Stalin's metro. Historical guide Zinoviev Alexander Nikolaevich
Okhotny Ryad
Okhotny Ryad
Even before its opening, the Okhotny Ryad station received the epithet “the heart of the metro” - it was built in the very center of the capital and was supposed to have a light appearance, despite its deep location. Also, during the construction of the station, the design was changed: it began to have a central hall. The name of the station was given after an ancient street located here in the 17th–19th centuries, where there was a lively trade in hunters' prey. In the 19th century, specialization disappeared, and various goods began to be traded here.
By 1935, monumental buildings had been built here: the house of the Labor and Defense Council Committees (now the building State Duma RF) and the Mossovet Hotel (“Moscow”). It was necessary to take into account the proximity to these buildings and be able to build pavilions in densely built conditions. A solution was found - two lobbies were located on the first floors of the buildings.
For the northern vestibule was rebuilt an old house, standing on the corner of B. Dmitrovka and Okhotny Ryad - a project by architect D.N. Chechulin. The first floor was decorated in the form of a basement, in which the entrance to the metro was located. The windows of the upper floors are divided by pilasters, and a balustrade is built on the entablature. High niches on the sides of the doors were intended to house statues. For some time after the opening of the station, figures of athletes stood in two of the four niches. Inside, the lobby features a coffered ceiling with small globe lights. Some time after the opening, a standard sculpture of Stalin was added to the interior.
The southern lobby is located on the first floor of the Moscow Hotel building, the authors of the project are architects L.I. Savelyev and O.A. Stapran. The interior was distinguished by the treatment of the ceiling and wall cladding. This famous hotel was dismantled in 2004, thereby losing the old lobby.
In the escalator antechamber, along its axis, there were massive tall floor lamps. The vaulted ceiling is treated with shallow coffers. There are large tetrahedral columns on the sides.
The underground hall of the station was designed by architects N.G. Borov, G.S. Zamsky. Yu.A. Revkovsky. In terms of its dimensions, it was the largest deep-lying station in the world at the time of its opening! The authors of the station tried to relieve passengers from the feeling of depth. The station's pylons, built in the form of double columns, are lined with light Italian marble. The vault of the central hall is richly coffered with complex-profile squares. The vaults of the side halls are decorated with stucco molding in the form of a meander. Currently, all halls are illuminated by globe-shaped chandeliers, but before the construction of the passage in the center of the hall, the middle nave was illuminated by massive floor lamps located along the axis of the station.
Art. Okhotny Ryad. Sculpture “football player” in the niche of the ground vestibule
Art. Okhotny Ryad. Lobby built into the Moscow Hotel
In November 1955, it was decided to give the Moscow metro the name of V.I. Lenin, and the central station to be named after Kaganovich, who led the construction of the metro. They decided to rename the Okhotny Ryad station. The station named after Kaganovich did not carry its name for long: in 1957, after Khrushchev’s victory over the “anti-party group”, which included L.M. Kaganovich, the station returned its former name.
In 1961, Okhotny Ryad Street became part of the formed Marx Avenue and on November 30, 1961, in order to bring the name of the station into line, it was given the name “Marx Avenue”. In 1964, the northern lobby was decorated with a panel with a portrait of Karl Marx (artist E. Reichzaum). On November 5, 1990, the station returned to its original name.
Station losses
1. Floor lamps from the central hall of the station. Dismantled due to high passenger flows and the construction of a passage in the central hall. Lighting has been replaced with ball chandeliers. Floor lamps have also been removed in the escalator hall of the lobby.
2. Sculptures in the niches of the ground vestibule.
3. Sculpture of I.V. Stalin in the northern vestibule.
4. Lobby of the Moscow hotel. Demolished along with the hotel building in 2004.
Which Moscow metro stations were renamed and why?
