The history of the Petrovka street.

Petrovka street  is one of the main and oldest streets in the center of Moscow.

It starts  about  1/2 mile from Kremlin and Red Square. It received its name for Petrovsky Monastery  founded in the late XIV century. The name Petrovka  was used since the beginning of the XVII century and since then has never changed. This is  rare for the historic streets of downtown of Moscow.

Petrovka Street and the Petrovsky Monastery in the late XIX century.

Petrovka Street  in 1910.

  In the XVIII century the street began to be built up rapidly in the second half of the century there appeared the mansions of the nobility of Moscow. In the XIX century Petrovka has become one of the main shopping streets of Moscow. Despite a series of rearrangements of the XX century, changed the architectural ensemble of the street, on Petrovka preserved a large number of notable historic buildings.

Petrovka in the early XX century. The view from the intersection with the Kuznetsk bridge. Right - Profitable Home Vorontsova - Evdokimov - Shorina (№ 6)

Petrovka Street (1910)

                             Petrovka Street (June 2012)

                                                

                                         Supermarket Muir and Merilees (1910).

The building of the Office of the State Savings Bank, erected in 1914.

The intersection of Petrovka Street and Kuznetsky Most Street (1910).

Cafe "Tramble" (1930).

Petrovka, 25 of famous Russian architect  Mikhail Kazakov ( June 2012).

Petrovka Street, 24 (June 2012).

Vysokopetrovsky Monastery (June 2012).

Cathedral of St. Peter's Monastery in Moscow (1514-17)

This information is taken from the diary of Adrian Fedorovich Timofeev (1882-1954) – the mathematician, socialist, revolutionary, financier and banker.

The full text of diary is on :

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