Theater design. The School of Modern Play theater returned to the historical building on Trubnaya Square

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“On the window there was a scene of the murder of Pyotr Stolypin”

Maternity hospital Kindergarten. College. Cinema. Deli. Guardhouse. Hospital. Are these establishments needed in a big city where population density is constantly growing? Strange question - of course they are needed. And yet, dozens of objects that Muscovites need are boarded up, cut off from city life. Waiting for what? Demolition? Repurposing? Return to life? We have selected seven noticeable “abandoned” cities and are trying to figure out what they were “at fault” and what awaits them.

There are rumors that the beloved cinema is being rented out illegally.

Among the most tragic losses for Moscow subcultures is the demolition of the legendary Khovrinskaya hospital, which went under the bucket of an excavator in the fall of 2018. In its place, houses will be built as part of the renovation program. And this is wonderful for the city - but, alas and ah, what an “abandoned place” has disappeared! “Khovrinka” was known in narrow circles - a place for the initiation rite of many Moscow teenagers. First, go through the symbolic but police cordons. Secondly, don’t be afraid of a semi-ruin that has not only no power supply or elevators, but also just a normal entrance. Thirdly, to survive there, among incomprehensible personalities with too clear occupations.

However, a worthy replacement seems to be ready. And if only there was one. The current “abandoned buildings” are guarded much better than the Khovrinskaya hospital abandoned during perestroika, so it’s much more difficult to get through there. And the condition of such buildings is usually better - the officials responsible for the matter know about the “broken windows theory” and try to prevent these very broken windows from happening.

Hospital on Novaya Basmannaya

City Hospital No. 6 on Novaya Basmannaya Street was closed four years ago, and since then it has been frightening local residents with the empty eye sockets of dark windows with broken glass. True, comrades without a fixed place of residence quickly found a use for it, and the surviving metropolitan informals are not lagging behind - after all, wonderful shots can be taken in an “abandoned place”, and there is no need to go to distant Khovrino!

Activists of the Basmanny District, together with Ilya Sviridov, a municipal deputy of Taganka, sent several requests to the responsible authorities last summer, but never received a response.

As representatives of the Basmanny District Administration previously stated in the media, the existing problem has long been known, however, in order to solve it, it is necessary to find the owners of the building. In 2015, the capital’s Department of Health transferred this premises to the jurisdiction of the Department of City Property. However, building No. 4 was transferred for free use to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They admit that the building is in disrepair and is being guarded. In 2019, the Ministry of Internal Affairs plans to carry out reconstruction.

The Basmannaya hospital became the successor to the Khovrinskaya hospital - a favorite place for informals, an “abandoned place”.

Guardhouse of the Presnenskaya outpost

A small light blue building, hidden behind the trees in the December Uprising Park, is now used as a janitor's office. If you walk around the park for a long, long time, sooner or later you will be able to look inside. There's really nothing interesting there: brooms, cleaning products and a couple of spare overalls in two tiny rooms.

What is it? “I have no idea, they gave us the keys so we could change clothes,” the utility worker says as he walks. However, it does not interfere with the inspection of the house. - We're comfortable here.

Customs officers once felt comfortable here too... The small house is a unique monument of its kind, the only guardhouse of the Chamber-College Wall that has survived to this day, that is, the borders of Moscow until the beginning of the twentieth century. Here, near the current metro station “Ulitsa 1905 Goda,” Presnenskaya Zastava was located. The fact that there was once a city border here is reminded, by the way, by toponyms: Trekhgorny Val, Presnensky Val, and a little further behind it is Gruzinsky Val... And the guardhouse itself, of course. Once upon a time there were 18 such houses - at every city outpost. Now there is only one left.

The editors of "MK" sent a request to the Moscow City Heritage: is it planned to assign it the status of an object cultural heritage to put it in order and maintain it “conscientiously” - as a unique building deserves? However, we did not receive an answer. Municipal deputies of the Presnensky district were also unable to report anything about the fate of the house - they did not discuss it anywhere... Even on the online map the building is missing: in the park only the monument “Cobblestone - a weapon of the proletariat!” and a public toilet. There is no monument to old Moscow there.