Editor's responseThe Ulitsa Podbelskogo metro station was renamed to Rokossovskogo Boulevard. At one time, the station received its name from Podbelsky Street, on which its above-ground vestibules are located. However, already in 1994 Podbelsky Street was renamed Ivanteevskaya. The new name “Rokossovsky Boulevard” was given to the station due to its location in close proximity to the street of the same name and in memory of outstanding commander Great Patriotic War marshal Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossovsky.
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“Rokossovsky Boulevard” - “Podbelsky Street”
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The Ulitsa Podbelskogo station got its name in 1990, when it was opened. At that time, on the surface there was a street of the same name, which in 1994 was renamed Ivanteevskaya, from the village of Ivanteevka near Moscow, located in the northeast of the capital. Vadim Podbelsky, whose name is in this moment station, was one of the leaders of the armed uprising in Moscow in October 1917, and then - Commissioner of Post and Telegraph of Moscow and the RSFSR.
The commission decided to give both the station and the transport hub a new name - “Rokossovsky Boulevard”. This is due to the fact that on the surface there is a boulevard named after one of the main commanders of the Great Patriotic War, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky.
"Bitsevsky Park" - "Novoyasenevskaya"
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Opened on January 17, 1990. Until June 3, 2008, the station was called " Bitsevsky Park" The name of the station is associated with the natural and historical park “Bitsevsky Forest” located in close proximity to it. The forest itself is named after the Bitsa River, which originates from springs on the slope of the Teplostanskaya Upland near the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road and Profsoyuznaya Street.
In 2008, the Bitsevsky Park station was renamed Novoyasenevskaya in order to transfer the old name of the Butovskaya Line station under construction. The station received its new name after the Yasenevo district, at the end of Novoyasenevsky Prospekt, on the border of a residential area and the Bitsevsky forest.
The area got its name from the former village of Yasenevo, known in the 13th century as a grand ducal estate, and then as a royal estate.
In 1960, the territory of the village became part of the city of Moscow. Since the late 1970s it has been a housing development area.
"Plant named after Stalin" - "Avtozavodskaya"
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The station was opened on January 1, 1943. Until July 5, 1956, it was called the “Stalin Plant”, after the ZIS plant (now ZIL) located nearby. After the debunking of Stalin’s personality cult and the renaming of the ZIS plant in honor of I. A. Likhachev, the name of the station was also changed to “Avtozavodskaya” (upon careful examination, on the walls of the station you can see holes left from attaching the letters of the original name of the station). "Avtozavodskaya" remained the final south station Zamoskvoretskaya line for 26 years, until the line was extended in 1969 to Kakhovskaya.
"Comintern Street" - "Kalininskaya" - "Vozdvizhenka" - "Alexandrovsky Garden"
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The final station of the Filyovskaya line of the Moscow metro “Alexandrovsky Garden” got its name because of the Alexander Garden located at the western wall of the Kremlin, which is entered by a passage from the station. Until December 24, 1946, the station was called “Ulitsa Kominterna,” and until November 5, 1990, “Kalininskaya.” In 1990, for several days it received the official name “Vozdvizhenka”. The station is located under the southern part of Vozdvizhenki Street, between the building of the Russian State Library and the roadway.
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"Gorkovskaya" - "Tverskaya"
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The station was opened on July 20, 1979. Until November 5, 1990, the station was called “Gorkovskaya”, according to former name Tverskaya Street and in honor of the writer Maxim Gorky, whose monument stands in the passage between this station and the Chekhovskaya station.
"Okhotny Ryad" - "Name of Kaganovich" - "Okhotny Ryad" - "Marx Avenue" - "Okhotny Ryad"
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During the existence of the Okhotny Ryad station, it was renamed 4 times. At first, as now, it was called “ Okhotny near" - the name was given after one of the Moscow shopping arcades (XVII century), in which it was allowed to sell game brought by hunters near Moscow.
