Annunciation appeared only in 1397. We Savior on Bor baptized children, married, served fro the family of Grand Duke, Archimandrite of the Spassky monastery had been confessor to the Grand Dukes and their families. Thus, one of the abbots - Michael (Mityai), pretender to the metropolitan department, was the confessor of Dmitry Donskoy. In 1395 at the cathedral appeared shrine - the tomb of St. Stephen of Perm, educator zyryan, canonized in 1549. He came here to Metropolitan Cyprian, suddenly fell ill and died. He was buried in the Savior on Bor, despite the fact that Zyrians asked to give them the body of their beloved bishop.
But it is time Ivan III and ambitious restructuring of the Kremlin, where the space for the Spassky monastery remained. Especially already appeared Chudov and Ascension Monastery. Spassky Cathedral of the Transfiguration was restrained vast palaces, and the monastery was moved to the Kremlin and was called Novospasskij.
Savior on Bor left the palace church for the laity. Homes for the Grand Duke had already been Annunciation Cathedral, and the parishioners of Our Savior on Bor were numerous palace servants. For them, especially served early liturgy, so that they do everything in time to assume his duties. But the feast day service here is always going the patriarch himself. In the temple were sacred: the miraculous icon of "Praise to the Virgin", a salary from an image Vernicle that Thomas Palaeologus blessed his daughter, and the lectern lay an icon Merciful Savior, brought to Moscow, according to legend, the most Sophia Palaeologus.
Church life in the temple did not subside, he still had the high status of the Kremlin palace church, the appropriate status had his priors. Thus, in the middle of the XVI century the rector was a priest Ermolai (in monasticism Erazm), transferred to Moscow from Pskov, who wrote the famous "Tale of Peter and Fevronia. At the invitation of Metropolitan Macarius, he participated in the creation of the Great Chetih Saints, and even spoke to Ivan the Terrible with the proposals for reforms: for example, he called for not paying the money salary of the serving, but only to secure their estates, to liberate the peasants from cash taxes and heavy Yamskaya service. And later in archpriests Savior on Bor predicted future schism Habakkuk Petrova.
In the XVIII century Spassky Cathedral, as, indeed, the entire Kremlin began to decay, lishas watchful eye of the king. Many times the council examined the architects and consistently denounced on all new decrepitude that had to be corrected. Here in 1730 it was reported that through the vaults was a leak, tile in many places collapsed and overgrown with forest, birch, aspen and mountain ash. As a result, the end of XVIII century the cathedral was virtually rebuilt from scratch. Perhaps rebuilt Matvey Kazakov. Until now, remains a mystery, whether used in the restructuring of the old part of the ancient buildings of Ivan Kalita.
In 1812, the temple located stores of hay and oats for their personal horses of Napoleon, but after the war miraculously spared the cathedral was assigned to the palace temple Vernicle at Terem Palace (Savior of the Gold bars). And after the construction of the Grand Kremlin Palace Savior on Bor was inscribed in his courtyard. This fact contributed to the new restoration in 1850-1860-ies, for which he was invited venerable architect and restorer FF Richter. Particular attention in the refurbishing of the temple was brought to the burial place of Stephen of Perm.
Savior on Bor remained active church until the Revolution. In 1907, there married the daughter of a senator, poet Maria S. Lopuchin and Prince Vladimir Petrovich Trubetskoy, a relative of the philosopher Sergei Trubetskoy and sculptor Pavlo Trubetskoy. His father belonged to the famous names "bottleneck" near Moscow, where he died on the philosopher Vladimir Solovyov. But Mary Trubetskaya-Lopuchin became the most popular in pre-revolutionary Russia translator of Edgar Allan Poe.
Revolution in Moscow began with the closure of the Kremlin cathedrals and monasteries, but the Savior on Bor kept relatively long time. By the time Christ in Bohr considered the oldest church in Moscow (as its predecessor, the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist, was demolished long before the revolution), but the hastily conducted in 1932, studies have revealed the restructuring of the XVIII century. It turns out that attempts to save the cathedral then actually condemned him to death in the 30-ies of XX century? Although ...
There latest is interesting, but few authentic legend that Stalin once went to the Kremlin in the car and pointed to the Spassky Church: "Clear!" The next day, the temple has disappeared. And Stalin, once again riding in the car, he asked: "And where is that beautiful church?" - "You ordered it demolished! - Answered. "Fools! - Said the leader. - I meant a heap of debris that lay before her. "
Much more likely that the fate of the Savior on Bor was sealed its location in the courtyard of the Grand Kremlin Palace. When the palace began to rebuild, to its north facade new wing was added with service facilities. To make room for the construction of the hull Cathedral of the Savior on Bor and was destroyed by May 1, 1933.

Text quoted from the book: Romaniuk SK Moscow. Loss. M.: Izd VET "Center", 1992. 336 pp., Il. and article by Elena Lebedeva http://www.pravoslavie.ru/jurnal/568.htm
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One of the "most Moscow churches, has become the pearl of Moscow baroque and the supreme example of this architectural style, had a very sophisticated device. On the first floor of the lower church was consecrated in the name of St. Peter's Chapel of Moscow with the Nativity of John the Baptist, to name day hramozdatelya Ivan Sverchkova. In 1699 built the top, actually Assumption Church. This church was composed of 13 chapters, symbolizing the Lord Jesus Christ and His 12 apostles. The magnificent bell tower, which was connected with the church porch was so magnificent that it could be taken for an independent hip church, "who under the bells". The game was a brilliant white-foamed, snow lace decor with flaming fiery-red temple. Contemporaries Assumption Church appeared as composed of churches community by flying into the heavens, yet graceful, like an architectural poem. This miracle has been carved on the portal symbolic inscription "work of man.

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remained an ordinary parish church, but at the same time honor "house" for the merchant Ivan Sverchkova: Second steps of the temple with the main staircase led into the garden surrounding the house Sverchkova, and thus the landlord has its own separate entrance. The church was very high ladder and high promenade - open floor gallery at the entrance to the temple. Each prayer went up the stairs to the promenade and, before crossing the threshold of the temple of God, surveyed revealed from this height the panorama: both created a sense of ascension, cut off from the land which leads to a prayerful mood. To elevate the human soul and mind of this world, letting it to heaven - and what's called bizarre, unearthly beauty of the Assumption Church, symbolizing the beauty of God's creation. Academician Likhachev said that it had to see it surrounded by "low everyday buildings.

