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Patriarch Ponds
55°45′50″N 37°35′32″E / 55.763883°N 37.592120°E
Patriarch's Ponds (Russian: Патриаршие пруды, romanized: Patriarshiye prudy) is a park, pond and an affluent residential area in downtown Presnensky District of Moscow, Russia. For the last 200 years, there has been only one pond, although, as the name of Tryokhprudny Pereulok (Трёхпрудный переулок, lit. Three-Pond Lane) suggests, there used to be more. The area of the existing pond is 9,900 square metres (107,000 sq ft); the depth is about two meters.
The Ponds area is accessible via the Moscow Metro Mayakovskaya (eastern exit) and Pushkinskaya stations.
The area is named after the seventeenth century Patriarch's Sloboda (Патриаршая слобода) located on the Goat Marsh (Козье болото). This marsh was once connected by a brook to the Presnya River west; by 1739, when the first topographic map was compiled, the brook disappeared and the marsh separated from Presnya. People considered the swamp as an anomalous zone; apparently this caused a proverb "Фома поспешил, да людей насмешил – увяз на Патриарших" ("Thomas has hastened, but made people laugh - he got stuck in Patriarshy").
The pond acquired its present shape and was cleaned up in 1830–31, a part of a plan to rebuild Moscow after the Fire of 1812. The buildings around the pond were wooden; stone construction proceeded slowly through the second half of the nineteenth century. In winters, the Russian Gymnastic Society operated a skating rink on the frozen pond.
At the turn of the century, cheap rental buildings around the pond were occupied by the University students. During the December 1905, the area was held by left-wing student militia and became a war zone. The Ponds also housed Moscow's first hospital for children (the Filatov Hospital, which later relocated to nearby Garden Ring).
After the revolution, the spacious apartments in buildings occupied by wealthy merchants were converted to communal apartments with shared kitchens.
The author Mikhail Bulgakov and his wife Yelena Shilovskaya lived in this area in the 1930s.
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Patriarch Ponds
55°45′50″N 37°35′32″E / 55.763883°N 37.592120°E
Patriarch's Ponds (Russian: Патриаршие пруды, romanized: Patriarshiye prudy) is a park, pond and an affluent residential area in downtown Presnensky District of Moscow, Russia. For the last 200 years, there has been only one pond, although, as the name of Tryokhprudny Pereulok (Трёхпрудный переулок, lit. Three-Pond Lane) suggests, there used to be more. The area of the existing pond is 9,900 square metres (107,000 sq ft); the depth is about two meters.
The Ponds area is accessible via the Moscow Metro Mayakovskaya (eastern exit) and Pushkinskaya stations.
The area is named after the seventeenth century Patriarch's Sloboda (Патриаршая слобода) located on the Goat Marsh (Козье болото). This marsh was once connected by a brook to the Presnya River west; by 1739, when the first topographic map was compiled, the brook disappeared and the marsh separated from Presnya. People considered the swamp as an anomalous zone; apparently this caused a proverb "Фома поспешил, да людей насмешил – увяз на Патриарших" ("Thomas has hastened, but made people laugh - he got stuck in Patriarshy").
The pond acquired its present shape and was cleaned up in 1830–31, a part of a plan to rebuild Moscow after the Fire of 1812. The buildings around the pond were wooden; stone construction proceeded slowly through the second half of the nineteenth century. In winters, the Russian Gymnastic Society operated a skating rink on the frozen pond.
At the turn of the century, cheap rental buildings around the pond were occupied by the University students. During the December 1905, the area was held by left-wing student militia and became a war zone. The Ponds also housed Moscow's first hospital for children (the Filatov Hospital, which later relocated to nearby Garden Ring).
After the revolution, the spacious apartments in buildings occupied by wealthy merchants were converted to communal apartments with shared kitchens.
The author Mikhail Bulgakov and his wife Yelena Shilovskaya lived in this area in the 1930s.
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