ВСТУПЛЕНИЕ
INTRODUCTION
THE SECOND METRO Most myths are probably connected with our metro . The most popular legend says that during Soviet times the second metro was built under ground at a depth of around one hundred meters in case war takes place again . You can get there just via the secret exit in the Moscow Kremlin and from some stations of Sokolnicheskaya metro line . Also it is said that food supply there will be enough even in case of a nuclear war . It is still unknown if it is truth or fiction . расположенного чуть ближе к месту коронации . Зато оригинальный декор сделал магазин самым узнаваемым в Москве , а торговля пошла вверх . Сегодня в здании живет внучка первого хозяина дома , чаеторговца Сергея Перлова . Связана с Мясницкой улицей еще одна интересная легенда . Давным-давно здесь жил жадный богач Кусовников , который так боялся за свое состояние , что спрятал его в самом неожиданном месте — в печи . Его слуга , не зная об этом , во время отсутствия хозяина решил погреться в доме и случайно спалил все накопления . Поговаривают , что иногда по ночам на Мясницкой улице появляется призрак старика Кусовникова , который ищет свои сокровища . Только встретиться с ним — совсем не к добру , а к финансовым трудностям .
НЕУДАЧНЫЙ ПРОЕКТ БАЖЕНОВА « Царицыно » — одно из самых красивых мест Москвы скрывает в тенистом парке дворец Екатерины Великой в стиле русской готики . Говорят , его строительство требовало немалых денег , поэтому , когда архитектор Баженов выходил за рамки сметы , он добавлял собственные средства , веря , что дворец станет его главным творением . Однако Екатерина , увидев первоначальный вид постройки , приказала разобрать замок до основания и назначила главным архитектором ученика Баженова Матвея Казакова , что ранило мастера в самое сердце .
HOUSE NO . 19 AND THE MYSTERIES OF MIASNITSKAYA STREET In the very center of Moscow in Miasnitskaya street there is a house No . 19 ( today the shop « Tea or coffee » is located there ). This house was built in 1893 in Chinese style . According to the legend this house was designed in order to make an honored guest from China happy . This guest was Li Hunch Zhan , the ambassador and chancellor of the Chinese empire who came to Moscow on the occasion of coronation of the emperor Nikolai II . However , all the efforts were in vain and the Chinese guest stayed at the house of shop owner ’ s brother . This house was located a little bit closer to the place of coronation . Actually , the original design has made the shop most recognizable one in Moscow and the trade went up . Today the granddaughter of the first owner of the house lives there . The first owner of the house was the tea-seller Srgei Perlov . There is one more interesting legend connected with Miasmitskaya Street . Long time ago there lived a greedy rich man Kusovnikov who was so much afraid to lose his property that he hid it in the most unexpected place — in the oven . His servant did not know about it and when his master was absent he decided to get warm in the house and accidentally he set all the savings on fire . It was told that every night the ghost of old Kusovnikov appears in the street searching for his treasures . However meeting him is not good , it will bring you financial difficulties .
THE UNSUCCESSFUL PROJECT OF BAZHENOV « Tsaritsyno » is one of the most beautiful places in Moscow which hides the mansion house of Catherine the Great in the shadowy park . This mansion house is designed in Russian gothic style . They say that its building required a lot of money that ’ s why when the architect went beyond budget he added his own money believing that this house would be his best creation , although seeing the original construction Catherine ordered to ruin the building and leave just the base of it . After that she made Bazhenov ’ s student Matvei Kazakov a new chief architect which cut Bazhenov deeper than knife .
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