Back in the 17th century, here, on the Maiden's Field, named after the proximity to the Novodevichy Convent, apothecary gardens were set up. The Novodevichy Convent itself was founded in 1524 by the Grand Duke of Moscow Vasily III in gratitude for the mastery of Smolensk. It was most likely named new in relation to the ancient Ascension Monastery, located in the Kremlin.

In 1885, 40,000 square sazhens (more than 18 hectares) of land were allocated on Maiden's Field for the construction of new university clinics of the medical faculty of Moscow Imperial University. The initiator of the construction was the famous surgeon N.V. Sklifosovsky. And soon a large clinical town grew up here. In addition to the money allocated by the city, the funds of private philanthropists played a huge role. The clinical buildings were designed by the best Moscow architects: K. M. Bykovsky, R. I. Klein, I. P. Zalessky.

On the left side of Bolshaya Tsaritsynskaya (now B. Pirogovskaya) street, a number of hospitals were built - Morozovsky, Khludovskaya, Shelaputinskaya, Bazanovskaya - exclusively on private donations.

In 1897, to commemorate the completion of construction, a monument to N. I. Pirogov (sculptor V. O. Sherwood) was erected near the building of the clinic of the medical faculty of Moscow University (now the 1st Moscow State Medical University named after I. M. Sechenov). The famous surgeon is depicted sitting in a chair. In his right hand he holds a surgical probe, in his left - a skull. Previously, bowls were reinforced in the niches of the pedestal. Medical graduates regularly removed these bowls after graduation. According to the existing tradition, one should drink from them - “wash the diploma”. And often the bowls were taken as a keepsake. I had to make new ones. At some point, the university administration got tired of this and the niches have been empty for many years.

Then, in 1897, the Church of Michael the Archangel was consecrated (architects A. A. Nikiforov and A. F. Meisner), which became a house clinical church. The layout of the temple is interesting. It was built at the very beginning of the inner alley of the town near the maternity hospital, where babies were born. And the alley was completed by the church of St. Demetrius of Prilutsky (rebuilt from a chapel by architect B.N. Kozhevnikov in 1904), standing near the Pathological Anatomical Institute. The dead were buried there. Road from birth to death. That is why this alley got the name: “the alley of life”.

In March of the same 1897, A.P. Chekhov was treated at the university clinic. Here he was visited by L. N. Tolstoy.

Currently, the buildings of two Moscow Medical Universities are located on the territory of the Clinical City.

It is also necessary to mention that before the revolution, Maiden's Field was a favorite place for folk festivals, which were held here until 1911. Back in 1765-1771, there was a state-owned theater on the field, where free performances were given on holidays. Here, in September 1826, a celebration was organized in honor of the coronation of Emperor Nicholas I, which was attended by A. S. Pushkin.

In Soviet times, in 1927-1929, near the Maiden's Field, a club of the "Kauchuk" factory was built according to the project of the architect K. S. Melnikov. And a few more years later, on the edge of the Maiden's Field from the side of the Garden Ring, a massive building of the Military Combined Arms Academy named after. M. V. Frunze (architects 1932-1937, architects L. V. Rudnev, V. O. Munts; 1932-1937). The house of the Usachevsky-Chernyavsky school (the former estate of R. R. Koshelev of the 1770s) has been preserved nearby.

In 1948, a triangular square was laid out between the clinical buildings and the Academy building. In 1972, a monument to L. N. Tolstoy by the sculptor A. M. Portyanko was erected in the square of the Maiden's Field, made by the author in full accordance with the words of Lenin: “what a lump”. He replaced the monument to the same Lev Nikolaevich, the famous Soviet sculptor S. D. Merkurov, who stood here earlier.

The square is a favorite vacation spot for mothers and grandmothers with children. There are playgrounds, a summer stage, fountains, comfortable benches in shady alleys.

