The Boulevard Ring stretched from the Prechistinsky Square to the Yauzsky Gates . The boulevards were broken down along the line where the fortress wall of the White City used to be built, which the Tsar Fedor Ioannovich ordered to build back in 1586 . For seven years, the architect Fyodor Kon girded Moscow with a new defensive line , and the territory inside the ring was called the White City, according to the color of the fortress wall . Where the Moscow streets intersected with the walls of the White City, a gate was made that was named after the streets: Nikitsky, Petrovsky, Sreten . By the decree of Catherine II, the dilapidated wall was demolished . The wall was ordered to plant trees, and in 1796 the first Moscow Boulevard appeared - Tverskaya Street .

In the shape of the Boulevard Ring, resembles a horseshoe, both ends coming out to the embankments of the Moskva River. The Boulevard Ring is formed by Gogol Boulevard, Nikitsky Boulevard, Petrovsky Boulevard, Rozhdestvensky Boulevard, Sretensky Boulevard, Strastnoy Boulevard, Tverskoy Boulevard and Chistoprudny Boulevard.

Gogolevsky Boulevard

Gogolevsky Boulevard (Kropotkinskaya metro station) was defeated after 1812 year. The boulevard originates near the Prechistinsky Gate Square, so it was called Prechistinsky and only in 1924 it was renamed. At the end of the boulevard, surrounded by ancient lanterns with magnificent lions, there is a monument to N. Gogol (sculptor N. Tomsky), installed in 1952 instead of a prerevolutionary monument to the writer.

Nikitsky Boulevard

Nikitsky Boulevard (in the Soviet era - Suvorovsky Boulevard) (st . m . "Arbatskaya") appeared in Moscow soon after the fire of 1812 . The boulevard received its name due to the fact that it goes to the Nikitsky gate . In the house No. 7 on the left side of the boulevard was the last apartment H . . Gogol, in which th he lived until his death in 1852 . Now there is the City Library for him . Gogol, and in two rooms where the writer lived, there is a memorial museum . In the courtyard there is an old Gogol monument by sculptor Nikolai Andreev . @ Opposite the house number 7 there is a building (No. 8a), which is already more than two hundred years old . The house was acquired in the second half of the 19th century when it was rebuilt by the architect A . . Vivien . Now House is located here journalist . On the same side of Nikitsky Boulevard is a magnificent mansion in the Moscow style lassicism (house number 12a) . It was built in 1818-1921 D . Gyulyardi for the Moscow rich man . . @ Lunin . Now the building of the Museum of Oriental Art .

Petrovsky Boulevard

Petrovsky Boulevard (st . m . "Tsvetnoy Boulevard") is named after Petrovsky Monastery . Boulevard smoothly descends to Trubnaya Square where a barred hole was made in the wall of the White City - "a pipe ", Through which Neglinka proceeded; hence the area that appeared in the 20s of the last century became known as Trubnaya, or, in common parlance, Truboi . Here was the first Moscow avian market, called the bird trade . In the spring on the Feast of the Annunciation here was released to the will of goldfinches, chizh, finches . In the last century the famous Hermitage restaurant, which belonged to the Moscow merchant Yakov Pegov and the French culinary expert Lucien Olivier, inventor of the famous salad named in his name, was located on the square in the last century . This restaurant was popular with Russian intelligentsia and artists .

Rozhdestvensky Boulevard

Steep ascent at the beginning of Christmas Boulevard (Tsvetnoy Bulvar metro station) - memory of the shore of ancient Neglinka. To the right goes Rozhdestvenka, named after the ancient Christmas monastery. It was founded in the 14th century. Princess Maria Keystutovna, the mother of the hero of the Kulikovo battle of Prince Vladimir Serpukhovsky. At the corner of Sretenka is the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin in Pechatniki (17th century). There was a settlement of the masters of the Printing Yard, preserved in the name of the area

Sretensky Boulevard

Sretensky Boulevard (st . m . "Chistye Prudy", "Turgenevskaya") - the shortest boulevard in Moscow, only 214 meters long . Its name comes from the Sretenskiy Gate of the White City wall . On the left side towers a quaint house No. 6/1 built by the architect N . M . Proskurin . The French architect Le Corbusier considered him the most beautiful building in Moscow . After the revolution, the People's Commissariat of of the Enlightenment where she worked . K .Krupskaya, so in 1976 she was put up a monument on the boulevard . In the same building was the Literature Department (Lito), where he worked M . A . Bulgakov .

Boulevard

In the 1820s, by a passionate boulevard (Pushkinskaya metro station, Chekhovskaya metro station) was called a small alley, built from the Passionate Monastery to the Petrovsky Gates. Senate Square occupied the rest of the present boulevard. In the afternoon hay was traded here, and in the evenings people were robbed. At the end of the 19th century, the owner of the house number 9 EA Naryshkin at his own expense broke a large square on the square. Out of respect for the generous nobleman, the City Duma appropriated the name Naryshkinsky to the new square. Only in 1937 Naryshkinsky Square was renamed Strastnoy Boulevard

Tverskoy Boulevard

Tverskoy Boulevard (Tverskaya, Pushkinskaya) was defeated in 1796 under the guidance of architect S. Karin. Initially, birch trees were planted here, but they did not take root, and for almost two centuries the mighty lindens rustled the thick foliage on the boulevard. The picturesque boulevard from the very first days has become a favorite place for walks of the Moscow high society.

Chistoprudny Boulevard

Chistoprudny Boulevard (st . m . "Chistye Prudy", "Turgenevskaya") . This boulevard is the second longest after Tverskogo . Here are the famous Chistye Prudy formed from the dam of the Rachki River that once flowed along the wall of the White City . In the old days there were butchers in this area, and there was an abattoir . @ Waste from the butchery production flowed into the nearby and therefore they were called Pogan puddles, or Pogany ponds . At the beginning of the 18th century Alexander Danilovich Menshikov lived in Myasniki . The lord Prince did not want to live next door to the Pogany ponds and ordered them to be cleaned . Since then they began to be called Clean Ponds . To the right from the boulevard is Arkhangelsky Lane (in the Soviet era - Telegraph), here is the church of the Archangel Gabriel, which in the beginning of the 18th century was built by Prince Menshikov .

The Boulevard Ring is closed by Pokrovsky and Yauzsky boulevards