Chistye Prudy and Pokrovka are a district in the center of Moscow. Chistye Prudy is one of the Moscow metamorphoses. There was only one pond here all my life, and for a long time it was called a Filthy Swamp, but then it became Clean (Chisty) overnight and the townspeople quickly liked it. Officially, the Chistye Prudy district does not exist in Moscow, as there is no Pokrovka district, and the entire northeastern part of the center is strangely divided between Krasnoselsky and Basmanny districts, located mainly outside the Garden Ring. Nevertheless, in the mass consciousness, Chistye Prudy and Pokrovka (or Pokrovsky Gate) are an independent and very important entity for the city, consisting of the eastern half of the Boulevard Ring and the blocks adjacent to it. In this guide, the area of Chistye Prudy and Pokrovka stretches from Neglinka in the west to Yauza in the east. In the north it is bounded by the Garden Ring.
Metro station: Trubnaya
1 Rozhdestvensky Monastery,
Rozhdestvenka str., 20.
2 The Church of the Nativity of the Most
Holy Theotokos in the Theotokos-Rozhdestvensky Monastery.
3 The
Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the
Theotokos-Rozhdestvensky Monastery.
4 The Church of St. John
Chrysostom in the Theotokos-Rozhdestvensky Monastery.
5 Church of
St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Bell Ringers, Rozhdestvenka str., 15/8.
Metro station: Kuznetsky Bridge
6 Church of St. Sophia the
Wisdom of God at the Cannon Yard, 15 Pushechnaya Street.
7 Church of
St. Louis of France , Malaya Lubyanka str. 12.7.
8 Sretensky
Monastery, Bolshaya Lubyanka str., 19.
9 Church of the Assumption of
the Blessed Virgin Mary in Printers, Sretenka str., 3.
10 Church of
the Life-Giving Trinity in Sheets, Sretenka str., 27.
Metro station: Krasnye Vorota, Chistye Prudy , Turgenevskaya,
Sretensky Boulevard
11 St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Church in
Derbenev , Ulansky Lane, 11.
12 Centrosoyuz building, 39/37
Myasnitskaya str.
13 The southern lobby of the Krasnye Vorota metro
station. When it was opened in 1935, the station had only one exit - the
southern one, on the inner side of the Garden Ring. Architect Nikolai
Ladovsky, who designed it, made a complex futuristic structure
resembling a shell - concentric circles were supposed to indicate the
prospect of a subway tunnel. The pavilion is very small, it does not
even fit the cash register, where you have to go down the stairs. In
1952, it was there that the first turnstiles in Moscow were installed -
however, they looked completely different from today's ones.
Metro station: Chistye Prudy, Turgenevskaya , Sretensky Boulevard
14 Chistye Prudy. The iconic "hangout" place of the capital, where
bohemians and informal groups gather, fans of alternative music,
including rockers, metallers, punks, goths, sometimes skinheads, as well
as homeless and gopniks. Vacationers meet at the monument to
A.S.Griboyedov, drink beer and other alcoholic beverages on the grass,
benches and at the fountain in the western part of Chistoprudny
Boulevard and call this place "emergency" or simply "Clean".
15 The
lobby of the Chistye Prudy metro station. The cubic pavilion is the only
preserved entrance pavilion of this type (two more were on Komsomolskaya
and Smolenskaya streets). It was built for the opening of the station in
1935 as part of the first section of the Moscow metro, and much later
the exit from Turgenevskaya station was brought here. The pavilion looks
great and its architecture, clearly referring to constructivism,
compares favorably with the pretentious Stalinist lobbies of other
stations. The inscription "Metro" has been preserved at the top; The
name of the station, laid out on the visor, was updated when the station
was renamed.
16 Menshikov Tower (Church of the Archangel Gabriel on
Chistye Prudy) , 15a Arkhangelsk Lane. The church was originally built
in 1707 by order of Alexander Menshikov and for some time was the
tallest building in Moscow (despite the royal decree prohibiting the
construction of buildings above the bell tower of Ivan the Great). The
earliest surviving Peter the Great Baroque building in Moscow, the
Menshikov Tower was substantially altered in the 1770s.
17 The Church
of Theodore Stratilat, 15a Arkhangelsk Lane.
18 Yusupov Palace,
Bolshoy Kharitonyevsky Lane, 21 p. 4. The archaic stone chambers are one
of the oldest civil buildings in Moscow. Legends date the palace back to
the XVI century, but judging by the documents and appearance, it
appeared in the second half of the XVII century. At the end of the XVII
century, Peter I himself granted the palace to the diplomat P.P.