• Novodevichy Convent

  The Novodevichy Convent in the name of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God (the Ascension Monastery in the Kremlin was called Starodevichy) was founded in 1524-1525. Grand Duke of Moscow Vasily III on the 10th anniversary of the conquest of Smolensk. At the same time, a five-domed monastery cathedral was erected, created in the likeness of the Assumption Cathedral in the Kremlin. The peak of construction in the Novodevichy Convent came in the 1680s, during the reign of Princess Sophia: new powerful fortress walls with openwork crown-shaped ends, two gate churches, a refectory with the Assumption Church, a tall and thin bell tower, new buildings of cells and chambers appeared. After the overthrow, Princess Sophia was also imprisoned here, and died in 1704 also in the Novodevichy Convent. In the future, the appearance of the monastery practically did not change.

  Walk along the left side of Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street to the church with the address 6/8.

• Church of Demetrius of Prilutsky

  The clinical town on Devichye Pole began to be built in the 1880s. The first building of the chapel in honor of St. Demetrius of Prilutsky was built in 1890. Later, the famous Moscow philanthropist D.P. Storozhev turned to the university administration with a request to build a temple on the site of the chapel. With his gift, he wanted "to give poor people the opportunity to bury their relatives who died at the University clinics after the celebration of the liturgy, without assigning any specific fee for this." So he defined his wish in a letter to the rector of the university.

  Turn left into Abrikosovsky lane, go to house 1, building 1.

• Pathological Anatomical Corps

  The Institute of Pathological Anatomy, Forensic Medicine and Operative Surgery, built in 1891 according to the project of K.M. Bykovsky, who became the chief architect of the complex. The peculiarity of the location of the Pathological Anatomical Institute determined its design. Along Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street, it has a side facade, and the main, decorated with a solemn portico of four Ionic semi-columns under the pediment, faces the Alley of Life, into the alley.

  Cross the lane to the corner with Bolshaya Pirogovskaya.

• Clinic of skin and venereal diseases

  In February 1895, the Clinic for Skin and Venereal Diseases was opened on Maiden's Field, which was built at the expense of G.G. Solodovnikov. It was part of the clinical campus of Moscow University and was equipped with the latest science and technology. The Mecca of Russian dermatology was called by her contemporaries. It was one of the first special medical institutions in Russia that studied and treated skin and venereal diseases.

  Walk along the left side of Bolshaya Pirogovskaya to house 2, building 4.

• hospital clinic

  It was here, to the Hospital Therapeutic Clinic, on March 25, 1897, that A.P. Chekhov: "... in Moscow, hemoptysis unexpectedly delayed me and now I am in Ostroumov's clinic ...", he wrote in one of his letters. At that time, the professor of the clinic was its founder A.A. Ostroumov, an outstanding therapist, who back in 1884 organized and equipped a scientific laboratory at the university clinic at his own expense.

  Walk along Bolshaya Pirogovskaya to house 2, building 3.

• Ambulatory

  The founder and first director of the outpatient clinic was Honored Ordinary Professor V.D. Shervinsky, one of the founders of Russian endocrinology. Initially, the clinic was supposed to be engaged in the study and treatment of internal diseases, but it allowed the reception and outpatient treatment of patients. On the ground floor there was a reception area of ​​five small offices. On the second floor, university students listened to lectures, there was also a professor's office, a laboratory and a museum. The outpatient clinic also had a hydropathic clinic, an electrocardiographic room and its own pharmacy.

  Cross the street to house 19 building 1.

• Clinic for Children's Diseases. M.A. Khludov

  The building of the Clinic for Children's Diseases was built in 1896 by the architect K.M. Bykovsky on donations from M.A. Khludov. Initially, it was supposed to take place in the clinical campus on the opposite side of the street, but a significant donation made it possible to build a larger building. Mikhail Alekseevich Khludov was a legendary man, hunter, warrior, entrepreneur. He brought a tiger from Turkestan and settled it at his home in the Basmannaya part. But the tiger frightened visitors and neighbors so much that they had to give it to the zoological garden. Khludov's character was heavy, explosive. Khludov's first wife, the beautiful Elizaveta Fedorovna Melgunova, died when she was 20 from poison. Mikhail poured poison into coffee. He did not want to poison his wife, he intended to poison his brother Vasily. Elizaveta Fyodorovna accidentally took the wrong cup...