Moreover, according to scientists this gigantic church marked the one of the seven sacred hills of Moscow, just as the bell tower of Ivan the Great was crowned chief - Borovitckii hill. Quite close to the Kremlin, Assumption Church almost immediately after construction, in the first half of XVIII century, was among the other determined to be heard cathedral bells ringing. Then there were more patriarchal order: urban churches did not begin before the cathedral bells ringing, to the ringing of bells was not jumble and neblagochestiya. In Moscow, the cathedral bells were in the Assumption Belfry in Kremlin with the bell tower of Ivan the Great, and the bells should not start before or later than the ring Kremlin belfry. (In the case of the patronal feast of the temple of his clergy should receive the blessing of Metropolitan of the early church bells with a record of the order of church affairs.) In order to better compliance with this rule, as many churches in Moscow were remote from the Kremlin and have not heard cathedral bells, created a kind of ecclesiastical "Telegraph." Was told to "listen to the sound" in certain designated to the central church, which heard the bells of the Kremlin and began to ring with him, and they have already started ringing to call the rest of the church. Along with the Sretensky monastery and church of St. Nicholas phenomena on the Arbat in a long list of "blagovestnyh" Churches in Moscow and got Assumption Church on the Pokrovka. The responsibility was enormous, and the blunder of the priests who had missed the cathedral bells, not only fined, but also deprived of dignity.

Church stunned his contemporaries and successors, becoming a brilliant result of the development of Russian architecture, and the forerunner of future architectural eras. She soon became a mysterious parallel with the temple of the Intercession on the Moat, which is Red Square, which will run until the end of her days - too much in common, was echoed in the legends of these churches, starting with the fact that they both were named the eighth wonder of the world. After all, only very rare, unique, if not the only church could be compared with St. Basil's Cathedral. In one series with Assumption Church was originally set Vasily Bazhenov, who considered her not only one of the most beautiful buildings in Moscow, but also a creation of "bright national. Architect and compared it with zamoskvorechenskim temple Clement of Rome, saying that she was even "more affluent tastes deceive, because sozizhdena on a single good pleasure of the builder," that is a holistic architectural creations, like a sculpture carved from a single block of marble.

Assumption Church in awe and foreigners who visited Moscow. For the architect Rastrelli, the greatest master of Baroque, it was the entire creative inspiration: it is her he took as a model for its Smolny Cathedral in St. Petersburg, "the most Russian" from all works of Bartolomeo Rastrelli, the expression of IE Grabar. I remember a figure of speech and the writer Vadim Kojinova that the Paris-born architect Rastrelli was born in Moscow. And it was not the only example of St. Petersburg Moscow imitation pearl. In the northern capital, there is another temple, created by way of explanation of the Assumption Church - a Resurrection in the Smolensk cemetery where the funeral of Alexander Blok.

Even Napoleon was appalled at this church and, according to legend, put a special guard to protect it from fire and looters. However, another legend states that he ordered to take it apart brick by brick, and moved to Paris. It is easy to see here yet another parallel with the temple of the Protection of the moat: it is precisely his Napoleon supposedly wanted to move to Paris and ordered to blow it, when this idea is technically not a success. There are a legend, though Napoleon's Marshal (probably Mortier, which took home the Countess Razumovskaya early Maroseyka), seeing the church, he exclaimed: "Oh! Russian Notre Dame! "Another tradition ascribes this grandiloquent exclamation Napoleon himself. Anyway, the temple of the fire of 1812 is truly a miracle was not injured. But was this the merit of Napoleon? After all, there is evidence and it is quite plausible that in reality the church saved from the fire is not the mythical guard and Tyutchevs serfs, who lived nearby; father's house, a poet and now stands at Armenian Street.

It was lovely and the Moscow Church of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. His wife recalled that, visiting Moscow, he took her, "radical peterburzhku", look at this church because of its highly valued architecture. And visiting the Moscow one, Dostoevsky always rode on Pokrovka pray in the Church of Assumption and admire her. He previously stopped the cab and walked to her foot, the route to consider the church in all its glory. And he visited in these parts and because Starosadsky Lane lived his favorite aunt and godmother, A. Kumanin, which he often visited. Relations with Moscow in Dostoevsky were deep and personal: the greatest genius of Russia was born in it, absorbed here "Russian soul" and hence bore the church and national origin in their works. Moscow for him was a city of churches and church bells. And Assumption Church was true, the national symbol of Moscow.

And the parishioners at the church were wonderful. Features of the parish decided, first, its central location, and, secondly, the changing nature of Pokrovka, where she became known to settle, the rich, the manufacturers. The first of its parishioners have Acris, household hramozdatelya Sverchkova Ivan, who was himself with family members died in the lower church. Their house - magnificent white-stone house - and now is in the eponymous street (house number 8). When Chambers Sverchkov founded another charitable institution - hospice.

Soon after the construction of the Assumption Church, in 1705, the owner of Cricket chambers and a new parishioner of this church was treasurer ID Diamonds - steward of Queen Praskovya Feodorovna, wife of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich. It is believed that the Chamber officially remained in his possession until 1765, has not yet moved to a new owner - privy councilor AG Zherebtsov. But in Moscow, went to a legend, though in the basements of houses languishing in prison himself Vanka Kain, a robber and a detective (or rather, donositel) in one person. A famous thief, Ivan Osipov Cain, long plundered on the Volga, suddenly at the end of 1741 he came to Moscow in order to detective, and joined the donositeli then gave the whole adventure by sheltering the large catching thieves and small, opening the underground gambling houses, and encouraging looting. "Farmed out" he was a big part of the Moscow police, and they did not touch. Only when the outrage reached the limit and Muscovites have preferred to spend the night in a field, just would not stay in their homes, from St. Petersburg came from the military command of General Ushakov, who in 1749 established an independent commission in the case of Cain. Robber was soon arrested and in 1755 exiled to hard labor in Siberia. Only in this interval Cain and could be contained in the former house of Cricket.

