Ryazan is an ancient city with a distinctive history. On this route you'll find out why Kolovrat's horse is rearing while Oleg of Ryazan's stands calmly; who keeps a close watch over the city; where the “Swan Princess” from Vrubel's painting lived; and how Hollywood is connected with an inconspicuous house. And you'll simply enjoy an unhurried stroll through the old streets of the historic center.
Ryazan's Versailles
📜 Historic site · 🌿 Public garden or park
Polytechnic Institute
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Monument to Evpaty Kolovrat
🗿 Monument
51 Pochtovaya Street
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 🕵️ Urban legend
59 Pochtovaya Street
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 🕵️ Urban legend
63 Pochtovaya Street
🏟️ Architectural landmark
Max Factor
📜 Historic site · 🕵️ Urban legend
Garin's House
📜 Historic site
11 Seminarskaya Street
🏟️ Architectural landmark
10 Seminarskaya Street
📜 Historic site · 🏟️ Architectural landmark
20 Seminarskaya Street
📜 Historic site · 🕵️ Urban legend
16 Seminarskaya Street
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Monument to Oleg of Ryazan
🗿 Monument
The Power Plant That Smells of Bread
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Main House of the Merchant Lebedev's Estate
📜 Historic site · 🏟️ Architectural landmark
Main House of the Ryumin Estate
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Summer Club of the Assembly of the Nobility
📜 Historic site · 🏟️ Architectural landmark
Malashkin House
📜 Historic site
“Mushroom with Eyes” Sculpture
🗿 Sculptures · 🕵️ Urban legend
Point 18
📜 Historic site
Deep in Gazetny Lane, near the Lower City Garden, stands the inconspicuous fire-damaged shell of a house hidden behind a fake facade. It once looked quite different, and the family who lived here went down in history beyond Ryazan alone. The house was built in the early 1840s by D. D. Malashkin, owner of a cloth mill in Murmino.
The merchant Malashkin's house was built in the traditional merchant style: of wood on a stone base. In its heyday the house on Gazetny was recognized as a monument of Classical urban architecture.
Malashkin's eldest son, Nikolai, refused to join the family business. Flatly. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at Moscow University, became one of the pioneers of private education in Ryazan, and set up the town's first small print shop in his own house, which gave the lane its name: Gazetny (“Newspaper”) Lane. In the evenings the large Malashkin family entertained themselves with music: a grand piano sounded from the open windows on the second floor, drawing crowds of enchanted passersby.
The crowds by the house were especially large when Nikolai Dmitrievich's brother Leonid, a virtuoso pianist and gifted composer, came to visit on Gazetny. At the home concerts he always premiered his new compositions. And perhaps it was here in Ryazan, in the house with the openwork balcony, that “I Met You…” and “Oh, If Only I Could Express in Sound” were first heard. The definitive performance of the latter romance belongs to Fyodor Chaliapin. Give it a listen sometime: it will give you goosebumps!
Point on route “Historic Center of Ryazan”
Point 18
📜 Historic site
Deep in Gazetny Lane, near the Lower City Garden, stands the inconspicuous fire-damaged shell of a house hidden behind a fake facade. It once looked quite different, and the family who lived here went down in history beyond Ryazan alone. The house was built in the early 1840s by D. D. Malashkin, owner of a cloth mill in Murmino.
The merchant Malashkin's house was built in the traditional merchant style: of wood on a stone base. In its heyday the house on Gazetny was recognized as a monument of Classical urban architecture.
Malashkin's eldest son, Nikolai, refused to join the family business. Flatly. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at Moscow University, became one of the pioneers of private education in Ryazan, and set up the town's first small print shop in his own house, which gave the lane its name: Gazetny (“Newspaper”) Lane. In the evenings the large Malashkin family entertained themselves with music: a grand piano sounded from the open windows on the second floor, drawing crowds of enchanted passersby.
The crowds by the house were especially large when Nikolai Dmitrievich's brother Leonid, a virtuoso pianist and gifted composer, came to visit on Gazetny. At the home concerts he always premiered his new compositions. And perhaps it was here in Ryazan, in the house with the openwork balcony, that “I Met You…” and “Oh, If Only I Could Express in Sound” were first heard. The definitive performance of the latter romance belongs to Fyodor Chaliapin. Give it a listen sometime: it will give you goosebumps!
19 points
5 km
6 hours