On November 25, 1955, when the entire metro, which previously bore the name of Lazar Kaganovich, was deprived of this name, giving it the name of Lenin, the name of Kaganovich was assigned to the Okhotny Ryad station, and it began to be called the station named after Kaganovich. Two years later, when Kaganovich himself became one of the participants in the so-called anti-party group, the station returned its former name “Okhotny Ryad”. The name lasted until November 30, 1961, when the station was renamed Prospect Marx. And on November 5, 1990, the station was again renamed “Okhotny Ryad”.
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"Kirovskaya" - "Chistye Prudy"
The station was opened on May 15, 1935 and was called “Kirovskaya”. The station was renamed on November 5, 1990, after the name of the Kirov street located here (now Myasnitskaya), named in honor of the USSR state and party leader Sergei Mironovich Kirov (1886-1934), was changed. The new name of the station was given after Chistoprudny Boulevard, as well as Chistye Pond, to which its exits lead. Until 1703, the pond was called Pogany, as waste from nearby butcher shops and slaughterhouses was dumped into it. Then it was cleared and, accordingly, renamed.
"Red Gate" - "Lermontovskaya" - "Red Gate"
The Krasnye Vorota station was named in honor of the Red Gate in 1935, and in 1962 it was renamed Lermontovskaya - not far from the station lobby there used to be a house where the great Russian poet was born. At the dawn of perestroika, in 1986, the station returned its former name “Red Gate”.
"Mir" - "Shcherbakovskaya" - "Alekseevskaya"
It was opened on May 1, 1958 under the name "Peace". On October 26, 1966, it was renamed “Shcherbakovskaya” in honor of the party and statesman Stalin's time by Alexander Shcherbakov. On November 5, 1990, the Shcherbakovskaya station was renamed Alekseevskaya. The station received this name in honor of the village of Alekseevskoye, which belonged to Prince Dmitry Timofeevich Trubetskoy. The history of the village of Alekseevskoye dates back to the end of the 14th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, the village of Alekseevskoye became part of Moscow; in the late 20s - early 30s, the Alekseevsky student town and the first multi-storey residential buildings were built here. Since the 1950s Mass residential development began in the area.
"Dzerzhinskaya" - "Lubyanka"
The metro station was opened on May 15, 1935. Until November 1990, it was called “Dzerzhinskaya”. The name of the station directly indicated its location: the square on which it is located was at that time called Dzerzhinsky Square, in honor of Felix Dzerzhinsky, a Soviet figure, founder of the Cheka. In 1990, the square was returned to its historical name - Lubyanskaya, and the metro station was renamed Lubyanka. The name "Lubyanka" is a transferred toponym. It was first mentioned in the chronicle of 1480, when Ivan III ordered the Novgorodians, evicted to Moscow after the fall of the republic, to settle in this place.
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"Kolkhoznaya" - "Sukharevskaya"
The station was opened on January 5, 1972. Initially it was called “Collective Farm”, in honor of the 1st All-Union Congress of Collective Farmers and Shock Workers and to commemorate the implementation of collectivization Agriculture. On November 5, 1990, the station was renamed “Sukharevskaya” along with the renaming of the nearby Kolkhoznaya Square to Bolshaya and Malaya Sukharevskaya Squares. The station received its new name in honor of the Sukharev Tower, which was built in 1692-1695 on the initiative of Peter I. The tower received its name in honor of Lavrenty Sukharev, whose rifle regiment guarded the Sretensky Gate at the end of the 17th century.
"Zhdanovskaya" - "Vykhino"
The station was opened on December 31, 1966. The current name is given after the Moscow district of Vykhino, on whose territory the station is located. The original name of the station was “Zhdanovskaya” - in honor of party leader Andrei Zhdanov. The district of Moscow in which the station was located at the time of its opening bore his name.
"Lenino" - "Tsaritsyno"
Before the renaming on November 5, 1990, the Tsaritsyno station was called Lenino (after the name of the Lenino-Dachnoe residential area). The station received its modern name from the nearby Tsaritsynsky Park and the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve. The station was opened on December 30, 1984.