Now the name Devichye Pole (Devichye Pole Passage) is given to a street and a small square between Bolshaya Pirogovskaya and Elanskogo Street. But many years ago it really was a field - a large open space covered with grass. It stretched from Plyushchikha and Zubovskaya Street to the Novodevichy Convent.
The girl's field, according to legend, got its name from the fact that girls drove cows here on the field. An older legend says that this name dates back to the times of the Tatar yoke, when Muscovites brought girls here as a tribute to the Mongols.
On the Maiden's Field there is a huge building of the Novodevichy Convent, the builder of which is called Fryazin Aleviz. This monastery, like Voznesensky, served as the royal tomb for a long time. Princesses, daughters of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich - Sophia and Catherine are buried in it; daughter of Tsar John V - Anna, then the first wife of Peter I, Evdokia Feodorovna, nee Lopukhina. In this monastery, after the conspiracy of the Shcheglovity in 1689, the sister of Emperor Peter the Great, the princess and co-ruler Sophia, was imprisoned. But despite the vigilance of the guards, the princess almost ran away from the monastery. Five years later, Sophia again managed to fan the flames of rebellion in the archers, encroaching on the life of the king. But the rebellion was pacified in time by the king and the seditious archers were hung in front of the windows of the princess’s cell with petitions in their hands, in which they begged her to take the throne. In this monastery the princess spent her last days.
The Maiden's Field has been famous for its festivities since ancient times. Tsars Mikhail Fedorovich, Alexei Mikhailovich, Fedor Alekseevich, going here on pilgrimage on July 28, used to meet the procession from here and for this they sometimes came even on the eve of the holiday, stopping in tents spread out on the field.
In the reign of Catherine II, in the summer, on every holiday and every Sunday, there was a public crowded festivity of people of the highest circle on the Maiden's Field. Especially here the day of May 13 was solemnly celebrated. "On the Maiden" was considered the best and most brilliant festivities.
In 1769-1771, the first state-owned folk theater was opened on the Maiden's Field, where performances were given free of charge on Sundays, holidays and quiz days. For the maintenance of the theater, for the hiring of comedians and musicians, it was determined to release 300 rubles each year from the income due to the Moscow police. With the advent of pestilence in Moscow, the performances on the Maiden's Field ceased and were never resumed.
In 1840, on the western side of the then Maiden's Field, he built a house in the form of a Russian hut, with a garden behind, the historian M.P. Pogodin.
In 1864, the famous Podnovinsky festivities were transferred to the Maiden's Field from the Swamp, which was held here at Easter and Shrovetide weeks until 1911, when it was transferred to Presnya. During the festivities, several wooden booths, swings, carousels, etc. were arranged.
In 1885, the city gave up 18 hectares of land from the vast Maiden's Field for the construction of University clinics, which were built here in the late 1880s, blocking Pogodinskaya Street from the Maiden's Field.
By a resolution of the City Duma of February 28, 1911, it was decided to remove the walk from here by the end of the year, and bring the square, squares, boulevards into a single park, which was done in 1912-1913.
In modern times, the huge multi-storey building of the Frunze Academy (architect Rudnev) dominates Maiden's Field Street. In front of the academy there is a monument to M.V. Frunze. A monument to the great writer L.N. Tolstoy by the sculptor S.D. Merkulov.
Devichye Pole - a distant outskirts of old Moscow - is now one of the best areas of Moscow.

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This is one of the few large public buildings of the 1st floor. XIX century, preserved almost completely and representing an example of the style of the empire, which was developed after the Patriotic War of 1812.

Moscow grocery stores were built as food stores for military units stationed here - Khamovniki, Spassky, Lefortovo barracks, etc.
The architectural complex "Provision Stores" was built in 1835 according to the designs of prominent architects - V.P. Stasov and D. M. Shestakov and is an architectural monument that has been preserved almost completely.
Now here is the Museum of Moscow.
In 2011, the museum found a worthy platform for its exhibition, educational and scientific projects and further expansion and development.

Estates and tenement houses have been preserved in the courtyards of Zubovsky Boulevard

Profitable house built in 1900. Already settled.

Historical house No. 27/26 - the house of I. A. Gagarin (Palace department) (1st third of the 19th century)

The wife of I.A. Gagarin, the famous Russian actress G.S. Semenova lived here in 1820-1830, Pushkin was fond of her, he visited here in 1826. In the 1860s, the Decembrist A.N. Muravyov lived in the house upon his return from exile.