But if the story of a captive Vanka Cain - the legend, the glorious annals of architecture of Moscow, these phenomena from the walls - a reliable fact. In 1779, the Chamber have been sold to the Stone Office, and there established a school of draughtsmen, where he taught Bazhenov and Legrand, and where did the details for a huge wooden model of the Great Kremlin Palace, which the carts were taken to St. Petersburg to the approval of the Empress. And since 1813 in Cricket Chambers worked for the Commission's famous buildings, created by order of Alexander I, in order to restore Moscow after Napoleon's fire. And not just rebuild on the ashes and rebuild in the same historical and architectural style, to prevent the mass of elemental building and keep the face of the city. Chairman of the commission appointed himself mayor Fedor Rostopchin, and members have become Bove, VPStasov, DI Gilardi, A. Grigoriev. The first task set to revive the injured from the explosion Kremlin, as a matter of honor, then the commission has developed exemplary types of buildings and facades, "appropriate to copy, and published them in special albums. Every new house being built in Moscow, was built strictly according to the standard approved by the Commission of the model, thereby create a single style of urban sprawl. The only difference was the status of homeowners: for every social category has been developed its model type. Thus was the famous Moscow Empire miniature mansion, and a typical Moscow house with a mezzanine, and a richer tenants - with the "inevitable" alabaster lions. The Commission worked Cricket wards to 1843, then they became privately owned, and the next interesting page of history was still to come.

At Church of the Assumption were other, more famous parishioners. The first among them should be called famous Pashkov, who lived in Pokrovka - places whose relatives had a magnificent castle on the moss. Their ancestor, a native of Poland, Gregory Pashkevich arrived in Russia in the service of Ivan the Terrible, and since then their name was listed as Pashkova. One of them, languor Pashkov, Tula was a member of the gentry militia in the rebel army, Ivan Bolotnikov and then went over to the king of Basil Shuisky. Another Pashkov, Yegor Ivanovich, was orderly Peter the Great, and his son, PE Pashkov legendary palace built for Moss, known as the home Pashkova.


Owning the same manor in Pokrovka, Alexander Ilyich and Daria Ivanovna Pashkov, belonged to another famous Pashkov House, too, standing on the moss: the very end of the XVIII century Vasily Bazhenov built their homestead with the theatrical wing for balls and Pashkovsky theater, which was very prestigious - to have own home theater. Then, when in 1806 the wing have leased Moscow Imperial Theater, on its stage debut Shchepkin and Mochalov. One of the most luxurious in Moscow, this estate with a wing in 1832, was purchased for the Moscow University. In the main house is located Classroom building (now the Department of Journalism), and in the wing architect Evgraf Tyurin gave houses university Tatyaninsk church.

Main possession of these Pashkov located on Pokrovka in the Big Assumption Lane (in the courtyard of the house number 7). In 1811 was born here Evdokia Petrovna Rostopchina, the future poet and daughter-governor Earl FA Rostopchina, who married his youngest son Andrew. In this house have been Pashkov and Pushkin: Carnival in 1831 full of happiness, he came here with his young wife to ride in a sleigh on the festivities, hosted by the masters of the house. And after only nine years later, in 1840, a vast fortune Pashkov was lost at cards. Villas at the Bolshoi Assumption Treasury bought for Pharmacies, warehouses for the storage of drugs, and under the office. At one time this medical institution supervised incorruptible Dr Haas, who was able not only to protect valuable medical supplies from mice and rats (formally instituted regular cats ...), but to stop theft of drugs, after which he appeared quite a few enemies before they withdraw stolen in mice.

In Pashkova, eminent parishioners of Assumption Church were Prince Shcherbdtov who owned the estate in Cricket Lane, house number 4. Prince Osip Ivanovich accounted YANKOVA great-grandfather of Elizabeth, who left the most prominent memories of the old aristocratic Moscow - "Grandmother Stories", recorded her grandson D. Blagovo. The spirit of Moscow's architecture as a particularly hovers over these places: at the beginning of the XIX century of ownership bought Dobroselov Kazakov, Matvey Kazakov's daughter, who married his middle son, Matthew Matveye, also an architect.

Do not fall behind and trade. In 1890 the parishioners of Assumption Church became brothers Eliseevs, the future founders of the Moscow grocery in Tver, who settled in the house number 10 in Cricket Lane. The principal is a local Orthodox merchants were the kings of chocolate Abrikosov, established in Moscow of its oldest and largest domestic confectionery company (now the concern Babayevsky) - their family business in the most blessed an icon of its source Abbot Novospassky monastery. The head of the firm Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov, grandsons came to its founder, was not only zealous parishioner, but also a caring elder Assumption Church for many years. Since 1865, he lived with a very large family in those same former Cricket houses sold Abrikosov their former owners. And later bought the house next door, and number 5, writing his wife, Agrippina Alexandrovna, which, incidentally, being the mother of 22 children, based on Miussah Maternity Hospital, now once again bearing her name.

Apricot called kings and Russian advertising, they have something to learn from our contemporaries. For example, in its original packaging, in box and casket, they put tiny little books of Russian writers - Pushkin, Krylov. And the sweets they had an extremely high quality. Confectioner Abrikosov, grasp the truth that Moscow - a capital of tea, tea table Muscovites provided a wide range of fare: from brand candy, jams and candies (those "crows feet" and "Cervical Cancer") to the very elegant dessert - fresh berries, glazed chocolate. In 1900, another chapter in life, the firm won the highest in Russia, commercial title "Supplier of the court of His Imperial Majesty." This meant that his product really was fed to the table, the emperor and to diplomatic receptions at the court. Suppliers have the right to place on its proprietary labels, signs and posters advertising the National Emblem and the signature of the rank - it was not only the highest "quality mark" in pre-revolutionary Russia, but the highest form of advertising.

