Sivzew-Wraschek-Gasse

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Former home of Sergei Aksakov (2008)

The Siwzew-Wraschek Alley ( Russian переулок Сивцев Вражек pereulok Siwzew Wraschek ) is a road that on the border of the districts of Arbat and Khamovniki in central administrative district of Moscow lies. It leads radially from Gogol-Boulevard (a section of the boulevard ring ) west to Deneschnygasse near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Gartenring and lies between Arbat Street and Gagarinski-Gasse . The length is 0.87 kilometers.

The alley was the place of residence of Alexander Herzen and Fyodor Tolstoy , an uncle of Leo Tolstoy and Sergei Rachmaninov , Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky , Marshal the Aviator Ivan Koschedub and others.

In Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago , this street is where the Gromeko family lived. Michail Ossorgin's novel Siwzew Wraschek (1928/29), which is set here from 1914 to 1920 and was translated into German in 2015 under the title Eine Straße in Moscow , is also named after this alley .

designation

The alley got its name after a gorge, at the bottom of which the river Siwez (or Siwka ) flowed. Wraschek (Owraschek) means "small gorge", and Siwzew Wraschek is a "gorge of the Siwez". Sivka is a river almost eight hundred meters long, a tributary of the Chertoryi river. Siwez / Siwka means "gray". In the 18th century the gorge was covered with soil, the Siwka flowed first in a channel in the early 19th century it was in an underground pipe verdolt as the Tschertoryi (a Moskwa influx). Over time, the street had different names - Troitski, Protasjewski, Podjatscheski, in the 1910s it was named Sivzew-Vraschek.

description

On the alley are among others:

  • No. 27. Heart Museum. A mansion from the 1820s. Alexander Herzen lived here from 1843 to 1847. The museum has been located here since 1976.
  • No. 26/28. Polyclinic №1 of the Administration of Affairs of the President of the Russian Federation. The building was built in the style of Stalinist classicism 1938–1950 on the site of the residential building in which Sergei Taneyev and Fyodor Tolstoy had lived.
  • No. 43. Schablykina residential building from 1906. Mikhail Nesterov lived here from 1920–1942 .
  • No. 30/1. Aksakov house from 1822.
  • No. 34. Tolstoy House. It was built in the 1830s. Lev Tolstoy lived here from 1848–1851.
  • No. 22A and 24/2. Two-story building from the 19th century. Maria Yermolova lived in house 22A .
  • # 9. A residential building for warlords. Here lived Georgi Baidukow , Archil Gelovani, Efim Smirnov, Nikolai Schestopalow and Yevgeny Vuchetich .
  • No. 31. Also a residential building for warlords. Here lived among others, Alexander Vasilevsky , Ivan Bagramyan , Ivan Koschedub , Valentin Varennikov .

Web links

Commons : Siwzew-Wraschek-Gasse  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. One Street in Moscow , published in 2015 in The Other Library


Coordinates: 55 ° 44 ′ 51 ″  N , 37 ° 35 ′ 38 ″  E