"Sverdlov Square" - "Teatralnaya"
The station was opened on September 11, 1938 and was called “Sverdlov Square”, in honor of the square of the same name. The square was named after one of the leaders of the Bolshevik Party, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee Yakov Sverdlov. In 1990, Sverdlov Square returned its historical name - Teatralnaya Square (the Bolshoi and Maly theaters are located on it), and the metro station was also renamed Teatralnaya.
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“Nogin Square” - “China Town”
Until November 5, 1990, the station was called “Nogin Square”, in honor of the Soviet party leader Viktor Nogin. The current name comes from the name of the Moscow historical district, on the eastern border of which the station is located. At the same time, Nogin Square (until 1924 - Varvarskaya Square), on which the station was located, was renamed Slavyanskaya Square, where a monument to the Slavic enlighteners Cyril and Methodius was erected.
"Stalinskaya" - "Semyonovskaya"
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Belonging to the capital's metro. The Lenin Library and Lubyanka station are located nearby. Included in the Tverskoy district. From here you can easily get to Red Square.
How did the name come about?
“Okhotny Ryad” is a metro station that appeared in May 1935. It was part of the first launch site, which belonged to the capital's transport complex. They organized a branch line from this place to Smolenskaya. The fork-type traffic operated here until 1938.
The Okhotny Ryad metro station had a 1:1 balance of vehicles when moving towards the Library named after. Lenin" and "Comintern", which was later renamed "Alexandrovsky Garden". Moving away from Arbat, it is possible to get into a separate line with a tunnel, which is used for official business. Opportunity fast travel so much big city receives precisely thanks to the Moscow metro. Okhotny Ryad underwent a number of changes when it was built in the mid-90s of the last century. The tunnel was filled in halfway. One path was dismantled, and the second was left intact. Before that, in 1944, a passage to the Teatralnaya station was opened. Previously, you had to use a large lobby.
During 1959, an underground passage was laid under the Okhotny Ryad metro station, the first in the capital's transport network. In 1974, a second similar structure appeared, leading to Teatralnaya station. Work is being carried out at each crossing in a one-way direction.
Old times
During the nineteenth century, only trade was carried out here, goods were left in warehouses. There was an opportunity to stay in a hotel or visit a tavern. When 1956 came, the square that was here was redeveloped into a street, which in the period from 1961 to 1990 was a segment of Marx Avenue.
“Okhotny Ryad” is an area where in 1955 the station was named after Kaganovich. This is due to the fact that it previously bore a name associated with the name of this Soviet politician. He led the process of building the transport complex. Then they paid tribute to Lenin, naming the entire network after him, leaving only one station for Kaganovich.
In 1957, he was removed from his leading government position, and now he enjoyed less honor and respect. Changes took place once again - the station became Prospekt im. Marx." Here three were connected big streets who had important. When the restructuring processes took place in 1990, the station acquired its original name - Okhotny Ryad metro station. The point had to go through a name change four times, which in itself is unique for Moscow.
Interior decoration
Here you can transfer to Teatralnaya. You need to proceed to the escalator, which is located in the center. You can go through the east lobby, where there is also an exit. There is a transfer hub here, from which you can get to Revolution Square. However, you will not find a direct transition. The stations are located very far away.
The underground part in the west is part of Manezhnaya Square. There is a transition to it. You can go through the shopping center. Chechulin created the project for this building, and the house on the surface was reconstructed. It was torn out during a competition and renamed. The project was designed in such a way that there were exteriors, but over time they were lost. They were created by M. Manizer; a teacher from the circus school, A. Shirai, was used as a model for one sculpture.
Curious details
When they filmed the film “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears,” the authors decided to focus on the time of filming in 1958. During the episode of the train ride, a track wall with the name of the station was filmed. When the film was released in 1979, the point itself changed its name to “Marx Avenue”. This created the effect of transporting the viewer into the past 20 years. The most interesting thing is that the filming itself took place at Novoslobodskaya.