Another equally famous parishioners of Assumption Church were Botkin tea merchant, also successfully comprehended "true tea" in Moscow - their family home was in Petroverigsky street, house number 4. The company, founded by merchant Peter Kononovich Botkin, even in Catherine's time, was the most famous supplier of Chinese tea, especially beloved in old Moscow. In the middle of the XIX century Botkin, among the first to deliver outlandish Indian and Ceylon tea, which had just mastered on their plantations by the British. Chaetorgovlya was primarily familial case Botkins, but because of their kind have occurred and patrons, and artists, and doctors. One of the sons of the company's founder was the famous Sergei Petrovich Botkin, whose name is now famous Moscow hospital. For many years he has successfully treated a patient in St. Petersburg Saltykov-Shchedrin and extended his life. And his son, Eugene S. Botkin, the latest Russian Life medic, to the end remained faithful to the Tsar Nicholas II and with it died as a martyr in the Ipatiev house.

Another well-known tea merchant's son, Peter Petrovich Botkin, taken after the death of his father's main family business, as was his Assumption church in Pokrovka, while the Kremlin's Archangel Cathedral elder, and later the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. He was very devout, and unusual, though a born merchant, spent whole days sitting in Gostiny yard, where he had a very serious trading. This devout merchant did not wear a mustache and beard, which was a rarity among the Orthodox merchants. One of his daughters - Hope was married to a famous painter Ilya Ostroukhova (in whose house in Trubnikovsky Lane was arranged review of projects of the monument to Gogol, and whose art collection formed the basis of the current icon painting department of the State Tretyakov Gallery). The second daughter - Vera became the wife of NI Guchkov, mayor of Moscow, which contributed to the opening of the National University named AL Shanyavsky - this idea, many have met with hostility. He was the brother of the famous Guchkov, leader of the party "Octobrists" and Defense Minister of the Provisional Government, which in the tragic March 1917 together with VV Shulgin took a bet from Nicholas II's act of abdication.

The Assumption church in Pokrovka had a wonderful gift to influence the human soul, and even fate. It is said that once he saw him, AV Schusev decided to become an architect. Had he and the crucial role for the young DS Likhachev, when he first arrived in Moscow and accidentally came across this church. Future academician later recalled: "The meeting with her I was stunned. In front of me surged frozen cloud of white and red lace ... It was so easy that all she seemed the embodiment of an unknown idea, a dream of something incredibly beautiful. I lived under the impression that meeting. That meeting with the Assumption Church inspired him to devote his life studying ancient cultures. However, the tragic words Likhachev: "If a person is indifferent to the monuments of the history of his country - he is usually indifferent to their country, were under a historical basis.

The tragedy of the century
After the revolution of Assumption Church has acted for a long time for Moscow standards - until 1935. People's Commissariat theomachist Lunacharsky himself was among its fans: it was on his initiative in 1922, Great Uspensky Lane was named in honor of Potapovsky serf masters, and in general he bustled about the church as he could. The authority and power Lunacharskogo shaken during his lifetime, and it is unlikely that further word he could have saved this house, if he lived to the time of its destruction.

In November 1935 the Moscow City Council, chaired by NA Bulganin decided to close and demolish the Church of the Assumption, "having in mind the urgent need to increase travel on a street. Pokrovka ". And then the Muscovite tradition again, for the last time, resonates like an echo of St. Basil's Cathedral on Red Square: if the architect PD Baranowski locked in the Assumption Church, either to protect it from demolition or perish along with it, saying, : "Blast me!" Exactly the same legend about the church of the Intercession on the Moat refers to 1936, when the Church of the Assumption has died. The cynicism of the authorities had no limit. A shame it was to rename the street in honor of the great architect of the fortress and demolish the ashes of his creation, famous master.

Before the demolition carried out the necessary research work and measurements. Two carved jamb and fragments of the facade transferred to the museum at the Donskoy Monastery, the top iconostasis in 1706 - in the Novodevichy monastery, where he was placed in the gate Transfiguration Cathedral. Winter 1936 Assumption Church was demolished to the ground, in its place was formed a little square with the notorious birch trees at the corner of Pokrovka and Potapov alley. For a long time there was a beer, then a cafe. "Is not killing us something? Should we not robbed spiritually? "- Bitterly inquired about this academician DS Likhachev. How many tragedies in these lines ...

Too great was the loss, too egregious was the destruction of the church - the national wealth is too great the pain of her death. Maybe that is why in our time increasingly advocated to restore the Church of the Assumption of the surviving measurements, drawings, sketches, newsreels. Moreover, most recently in one of the local houses were found fragments of the church - the remains of the stairs of the lower tiers of the belfry, the elements of outdoor decor. It is believed that the restoration of the temple will help bring the creation of his community. A reconstruction of the holy soul craves Moscow! Most of the Assumption Church as a monument of history compared to the Sukharev Tower or Red Gate, but it seems that it is more applicable to such shrines of Moscow as the chapel of Panagia and the Kazan Cathedral, because it yavila full force of the Orthodox idea of Moscow and all its fantastic beauty and national genius . In the meantime, what remains of the great churches, except the ruins - only the name Potapov Lane.

Elena Lebedeva http://www.pravoslavie.ru/jurnal/573.htm

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Pokrovka, one of the oldest streets of Moscow, Moscow has become a phenomenon on the number stood at her church, and this is not counting the alleys, like its name, it dawned on coming here in many churches. And the name she received from the Holy Protection Church, founded in XIV century on the site of the house on N 2 Maroseika and disbanded at the end of XVIII century. In the old days was a single Pokrovka street, and only when there was formed Ukrainian farmstead, a segment of Pokrovka Ilyinskikh gate to Armenia (Stolpovski) alley began to call Maroseyka. Rather Protection Church, too, with the end of XIV century was Nikola's Church, in Blinnikov. Then came Petroverigsky temple, raised in honor of the wedding of Ivan the Terrible in the kingdom and left a name of a local street, surviving church Cosmas and Damian, the Assumption of Pokrovka, Trinity Gryazeh, Resurrection in Barash, and finished outside the temple of the Beheading of John the Baptist, which has remained bell on Zemlyanoy shaft. Assumption Church was only one temple of this magnificent church in abundance, but the most unique.

