Башня Меньшикова

Башня Меньшикова

В те времена на месте массивного здания Главного почтамта находилась роскошная усадьба знаменитого А. Меньшикова - правой руки Петра I. Всесильный фаворит, «полудержавный властелин» выстроил себе здесь дворец, скрытый от прохожих садами и оранжереями. Над дворцом эффектно возвышалась церковь-башня, увенчанная шпилем с позолоченной фигурой архангела Гавриила. Башня Меньшикова, призванная увековечить славу своего владельца, по праву считалась самым высоким сооружением старой Москвы, однако просуществовала в таком виде совсем недолго. Через несколько лет в нее ударила молния, и горделивый шпиль рухнул, как бы предвосхитив опалу и падение сиятельного хозяина, потерявшего в один момент все свое величие. Однако сама башня устояла. Ее со временем восстановили, правда, вместо шпиля водрузили на вершину несколько необычное сооружение, напоминающее золоченый кубок с крестом. Со стороны Мясницкой башню Меньшикова сейчас не видно, она загорожена почтамтом. Подойти к ней и полюбоваться старинным памятником петровских времен можно только из Архангельского переулка, что сворачивает направо от Чистопрудного бульвара. www.proektstroy.ru

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total: 47 Fantasy Painting and Graphics Gallery Constantine Kansky was born in 1968. He graduated from Krasnodar Art College. Since 1992 he takes part in the art exhibitions in Krasnodar, Moscow, and Saint-Petersburg. Kansky's works are in the private collections in Russia and abroad - Germany, Is.....  ››››› Decorations of Lady’s World Pamela Walt-Shauve shares out her feelings with unimaginable grace. She transforms them into bright strokes by means of tender brush… You just have to look at pictures, without fear to fright off other’s sentiments and not worrying about your owns. .....  ››››› Pamela Walt Chauve Pamela Walt Chauve, a Franco-American, was born in Berkeley California in 1955. An art student in both practical and performing arts, Pamela first studied drawing and painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1974. She is a graduate of Sarah Law.....  ››››› Varvara Bubnova (1886-1983) Varvara Bubnova (1886-1983) was born and died in St. Petersburg. She came from a noble Russian family which was related to the famous poet Alexander Pushkin. In Bubnova’s old family estate, Bernovo, in the region of Tver there is now a Pushkin museum.....  ››››› High art of today Vintage, antiques, retromixture of the Victorian style and the style of the moderne epoch - today we with pleasure recollect all that was "perfectly well" forgotten by us many years ago. After several decades of total domination of "techno" and emasc.....  ››››› Sviatoslav Nikitenko's cameos Sviatoslav Nikitenko is a famous glyptic artist. Hi makes his cameos with different materials like cornelian, axstone, topaz, morion etc. Clear polishing technique of his gives the stone a special soft shine. Harmonic combination of plastic art and d.....  ››››› Filmography, major works and exhibitions 1965-1966, film ”Belie, belie aisti“-art director (director A. Agishev) Diploma. Drafts were published in IK. 1966 1966-1967, film “Khristos prizemlilsya v Grodno”-art director (director V. Bichkov). Film was banned. While working on drafts for th.....  ››››› Shavkat A.’s (Takvash) Space Shavkat A. (Takvash) – an artist, writer, film director; Was born on 28 April. 1939 (1936 by passport) in Tashkent. In 1966 he ended the VGIK. Works by Shavkat are in the Tretyakovsky Gallery, in private collections of Russia, Europe, US (Nancy and N.....  ››››› Red boots A tree, always alive… It keeps memory… Little wooden house, which absorbed history, is now returning its zest. You just have to come through small door into narrow passage, look around and get imbued with warmth of the past life and warmth of the pre.....  ››››› I am not the first. You are not the last. The path is well trodden. We make footsteps in each other’s traces "Shavkat A. Not seducing anybody by national exotics. He is an artist, standing in the middle of the road between Christian Europe, bleached to bone Asia and Orient, barely discernable in the mist. His painting – lapis lazuli in clay mounting, cra.....  ››››› 1 2 3 4 5