Profitable houses on Zubovsky Boulevard.

The five-storey former tenement house of Likhutin adorned the corner of Zubovsky Boulevard and Prechistenka.

We turn onto B. Pirogovskaya street, on the right - the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation

Our walk continues along Maiden's Field. This is a historical area of ​​Moscow on the territory of the modern Khamovniki district, between the Novodevichy Convent and the Garden Ring.

Monument to Leo Tolstoy in the square of the Maiden Field.


This dark gray granite monument was opened here on September 8, 1972, on the eve of the 144th anniversary of the birth of L.N. Tolstoy. The place for the installation of the monument was not chosen by chance: nearby, on the current Leo Tolstoy Street, there was the Khamovniki estate of Tolstoy. Here the writer lived with his family from 1882 to 1901, the family usually wintered in the city estate, and left for Yasnaya Polyana in the summer.

The Maiden's Field is named after the Novodevichy Convent, to which it was granted in 1685 by a royal decree at the suggestion of Princess Sophia, who greatly favored this monastery. However, there are other versions of the origin of the name of the Maiden's Field, associated with an earlier period of history. One of them refers us to the times of the Tatar-Mongol yoke: some sources claim that it was on this field that Muscovites gathered girls who were destined to be taken prisoner as a tribute to the Golden Horde.

Pleasant square...

We will go around the corner of the Maiden's Field Square, on which the monument to Leo Tolstoy stands, and again we will go out onto Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street. Let's walk along it to house number 9a, building 1, a towering building in a rather rare modernist direction for Moscow - the neo-Russian style. This is the house of the City Primary Schools, built in 1911-1912 by the architect Anatoly Alexandrovich Ostrogradsky by order of the Moscow authorities.

The house is decorated with a large colorful majolica panel depicting the battle of George the Victorious with the Serpent - the motif of the coat of arms of Moscow.


The home of the City Primary Schools is considered a cultural heritage site. Today it houses the Faculty of Medicine and Biology of the Russian Medical University. N.I. Pirogov. This building was given to the faculty in the year of its formation - in 1963.

Opposite is the Gynecological Institute for the Improvement of Physicians. A.P. Shelaputina (Bolshaya Pirogovskaya, 11, building 1). Main entrance from Bolshaya Pirogovskaya street.

On the Maiden's field is the building of the former shelter. N.S. Mazurin. About two hundred thousand rubles were transferred to the construction of a shelter by the Frenchwoman Charbonneau, for whom Mazurin was a patron. She died in 1890, and bequeathed the money to an orphanage.
The building was built in 1895. The orphanage became a home for 50 girls and 50 boys who lived there until the age of 12.
In 1936, the building housed a secondary school. It currently houses the Embassy of Vietnam.


I console myself with the thought that my grandmother lived in this orphanage. It just matches in time. But what if..

Since 1924, Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street has been named after the famous surgeon Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov. The original name - Bolshaya Tsaritsynskaya Street was given to the courtyard of Evdokia Fedorovna Lopukhina, the first wife of Peter the Great, located here.
We will walk along this street and look into the nearby alleys....

For example, Olsufevsky lane.

Here is the famous house of R. Klein, one of the outstanding Moscow architects of the late 19th-early 20th century. This house now houses one of the young private museums of the capital - "Our Epoch", dedicated to the history of the Romanov dynasty, the life and death of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II.

Let's go to the museum...

A very interesting exposition. Entrance to the museum is free and there is a free tour for 10 or more people.

Leaving the museum, we will return to the square of the Maiden Field.
Ahead we see the Church of the Holy Archangel of God Michael at the clinics on the Maiden's Field.

The temple was erected according to the project of architects A.F. Meisner and M.I. Nikiforov at the beginning of the main section of the clinical campus, at the intersection of Elansky and Pogodinskaya streets. This is a real gem that adorns the hospital campus complex.

The history of the emergence of the Church of the Archangel Michael on the Maiden's Field is inextricably linked with the clinical town. That is why there is a mention of clinics in the name of the church. According to an old tradition, not a single charitable institution (which includes hospitals) can do without a church or a chapel, so in the hospital town being created, it became necessary to provide for the spiritual needs of all its inhabitants.