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Сообщение от Tjutchev

The destruction of St. - Petersburg!

Unfortunately, thanks to the sensational stories to the building gazoskreba "Ohta-Center", namely Peter, is now the epicenter of the mayhem in the area of historical and cultural heritage of Russia.

info here
http://www.save-spb.ru/section/ohta/info.html
http://lufer-lj.livejournal.com/130129.html

http://bashne.net/

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Kekushev: Auto de fe

Yesterday, September 16, Bykov's house burned down at the 2 nd Brest street - a very valuable monument of Russian Art Nouveau, for long a cause of alarm experts and is listed in the Red Book Arhnadzora. The building is directly under the windows of the General Plan and NIiPI Mosproekt-2, one can say that the fire occurred before the eyes of the public architecture of the capital. Many were shocked, but I doubt many were surprised: For several years the house, located on a site intended for development projects, was abandoned. We publish the play, Konstantin Mikhailov "Pogorelets, as well as excerpts from the texts, revealing the background to the drama and commentaries have appeared in the press to this point.

Pogorelets

- Kekushev burns - slipped to Moscow on 16 September - 2 nd Brest.
- Well lit?
- A pillar of smoke seen from Zamoskvorechye.
- Stew?
- Stew.

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- And the investment contract is?
- Since 2005.
- A government decree of Moscow?
- Since 2007.
- And only now is on fire? Strange.
- Yes there is, say, guest workers lived. Could they, through negligence. Soup, you know, cooked, or speculated on the candle. One even had to save.
- At Sadovnicheskaya also guest workers to work until they collapsed. Three not saved.
- And who are they here to stay?
- Go find now. Tomorrow and guest workers go find it. The next day Sadovnicheskaya their look-fistula - and the spirit was not.
- Manege also burned, then rebuilt. Even better was.
- And here it will be better.
- Wow, the floors collapsed. And the roof, I think.
- Well, that's exactly reconstructed.
- But it's a monument of architecture, won for "Arhnadzore" is written.
- You pass the "Arhnadzoru" that the status of the monument of people only annoying if they were two extra floors to attach will not give. Now that's only the front wall will leave.
- And without that status, it would be better? Again, her own and would have left.
- No, but as now everything is going to happen?
- Well, be served on the commission - they say, the cultural value lost, the accident rate increased, in the mode of restoration is now impossible, we must remove the status.
- And if you do not give?
- So it will stand, winter, freezes, while not itself fall apart. Yes, and fires, they come in several times. We got into the habit that if you really burn, so burn until it burns completely.
- No, but you can restore it?
- Restore all possible. But not all need.
- Listen to me, but, loyal to there from where come from?
- But, they say, was a farmer Bykov, a rich man. He Kekusheva house and ordered. This margin was then.
- No investment contract?
- Yeah own cost.
- And now he who would be ordered? Kolosnitsyn? Or the side?
- Yes, today your peasant Bykov on the market in Mytischi traded and for the happiness would be found. You show me where farmers bought the house in Moscow.
- That you show me where it is in Moscow, something like Kekusheva build.
- A beautiful city of Moscow was, when the peasants in her house was built?
- How could I not beautiful when it Kekusheva worked.
- And want anecdote? Comes once Kekushev to Posokhin ...

Curtain.

How was

09/10/2007 Mayor of Moscow, signed an order (http://ddms.mos.ru/d13dr425714m2.html) "On the development of pre-project documentation for the construction of buildings at the address: Str. 2 Brestskaya, d. 19/18, p. 1, 3, 4. "

Tver viaduct stood in the way "Big Leningrad women"

Be careful, Moscow!

Rustam Rakhmatullin

Saving buildings and structures that have no conservation status, comes to the fore in the work of defenders of antiquity. The number of applications for security, the accumulated value cards Moscow Heritage Committee since the 1970's, is close to a thousand, and continues to grow. In proportion to the list of identified sites and growing pressure on the Heritage Committee from interested investors and government officials. In recent days worrisome fate of three buildings located in the neighborhood and belonging to one style - Art Nouveau.

First worried websites Moscow, which is not "and" Arhnadzor. Guide Moscow Heritage Committee contrary to the opinion of its expert committee refused to give the status of an identified monument to house 1 /10 to 2 nd Miusskaya street. This is a maternity hospital named after Agrippina Apricot, built by the architect Hilarion Ivanov-Shitsem in 1903-1906 on the means of the famous confectionery manufacturers. It would seem that the authorship of one of the best architects of Moscow Art Nouveau, artistic quality, good preservation and history of the building preclude doubts. However, the maternity hospital, which celebrated a century, plans to expand. There is a project extension from the yard, and even with the dismantling of the old wing.

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Nearby, for 2-nd Brest street, 19/18, is an ensemble tenements Yegorovich merchant Vasily Bykov. House Street (Building 1) was erected in 1909 by the founder of Moscow Art Nouveau Leo Kekushev house along the street (building 4) transformed by the same author of the older buildings. According to art historian Mary Nashchokin, keeping house Bykov unique to the heritage Kekusheva. In building 1 there is an initial window joinery and stair railings copyright image. Arch encloses the lion's mask - the author's autograph Leo Kekushev. Building on the street is empty for several years, and building on the street is the Institute for Computer Aided Design RAS - the owner of the site. The Institute has found an investor - OOO "Financier", received permission to demolish the building in the yard (building 3) and suggests to build up a multi-storey courtyard house, leaving some buildings on the street facade of the wall. Home Bykov immediately announced to protect, but the application is still pending.

The third story - the most alarming. Who would have guessed that the Tver overpass - bridge at the beginning of the Leningrad prospectus of the Belarusian railway - is not considered an architectural monument. Built in 1904-1908 by architect Ivan Strukova in ensemble with the Belarusian station viaduct is one of the best works of Moscow Art Nouveau and the small number of surviving pre-revolutionary bridges. Lack of status unleashes designers' non-stop "backbone" Most Leningradka. " In the Internet posted on the project with the demolition and new construction of the bridge. Under the project, replica becomes higher (the current requirement of the railway to the height of the arches) and that for some reason deprived of the northern facade of the magnificent towers propileyami, lamps, pedestals and bars. In addition, the bridge widening, although it was built for a large store of the early twentieth century: its width - 9 lanes - more than the width of the 1-st Tverskaya street.