Although the small house could well be used for everyone’s pleasure - for example, renovated and a small cafe opened there. Surely it would be popular among people walking in the park! Or, say, renting roller skates or bicycles - is it in vain, perhaps, such transport is becoming more and more popular?

Or don’t reinvent (and keep) the wheel, but do the most obvious thing - organize a museum at the Presnenskaya Outpost... in fact, a museum of the Chamber-College Shaft. The outposts were liquidated in 1852. And by the way, an important argument: this house remembers the War of 1812 (although Napoleon, apparently, did not leave the city through Presnya).

"Political food store" in Bogorodskoye

In the era of huge chain stores and multi-story malls, Muscovites rejoice like children when they come across a small grocery store somewhere - old, even without self-service, a kind of hello from a bygone era... As practice shows, most of these shops are in areas that can easily metropolitan realtors and sociologists are recognized for some reason as “non-prestigious”. So, for example, in the Bogorodskoye district in the Eastern District (an old low-rise building and 10 minutes to the city center by metro, what’s so unprestigious about that?) the local landmark is considered to be the window display of the “U Stolypin” store, hidden in one of the alleys of the old district.

Old-timers remember: the store was just like a store... Cereals, milk, ice cream and also delicious loose marmalades. However, the main thing is the design. On the window, which looks into the 3rd Podbelsky passage, there is a model diorama - the scene of the murder of Pyotr Stolypin in the opera house in Kyiv in 1911. Here you have a shot, and splashes of blood, and a frightened tsar... In other windows of the store there are other dioramas (for example, sending settlers in “Stolypin” carriages), as well as information from the biography of the reformer, designed in the form of a huge wall newspaper.

In place of the store where local children learned history, there are empty storefronts.

The store appeared here in the late 1990s, and a couple of generations of schoolchildren learned the history of the beginning of the century just like that - by running after school for ice cream. This was the goal: the idea of ​​such an unusual display window design was born to the owner because of his own passion for the history of Russia.

We even lose a little because of our image: for example, the residents of the house for quite a long time did not even suspect that this was a food mini-market - looking at the window, they were sure that it was a library,” business owner Oleg Karpenko said in an interview with the magazine “ Moscow and Muscovites" in 2007. It also turned out that the “U Stolypin” store is not the only “historic grocery store” in the east of Moscow. Not far from it, the stores “Na Khapilovka” and “Na Guchkakh” opened. With the same stylized shop windows.

But, alas, all this is in the past. At the beginning of 2017, local residents realized that the shops had been closed for a long time, and the beautiful display windows were abandoned... The MK correspondent was unable to contact the owner to find out about the fate of the premises.

Pre-war kindergarten and cinema "Vostok", Shchukino

Among local residents it is codenamed “Garden with Elephants”. Actually, he also had a number - 333; and departmental affiliation - the kindergarten was not part of the system of the Moscow Department of Education, but was subordinate to the Navy, that is, the Ministry of Defense. But in 2013, the asset was declared non-core and the kindergarten was transferred to the city. And according to the current Sanitary Regulations and Construction Norms and Regulations, the building, built in 1934 - yes, this is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, kindergarten in the capital in terms of the time it was built - is in no way suitable for a preschool institution.

My son, who is now 23 years old, went to this kindergarten, do the math, 20 years ago, and even then the roof was leaking and there was fungus,” says Anna, a resident of the five-story building next to the building. “So children can’t be in it, I believe that.” It would be better if they built a residential building here and moved us there. But they won’t relocate, the location is too good!

A rare case for Moscow: the residents themselves want a new building to be built on the site of the kindergarten.

It is interesting that the neighbors are not afraid of the 30-story high-rise building that could appear on the site of the kindergarten - it is believed that the “Kurchatov tunnel” runs here from the nuclear energy institute of the same name... somewhere, apparently, towards the Moscow River. Who knows, maybe he is coming - of course, they won’t tell us the truth. But in general, in order to save the building from demolition, dozens, sometimes hundreds of Shchukin residents gather for hearings and pickets every time. Some people like the old building and the playground with concrete elephants next to it; someone does not want to develop a green area in the yard. Urgent need for kindergarten not in this place - very close, on Marshal Novikov, a huge building of a new preschool branch of the local educational complex was built. But preserving the historical building as a children's club would be a good idea.

