Tour of the Patriarchal Ponds

This tour is not for the faint of heart, I warn you right away! Because you and I will travel through time and fall right into the depths of half a thousand years.

After all, the area where we will go on a tour - the area of Patriarchal ponds and Armored streets - was formed almost simultaneously with the growth of Moscow. The names of the streets and lanes will tell us about it.

Aren't you scared? Wow, I have brave guests today, but yesterday people did not agree, I had to take them to a concert of organ music (there is a concert hall nearby) - the good thing there is safe and you can take a nap in velvet chairs ...

Have you changed your mind to a comfortable chair? After all, during our journey, we will cross the impassable swamps, dodge the noisy student companies in the Latin Quarter on a dark night, witness the eerie mystical story on the corner of the Patriarchs.

And of course, in moments not so dangerous, we will indulge in an architectural feast - for us an exquisite menu: castles of Russian millionaires in the English style, Gothic and Art Nouveau style, general houses of the Soviet era and new Russians, Italian palazzos of Moscow merchants, etc. Many of these houses have their own names: House with lions, House Patriarch, House with trot.

The history of Moscow is inextricably linked with temples - and here, in the area of Patriarchal ponds and Armored streets, we will see the temple, where according to legend Ivan the Terrible was married, and also - where Pushkin married, and also necessarily a synagogue, and a house where there is a secret prayer house of Old Believers, and more ... oh, I can so indefinitely, just come to see everything with your own eyes, to remember the history of Moscow, hiding in the old streets.

I am waiting for you on my tour - call and write!

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