…All contemporaries of Tsar Peter the Great are long gone. The secret of immortality was known by only one black magician—Yakov Bryus. He continued to live in Sukharev Tower until the Bolsheviks drove him out when the tower was demolished. Since then, Bryus has walked the streets of Moscow… Together with the oldest Moscow scholar V. B. Muravyov, the reader will travel along Moscow’s streets from the Kremlin to Mytishchi in search not only of the black magician Bryus, but of many other historical and legendary figures. Let the reader decide for themselves what is true in them and what is merely the fruit of many centuries of fantasies… This book tells not only about streets and squares, but also about many urban houses encountered on the way to Trinity.
A kaleidoscope of events and people—from the time Moscow was founded to the present day—will pass before the reader.
The book is intended for a broad audience interested in Moscow and its history.
Contents:
If not for the Trinity Road, there wouldn’t be Moscow
Voskresenskie Gates. Iverskaya Chapel
Voskresensky Passage
Nikolskaya Street
At the Nikolsky Gates
Panteleimon the Healer
Lubyanka Square—old times
Lubyanka Square—new times
Bolshaya Lubyanka
Estate of Prince Pozharsky. Vvedensky prison-house
I have something for you
House of Count Rostopchin
In this building, F. E. Dzerzhinsky worked
Field on the great road
Sretensky Monastery
Between Lubyanka and Sretenka
The very Sretenka
Sukharev Square
Backstory of Sukharev Tower
Construction of Sukharev Tower
Navigational school
“Peter’s name is inscribed on its mossy brow…”
The bride of Ivan the Great
Legends of Sukharev Tower
Sukharev Tower
Sukharev and Bryus
Bryus’s maid
Bryus and the merchants
The Tsar sends Bryus to Moscow
Eternal clocks
General’s cannons
The death of Bryus
Monument
Sukharevka
Tragedy of Sukharev Tower
The Black Book, or The Real Reason for the Destruction of Sukharev Tower
“Restore Sukharev Tower!”
Merchant suburb
Prospekt Mira. The odd side
To the man
Prospekt Mira. The even side
Krestovsky outpost
Pyatnitskoye cemetery
Alekseevskoe
Under the sign of Aquarius
Rostokino
Dachnaya Yauza
What is a dacha
Leonovo
Sviblovo
Medvedkovo
Yaroslavl Highway