Tverskaya Street

Tverskaya Street (Russian Тверская улица / Tverskaya Ulitsa, to German " Tver street " ) is a central street in Moscow, Russia. It begins in the immediate vicinity of the Kremlin, leading about two kilometers in a north- westerly direction to the Garden Ring, where it merges into the First Tverskaya - Yamskaya Street. This is about one kilometer long turn and goes in the amount of the Belarusian railway station on the Leningrad prospectus, which constitutes to Saint Petersburg the beginning of the highway M10 from Moscow.

History

Tverskaya Street emerged from an ancient trade route connecting the Tsar seat Moscow with the city of Tver, at that time an important principality 's capital. In the 14th century the first houses were built along the way, followed by stores and craft shops. With the expansion of Moscow the role of the street grew; they increasingly came into the city center and was also inhabited by the boyars and other rich people. In the 17th century, the road was paved and widened. Since then, it was considered as arterial road of the city, which was also used by many of outside guests. As the Tsar Tverskaya often happened in their travels, the road was nicknamed Czar Street.

After the construction of St. Petersburg in the early 18th century and the laying of the Russian capital there and the original road leading up to Tver was further extended to Petersburg. Thus, the Tverskaya Street became the starting point of the main Russian transport route, bringing its role enlarged again in the life of the city. It sprang up along Tverskaya more mansions and luxurious palaces. 1784 here also the Governor General palace was built, which has since served as the seat of the Moscow city fathers and is still inhabited even by the Moscow city government. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Tverskaya was not only the most distinguished address in the city, but also the busiest shopping and business street.

Some years after the October Revolution, Tverskaya Street was radically transformed in the course of extensive renovation work, in Moscow, which was the capital of the Soviet Union. In 1932 she was renamed in honor of the writer Maxim Gorky, together with the First Tverskaya - Yamskaya Street in the Gorky Street (Russian Улица Горького ). Most of the buildings were torn down from the period before 1917 or move a few meters to the widening of the road. Particularly hard hit, formerly numerous church building on Tverskaya, all of which were destroyed. Instead, multi-storey, representative buildings were constructed on the sides of the widened Tverskaya in the style of Socialist Classicism, one of which served as residences for the most political, scientific and cultural elite. This cityscape, the road to today.

In 1990, the Tverskaya reverted to its historic name. To date, it is one of the most representative streets of Moscow and is home to numerous classy shops, government institutions and posh residential areas in monumental buildings from the Stalin era. In addition, the Tverskaya an important thoroughfare of the Russian capital. On weekends or holidays, the road is sometimes also used for political demonstrations, but also folk festivals and open -air concerts.

Known Structures

The most famous buildings on Tverskaya include primarily the few buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries, have been preserved as part of the redesign of the street. This includes the previously mentioned house of the city administration, the opposite on the right side of the road in 1954 the monument to Grand Duke Yury Dolgoruky and founder of the city was established. From the Red Square the very beginning of Tverskaya and a few hundred meters is on the left side of the road, the five- star Hotel National, an eclectic building from the years 1901-1903 and one of the oldest and most luxurious hotels in the city. In the immediate vicinity thereof is home to the bright green, sculptures decorated building from the 1880s, since 1937 a theater. On the right side of the road a few hundred meters of the Dolgoruky monument is located to the northwest of the famous deli Jelissejew (No. 14) in a former palace dating from the early 19th century. In No. 10, the former Hotel Lux is the most well-known buildings from the Soviet era at the Tverskaya is the central telegraph and post office ( 1927-1929 ) by the architect Ivan Rerberg, who had also designed the Kiev station in Moscow.