Shafirov, and from him, after passing through a couple of hands, the
building fell to the Yusupov family, who owned the chambers until the
revolution itself. In 1801-1803, the Pushkin family rented an apartment
here, and young Alexander lived here with his father and uncle – the
future luminary of Russian poetry. The building is surrounded by an
amazing wrought-iron fence, made according to Yaroslavl samples from the
time of the first Romanovs. The building is surrounded by an old park,
but you will most likely not be able to get into it, as well as enter
the unheated palace, where you can still see the remains of once rich
interiors. Nearby (house 17/13) there is another stone building of the
turn of the XVII and XVIII centuries.
Metro station: Kitay-gorod
19 Church of St. Nicholas the
Wonderworker in Klenniki, Maroseika str., 3.
20 Church of the Great
Martyr George the Victorious in the Old Archers, Lubyansky passage, 9.
21 Church of Cosmas and Damian on Maroseika, 14/2 Maroseika street.
It was built in 1791-1803 by architect M. Kazakov. One of the best
rotundas in the style of Moscow classicism.
22 Moscow Choral
Synagogue , Bolshoy Spasoglinishchevsky Lane, 10. ☎ +7 495 940-5557.
Pokrovsky Vorota/ Gate
23 The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity
on Gryazekh, Pokrovka str., 13.
24 The Church of the Introduction to
the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos in Barashi, Barashevsky Lane, 8
(Kurskaya, Chkalovskaya, Chistye Prudy metro stations).
Metro station: Kitay-gorod
25 St. John the Baptist
Monastery (Ivanovo) , Maly Ivanovsky lane, 2. ☎ (495) 624-9209.
26
Cathedral of the Beheading of John the Baptist in St. John the Baptist
Monastery, Maly Ivanovsky Lane, 2.
27 The Church of the Holy
Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir in the Old Gardens, Starosadsky
Lane. 11.
28 Lutheran Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul,
Starosadsky Lane, 7/10.
29 Mazepa Chambers , Kolpachny Lane, 10.
Chambers of the XVII century, a monument of civil architecture.
30 Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Khokhlakh, Khokhlovsky
Metro station: Kitay-gorod
31 Church of the Three Saints
on Kulishki, Maly Trekhsvyatitelsky Lane, 4/6.
32 Church of the
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Kulishki, Solyanka str., 5/2.
33 Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Podkopai, Podkolokolny
Lane, 15/9.
Metro station: Kitay-gorod
34 Residential building on
Kotelnicheskaya embankment, Kotelnicheskaya embankment, 1/15. The house
houses the cinema "Illusion" and the museum apartment of Galina
Sergeevna Ulanova.
35 Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in
Serebryanyki, Serebryanichesky Lane, 1A.
36 Church of the Apostles
Peter and Paul at the Yauz Gate, Petropavlovsk Lane, 4/6.
37
Foundling house, Moskvoretskaya naberzhnaya, 1/15.
Metro station: Kursk , Chkalovskaya
38 Church of the
Apostle James Zavadeev, Yakovo Apostolsky Lane, 6 (Kurskaya,
Chkalovskaya metro station).
1 Mayakovsky Museum Wikidata element, Lubyansky ave. 3/6 (Lubyanka). ☎ +7 (495) 621-93-87 (excursions). 150 rubles. The museum, unique for Russia, has been under renovation since 2014. In his previous life, it was an absolutely incredible object — not even a museum, but an independent work of art, aptly named "four floors of a total installation": a stunning example of futurism, albeit created in the late 1980s, 60 years later. The center of the museum was (and probably will remain) the "boat room" located in the house on Lubyanka, where Mayakovsky shot himself. The fate of the installations is still unclear.
2 Shazin Gallery, Pokrovsky Boulevard, 14.
3 Gary Tatintsyan
Gallery, Serebryanicheskaya nab., 19 (Kitay-gorod, Chkalovskaya).
Tue–Fri 11:00 – 19:00, Sat 12:00 – 18:00. admission is free.
4 Sovremennik Theatre, blvd. Chistoprudny, 19 ( Chistye Prudy, Turgenevskaya).
Ararat Park Hyatt, Neglinnaya str., 4
1 Chinese pilot Zhao Da , Lubyansky passage, 25 building 1 (Kitay-Gorod). ✉ ☎ +7 (495) 623-2896. A place of worship.