Patriarshiye Ponds (Moscow)

Russia / Moscow / Moscow
 interesting place, pond
Patriarch's Ponds is an affluent residential area in downtown Presnensky District of Moscow, Russia. For the last 200 years, there has been only one pond, although, as the name of Tryokhprudny Pereulok suggests, there used to be more. The area of the existing pond is 9,900 square metres (107,000 sq ft); the depth is about two meters.

The area is named after the seventeenth century Patriarch's Goat Sloboda located on the Goat Marsh

Mikhail Bulgakov lived on the Patriarch's Ponds. This place is described in his work The Master and Margarita.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarshiye_Ponds
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Coordinates:   55°45'49"N   37°35'31"E

Comments

  • Зимой 2007 года на Патриках нет проката коньков, но каток есть
  • на этих прудах никогда трамвайных путей не было, видимо, Булгаков имел в виду чистые пруды. Об этом часто говорят на патриарших прудах :)
  • При мне дети там катались на коньках... с ледяной горки. Вот уж точно, на козьем болоте чего только не встретишь!
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