Last Friday at a meeting with leaders of public organizations - the defenders of old Moscow Heritage Committee Chairman Valery Shevchuk brought clarity to these addresses. Shevchuk confirmed its position on the Abrikosov maternity hospital: the dignity of knowledge are unquestionable, but the old medical institutions must somehow evolve. Removed from the project investment component, which threatened to build houses in the territory, and now serves client health department, that is, the Moscow government.

The fate of the house Bykov Shevchuk, he said, discussed with the chief architect of Moscow Alexander Kuzmin. The President assured the Moscow Heritage Committee, which rejects the current draft and that the house will receive protected status.

Finally, Shevchuk said that before talking to Yuri Luzhkov, the fate of the Tver viaduct, and the mayor called for the preservation of the bridge. Asked Options "Izvestia", whether approved by the status of the overpass as the identification of the monument, Moscow Heritage Committee chairman replied in the affirmative.

  10:39 05.02.08
http://www.izvestia.ru/moscow/article3112691/

IA "Mossovet", 07.09.09 (http://mossovetinfo.ru/news/index.php?article=2670):
"The Moscow government has recognized invalid by the Moscow Government on October 9, 2007 N 2243-PP" On the development of pre-project documentation for the construction of buildings at the address: Str. 2 nd Brest, d. 19/18, p. 1, 3, 4. It is proposed to construct the buildings of the Institute of Computer Aided Design Russia Academy of Sciences. Cancel previous orders related to the fact that the building at the address: 2 Brestskaya Str., 19/18, p.1 recognized "the item of cultural heritage». "(http://reestr.answerpro.ru /card_h.h...obj = monument)

Simultaneously, adjacent to the house building on the street Fucik received the status of a valued gradoformiruyuschego object. "(http://reestr.answerpro.ru/card_h.ht...p;obj=monument)

Vesti-Moskva ", 16.09.09 (video: http://www.vesti-moscow.ru/videos.ht...940&type=r):
"This house has been empty for several years, but a year ago, working in nearby offices, people began to notice how out of doorways always someone out. Locals say that the house had sat down with foreign citizens temporarily residing and working in the capital. Opinions on the number of residents vary widely, but the figure is still not small: someone said 100 workers, and who do 250. "

Fire in the center of Moscow has cleared the way for investors

September 16, 19:16|Anna Bogomolov
 
At the center of the capital was burned in the modernist style house built in the early XX century. Previously, defenders of architecture tried to protect the building from developers who wanted to turn it into office center.

On Wednesday, Sept. 16 around 15:30 arisen a strong fire in the house 19/18 to 2 nd street Brest. At the place worked more than 20 firefighting units, traffic on adjacent streets were blocked.

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  Burnt building is located at the intersection of 2 nd Street Brest and Julius Fucik. It is the Institute for Computer Aided Design RAS and the Russia-India Research Center.

The house is a whole ensemble of mutually interconnected buildings constructed in the early XX century. The burned portion (Building 1) was built in 1909 by architect Leo Kekusheva and was considered one of the best preserved monuments of Russian Art Nouveau.

Another part of the house (building 4) has also created a created Leo Kekushev and rebuild an older building. Several years building 1 was empty, it preserved the original author's elements, said Rustam GZT.RU Rahmatullin, moskvoved and writer, well acquainted with the history of the house. In particular, it was possible to see the author's window frames and mask of a lion on the arch of the gate of the house - it is an autograph of Leo Kekusheva, sign his name. Moscow architecture experts expected that the building can be maintained, added Rahmatullin.

At the beginning of last century are located apartment house merchant Vasily Bykov.

Prior to the fire over the fate of the building fought a few architects in Moscow. The house was immediately announced to the entry into the register of immovable cultural heritage of Moscow, after it became known that the owner of the site, the Institute of Computer Aided Design of RAS, in conjunction with the investor intends to demolish the back part of the building and build up the structure of multi-storey courtyard house, leaving the value of the house only to facades added Rahmatullin.

Permission for the development of pre and other documents were received in 2007, the same year in the text of the order of the Moscow authorities was named investor - OOO "Financier". The contract with the investor Institute concluded in 2005.
 
Inclusion of the building in the register of immovable cultural heritage means that it can not be broken, and the designer of the adjacent territory will be required to restore it, explained Rustam Rahmatullin.


Go talk about the criminal cause of the fire is not worth it, they must be dealt with law enforcement authorities, said Rahmatullin.

Causes

Why Moscow burning historic buildings, in an online interview GZT.RU previously described architectural historian Grigory Revzin:

- How are things with apparent arson and the type of "accidental" demolition of architectural monuments and the background of historic buildings?

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  - You know very well they are solved. Not a single criminal case of arson to the stage of trial never took place. Remember Manege. It is a fantastic situation: the presidential election, lit monument of federal importance, the fire show all the TV channels - and no result. With that in Manege strikingly happened, judging from the records of fire, "accidental fire" simultaneously with the four corners.

On the other hand, in recent years ceased to burn right. You see, the question decided is not legal, not through the pursuit of criminals, and the other way. In Moscow in the 1990's were a lot of developers - about 400 companies that are actively receiving area and mastered. For 10 years, the Moscow authorities are working seriously to consolidate the developers, because the 400 is difficult to manage. We had to create several large and they have to manage. As a result, serious players on the Moscow development market was a seven-ten. And with them have somehow agreed: Well, let us guys, we're not going to burn, now it is no longer fashionable, let us as something different is going to do.

That is, as burning at the turn of 1990 and 2000, now is not lit. Well, the demolition is clear - for the demolition fined. During the demolition to an "big" fine - I do not know, 5 times the minimum wage or 10, but generally tolerated as compared with the investment amounts.

