A walk around Moscow with Masha and Diana part one of two Tverskaya and Pushkin Square

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A walk up Tverskaya street and into Pushkin Square with Masha and Diana explaining what is going on. Tverskaya is one of the most expensive shopping streets in the world.

Tverskaya Street (Тверская улица), known as Gorky Street (улица Горького) between 1935 and 1990 and (unofficially) Piterskaya (Питерская улица) in the preceding decades, runs from the central Manege Square north-west in the direction of Saint Petersburg and terminated at the Garden Ring, giving its name to Tverskoy District. The route continues further as First Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street, Leningradsky Prospekt and Leningradskoye Shosse.

Tverskaya Street existed as early as the 12th century. Its importance for the medieval city was immense, as it connected Moscow with its superior, and later chief rival, Tver. At that time, the thoroughfare crossed the Neglinnaya River. The first stone bridge across the Neglinnaya was set up in 1595.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, Tverskaya Street was renowned as the centre of Moscow's social life. The nobility considered it fashionable to settle in this district. Among the Palladian mansions dating from the reign of Catherine the Great are the residence of the mayor of Moscow (1778-82, rebuilt in ), and the English Club (1780s).

During the imperial period, the importance of the thoroughfare was highlighted by the fact that it was through this street that the tsars arrived from the Northern capital to their Kremlin residence. Several triumphal arches were constructed to commemorate the coronation ceremonies. In 1792, the Tverskaya Square was laid out before the residence of the governor of Moscow as a staging ground for mass processions and parades. In 1947, the square was decorated with an equestrian statue of Prince Yury Dolgoruky, founder of Moscow.

During Pushkin's time, the Tverskaya was lined with five churches. The poet wove his impressions from the street into the following stanza of Eugene Onegin: The columns of the city gate Gleam white; the sleigh, more swift than steady, Bumps down Tverskaya Street already. Past sentry-boxes now they dash, Past shops and lamp-posts, serfs who lash Their nags, huts, mansions, monasteries, Parks, pharmacies, Bukharans, guards, Fat merchants, Cossacks, boulevards, Old women, boys with cheeks like cherries, Lions on gates with great stone jaws, And crosses black with flocks of daws.

Towards the end of the 19th century, the street was reconstructed, with stately neoclassical mansions giving way to grandiose commercial buildings in an eclectic mixture of historical styles. A characteristic edifice of the time is the eclectic National Hotel (1901), whose interior is a landmark of Russian Art Nouveau. In 1888 the actor, theatre director and founder of the Moscow Art Theatre, Constantin Stanislavski, rented the Ginzburg House on the street and had it converted into a luxurious clubhouse with its own large stage and several exhibition rooms, in order to house his newly-formed Society of Art and Literature. The Society gave its last performance there on 3 January 1891 and the building burnt down on the night of 10 January.

Between the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the rise of stalinist architecture in mid-1930s, the street acquired three modernist buildings - constructivist Izvestia Building by Grigory Barkhin (1925-1927, Pushkin Square), Central Telegraph Building (1927-29, 5 Tverskaya), a modernist masterpiece by Ivan Rerberg, and a stern "black cube" of Lenin Institute in Tverskaya Square (1926) by Stepan Chernyshyov.

Further expansion occurred in line with Stalin's 1935 master plan. During that period, all the churches and most other historic buildings were torn down in order to widen the street and replace low-rise buildings with larger, early stalinist apartment blocks and government offices. Arkady Mordvinov, who handled this ambitious project, retained some historical buildings, like the ornately decorated Savvinskoye Podvorye by Ivan Kuznetsov. This building was moved to a new foundation north from the new street line, and is now completely enclosed inside Mordvinov's stalinist block at 6, Tverskaya Street.

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[Anglichanen]

have you ever driven there from uk?

[alanheath]

@Anglichanen Yes, I have.

[Stiggy37]

Diana is really hot! Skąd wziąłeś takie przewodniczki? :)

[pashok32]

indeed, russia is the 2nd place worldwide after saudi arabia in oil export. a liter of regular is 60cents =) here in israel its a 1.40 USD

[Failix001]

Went there, no fun, left

[llewesa100]

@alanheath Maybe I should be as well:I was the one who introduced her to them a couple of years ago.In those days of course I couldn't do anything wrong!

[alanheath]

I think the point here is that you get these morons who have nothing else to do other than insult others. I suppose it is the lack of anything of interest in their lives or the pent up feelings of aggression.

I just had a note on one of my films explaining why I should not have said something I said and it was written so nicely that I had to thank the person for sending it. What a difference!

[alanheath]

@llewesa100 I must admit that I am very pleased that she continues to watch my films! 

[llewesa100]

@alanheath You notice the people on here that have nothing to offer always choose the same colour for thier channel.There is usually a dearth of creativity on these pages so it's always that dismal shade of grey that they select.They also go out of thei rway to upset people and - in my experience certainly- will attempt to tamper or dictate to others what they can and cannot upload!!

[llewesa100]

@alanheath Speaking of which ( WITCH?) I see my ex is now subscribing to your channel.No problem with you as far as thats concerned.However another example of what you have mentioned above.Take it from someone who's had bitter experience!! MyPercy 2010 is her new moniker.

[alanheath]

@llewesa100 He probably leads a miserable life and needs to insult others. Rather pathetic really - one ought to feel sorry for people in this state.

[alanheath]

@lukebccb Obviously not everyone cannot be up to your level of intellectual achievement.