Technical features
The station has a pylon structure and three vaults, and is laid deep. The project was created individually, based on the mountain method. Monolithic concrete was used for the covering. First, the walls were erected, and then the vaults, based on the German design. When the point was built, it was the largest such deeply embedded station. In accordance with the initial plan, they did not want to build a hall in the center, but then radical changes took place.
The style in which the place is decorated
Here you can see structures that resemble columns with many faces; the cladding consists of gray and white marble. Before this, it was changed by removing the yellow ceramic tiles. The name of the item was written in metal-colored symbols. The background is completely black. The floor was made of gray granite. There are lighting fixtures throughout the hall and near the landing platforms. Previously, there were floor lamps similar to those at Novokuznetskaya.
The convenience of the point lies in the fact that Red Square is easily accessible from here. The Okhotny Ryad metro station is decorated in the east with an image of Marx from a mosaic created by E. Reichzaum.
If we take statistics for March 2002, the passenger flow at the entrance was 97,000 people, and at the exit - 95,000 people. The transport point receives the first people at 5:30 am, the last - at 1:00 am.
Thanks to this location, the transportation needs of many people are met. The work is carried out smoothly and properly.
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Mine No. 10-11 Mosmetrostroy (head A. Bobrov); reconstruction of the year - SMU-5 Mosmetrostroy (head M. Arbuzov)
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"Okhotny Ryad"- station of the Sokolnicheskaya line of the Moscow metro. Located between the Lubyanka and Lenin Library stations. Located in the Tverskoy district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. Okhotny Ryad is the closest metro station to Red Square.
History and origin of the name
Okhotny Ryad is the only station in Moscow that has been renamed four times.
Lobbies and transfers
The station is a transfer station to the Teatralnaya station of the Zamoskvoretskaya line. The transition is carried out via escalators located in the center of the hall, as well as through the combined vestibule (eastern), which has access to Teatralnaya Square. The same interchange hub also includes the Ploshchad Revolyutsii station, however, there is no direct transfer between them, since the stations are quite distant from each other.
The western underground vestibule of the station leads to Manezhnaya Square and the underground passage under it; it can also be accessed from the shopping center under Manezhnaya Square.
Technical specifications
The design of the station is pylon, three-vaulted, deep. It was built according to an individual project using a mining method with a lining of monolithic concrete. In this case, the walls of the station were first erected, then the vaults were erected on them (the so-called “German method”). At the time of construction, it was the largest deep-water station in the world. According to the original project, the construction of a central hall was not planned; the project was changed after construction began.
). The name of the station is made in metal letters on a black marble background, the floor is tiled with gray granite. The central hall and landing platforms are illuminated by spherical lamps mounted on the ceiling. Previously, lamps in the form of floor lamps were used to illuminate the central hall, similar to the lamps installed in the central hall of the station "
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An excerpt characterizing Okhotny Ryad (metro station)
“No, I don’t want to,” Pierre said, pushing Anatole away and went to the window.Dolokhov held the Englishman’s hand and clearly, distinctly spelled out the terms of the bet, addressing mainly Anatole and Pierre.
Dolokhov was a man of average height, with curly hair and light blue eyes. He was about twenty-five years old. He did not wear a mustache, like all infantry officers, and his mouth, the most striking feature of his face, was completely visible. The lines of this mouth were remarkably finely curved. In the middle, the upper lip energetically dropped onto the strong lower lip like a sharp wedge, and something like two smiles constantly formed in the corners, one on each side; and all together, and especially in combination with a firm, insolent, intelligent gaze, it created such an impression that it was impossible not to notice this face. Dolokhov was a poor man, without any connections. And despite the fact that Anatole lived in tens of thousands, Dolokhov lived with him and managed to position himself in such a way that Anatole and everyone who knew them respected Dolokhov more than Anatole. Dolokhov played all the games and almost always won. No matter how much he drank, he never lost his clarity of mind. Both Kuragin and Dolokhov at that time were celebrities in the world of rakes and revelers in St. Petersburg.
