"Deathly" plate Bruce

[раскатов]

In Moscow, at the corner of revelry and Dobroslobodskaya street, stands the old three-storey house .. Currently, this building is placed the second women's gymnasium.
       Built a house two hundred years ago, the famous Bruce, author of the famous calendar. Like all old buildings, this house has underground tunnels and passages, in which, says the legend, hidden by huge bogatsiva. Intricately woven, mysterious legends surrounding Brusovsky home.
     And the most interesting legend is the so-called "tombstones Bruce.
     The facade of the house, between the windows of the room where once there was Bruce, attached plate.
The appearance of plates, like the coffin.
     On top of it is covered with bony plates. On the surface of the plate cut out some cabalistic symbols, numbers, lines.
     They say that this is not a simple plate, - a real coffin, imbedded in the wall.
     In the course of two centuries, many scholars, archaeologists have tried unsuccessfully to guess the meaning of these signs .. They say that the plate appeared on the front of the house itself, on the third day as the construction of the building was completed. Then they say that Bruce drew on the stove mysterious signs that hide secret zagorobnogo world, which he managed to unravel .. They say that hidden beneath the bones of the Bruce ..
     Say that the plate from time to time somewhere disappears and reappears, she is at the old place ...
    And if you pull it, according to one legend, this house would collapse ...
(Zh Zhizn.1913 g.)

[Konstantin]

On this house we talking about?

What's remember those walls?
For many years, students go to the main building IMPE them. AS Griboyedov ascend the grand staircase, decorated with a fountain. However few people think about the fact that there was before. And it was this nobleman's mansion ...

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The building in which we learn, is located on Spartakovskaya Street, which until 1922 was called Yelokhovsky. However, both then and now, Muscovites call it "the house on Razgulyai" because this is the main architectural feature of the area Razgulyai. Interestingly, the area officially named Razguliay never existed: standing on her house are assigned to the closest street - Spartakovskaya New Basman and Karl Marx.

Razguliay - jolly place "(dictionary VIDalya). Rumors about this area went to different ... Specific concerns caused a large house, which stood on the corner Yelokhovsky and Dobroslobodskaya alley belonged to Field Marshal Jacob Vilimovichu Bruce (see illustration). Boss, statesman, military and scientist, an associate of Peter I, the representative of a noble Scottish kind Bryusov, however, called the "witch and warlock." Bruce was one of the most educated people of Russia, naturalist, astronomer, the owner of the largest libraries, which numbered about 1500 volumes. Fluent in six European languages, and his "cabinet of curious things" after the death of the master joined the cabinet of curiosities of the Academy of Sciences. In 1702 he opened Russia's first observatory - it is housed in the Sukharev Tower. Incidentally, it was Jacob Vilimovich zodiac is the author of radial-circular layout of Moscow ...

In 1776, the estate passed to the noble family of Musin-Pushkin. By the main entrance of the crews were pulled strings, flashed the evening fireworks. But the main gimmick steel sundial, erected educator princely children Abbot Syuryugom. Remembers the granddaughter of Count Princess Sophia Meshcherskaya, all of Moscow's watchmakers have come at noon on Razguliay verify time.

Scientists believe that the restructuring of the manor house was engaged in the biggest Moscow Classical architect Matvey Kazakov (plans for 1804 and 1824. Stored in the historical and architectural archive GlavAPU Moscow). However, this theory, there are opponents. Be that as it may, the architect who created the group home Musin-Pushkin, of course, was a gifted urban planner.

When restoring the estate after the fire of 1812, its architecture has been complemented by elements of the Empire style. In 1835, it houses the 2-nd Moscow Gymnasium. In the 30-ies. XX century the building was built on another floor, and since then the house is located the Red Army, Industrial and Pedagogical Institute, Karl Liebknecht and from 1943 - Moscow Civil Engineering Institute named after VV Kuibyshev. In 1993, these walls have begun to study students IMPE them. AS Griboyedov.

That's what a rich biography of a building located at Spartakovskaya street, house 2 /1! Maybe we should often think about the historical past have become familiar buildings - and then we re-evaluate their beauty and originality?

[раскатов]

Yes, it is likely that this is the house, but confirm the accuracy of the article, I can not. She wrote a correspondent of "Life" G. Yakushkin. No other reliable evidence.

[Allena]

This house is really strongly rebuilt. On the times of Bruce he was not recalled. Not only that: it is so little building is painted in bright red color. Until recently, it dominated the whole area should Razgulyai. And now, on the other hand built ogro-o-omnoe bank building, snesya everything that was there, and the area completely lost. There remained only a little wooden house in which he lived VL Pushkin, where he had been Alexander, and 100 meters away from Old Basman - the house where he lived Rokotov - a small, very narrow, on the corner Tokmakova alley.
Incidentally, the area Razguliay deemed received its name from the eponymous tavern, which stood in this place.
In general, this area is rapidly loses its attractions, and all its historic character. Soon had nothing left. We got to the ruins of the old German market, but in fact was a plan to restore it even in the 1990's, and now - a wasteland and ruins, which obviously have nothing to burn, but they regularly burn. The saddest thing: even the outlines of the old buildings of noble proportions.

On Monday, go around the building, take a closer look - and suddenly the tread plate again?

[Allena]

Once again I looked at today's house - a handsome, but terribly mutilated, although the shape of the windows on the ground floor survived. It is, poor thing, right on the road (at the intersection Dobroslobodskaya and Spartakovskaya). Plates, unfortunately, no