Malaya Semenovskaya is a small street with a big history

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:41

There are many well-known and famous streets in Moscow. But there are also smaller ones whose history is no less interesting. Among these streets is Malaya Semenovskaya. It is located in the east of the capital, not far from the Elektrozavodskaya and Semenovskaya metro stations, on the territory of the Sokolinaya Gora and Preobrazhenskoye municipal districts.

History

Malaya Semenovskaya was named after the village of Semenovsky, located on this site. Here, on the left bank of the Yauza River, was the Semyonovskaya Sloboda, where the Semyonovsky Regiment, one of the first guards regiments in Russia, was stationed. The village of Semenovskoe was one of the estates of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, and in 1687 it separated from the village. Izmailov. It is mentioned in a document of 1657 as Sokoliny Dvor.

To the south of the settlement was, separated from it by a swamp, the village of Vvedenskoye, which later merged with it. Semyonovskaya Sloboda was carefully planned, its streets were parallel. Until now, their speaking names have been preserved in the names of lanes: Honey,Majorov, Drum.

Now historical reenactors have revived the Semyonovsky regiment.

Sloboda in the 18th-20th centuries

From the beginning of the 18th century, tradesmen and merchants began to settle in the settlement. Factories and rich merchant estates arose there, located next to the houses of ordinary citizens. The richest entrepreneurs were the Nosovs, who owned cloth factories. The wife of the Semenov cloth magnate, Efimiya Pavlovna Nosova (nee Ryabushinskaya), owned her art gallery. One of Rokotov's paintings "Lady in Pink", which was in this gallery, is now in the Tretyakov Gallery.

At the beginning of the 20th century, this area was the working outskirts of Moscow. In 1904, a people's house was built on Vvedenskaya Square (now Zhuravlev Square) to educate the workers. There was a theater stage and a library.

Attractions

Historical buildings and mansions have been preserved on Malaya Semyonovskaya Street. House number 1 is the mansion of Efimiya Nosova. It was presented to his son and daughter-in-law by the owner of textile factories Vasily Nosov. After the revolution, the house was remodeled many times and lost its murals and design elements. It housed various institutions, nurseries. Now there is a commercial structure here. The main building of the merchants Nosovs has also been preserved.

It is located at the address: Malaya Semenovskaya St., 9, building 1. This house was built according to Kekushev's project, following the model that the merchant saw in an American magazine.

Many buildings on Malaya Semenovskaya are related to the "textile empire". There are the buildings of "TsNIISherst" (formerly the leading institute of the knitting industry), the buildings of the Semenov weaving factory. Manufactory Nosov, which in Soviet times was called "Liberated Labor". She was famous for her products: cloth, scarves and blankets. Now these buildings are occupied by warehouses, commercial and administrative buildings.

At the intersection of Drum Lane and Malaya Semyonovskaya Street stands an unusual wooden house with amazing carvings.

This is the house of the merchant Kudryashov, one of the few surviving wooden mansions that lined Moscow's streets on the outskirts. The Kudryashov merchants owned the Wool-Bread factory, the building of which has been preserved on Malaya Semenovskaya 10/5. There was a house of culture where V. Vysotsky performed and in 1986 the Black Obelisk group of Anatoly Krupnov was created.

Many mansions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries have also been preserved in Honey Lane.

Factory "Red Dawn"

On Malaya Semenovskaya, 28 is the building of the famous knitting factory "Red Dawn". Here, in 1880, the Russian-French joint-stock company "R. Simon and Co" was founded. The building of the factory was built in 1916. The production of woolen yarn was founded in 1879 by the Ivanov family of merchants, and at first only a few workers worked there. In Soviet times, the factory became a large enterprise, duringWorld War II provided the army with uniforms.

Currently, the factory produces both woolen yarn and synthetics based on acrylic and polyamide. Not so long ago, they began to produce fiber from soy and bamboo. The factory is actively involved in the import substitution program and is constantly expanding its range. The factory has a brand store where you can buy a lot of useful and interesting products.

Several houses built in the 30s of the 20th century in the style of constructivism have been preserved on Malaya Semenovskaya. Some still have residential apartments.

Walking along this street, you feel the aura of old Moscow, a business and hospitable city. If you come to Moscow on the street. Malaya Semenovskaya, you will feel it yourself.