A bottle of rum was brought; the frame that did not allow anyone to sit on the outer slope of the window was broken out by two footmen, apparently in a hurry and timid from the advice and shouts of the surrounding gentlemen.
Anatole walked up to the window with his victorious look. He wanted to break something. He pushed the lackeys away and pulled the frame, but the frame did not give up. He broke the glass.
“Well, how are you, strong man,” he turned to Pierre.
Pierre took hold of the crossbars, pulled, and with a crash the oak frame turned out.
“Get out, otherwise they’ll think I’m holding on,” said Dolokhov.
“The Englishman is bragging... huh?... good?...” said Anatole.
“Okay,” said Pierre, looking at Dolokhov, who, taking a bottle of rum in his hands, approached the window, from which one could see the light of the sky and the morning and evening dawn merging on it.
Dolokhov, with a bottle of rum in his hand, jumped up onto the window. "Listen!"
he shouted, standing on the windowsill and turning into the room. Everyone fell silent.
- I bet (he spoke French so that an Englishman could understand him, and did not speak this language very well). I bet you fifty imperials, would you like a hundred? - he added, turning to the Englishman.
“No, fifty,” said the Englishman.
- Okay, for fifty imperials - that I will drink the entire bottle of rum without taking it from my mouth, I will drink it while sitting outside the window, right here (he bent down and showed the sloping ledge of the wall outside the window) and without holding on to anything... So? ...
“Very good,” said the Englishman.
Anatole turned to the Englishman and, taking him by the button of his tailcoat and looking down at him (the Englishman was short), began repeating to him the terms of the bet in English.
- Wait! - Dolokhov shouted, banging the bottle on the window to attract attention. - Wait, Kuragin; listen. If anyone does the same, then I pay one hundred imperials. Do you understand?
The Englishman nodded his head, not giving any indication as to whether he intended to accept this new bet or not. Anatole did not let go of the Englishman and, despite the fact that he nodded, letting him know that he understood everything, Anatole translated Dolokhov’s words to him in English. A young thin boy, a life hussar, who had lost that evening, climbed onto the window, leaned out and looked down.
“Uh!... uh!... uh!...” he said, looking out the window at the stone sidewalk.
- Attention! - Dolokhov shouted and pulled the officer from the window, who, entangled in his spurs, awkwardly jumped into the room.
Having placed the bottle on the windowsill so that it would be convenient to get it, Dolokhov carefully and quietly climbed out the window. Dropping his legs and leaning both hands on the edges of the window, he measured himself, sat down, lowered his hands, moved to the right, to the left and took out a bottle. Anatole brought two candles and put them on the windowsill, although it was already quite light. Dolokhov's back in a white shirt and his curly head were illuminated from both sides. Everyone crowded around the window. The Englishman stood in front. Pierre smiled and said nothing. One of those present, older than the others, with a frightened and angry face, suddenly moved forward and wanted to grab Dolokhov by the shirt.
- Gentlemen, this is nonsense; he will be killed to death,” said this more prudent man.
Anatole stopped him:
“Don’t touch it, you’ll scare him and he’ll kill himself.” Eh?... What then?... Eh?...
Dolokhov turned around, straightening himself and again spreading his arms.
