One of the central streets of the capital is called Krymsky Val.Crimea because once there is a courtyard, which lived after the Crimean Khan.A shaft because the 1252-meter-long street is part of the 16-kilometer (15.6), the Garden Ring, the former once closed earthen wall, is part of the fortifications erected around Moscow.
History placenames
need for it arose after the raid Kazi Giray, the Crimean Khan, devastated the city.Within one year (1591-1592) was the mounds, which erected a 5-meter wooden wall.On the outside of the ditch was dug, and later filled with water.The wall itself, which was built on the orders of Boris Godunov, there were about 100 deaf towers and 34 exit, with a gate.Krymsky Val - the street that runs through the historic district of Moscow - Yakimanka, so named because of Bolshaya Yakimanka, which in turn got its name from the chapel of Saints Joachim and Anna in the Church of the Annunciation, built here in 1493 and demolished in 1969.History of Moscow can be seen in the names of streets and districts.
border with Zamoskvoreche
So, the Garden Ring got its name thanks to the plan of AP Tormasov 1816 obliges the owners of houses built on both sides of cobbled streets, which appeared on the site of the demolished medieval moat tree and falls asleep, obligatorilyright stick gardens and front gardens.Overgrown plantings were demolished during the reconstruction of the capital of Stalin.Still, until the end of the XIX century these places, known by the people Skorodomom under constant threat of flooding, were, in fact, the city dump.In the region of the Crimean Val, among other things, were still owning merchant Sveshnikova, City Hospital, philistine school untidy market, hospice and gardens.
Some of the songs sung in the Garden Ring
Crimean shaft, located in the heart of the capital, on one side enclosed Crimean bridge, and on the other - the Kaluga area.Overall, the Garden Ring consists of 16 streets and the same amount of space.This is one of Moscow's historical borders, bearing the name kogda-to Earthen city.After the walls of the Kremlin, China Town, White City is the fourth fortification of the capital.Serious reconstruction began in the Soviet era.In this area in 1923 he was posted All-Russian Agricultural, Handicraft and Industrial Exhibition.After its demolition in 1928, there was a park, which in 1932 was named after Gorky.Krymsky Val Street, passing along the Gorky Park, became a landmark of Moscow, in 1950, he was decorated with beautiful new iron fence.Here there is also the main entrance to the park, which can be reached by metro, the nearest station - "Culture Park" and "October".
Getting all future opening days
Already in the 70s of the last century on the opposite of the main entrance of the street was built building, which housed under one roof Central House of Artists and the Tretyakov Gallery.This set perfectly complements the park Arts, formed in the 90s.It was torn down in the streets of Moscow at the time irrelevant sites.The unique exhibition "Krymsky Val", where you can admire the sculptures and monuments, famous throughout Moscow.In the same area twice a year at another popular exhibition entitled "Real Estate".There is no ancient buildings, all buildings of the Soviet period.Actually, the Tretyakov Gallery acquired the right to accommodation in this building in 1985, and in 2000 there permanently opens the exhibition "Art of the XX century".
New Tretyakov
Every Muscovites known street Krymsky Val Gallery and Artist House, located on her home under № 10. The name itself is situated exhibition "Art of the XX century" implies the existence of a large exhibition space occupied.More than 40 rooms are located on 12 thousand square meters.The building, whose construction was completed only in 1983, specially developed under the branch of the famous gallery, and the name of the people it has received the appropriate - "New Tretyakov."
Krymsky Val became a continuation of Lavrushinsky Lane, though inferior to him in attendance that, in principle, it is not surprising.All in good time.A complete art events of the XX century, with all schools, trends, changes as a result of unprecedented wars and revolutions, and must be placed separately in the corresponding modern interiors.The building is very beautiful.The entire exhibition is divided into sections, which are arranged according to the chronology.The period of coverage - since 1910 until the present day.There are sections devoted to the "Knave of Diamonds", Russian avant-garde, socialist realism, non-conformism Brezhnev era, contemporary artists.Exposure is huge and very interesting.
