Starosadsky Alley

End of Starosadsky Alley

The Starosadski Alley ( Russian Старосадский переулок) is a 340-meter-long street in the district Basmanny in the Central Administrative District of Moscow . It leads from Maroseika Street to the intersection of Sabelin Street and Kleine Iwanowski Gasse.

history

The street was named Starosadski ( Altgartengasse ) in 1922 after the orchard of the summer residence of Grand Duke Vasily I. Later the summer palace was moved to Samoskvorechye and a new orchard was created there; therefore the first garden was named old garden . This area was then built upon, creating a series of alleys. In the 17th century, Starosadsky Street was named Kwasnoi and Kiselny , which were produced here. At the beginning of the 19th century, when the Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian was built here, the street was named Cosmodamianski .

Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul

In 1817 the German parish of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Cosmodamianski Gasse bought the Lopukhin mansion to build a new church here, since the former church building, which had been in Nemezkaya sloboda since 1694 , was during the fire destroyed by 1812 . The manor house was heavily rebuilt for church services from 1818 to 1819. The church was consecrated in August 1819. In 1837 it was equipped with an organ. On May 4th ^jul./ May 16, 1843 ^greg.was here Franz Liszt , a benefit concert. In 1862, when the community had reached a membership of over 6,000, the church was heavily rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style by the architect Alexander Meingard . It received a bell tower and, in 1863, a bell as a gift from Wilhelm I. In 1896 an organ concert by Charles-Marie Widor was performed here.

At the end of the 19th century, when the number of parishioners had grown to 17,000 (including 14,000 Germans, 2000 Latvians, 600 Estonians and a few hundred Finns, Swedes and others), it was decided to build a new building. It was on December 5th ^July./ December 18, 1905 ^greg.consecrated and stands to this day. The spire, which was built in 1957 before the beginning of the VI. World Festival of Youth and Students had been removed, was restored in the 21st century.

The converted Lopukhin mansion as the first church building. Image from 1835
Second church building. Photo from 1883
Third, today's church building
Steeple without a top
Restoration. Photo from 2010
Photo from 2013

description

Starosadski Street is mainly built with buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries. Here are among others:

House number 3/1. Kostyljowa-Wittich-Jurgens manor house from 1813 to 1817; It was restored in 1871 and in the 1980s.
House number 5/8. 18th century mansion. Today (as of 2018) the Union of Artists of Moscow is located here.
House number 7/10. Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul by architect Viktor Kossow, with associated buildings, including the chapel by Fyodor Ossipowitsch Schechtel from 1898.
House number 9/1. Kumanin mansion. Two-story building from 1756. In 1802 a third floor was added. In 1828 this building was bought by the merchant Alexander Alexeewitsch Kumanin. His wife's younger sister, Marija Netschaewa, married the doctor Mikhail Dostoyevsky and was the mother of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky . Dostoevsky was a frequent guest here in his childhood and youth. His younger siblings lived in this house after his parents died. The memories of the house left by his youngest brother, the architect Andrei , were published in 1930. In 1901 this building was rebuilt again by the architect Boris Koschewnikow. The State Public Historical Library (GPIB) has been located here since 1938 .
House number 9/3. A new building for the GPIB from 1988.
House number 8/1. An originally two-story residential building from the 17th century (Russian Palaty ) was rebuilt in 1878 by the architect Konstantin Terski in the classicist style. In the 1930s, two floors were added. In the 19th century, the owner of the building was Ilya Saltykov, brother of Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin , who lived here during his visits to Moscow.
House number 10/1. Krasnogorowa Blinowy residential building from the 18th century, rebuilt in 1880–1881 and 1900.
House number 11/1. Church of Prince Vladimir in the Old Gardens . The building was built from 1514 to 1516 on the orders of Vasily III. Built by the architect Aloisio the New , it was heavily rebuilt in the second half of the 17th century. Under the Soviet rule, the church was closed for services from 1933 and was used by the State Public Historical Library. In 1990 it was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church .