The destruction of collapse

June 17 after the collapse of the historic buildings in Sadovnicheskaya embankment in Moscow was demolished the entire block. Then the defenders of the architecture appealed to the prosecutor's office to check the legality of the demolition of the complex. They were confident that the building demolished without the necessary documentation.

"We are confident that the tragedy that occurred on June 17, was the reason for stripping a vast territory in the center of the city - said at a press conference on June 30 coordinator" Arhnadzora Konstantin Mikhailov. - Even were fragments of the collapsed houses, and bulldozers have already pounded the neighboring buildings.

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Another coordinator of the movement, Natalia Starover, reported that before the prefect of the Central District of Alexei Alexandrov (a copy of the document available to activists Arhnadzora ") was marked by only one house, which was allowed to endure.

"It collapsed house number 71, - stressed the Believers. - On the basis of this house was demolished the entire block.

Also, members of the "Arhnadzora" doubted that in place of the demolished buildings will be built for social housing waiting lists, as previously promised the city authorities.

http://gzt.ru/topnews/accidents/260657.html

It remains to note that after the fire remains a monument to monument, which allowed only restoration work. The bottom picture shows the state house on 17.09.09 (the last photo): burnt out most of the floors, some carpentry, stucco facade, mostly intact. "Arhnadzor" will follow the subsequent fate of the monument.

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In defending the territory of love

August 5, during a picket against the construction of a bank building on the site of the demolished old house on Rozhdestvenka Muscovites group headed by the historical and cultural foundation "Creation" by Lyudmila Dmitrievna Melikova blocked road construction equipment. One of the vehicles was hit by Lyudmila Melikov. The next day she died.

Lyudmila Melikov, died as a soldier, defending the territory of his love, his anxiety. Muscovites mark this quarter at the beginning Rozhdestvenka. At the corner of the Kuznetsk bridge - a huge beautiful building "The Bank of Moscow, a monument of architecture. Next homeownership - Kuznetsk Bridge 17 - a great example of what to do with the historic Moscow in recent years: there are only one building in the yard - House of Tver monastery of XVII century, everything else is destroyed, replaced by a dummy, there is placed Sibneftegaz.

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The apartment in Varsonofevskom Lane, where she lived Lyudmila, just go to the yard, taken from the residents and devoid of greenery. Ventilation hoods saunas, arranged under the house, went straight into the windows of apartments on the third floor. But the house itself on Varsonofevskomu lane parallel to the Kuznetsk bridge, built by architect Roman Klein in the early twentieth century. Not on any accident of this wonderful apartment building before the question was not! Nevertheless, it is now not only full of cracks, but also declared an emergency. People were evicted, although the apartments were privatized.

And then trying to defend the territory of love and life, candidate of economic sciences Lyudmila Melikov was to study and organize the materials on which depends the life of the townspeople: BTI materials, inventory, materials relating to the protection of historical and architectural monuments. And I began to detect an infinite number of violations of laws, regulations, rules. And as a result of this struggle for survival - their own and their children - Lyudmila Melikov became a real "academics" to protect the interests of the citizens. It codified a large number of very important documents on the activities of public utilities, architectural, planning, in general, all services that affect the lives of citizens.
She tried to protect not only themselves, in recent years it has repeatedly spoken at conferences, meetings, residents, showed their great albums, tables, supplied photographs. It showed the documents, she demanded an answer: "The law forbids it. Why is this done? Why do you permit a private firm to do it, why do you allow them to behave this way? I argue on the merits it could not.

This activity, based on the documents, the commission of a violent attitude towards it by officials at all levels, a variety of departments. Because there was nothing to beat them, because those materials, which it codified, beaten absolutely on target! This material for a real fight against corruption. And Melikov has been at the forefront of this struggle, so it so feared and hated.

The platform on Rozhdestvenka opposite Architectural Institute, from August 5 Lyudmila Melikov was taken to hospital - an area on which demolished an old five-story house that was allegedly necessary for the expansion of the bank. And besides, that was implemented this ambitious demolition, but in this narrow area along the Rozhdestvenka unfolded a gigantic building, and was deployed for the production of concrete construction! Lyudmila rightly believed that it was impossible under the windows of houses to arrange a concrete factory and work nights. And Melikov, together with the residents of these houses has organized a picket, and with the requirement to stop work came to a landing and KAMAZ knocked her. As a result, she was in the hospital and died.

The death of Ludmilla Melikova - a tremendous loss for our culture, a society which is not yet a civil, not aware that his main value - the people, the citizens, not bureaucrats, in whatever rooms they sit, no matter what they wore epaulettes. Everything is upside down in the brain: we look at the heads of both the firmament. But their activities must be directed only at one thing - to have to improve our quality of life of citizens, residents, society. They do not understand this, and most of society, unfortunately, does not understand. And it must realize.

Lyudmila was outstanding our contemporary. And I want to conclude by saying to the stone tombs, which is on the wall of the temple Zaikonospassky monastery: "And so soon after graduating from life, he showed everyone how to live."

Алексей Клименко,
Member of the Presidium
Expert Advisory Board
with the chief architect of Moscow

Postkriptum "Arhnadzora»

Hitherto at construction sites in Moscow killed, as a rule, unknown foreign workers. Conflicts residents with developers did without casualties. Now the account is opened - after a picket at Rozhdestvenka not become Ludmilla Melikov, a well-known public figure, a defender of historic monuments and neighborhoods of Moscow.

How many more lives will it take to federal and city officials aware of: the historical center of Moscow - not for pumping zone developers and investors from the super-profits of each square meter?
This area of our common love and care. It is an area of beautiful, whole and unique city with a millennial history.

We urge citizens to indifference and solidarity in the struggle for their right to live in the historic city of Moscow.
We urge the authorities and law enforcement agencies in Moscow for an immediate and impartial investigation of the accident, which killed Lyudmila Melikov.
Who was driving? And who gave him the command to press the gas?

"She was killed defending Moscow"

August 7, 15:12|Eugene Nasyrov
 
in Moscow killed the city's famous campaigner Lyudmila Melikov. During the picket on the site of the demolition of historic buildings on Rozhdestvenka lined up on a "human chain" of activists drove "Kamaz" builders.