The Church of the Archangel Michael was consecrated on November 2, 1897. Its consecration marked the official completion of the construction of the clinical campus, it became a home for all clinics on Devichye Pole, doctors, students, hospital workers, patients and residents of adjacent streets became its parishioners.

Across the road from the temple - the House of Culture of Chemists of the "Kauchuk" plant (Plyushchikha, 64), architect. K.S. Melnikov, 1927. A monument of constructivism architecture.

Here, not far from Bolshaya Pirogovskaya, house 17, there is a whole “archival town”.
The center of the archival town is the building of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts.


The archive of ancient acts is the richest and most interesting repository of documents on the history of Russia from the 13th to the 18th centuries. The archive funds contain the wills of the Grand Dukes, including the will of Ivan Kalita, dated 1339, the only list of the Sudebnik of Ivan III, various chronicles, including Nikonovskaya, with the first mention of Moscow, numerous plans, bills of sale, petitions, governor's reports - all this is the most valuable evidence of events and facts from the history of our capital.
The building of the archive of ancient acts was built in 1886 and became the first special building in Moscow designed to store old manuscripts and documents.

And then even more interesting ... - a clinical town.
We will see the unique complex of buildings of the Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy, get acquainted with the history of its creation, stop in front of the monuments to the great Russian doctors Filatov, Pirogov, Sechenov...

In the square, almost at the very corner formed by the fork of Bolshaya Pirogovskaya and Elanskogo Street, there is a monument to Nil Fedorovich Filatov, an outstanding pediatrician who was the head of a nearby children's hospital.

Monument to N.F. Filatov in the square of the Maiden's Field was opened on May 26, 1960. It was made by the sculptor V.E. Tsigal.

Let's walk along the alley of the square, which runs along Yelansky Street. On the opposite side of the street, at 2 Elanskogo St., there is the building of the V.F. Snegirev.

In 1973, in front of the main entrance to the clinic, a monument was erected to Professor Vladimir Fedorovich Snegirev, the first director of the gynecological clinic, one of the founders of scientific and operational gynecology in Russia.

Here, in front of the buildings of the faculty surgical and therapeutic clinics, there is a monument to the great Pirogov.
Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov is an outstanding Russian scientist, surgeon, anatomist, teacher. The contribution of this doctor to the development of Russian medicine is enormous: Pirogov was one of the founders of military field surgery, operative surgery and topographic anatomy, he was one of the first to use anesthesia during surgery, and came up with the idea of ​​applying fixing plaster bandages for fractures.

And at the end of B. Pirogovskaya you can see the Novodevichy Convent, but this, I hope, will be the next excursion ...

XVII-XIX centuries. Field for folk festivals

In the 17th century, gardens and special pharmaceutical gardens were arranged on Maiden's Field, where medicinal herbs were bred. He was in charge of these gardens, as well as pharmacies and watched over the care of the sick. Aptekarsky order - one of the oldest Moscow orders. At the end of the 18th century, country courts of the nobility appeared here - princes V.V. Golitsyn and M.A. Cherkassky, boyar D.N. Golovin. In 1765-1771, there was a state theater on the field, in which free performances were given in the summer and on holidays. Traditions of folk festivities began to develop here after the transfer of Christmas and Easter festivities here from Novinsky.

XIX-XX centuries. clinical town

In 1885, in the Maiden's Field area, the city allocated 40,000 square Sazhens (18 hectares) for the construction of new university clinics of the medical faculty of Moscow University. The initiator of the construction of the clinical campus was Nikolai Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky, a famous surgeon who was a university professor in 1880-1891, and the complex was designed by Konstantin Mikhailovich Bykovsky.

For some time, both festivities and clinics coexisted on Maiden's Field. But the noise and dust, which did not contribute to the well-being of the patients, forced the doctors to ask for an end to the festivities, which was done in 1911. In 1930, the Faculty of Moscow State University was transformed into the 1st Medical Institute, which later received the name of Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov.

