Charge. When Old Moscow Meets New
Description:
More than 100 years ago, outraged French looked at the Eiffel Tower and said that beautiful Paris will never be the same, the same fate went to the Copper Rider, Neuenweinstein Castle, the first skyscrapers and other now known “business cards” of various metropolises. It just so happens that finding out is easier than knowing.
Today, we're on our way to Zaryadye. An area second only to the Moscow Kremlin in antiquity. The tour will take place along Varvarka Street, which can be called an open-air museum, literally one after another there are 5 churches and stone chambers built in the 16th-17th centuries. In the Middle Ages, it was from here that the path to the spiritual capital of those years began – Vladimir. On this street, Dmitry Donskoy entered the Kremlin, returning from the Battle of Kulikovo, the victory in which predicted the fate of the unifier of the Russian lands to Moscow. On Varvarka there are chambers in which the most beautiful Moscow boyar had a son who became the ancestor of the Romanov dynasty.
You will find many amazing discoveries, because during the tour you will learn:
What is left of the Barbarian gate of China-city and the China-city wall;
How China-city was built, who was worshipped in Zaryadye and where Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich was born;
Why Ivan the Terrible loved English merchants, and Alexei the Silent dispersed them overnight
How guests were received in the Gostiny Dvor, and what manifestations of hospitality would not please us for sure;
What fate befell Stalin's eighth high-rise.
And then we are waiting for the park, which is called Zaryadye and caused a lot of controversy and broken copies both long before its opening, timed to the 870th anniversary of the capital, and immediately after. Why are they arguing? As they say, it is better to see with your own eyes once than to read a hundred times in the newspapers.
You'll also know:
What other gifts Moscow received on the name day;
What is the concept of the park;
Who built it, and does it have analogues in the world?
Where is and what is the Time Machine?
What symbolizes the floating bridge;
What is the temperature in the Ice Cave and much more?