4K Walk along the Arbat in cold weather Walking in Moscow, Russia

In this walk we will visit one of the most famous streets of Moscow - Arbat. The walk starts from Trojanskaja lane to Gogolevskogo Boulevard. The history of the street: Arbat street appeared in the XIV - XV centuries, it was the road to Smolensk. In the sources, it was first mentioned in 1493, when a fire broke out in the Church of Nikola on the Sands from a candle left there, which burned almost the entire capital. On the Arbat and in the surrounding alleys in the XVI - XVII centuries there were various settlements, and in the next century this area became one of the most aristocratic in the city. In the first half of the XIX century, luxury buildings in the Empire style, very popular among the Moscow nobility, appeared on the Arbat. The great Pushkin lived in house 53 after his marriage to N. N. Goncharova. In the second half of the XIX century, many houses on the Arbat passed to merchants, and the street became a commercial one. In those years, it was noisy and crowded. It was fashionable to live here. At the turn of the XIX - XX centuries, apartment buildings were built on the street. In the XX century, writers, artists, theater and film figures, musicians, and statesmen lived here... But, surprisingly, Arbat was a popular street. In 1993, the five-hundredth anniversary of Arbat was widely celebrated. Priblizitelno in the same period in the speech came into common use taken over by Bulat Okudzhava, the concept of “abbatstvo“. This is a very precise definition of everything that is connected in the life of Moscow and Russia with the ancient street., what the best said-sang the great Russian bard. In the last years of the XX century, the Arbat became simultaneously a Museum, a market, a song street, a street with fashionable shops, restaurants, ruins, and shops... Among the architectural masterpieces of Arbat, you can note the building of the restaurant “Prague“ at the very beginning of the street and many houses built in the XIX century. And of course all Muscovites know the famous state theater named after Eugene Vakhtangov. Information about the day: March 14, Saturday, the air Temperature is 10 #Moscow #walking #Arbat