On Saturday, August 8, at the Vagankovskoye cemetery will be a farewell to the famous Moscow campaigner Lyudmila Malikova. She died on August 6, recovering from an injury sustained two days earlier.

Tuesday, 4 August, she participated in a rally to counter the construction site at Rozhdestvenka, 8. There on the spot of the monument of architecture of XIX century, built a new building of the Bank of Moscow. Local residents, together with activists from several organizations for the protection of architectural heritage once again lined up in a living chain, preventing entry into the territory of construction "KAMAZ" with building materials. One of the trucks are not stopped in front of people and touched Melikov. With a leg injury Ludmila Melikov went to the hospital, she had first aid, but then she went home. Later, her condition deteriorated, and the morning of 6 August, she died.

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  Her ally and close friend of Lily Aliyev told GZT.RU, that is the first time in her memory, when the driver KamAZ drove to the human chain: "We have already done so: the path was blocked by construction equipment, truck stop, the drivers came out. Sometimes talking with us, many said that they understand us. "

Sergei Udaltsov, one of the organizers of the Moscow council (which includes Lyudmila Melikov) confirms Aliyev said: "Indeed, construction equipment typically stops, if such actions are blocking passage of people. Earlier Rozhdestvenka has always been so.

"At this place stood the house of the beginning of the XIX century, it was connected with the famous playwright of the period - Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin. It was dismantled about three years ago, although he is not breaking up, was a worthy example of historical buildings. Then ventured on his construction site, which is underway and so far ", - said GZT.RU Konstantin Mikhailov, an architectural historian.
 
The daughter of the deceased, Irina Druzhinina, said GZT.RU, that Lyudmila Melikov was taken to the 33rd hospital in Sokolniki. There, according to Druzhinina, the activists "were recorded injuries, foot injuries, and abdominal area.

"to breathe in exhaust fumes"

"When KamAZ drove slowly, my mother hands trying to stop him. Then they reached the police, drivers and builders for a long time to find out who gets knocked down - Mom "Kamaz" or "KAMAZ" mama ", - said Irina Druzhinina. She recorded a number of "Kamaz": HA 512 OU.

Relatives of the deceased appealed to law enforcement. They hope that hide information about the incident will not succeed. They say that after the incident came on the scene, police department employees of the Central District of Moscow (CAO).

  A spokesman for Internal Affairs TSAO Sergey Prudnikov GZT.RU confirmed the arrival of the police, but said that "there was no collision.

"The dead breathe in exhaust gases, there is a concrete mixer to work. Felt weak and fell. They called an ambulance and took her. Protocol has not been drafted, the statement had been received from relatives ", - said Mr. Prudnikov.

"okmotu asked not to prosecute"

Irina Druzhinina, also participated on August 4 in stock. She argues that the camera outdoor surveillance council "Philistine," which is installed on the house 4 to Varsonofemskomu Lane, was to film everything that happens, including myself hitting episode. Irina Druzhinina said GZT.RU, that they are home already "calls from the council" a petty-bourgeois "and repeatedly asked not to go to the police, not a criminal charge in connection with the media attention."

  "I hope this entry does not obliterate, not destroy. Record - this is our proof, "- says Lily Aliyev.

"A man of great social temperament"

"Law enforcement authorities are obliged to investigate the circumstances and causes of death Ludmila Melikova", - said Konstantin Mikhailov GZT.RU, coordinator of the movement "ARHnadzor.

"I Lyudmila Melikova been several security operations to protect the monuments. It is clear that this was a man of great social temperament. Lyudmila was engaged in the protection of monuments of architecture and culture, not because of love for yourself, not because of the thirst for glory, but from a desire to arrange life in Moscow. It dealt not only the protection of monuments - for her it was a fragment of life. She touched and environmental issues, local government and many others, "said Konstantin Mikhailov.

"I visited her in the office and saw with which she worked diligently each question. I have seen with some detailed dive she led their struggle with all the historical underlying basis, with all decisions of the authorities in this part of the almost 10 years. Resulted in a chronicle of the construction of all violations of: the legal and construction. And her work was a great success, not only to save the monuments, but also to rally Muscovites ", - says Konstantin Mikhailov.

Family and friends of Ludmilla Melikova:
http://nashenasledie.livejournal.com/209424.html

"The documents, which she collected and brilliantly systematized, words and actions, she taught the Muscovites, as skillfully protect your rights, your letters and reports its consistency and courage. Each of its brilliant performance, whether point construction, ecology, historic preservation, accompanied by a perfect knowledge of the subject and has always been an ideal supported by legally. As a former ministry officials, a specialist old-school, professional to the bone, the low thoroughbred Muscovite well-delivered voice infuriated his opponents. She pointed to them breaking the law. It is interrupted, it rude, officials Moscow Heritage Committee for example. It was simpler to stop meeting with the public, which in the end, they cowardly did. She died protecting our city, our Moscow.


Lyudmila Melikov was a member of the Moscow council, Housing Solidarity ", worked with the Council of the action teams in Moscow. Was the founder and leader of the socio-cultural foundation "Creation". August 4, a couple of hours before the tragedy, she gave her last interview - about the general plan of Moscow.

http://www.gzt.ru/topnews/accidents/253397.html

Posdednee interview Ludmila Dmitriyevna - about future hearings of the General Plan (http://sercovd.livejournal.com/14952.html#cutid1)

These photos were taken from the windows of the house Melikov Varsnonofevskom Lane:

[Pavel]

What does the greed of people, no money and notoriety vyrostet and will remain forever.

[Ухтомский]

Сообщение от Tjutchev

Kekushev: Auto de fe

Yesterday, September 16, Bykov's house burned down at the 2 nd Brest street - a very valuable monument of Russian Art Nouveau, for long a cause of alarm experts and is listed in the Red Book Arhnadzora. The building is directly under the windows of the General Plan and NIiPI Mosproekt-2, one can say that the fire occurred before the eyes of the public architecture of the capital. Many were shocked, but I doubt many were surprised: For several years the house, located on a site intended for development projects, was abandoned.

I would like to note that the facade of the building before the fire was in good condition, despite many years of neglect.