🚶 Goncharnaya Sloboda (Potters' Quarter)

A quiet district on a hill beyond Taganka with 17th-century churches and the low-rise buildings of the former potters.

In the 16th century the potters were moved out beyond the Yauza, to Shvivaya (then Vshivaya) Hill, farther from the Kremlin because of the danger of fire.
The potters' workshops were first excavated in 1947–1948 while a pit was being dug for the skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya.
In 1667 Belarusian tile-makers from the Resurrection Monastery on the Istra were moved to the settlement.
From the 18th century the former settlement was built up with noblemen's estates and the houses of Old Believer merchants.
A memorial sign with a clock on Goncharnaya Embankment, by the Bolshoy Krasnokholmsky Bridge, recalls the settlement.

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