We constantly raise the question with the city that we don’t have a club room at all in Shchukin,” municipal deputy of the district Andrei Grebennik told MK. - The thing is that the “October” recreation center in the area burned down several years ago and this site has already been built up. And the Kurchatov Cultural Center recently again became purely departmental; no one except the institute’s employees is allowed into it. There is no place for children to study. Meanwhile, after restoration, they are planning to install a dance school from the Don region into the kindergarten. Why not ours, Shchukin’s? I don't understand.

In the area, by the way, there is another empty site: the two-screen cinema “Vostok” on the square of the same Academician Kurchatov. This cinema belongs to the city, is located on the first floor of a residential building, and its fate has been unclear for 15 years. Residents of the building say that part of the cinema is sometimes rented out illegally - but this is nothing more than rumors. Meanwhile, in 2018, even the “East” sign itself disappeared from the facade of the house...

Library and cultural center named after A.T. Tvardovsky

Everything here is simple and sad: at the beginning of 2015, the library named after Alexander Tvardovsky, quite well known in the capital, and the cultural center named after him were kicked out of their home and transported to Aminevskoye Highway. The residential building at the beginning of Kutuzovsky Prospekt, directly opposite the Ukraine Hotel, was built in recent years the poet’s life, he managed to see a room specially built for the library, and after his death, a museum corner named after the author “Vasily Terkin” appeared in the library. Due to a number of legal incidents, the owner of the building turned out to be not the city (as is most often the case in the case of libraries), but the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Izvestia (which owns, for example, the famous and also evicted building of the newspaper of the same name on Pushkinskaya Square). At some point, Izvestia raised prices, the city Department of Culture solved the problem radically and removed the library. The place “prayed” by the residents of Dorogomilov has still not been leased to anyone (and to say the least, there is a crisis in the yard). So it stands empty.

As we see, the stories of all “abandoned houses” are different. In some places, construction and sanitary standards are to blame, in others, high rent, in others, the state of disrepair (from the outside, the building appears to be standing, but according to papers and examinations, it requires major repairs). There are many hospitals, kindergartens, cinemas, and libraries in Moscow; statistically, there are enough for everyone.

In recent months, by the way, the situation has moved from a dead point: abandoned buildings and long-term construction are slowly returning to economic circulation. So, on the site of the same Khovrinskaya hospital - it was dismantled in a few months - housing will be built under the renovation program. The reconstruction of the Forum cinema, which has been in ruins for 25 years, has finally begun - there will be a multifunctional exhibition hall. The famous maternity hospital No. 6 named after Abrikosova on Miusskaya Square, which had been abandoned for a long time, found a second life as an office building a few years ago.

In other words, precious Moscow squares are never empty - there will definitely be hunters for them. You just need to deal with the sometimes confusing property relations - and not forget about the security obligations that must certainly be attached to historical houses.

The organizers of the evening abandoned the concept of “protocol officialdom” and offered the guests an interesting informal program. It was not by chance that it was called “Gala Improvisation” - already in the foyer the audience was met by artists and theater staff, gathered into small groups and given excursions around the restored Theater building.

In all the halls of the theater - on four stages - something was happening: in the cafe you could enjoy a jazz program performed by Ekaterina Direktorenko and Daniella Selitska, in the White Hall you could hear songs performed by Yuri Chernov and Vladimir Kochan, in the foyer - playing the Victor Friedman's piano, and on the stairs in the atrium - see the performance of ballerinas of the Russian Ballet Theater.

This polyphonic program was unexpectedly interrupted by the sound of a bugle, and Joseph Raikhelgauz appeared in front of the guests in a pioneer costume, greeting the guests in several languages. Then the artistic director of the theater invited the guests to the table. The banquet part began at 20.00 simultaneously in the Hermitage and Winter Garden halls. That evening the atmosphere of the legendary restaurant was recreated there “ Winter Hermitage", the tables were set and, of course, the main dish on them was the Olivier salad. The hosts of the evening were Tatyana Tsirenina, Alexander Galibin, Tatyana Vedeneeva and Vadim Kolganov.

