Cinema for visitors: where to look at old Moscow streets

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to Pass inveterate moskvovedy it is simple. Will screw in time "A dog platform" or "old Voyentorg", and you already the in a circle of Moscow born and bred. How not to be mistaken in capital toponymics, we explain on the example of the best roles of Arbat lanes at cinema.

of the Photo: TASS / Afonskaya Irina

we Will begin with the mute social comedy about a life and customs Moscow times of the New Economic Policy "Papirosnitsa from Mosselprom" (1924) . On a plot the torgovka cigarettes from a tray looks for itself in "a love square". In the 20th years similar liberties were still allowed. In the movie there are a lot of curious shots Moscow before Stalin buildings.



Vozdvizhenka. At the left behind trees – Voyentorg. So it looked before transformation into a huge brown mall. When the car passes by a chamber, it is visible the Proletkult theater sign on Morozov Arseny. Now in "the house with cockleshells" hold governmental meetings.


in the movie can see br that white "the gingerbread lodge" in Mansurovsky Lane (the house 4, a structure 1) in which there is an embassy Syrie, looked once absolutely in a different way. It was revetted with a gray stone and it is stylized under a medieval castle. But certain "Tavern" near it was already then, and now approximately on the same place there is a Tiflissky Court Yard restaurant so in any sense the historical continuity is kept.

One more silent movie in which there are many curious shots – "The house on Pipe" (1928) .



Smolenskaya Square with two-three-storyed building



the house of the Russia insurance company Turned into a huge communal flat on Sretensky Boulevard crossing with Milyutinsky Lane.



Tram ways on Arbat and taken down at the beginning of the 30th as "disturbing to traffic" Nikolay Chudotvorts's church Shown. From it nowadays there were only old photos yes tiles in the museums.
we Will waste br for more than 30 years forward. Arbat vicinities, of course, during this time got to a shot, but somehow incidentally, and in sign movies of a Stalin era and at all were not lit almost. So welcome to the 60th.

the First movie which it would be desirable to mention, is "A skating rink and a violin" (1960) . The short film well-known today generally for that was degree creative work of the director Tarkovsky, and to it Konchalovsky Andrey scripted. But also in it is on what to look.



Very beautiful shots with an epicure "Smolensk". It is reflected in the mirror standing in the depth of a show-window thanks to what there is an effect of the splitting-up image. In the thirties there the largest settled down in Moscow Torgsin shop.



And still it almost the last film where the Dog platform got to a shot completely disappeared at construction of New Arbat. On the small square where once there were court kennels, to the middle of the XX century there was a Gothic mansion of the collector of Old Russian manuscripts of the doctor Mazurina K.. In it in Soviet period Muzfond and the Union of composers took place.

the Movie "Noisy day" Natanson Georgy and Efros Anatoly left the same year, as Tarkovsky's short film. Concerning the Moscow types in this picture the Minister of Culture Furtseva told discontentedly: "Why you shot the movie in zakholustyakh old Moscow when there are beautiful prospectuses?" .



In "Noisy day" they actually are. In particular Mayakovsky Square with recently opened tunnel which yet has not been demolished by the building of Sovremennik theater on the right and yet by not reconstructed Satiry theater at the left. The monument to the poet established on two years before, did not get to a shot. Or the Tverskaya (then still Soviet) the area overlooking the Kremlin. But old Moscow after all it is more.

From Arbat lanes are shown Sivtsev Vrazhek, already absolutely unrecognizable, and Starokonyushenny where there live the main characters.



there is also a curious moment from a series of director's jokes with geography: when Oleg, having scolded from Lenochkaya, runs away from the house, and the friend Genk tries to catch up with it, they from Starkonyushenny (in a shot on a background a curious sign of time — a sign "Shower Pavilion") begin.



And in a second Oleg already rushes across Sretenka and turns on the Garden ring near Bolshoy Sukharevsk Kolkhoznoy Square. Reached, not differently.

Well, and now — classics with the suitable name. "I walk across Moscow" (1963) – the cult movie for each Muscovite. Without director's catches and riddles here did not do. Let's remember dialogue in the subway:

- What lane?

- Construction!

- Construction... Somewhere near Cheryomushki.

- Well, all not so! What Cheryomushki! ? Well at what here Cheryomushki! ? Listen to me! You go to Paveletskaya, you descend, on the escalator on the top of and to shoe shop as saw shoe – get down! And there you will understand! - That you tell br to br, you do not say so! you do not know that! You will leave on Kirov, you will pass three quarters, you will curtail on the right, and there no distance!




there is no such lane in Moscow. Stroiteley Street is, Stroitelny Drive — too is, and Stroitelny Lane is not present and never was. As that Krivoarbatsky Lane at the end of which the Midovsky skyscraper is clearly visible was removed.



And heroes of the movie get in quite strange way there: leave on "Kirov" ("Pure ponds"), then pass on Chistoprudny Boulevard where to Volodya the boxer Asta tears a trouser-leg, and from there already, it is unclear how, appear in Krivoarbatskom – "Construction" Lane.



the Cafe - "piece of glass" (one more sign come the 60th) there, by the way, never stood, it is the scenery constructed specially for shootings.



And here still riddle: in what house there is an investigator Efremov while it is called by Detochkin Youri in the movie "Beware of the car" (1966) ? From one window of an office the Prague restaurant entrance is visible.



From another — a land lobby of the "Arbat" Filevsky line. So it is Arbat, the house 1 which nowadays has grown together with the house No. 1 on Arbat Square.


One more cult picture – "Moscow to tears does not trust br" (1979) . The heavy scene of explanations of pregnant Katerina and Rudolf, suddenly for itself found out that his passion at all is not the happy owner of the apartment in a skyscraper on Vosstaniya Square, occurs on a shop in Gogolevsky Boulevard.



Katerina's Second meeting with Rudolf, but in 20 years, occurs in the same place and at the same bench.

the Last should mention, probably, "The master and Margarita" (1994) Kara Youri. The movie is well-known at least for that lay on the shelf of 12 years for the reasons of purely commercial character.


Choosing "nature" for shootings, Kara Youri approached to a question of reconstruction Bulgakov Moscow quite meticulously. So, he lodged Margarita in the house 21 across Ostozhenka. Where she also lived according to many researchers of creativity of Bulgakov.



But without "focuses with space" and here did not do: Margarita flies on a sweeper over Arbat to arrange disorder in the house of Dramlit which rented on Ostozhenka, practically opposite its own (house 21). Why then was to fly on Arbat?

Baykov Aleksey
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Andrey Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky
Last position: Film director, actor, theatrical director, screenwriter, film producer
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Kara Youri
Baykov Aleksey
Mazurin K.