“If anyone else bothers me,” he said, rarely letting words slip through his clenched and thin lips, “I’ll bring him down here now.” Well!…
Having said “well”!, he turned again, let go of his hands, took the bottle and brought it to his mouth, threw his head back and threw his free hand up for leverage. One of the footmen, who began to pick up the glass, stopped in a bent position, not taking his eyes off the window and Dolokhov’s back. Anatole stood straight, eyes open. The Englishman, his lips thrust forward, looked from the side. The one who stopped him ran to the corner of the room and lay down on the sofa facing the wall. Pierre covered his face, and a weak smile, forgotten, remained on his face, although it now expressed horror and fear. Everyone was silent. Pierre took his hands away from his eyes: Dolokhov was still sitting in the same position, only his head was bent back, so that the curly hair of the back of his head touched the collar of his shirt, and the hand with the bottle rose higher and higher, shuddering and making an effort. The bottle was apparently emptied and at the same time rose, bending its head. “What’s taking so long?” thought Pierre. It seemed to him that more than half an hour had passed. Suddenly Dolokhov made a backward movement with his back, and his hand trembled nervously; this shudder was enough to move the entire body sitting on the sloping slope. He shifted all over, and his hand and head trembled even more, making an effort. One hand rose to grab the window sill, but dropped again. Pierre closed his eyes again and told himself that he would never open them. Suddenly he felt that everything around him was moving. He looked: Dolokhov was standing on the windowsill, his face was pale and cheerful.
- Empty!
He threw the bottle to the Englishman, who deftly caught it. Dolokhov jumped from the window. He smelled strongly of rum.
- Great! Well done! So bet! Damn you completely! - they shouted from different sides.
The Englishman took out his wallet and counted out the money. Dolokhov frowned and was silent. Pierre jumped onto the window.
Gentlemen! Who wants to bet with me? “I’ll do the same,” he suddenly shouted. “And there’s no need for a bet, that’s what.” They told me to give him a bottle. I'll do it... tell me to give it.
- Let it go, let it go! – said Dolokhov, smiling.
- What you? crazy? Who will let you in? “Your head is spinning even on the stairs,” they spoke from different sides.
- I'll drink it, give me a bottle of rum! - Pierre shouted, hitting the table with a decisive and drunken gesture, and climbed out the window.
They grabbed him by the arms; but he was so strong that he pushed the one who approached him far away.
“No, you can’t persuade him like that,” said Anatole, “wait, I’ll deceive him.” Look, I bet you, but tomorrow, and now we're all going to hell.
“We’re going,” Pierre shouted, “we’re going!... And we’re taking Mishka with us...
And he grabbed the bear, and, hugging and lifting it, began to spin around the room with it.
Prince Vasily fulfilled the promise made at the evening at Anna Pavlovna's to Princess Drubetskaya, who asked him about her only son Boris. He was reported to the sovereign, and, unlike others, he was transferred to the Semenovsky Guard Regiment as an ensign. But Boris was never appointed as an adjutant or under Kutuzov, despite all the efforts and machinations of Anna Mikhailovna. Soon after Anna Pavlovna's evening, Anna Mikhailovna returned to Moscow, straight to her rich relatives Rostov, with whom she stayed in Moscow and with whom her beloved Borenka, who had just been promoted to the army and was immediately transferred to guards ensigns, had been raised and lived for years since childhood. The Guard had already left St. Petersburg on August 10, and the son, who remained in Moscow for uniforms, was supposed to catch up with her on the road to Radzivilov.
The Rostovs had a birthday girl, Natalya, a mother and a younger daughter. In the morning, without ceasing, trains drove up and drove off, bringing congratulators to the large, well-known house of Countess Rostova on Povarskaya throughout Moscow. Countess with a beautiful eldest daughter and the guests, who never ceased replacing one another, sat in the living room.
The countess was a woman with oriental type thin-faced, about forty-five, apparently exhausted by her children, of whom she had twelve. The slowness of her movements and speech, resulting from weakness of strength, gave her a significant appearance that inspired respect. Princess Anna Mikhailovna Drubetskaya, as home person, sat right there, helping in the matter of receiving and engaging in conversation with guests. The youth were in the back rooms, not finding it necessary to participate in receiving visits. The Count met and saw off the guests, inviting everyone to dinner.
