🚶 Sivtsev Vrazhek Lane

Сивцев Вражек пер., от Гоголевского бульвара до Денежного пер.

A quiet Arbat lane following the bed of the vanished Sivka river: Art Nouveau apartment buildings, Empire mansions and 1930s Constructivist housing.

The 17th-century name comes from the ravine ("vrazhek") along whose bottom the Sivka (Sivets) river flowed, piped underground in the early 19th century.
The lane was renamed more than once: it has been Troitsky, Protasyevsky and Podyachesky.
Marina Tsvetaeva lived at No. 19 in 1911–1912, and Maximilian Voloshin stayed with her.
In winter 1890–1891 Sergei Rachmaninoff lived in the no longer surviving No. 15.
Marshals and generals lived at No. 9A, as did the sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich.

Part of these routes