Description

The Maiden's Field stretched out in a long strip from the Garden Ring to the Novodevichy Convent. Its borders can be conditionally considered Pogodinskaya street in the west and Malaya Pirogovskaya in the east. Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street runs almost along the axis of the former field. Until 1924, these streets were called, respectively, Malaya and Bolshaya Tsaritsynsky - here was the court of Tsarina Evdokia Fedorovna Lopukhina, the first wife of Peter I.

Streets of Maiden Field

The main streets of Maiden's Field:

• Bolshaya Pirogovskaya street
• Malaya Pirogovskaya street
• Pogodinskaya street

In addition, this area includes:

• Decades of October Street
• Abrikosovsky lane
• 1st Archive Lane
• Passage of Maiden's Field
• Elanskogo street
• Novodevichy proezd
• Obolensky lane
• Olsufevsky lane
• Rossolimo street

In literature

Leo Tolstoy mentions the Maiden's Field and his estate located nearby several times in his novel War and Peace:

Maiden's field or in everyday life Maiden is a popular green square in Khamovniki, although it is quite extensive and it would be more correct to call it a park.

The Maiden's Field is an area in Moscow, along which the road from Prechistenka to the Novodevichy Convent once ran. According to a Moscow legend, it got its name because festivities have been held here since ancient times and Moscow girls danced round dances. Starting from the 17th century, the land of the Maiden's Field was actively used - extensive apothecary gardens were set up here for growing medicinal plants. The sovereign Aptekarsky order was engaged in this useful business.

But also as a place of festivities and entertainment, Maiden's Field retained its significance for a long time. In the second half of the 18th century, the State Theater was even arranged here, where free performances for the people were held in the summer season. They closed it during a scary oh Moscow plague of 1771 and was not resumed when the epidemic receded. However, swings, carousels, booths, and fairs were held on Maiden's Field until the early 1910s.

Konstantin Yuon. Walking on the Maiden's Field


Sale of soft drinks to those walking on Maiden's Field

On the right side of the field, the university medical clinics are already visible, the active construction of which began in the 1880s. The first alleys of young park plantings are also noticeable.

Skating on the Maiden's field on Maslenitsa

In 1885, Moscow allocated an area of ​​about 18 hectares on Devichye Pole for the construction of the Clinical City. An active propagandist and "pusher" of this idea was the famous doctor, professor of the medical faculty of Moscow University N.V. Sklifosofsky. The construction was mainly funded by private donations from well-known merchant families. In addition to university clinics, other medical institutions appeared here - the Filatov Clinic for Children's Diseases, the Snegirev Obstetrics Clinic, etc.

The entrance from Zubovskaya Street is adorned with a monument to Leo Tolstoy. Here Leo Tolstoy Street, which got its name from the Moscow estate of the writer in Khamovniki, comes out to the Maiden's Field. There is a memorial museum in Tolstoy's estate.
Flowers are traditionally planted at the foot of the monument...

The old residents of Khamovniki do not like this monument and remember another Tolstoy, who stood here until 1972.

The sculptor Merkurov began work on the monument to Tolstoy almost from the moment of the writer's death. He even managed to remove Tolstoy's death mask.

Sergei Merkurov is working on a monument

The monument was ready before the First World War, it was approved by the Tolstoy family, but in Moscow a tough and fairly protracted discussion unfolded about the place where the monument should be installed. Then - the war, the revolution, the Civil War ... the sculpture was in the workshop all this time. It was only in 1928 that it was installed on Devichka and quite successfully - the view was good, the monument stood on a hill in the form of a small hill, in summer the hill was planted with flowers, in winter the kids sledded from it like from a hill under the attentive gaze of Tolstoy ...
But in 1972, the familiar monument was transferred to the courtyard of the Tolstoy Museum on Prechistenka, where it had to be installed in a tight spot ... And it is almost invisible from the street. And on the Maiden's field there is a creation of the sculptor Portianko...

The monument to the work of the victorious Portyanko... The lilac around the monument blooms wildly..


Clusters of lilacs heated by the sun give off a dizzying aroma... Lilacs are full of lilacs in LiveJournal, but I can't resist:

On the playground yesterday, May 21, there was a full house - the last bell in schools has not yet sounded (it sounded only today), the summer season has not yet begun ... Children play on the Girl.