“I am very, very grateful to you, ma chere or mon cher [my dear or my dear] (ma chere or mon cher he said to everyone without exception, without the slightest shade, both above and below him) for himself and for the dear birthday girls . Look, come and have lunch. You will offend me, mon cher. I sincerely ask you on behalf of the whole family, ma chere.” He spoke these words with the same expression on his full, cheerful, clean-shaven face and with an equally strong handshake and repeated short bows to everyone, without exception or change. Having seen off one guest, the count returned to whoever was still in the living room; having pulled up his chairs and with the air of a man who loves and knows how to live, with his legs gallantly spread and his hands on his knees, he swayed significantly, offered guesses about the weather, consulted about health, sometimes in Russian, sometimes in very bad, but self-confident French, and again, with the air of a tired but firm man in the performance of his duties, he went to see him off, straightening the sparse gray hair on his bald head, and again called for dinner. Sometimes, returning from the hallway, he walked through the flower and waiter's room into a large marble hall, where a table for eighty couverts was being set, and, looking at the waiters wearing silver and porcelain, arranging tables and unrolling damask tablecloths, he called Dmitry Vasilyevich, a nobleman, to him. who was taking care of all his affairs, and said: “Well, well, Mitenka, make sure everything is fine. “Well, well,” he said, looking around with pleasure at the huge spread-out table. – The main thing is serving. This and that...” And he left, sighing complacently, back into the living room.
- Marya Lvovna Karagina with her daughter! - the huge countess's footman reported in a bass voice as he entered the living room door.
The Countess thought and sniffed from a golden snuffbox with a portrait of her husband.
“These visits tormented me,” she said. - Well, I’ll take her last one. Very prim. “Beg,” she said to the footman in a sad voice, as if she was saying: “Well, finish it off!”
A tall, plump, proudly looking lady with a round-faced, smiling daughter, rustling with their dresses, entered the living room.
“Chere comtesse, il y a si longtemps... elle a ete alitee la pauvre enfant... au bal des Razoumowsky... et la comtesse Apraksine... j"ai ete si heureuse..." [Dear Countess, how long ago... she should have been in bed, poor child... at the Razumovskys' ball... and Countess Apraksina... was so happy...] animated women's voices were heard, interrupting one another and merging with the rustle of dresses and the moving of chairs. That conversation began, which is started just enough so that at the first pause you get up and rustle with dresses , say: "Je suis bien charmee; la sante de maman... et la comtesse Apraksine" [I am in admiration; mother's health... and Countess Apraksina] and, again rustling with dresses, go into the hallway, put on a fur coat or cloak and leave. about the main city news of that time - about the illness of the famous rich and handsome man of Catherine's time, old Count Bezukhy, and about his illegitimate son Pierre, who behaved so indecently at an evening with Anna Pavlovna Scherer.
You can get to the station in three ways: firstly, by arriving there by train along the (so-called red line), or from the side of the station Lenin's Library , or from the station Lubyanka ; secondly, by going to it either from the station or from the station , passing through the station; thirdly, by entering the station from the street.
From what street can you enter it? If you think that you can enter the station from the street of the same name, then you are mistaken - this entrance is currently closed. Previously, this entrance was the main one, and on the sides of it in specially arranged niches there were figures of athletes, but now all that remains of them are empty niches and empty pedestals. However, you can enter the same lobby either from the street Bolshaya Dmitrovka , or with Theater Square . However, this lobby is far from the only one. You can also enter it from Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street and Theater Square. You can also get to the station by entering the passage at the very beginning of the street Tverskaya, or entering the same transition to Manezhnaya Square . However, in order to get to the entrance to the station, you will have to walk along a very long passage.
Station entrance from Bolshaya Dmitrovka street ↓
Station entrance from Theater Square ↓
Station entrance from Tverskaya street. In the background on the right is the building of the historical museum. Left – the building of the Moscow Hotel, around the corner of which you can see the building of the former Lenin Museum, which previously served as the building of the City Duma. There, near this building, is the opposite entrance to this passage ↓
Entrance ha station on the opposite side of Tverskaya Street.