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Kuznetsky Most is one of the most beautiful pedestrian streets in the historical center of Moscow.
The street got its modern - and at the same time historical - name thanks to the Kuznetsky Bridge across the Neglinnaya River. Today, Kuznetsky Most Street attracts citizens with its high-quality landscaping, an abundance of architectural monuments and an unusual relief: due to the significant difference in heights between Petrovka and Rozhdestvenka, the city landscape looks especially picturesque.
Kuznetskaya Sloboda on the high bank of the Neglinnaya River - Neglinnaya Upper - appeared in the 12th century, but its heyday came only at the end of the 15th, when the Cannon Yard was built in the vicinity, and the Moscow prince Ivan III ordered to settle in it blacksmiths and grooms who served new production. At the turn of the 15th-16th centuries, Novgorod and Pskov were annexed to the Moscow principality, and craftsmen of various professions from these cities were moved to the Neglinny Upper.
In 1737, the street burned out during the Trinity fire, but rather quickly new buildings were built on it, in which foreign shops began to be located. Gradually, the street turned into the abode of foreign trade: the French showed particular zeal, opening fashion and haberdashery shops here, thanks to which Kuznetsky Most became the main shopping street in Moscow. During World War II and the fire of 1812, it practically did not suffer from the fire, since the French guard took over the protection of the business of compatriots. After the war, trade flourished again, and many fashionable shops were opened on it (almost all of them were foreign, most of them were French). The abundance of foreign shops made Kuznetsky Most the most fashionable and aristocratic street in Moscow, which it remained until the 1917 Revolution.
During the Soviet era, the street lost part of the historical buildings, many buildings were rebuilt, and the street gradually took on a modern look.
After the reconstruction carried out in 2012, the Kuznetsky Most section from Bolshaya Dmitrovka to Rozhdestvenka became pedestrian.
Today Kuznetsky Most Street is a well-maintained pedestrian zone, where city holidays and festivals are often held.
Despite the losses of the Soviet years, a large number of architectural monuments have been preserved on it: tenement houses, partially preserved city estates and passages. Among them are famous Moscow sights: the building of the Moscow International Trade Bank, Khomyakov's trading house and others.
Position: This photo has been taken in Málaga , municipality capital of the province of Málaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. With a population of 568,507 in 2010, it is the second most populous city of Andalusia and the sixth largest in Spain.
A quick long exposure shot of Skipton high street taken from the Church, I wanted to take something that showed the Christmas lights. Ive not visited Skipton for around 10 years and I was pleased to see it has hardly changed. Taken with my Sony RX100 using a pocket tripod.
'Drawn by Light' is a superbly curated photography exhibition at the National Media Museum in Yorkshire and runs until 21 June 2015. I wanted to give it a heads up if you're in the area.
There are about 200 remarkable prints on display going back to the birth of this art form from many famous and some not so famous greats of photography.
The greatest surprise, sprung at the end, is the image that compresses time above all others. Projected on a large light box is a shot of a girl with lavish strawberry blond hair modelling a scarlet coat on some far-flung beach - she is the poster girl for this exhibition, captured in my shot above.
As the girl raises her face to the dawn light, the sun catches the soft freckles of her radiant complexion. The colour photograph of the girl was taken by Lieutenant Colonel Mervyn O’Gorman more than a century ago. The girl and the soldier were on that beach together in 1913 - a year before WWI - but the moment is today.
Her name - Christina.
Here is a link with some more photographs of her
mashable.com/2015/04/23/autochrome-photos-ogorman/
I included the man with the camera for purposes of juxtaposition only - he is not the main subject - and to draw a link to how we are all still painting with light to this day.