Under the overgrown playground, they also leveled the mound on which the former Lev Nikolayevich stood.

However, children have always loved to walk here... School students on Devichka at the beginning of the 20th century...

From the noisy playground through shady alleys, where the nightingales fled from screeching and screaming (they still sing on the sidelines), you can go to the old fountain. He has not worked for several decades, since deep Soviet times. But at the beginning of the 21st century, it was corrected, which greatly adorned the Maiden's Field ...

Next to the fountain there is a bust of Mikhail Frunze. Back to the fountain, to the Military Academy, in the old days and bearing his name, in front. The academy itself, however, is still more alive than all the living ...

The bust of Frunze was made in the late 1930s and in the appropriate style...

Let's see what's behind him...

And there, under the canopy of the fountain, polite green men are resting ... probably from the Academy's support company ...

In addition to the wide alleys on Devichka, there are also such romantic paths ...

At one of the oldest stadiums in Moscow, Burevestnik, which occupies part of the Maiden's Field, young athletes train...

Are the Labor Reserves running?

By the way, at the corner of Plyushchikha and Devichye Pole passage, a new main stadium building with a front entrance is being completed. Looks better than pre-war ...

Nobody sings on the stage today... And why is that?

And another playground, and again a full house...

I already wrote about how a monument to the pilots of Long-Range Aviation by the sculptor Salavat Shcherbakov was erected on the main alley in the fall:
Now he is here like a native:

The platform at the pedestal is paved with stone, but two planes of red flowers go to the sides of the monument, like wings.

Looks good from the main street...

And the main alley itself now represents the road leading to the temple ... The picture had to be taken from the side so that the sun would not hit the lens. If you shoot in the center, it would turn out something like this (as in the old picture):

True, looking from the exit from Devichka to the alleys behind Plyushchikha, you stare at the towers of Moscow City ... We haven’t seen each other for a long time ...

And yet it is good that the Church of Michael the Archangel was restored ... It is not so old, it was built in the 1890s as a temple at university clinics with donations from professors. But it has such a noble history and such an important architectural significance for these places that the loss of the temple would be a big disaster...
It was closed and "beheaded" in the 1930s, starting to use not according to its intended purpose - sometimes as a gym, sometimes as a dining room ... And in the late 1970s they were almost demolished - they "decorated" the city for the Olympics. Muscovites almost lay down under the bulldozers, but the church was defended.

Behind the temple on Yelansky Street, which runs along the Maiden - the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Once upon a time, a clinic of the corresponding profile was built here with merchant donations, the building of which was rebuilt in 1937. In the early 1970s, a monument to V.F. Snegirev by Sergei Konenkov. Vladimir Fedorovich Snegirev is one of the most famous Moscow doctors who was engaged in obstetrics in pre-revolutionary times and saved many women and babies in the most difficult and hopeless cases. He himself died at the end of 1916, a lucky man...

On the opposite side of the square on Pirogovskaya Street is a complex of buildings of the Federal State Archive, where many documents are stored, the earliest of which date back to the 11-12th centuries. There is an exhibition hall where various interesting events take place. Now, for example, a jubilee exhibition dedicated to Khrushchev. In addition to the archive, a dozen museums and personal funds of the Khrushchevs-Adzhubeevs participate in it ...


A talking photo from the poster - Nikita Sergeevich wanders with a stick through the snow, followed by a group of comrades, apparently, the Politburo ...

The archive also contributes to the sculptural decoration of the Maiden - one of the buildings of the archive complex is decorated with large reliefs depicting the worker-peasant public in a hurry to make a revolution...


Here the rebels are even dragging a machine gun ...

But the sculptural row is not yet completed! At the exit from the square in the direction of Pirogovskaya - Yelansky Street, another monument was erected: to the famous pediatrician Nil Filatov. Very touching...


The monument was erected in 1960 according to the project of the sculptor V.E. Tsigal. There is an inscription on the pedestal: "To the children's friend Nil Fedorovich Filatov" ... Here the inscription is more visible:

Filatov is practically on the same line with Snegirev: Snegirev's head can be seen from Filatov's leg...


In general, the density of monuments in the square of the Maiden's Field clearly exceeds the national average!