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Прогулка по Никольской улице 1880-1915 / A walk along Nikolskaya Street Moscow 1880-1915

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Channel: Nigel Fowler Sutton · 2018 · Travel & Events

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Дореволюционная Россия в фотографиях
Прогулка по Никольской улице. 
Москва
1880-1915

Pre-revolutionary Russia in photographs
A walk along Nikolskaya Street 
Moscow
1880-1915

Music:
From the Maestoso - Prelude No. 2 in B Flat major by S. Rachmaninov.
Played here by Moura Lympany

Nikolskaya Street is one of the three historic streets of the former Kitay-gorod in central Moscow...
The street ran from the Vladimir Gate of the Kitay-gorod wall 
(dismantled in 1934) in an almost straight line to the Nikolsky  Gate of the Kremlin..
The name Nikolskaya comes from the monastery of St. Nicholas the Old, set up on Vladimirskaya road, where the street itself is now located. Before the construction of the wall of the Kitay Gorod in 1534–1538, the street was called Sretenskaya...
In the 17th century, the street was built up with the courtyards of the most distinguished boyars and, one of the few in Moscow, was paved with boards stuffed over the logs of an ordinary pavement. 
At the beginning of the 19th century, Nikolskaya was the centre of the Moscow book trade: on it and the adjacent Novaya Square there were 26 bookshops out of 31 existing in Moscow; numerous shops of second-hand booksellers existed there at the beginning of the XX century. At the end of the street was the home of the Academy of Sciences with an academic bookstore. The beginning of the street was transformed in the 1890s with the construction of two large Trading Rows: the Upper Trading Rows (the current GUM, 1893), and opposite them the Nikolsky Rows (1900)...
By the second half of the XIX century Nikolskaya, like other streets of Kitay-gorod, was the business centre of Moscow.....

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