Moscow. Povarskaya str. Mansions of russian aristocrats. [Moscow Travel Guide]

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Hello, everyone! Want to know more about Moscow? Subscribe to our channel. ►https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxz2YwXTh1D6_k8WpfOUenQ?sub_confirmation=1 Spring is in the air, so let s speak about something romantic! For example, about the first bal of Natasha Rostova. What house was the prototype of Rostovs estate in "War and peace"? Did the 200 year old elm, the favorite of Ivan Bunin, remain? Where did the people who worked in the tzar kitchen live? What other sculpture of Vera Muhina after "Worker and kolhoz woman" is popular in Moscow? Where did Pushkin first read his poem "Poltava"? You will know all this when you see our new video! Today our Moscow travel guide invites you to walk along the most aristocratic street in Moscow - Povarskaya. It connects New Arbat and Sadovoye ring. In fact Povarskaya means "Cook s street". Its because those, who were in service in the Tzar kitchen lived here In 16th -17th century. And also Ivan the Great s guardsmen, because this street was a way to Novgorod. We ll start our excursion from the legendary restaurant "Praga". It was opened in 1872 and the address was Povarskaya, 1. After the October revolution this luxury restaurant turned into a canteen! Mayakovskiy liked to eat here. This is a church of Simeon Stolpnik. It was built in 17th century. Look at its beautiful 5 domes in the traditional Moscow style. Here count Sheremetiev married a serf actress Praskovia Zhemchugova. Gogol used to come here during the last years of his life. Let s continue our walk and go up the street to the Sadovoe ring. The Golden age of the estates on Povarskaya starts from the 18th century, from the Peter times. The Tzar kitchen moves to the new capital St Petersburg. And the street begins to be a home of russian aristocrats: Gagarin, Golitsin, Dolgorukiy, Volkonsky. Today most of the estates host different foreign embassies, for example Norway or Cyprus. In Bludov s estate on Povarskaya, 15 there is a Supreme court of Russia now. Look, here is the sculpture of Femida, without an eye patch for some reason. Not far from the Borisoglebsky street was a court of Peter s the first sister Natalia. Unfortunately not all estates survived till nowadays. Some of them burned out, some were demolished. For example between 2 streets Borisoglebskiy and Big Rshevskiy instead of 2 luxury estates of the 18th century the soviets made a park of Ivan Bunin. 200year old elm the favorite Bunins tree unfortunately has not survived. Lets continue our excursion. Look at the house number 25, the Gagarin estate. Prince Gagarin, the director of the Emperors theatre ordered to build the main house in the empire style. In the 1920s the cavalry school was in this building, and in the 1937 it became the Literature institute. In the yard you can find another famous sculpture of Vera Muhina "The thunderbird of Revolution". And here is the Orlov s house. In the 19th century it belonged to the count Sheremetiev. In one of its splendid halls Pushkin read his poem "Poltava" for the 1st time. The only wooden house that remained on Povarskaya, is the house with mesonine of the princess Volkonskaya. House number 50 - the famous Writers house was the first writers cub in Moscow. And at last we came up to the house № 52. This very estate with 6 columns was the home of Tolstov s Natasha Rostova, the hero of his famous"War and peace". This yellow estate is made in russian classicism style. There is a small church near the main house. In 1920 the Palace of arts was opened here. Boris Pasternak, Alexey Tolstoy, Sergei Esenin and Marina Zvetaeva performed here. In the yard you cfn see the monument to Lev Tolstoy made by Vasnetcov. Today several writing organizations and restaurants are located here. Povarskaya led us to the Sadoviy ring. Here, on Kudrinskaya square Moscow travel guide and me, Vera will say bye bye to you. Stay on our channel, subscribe and enjoy the wonderful views of Moscow, its streets, squares, buildings. Suggest the places, that you would like to see, Bye! *** Please share videos with friends on social networks. We will be very grateful! *** Subscribe to our pages on social networks: ►Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/moscow.video ►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moscow.travel.guide Link to this video: https://youtu.be/KAOIqqUBz3o