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| Name | | Autumn day. Rozhdestvensky boulevard |
| Price, USD | | 1900.00 |
| Status | | For sale, check |
| Seller | | Russian Art Gallery |
| Size, cm
| | 90.0 x 60.0 cm /switch |
| Artist | | Vladimir Kachanov |
| Year made | | 2002-01-01 |
| Edition | | Original |
| Style | |
Realism |
| Realism |
| Theme | |
Landscape |
| Landscape |
| Media | |
Oil on canvas |
| Oil on canvas |
| Collection | |
Moscow/Moskva |
| Moscow/Moskva |
| Description | |
The steep rise at the beginning of Rozhdestvensky Boulevard is a reminder of the bank of the ancient Neglinka river. Rozhdestvenka leads off to the right, and is named after the old Rozhdestvensky (Nativity) Convent. It was founded in 1386 by Princess Maria Keistutovna, the mother of Vladimir Serpukhovsky, who was a hero of the Battle of Kulikovo. The magnificent Cathedral of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of God, built between 1501 and 1505, is one of the oldest churches in the city. The elegant bell tower was added in 1835 by the architect Koziovsky, and was built with funds subscribed by a rich Muscovite lady as a memorial to her son, who had died young.
Solomonia Saburova, the wife of Prince easily III, was forced to become a nun here in 1525. She had lived with her husband for 20 years without producing any children, and the Prince wished for an heir. He decided to marry for a second time. Since divorce was then prohibited, a lot of time was spent on trying to persuade Solomonia to take the veil of her own will, but she resisted. Eventually she was forced into doing it. It is said that she cursed the future marriage, saying: 'God will take revenge on my persecutor!' The Prince's marriage to Yelena Glinskaya produced the future Tsar Ivan the Terrible.
A corner of the convent wall can be seen in Perov's painting Troika. In the house at No. 17 the first electric passenger lift in Moscow was introduced in 1901. The illustrious ballerina Ye. Geltser lived in this house in the 1920s.
Number 12 was built in the late 18th century and was the home of the brothers Fonvizin, who were both Decembrists, and related to the famous writer. In 1821 their house became the meeting place for the secret Decembrist society 'Union of Prosperity', which developed plans for building a new Russia. In December 1825 one of the brothers, Mikhail, was exiled to Siberia, and his wife Natalia followed him. She may well have been the model for Pushkin's Tatyana Larina: she was brought to Moscow from a provincial backwater at a yen' young age and given in marriage to a general who was a lot older than she was. Having decided 'to be faithful to him for ever,' she followed him into Siberian exile.
In May 1869 the house was bought by Nadezhda von Meck. the wife of a major railway entrepreneur. Very soon this modest house was turned into a veritable palace of 50 rooms. In 1881 the palace was bought by Gubkin, a well-known tea merchant. After his death, his heirs organised a distribution of coins of low value to the poor, in honour of the deceased. This effort ended in tragedy, for the house was surrounded byseveral thousand poor people, and in the dreadful crush many were killed.
At the junction with Sretenka Street, the beautiful white Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God in Pechatniky, which dates from the 17th century, is hidden away. This was formerly the site of a craftsmens' settlement from the Pechatny Dvor (Printing House) which is preserved in the name of the locality.
The artist Pukirev lived quite near. and on one occasion he visited the church to find a wedding was taking place between a rich old man and a very young girl. This became the subject for his painting The Unequal Marriage. |
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