Riddles and revelations of Nikolskaya Street

The book of the oldest Moscow Veda V. B. Muravyov is dedicated to one of the most famous streets of Moscow - Nikolskaya, which has not yet revealed all its puzzles. Unlike other Moscow streets, for example, Arbat, Tver, Prechistenki, Zamoskvorechya streets, having a generally accepted, characteristic historically formed image: Tverskaya - main street, Prechistenka - noble, ampir, arbat - intellectual, - Nikolskaya is distinguished by the fact that she does not have Such a clear image. True, usually they say about it: a trading street, but the main architectural monument on it is a printed court that has nothing to do with trade, and here its epithet "trading" loses its categoricality, and our perception of Nikolskaya is enveloped in a haze of understatement and riddle. The history of the occurrence of the street, the origin of the name, the formation of the appearance, the house and the people who created and inhabited it found their place on the pages of the book