Almost half of Moscow gathered to congratulate the theater on its return to the historical building. Among the guests of the evening were politicians, public figures, businessmen and, of course, numerous cultural masters. The following people came to the theater for the housewarming party: Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation Alexey Kudrin, Head of the Moscow Department of Culture Alexander Kibovsky, general manager Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin, artistic director and director of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov Sergei Zhenovach, artistic director of the Vakhtangov Theater Rimas Tuminas together with theater director Kirill Krok, artistic director of the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya Sergei Golomazov, artistic director of Helikon-Opera Dmitry Bertman, artistic director of the Hermitage Theater Mikhail Levitin, head of Rusnano Anatoly Chubais and many others.

In the Winter Garden hall, congratulations were made by: Russian poet and publicist, teacher, public figure - Evgeny Bunimovich, editor-in-chief of the Teatral magazine Valery Yakov, former vice-mayor of Moscow Leonid Pechatnikov, as well as Ada Kolganova - director of the Russian State Library of Arts , whose active readers are employees of the School modern play"(producer Dmitry Bogachev and actor Vladimir Steklov). And Leonid Pechatnikov even read out a short poem dedicated to the theater of Joseph Raikhelgauz, which he wrote himself.

Dmitry Khoronko, Nina Shatskaya, Sergei Zhilin, Grigory Oster, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Elena Kamburova and Sergei Nikitin, who sang a duet with the artistic director of the theater, performed before the guests of the evening.

During a short break, the guests heard the performance of Maxim Dunaevsky, who was unexpectedly joined by the musical star Valeria Lanskaya. And it was an absolute improvisation and a complete surprise for both the audience and the performers themselves.

The program of the evening in the Winter Garden was continued by theatrical skits, which were prepared by artists from Helikon-Opera, Theatrium on Serpukhovka, GITIS, Puppet Theater named after. S.V. Obraztsov, the Alexey Rybnikov Theater and the “School of Modern Play” itself. Mikhail Fedorov, Chairman of the Russian Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, also sang for the guests of the evening.

And in the Hermitage hall, Leonid Yakubovich held an auction at which the shoes of actress Lyubov Polishchuk from the play “A Man Came to a Woman” and Albert Filozov’s fez from the production “Whose Are You in a Tailcoat?” were sold. " Golden mask"without engraving was presented to Anatoly Chubais.

The evening ended with a performance by the large Glass Orchestra of the School of Modern Play and the final choir of theater artists, in which Joseph Raikhelgauz was the soloist. To the tune of the song “By the Black Sea,” the theater’s anthem, “On Trubnaya Square,” was sung. It was already around midnight when the guests began to leave the House on Trubnaya, taking with them a lot of positive emotions and bright memories.

In general, I like the series of books “architects for dummies”; I learn a lot of interesting things there).
I read about a certain Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, that he was forgotten for two hundred years, and I was slightly surprised. I know about artists who have been forgotten for five hundred years, but this is the first time I’ve seen about architects.
I had to ask.

Well, on the one hand, not two hundred, but one hundred and thirty, on the other hand, everything is quite vague there in general.
“I remembered” about Claude-Nicolas a certain Emil Kaufman, about whom both the wiki and the book about Ledoux say that he published the work “From Ledoux to Corbusier” in 1933 in America, having emigrated there after Adolf G came to power .

Initially, only part of the project was implemented. All the wikis present the history of the industrial use of the structures in a somewhat unclear way, the book says that “in 1779 Monclar began operation”, then the saltworks was transferred to someone else, it brought in little income, after the revolution it was rented out to private owners, “in 1843 the Chevalier de Grimaldi bought it with funds from the treasury of the Queen of Spain" (wiki reports that with the purchase of Grimaldi, not everything is so simple, someone rejected something, although maybe it was the purchase and unification of three saltworks), it was not possible to modernize, sea salt And railways made production unprofitable, and it was closed in 1895. In 1918 there was a fire, in 1926 the owner blew up the portico of the main building and in the same year the building was recognized as historical value. Very timely, yes).

That's it, finished the exercise)))
I don’t include any pictures here; there are plenty of them on the Internet for anyone interested.
And I just liked the one about the pyramids the most))