In Moscow there is not one and not two fleets with a rich collection of living plants, but only one of them Ignorantly approved the name "Botanical Garden", which can be safely writing with a capital letter and in quotes. We are talking, of course, about the area near the metro station "Botanical Garden" and the main botanical garden them. N. V. Tsizina RAS.
This area has long established the status of one of the most eco-friendly and green. Only the Botanical Garden, it is the GBS, takes more than 350 hectares. But there are also neighbors, among which not only the local Leonovskaya Grove and the Park "Garden of the Future", but also such giants like VDHH, Sokolniki and the Losina Island. The location is more than successful, especially if it takes into account not only the surrounding area greens, and also the availability of transport and infrastructure.
Once in these parts, which de Jura belong to the Ostankino district, but de facto are located in Rostokino, laid the land of the princes of Cherkasy. Soft and good-natured Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich, Father Peter I, even though it was called silent, passion as he loved to come here on a falcon and ping hunt.
A little later, the Land of Cherkasy moved into keeping infinitely squeezed Sheremetev, who united several sat down at once in the north of Moscow. They had Ostashkovo, and Marino, and Yerenevo, and the villages are smaller. One way or another, it was then that the paradoxical love of local lands to garden and park arts and botanical research began to manifest itself. Count Nikolai Sheremetev, whose father Peter Borisovich got this terrain as a dowry, decided to smash the English park here and even found the sake of such an affair the British gardener.
Botanical Garden
It seems that the main botanical garden them. N. V. Tsizina RAS has always stood in its place, only occasionally changing the fence. It would be nice, but only the largest botanical garden of Europe is not so many years. It was founded in April 1945, when in its place was no less large-sized forest massif of the then Ostankino Park.361 hectares of land. More 8 thousand species of plants. Hundreds of alley and trail, among whom, fortunately, you can still lose even with the presence of a navigator. Thousands of hours and kilometers of walks at any time of the year. Everything is fine here. And, of course, the Botanical Garden has its own special places of power, a kind of sights. The main laboratory corps, new and old greenhouses, there is even a waterfall. Nevertheless, the first thing is the Japanese garden, which becomes the center of attraction in the Sakura flowering season, when the entire instagram tape turns into a stream of similar photos of pinkish color. Next after him, the garden of continuous flowering comes to mind, where such frames are found, which can be easily taken for hallucinations, are so good and amazing some of the local species.
No summer walk will no longer be without an elegant rosary with a fountain. For many years he was killed and thrown, flowers - stolen and trampled. But in 2011, the rosary returned to the village of the Botanical Garden in all its glory. In general, you can walk here infinitely. And you should not be surprised if you find yourself at the Metro "Vladykino". Or maybe under the Ostankino Tower. Or accidentally go to Komarov Street, which is closer to Fonvizynskaya and Timiryazevskaya. It happens.
Around Botanichi
If you leave the southern lobby of the Botanical Garden metro station, we are talking about a little later, then you can not pass by the park "Garden of the Future". If you are accurate, then the rotunda of the subway is located right on the territory of this fleet. Today it is a small local park, quite recently passed through the overall process of updating and standardization. He grew up on the site of the former estate of Leonovo, who once belonged to the princes of Khovansky. From the past "Garden of the Future" inherited an alley of the old Lipa, 150-year-old oak, a decorative pond and the church of the county. But from the present park got the coworking zone, booze the playground and the point for charging gadgets.
It also begins one of the main streets of the district - Wilhelm Peak, the former 3rd Agricultural Travel. Of course, this name does not speak anything to modern Muscovites and the guests of the capital, and it should hardly. Think, the only president of the President of the GDR and the founder of the Communist Party of Germany. Anyway, today Wilhelm Peak leads not to a bright future, but to Sergey Eisenstein Street. And if you go in this direction, you can very soon be at the walls of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography. S. A. Gerasimov, that is, Vgika. Actually, Eisenstein even taught here.
Well, on the other side of the street Wilhelm Pick, also near the subway, there is another park - the "Leonovskaya Grove", literally flowing into the botanic. It seems that he is not remarkable. Is that surrounding the strange Chinese business center "Park Huamin". Back in the Leonovskaya Grove is a monument to Confucius. Made a bronze figure of the thinker in China, and then passed to Moscow from the person of the Academy of Confucianism.
All this is on the inside of the ICC, dividing the area into two parts. If you leave the northern lobby, you will meet you the most present Sviblovo. Here we have the longest street of the district - the passage of Serebryakov, stretching almost three kilometers. Moreover, he also flows into a birch alley, and from there to the signal passage and in the end turns into a bit of almost the main Higher Svao.
If you take another little north, in the Sviblovo area, you can get to one green zone, the manor of Sviblovo, where Karamzin wrote his "Russian state history." Initially, I was a behavior of the boyar, the governor and a friend Dmitry Don Fedor Svibolo. But the time went, and the manor passed from hand to hand - then to the crawler and treasurer Lero Plescheyev, then to the Moscow governor Kirill Naryshkin, then, although not for long, to the Major General Peter Golitsyn. Finally, the estate buys a flue-adjutant Ekaterina II Nikolay Vysotsky and makes a pretty Barsky House with a pond from all this good. The country village is gradually emerging near him, one of whose homes and rented Nikolai Karamzin with his then wife Elizabeth, perhaps the very "poor Liza". It also started working on the "story ...", which Karamzine, despite the 12 volumes of the volumes, did not finish.
And we go on. For example, on a hefty parking area in the valley of the Cherry and Yauza rivers, which begins just near the estate. Or, Sedov Street, we go to the Milest Cabestinsky Pond. If you go to the east, towards the prospect of the world, then there will open an endless emitting island, and there is already to Yaroslavl near. In the direction of the center, on the territories adjacent to the Botanical Garden, the Ostankinsky Park and the VDNH spread. So if you walk on Botsad you are tired, you can always look at the neighbors.
Cemetery can be considered a separate topic of the neighborhood of the Botanical Garden. Wherever you go - everywhere cemetery. Five minutes from the subway - Leonskoye, where they buried the dead from the Ran of Red Armyans, and now there is a fraternal grave. From the reverse side of the GBS them. Tsizin, right at the entrance to the metro station "Vladykino", is broken by the same name of the Vladykinskaya cemetery. Once here the Great Maria Yermolov was buried here, however, in the 1970s, her dust was reburied on Novodevichy.
Very soon, seven minutes from the metro stations "Botanical Garden" and "Sviblovo", right near the cabbage park, will be a new residential complex AFI Tower. And if you think that the real estate market can no longer surprise you, then get ready.
The AFI Tower project was the first skyscraper of a community format in Moscow, or a number. If you have not yet heard anything about this format, then nothing terrible - in Russia he has not yet received due popularity and is still being discussed by the part of Russians that constantly travels or studies modern trends. The main idea of the project is reduced to current ideas of minimalism, namely "Hlades less - use everyone." It is literally created for live communication with the world and getting the maximum pleasure from life and work. Like all modern philosophy, the idea of quilins is like a manifesto that the time has come to live differently and completely change its ideas about life.
Instead of standard cuisine, a large selection of cafes and restaurants. Instead of constant washing and ironing - separate laundry. Instead of a simple shower - spa and wellness zone. Instead of the working office, or even just a laptop on the knees - the coworking zone. 24 Hour Concierge Service, Smart Home, Wireless Internet and Cleaning Service. And, of course, new friends.
At the same time it is necessary to immediately make a reservation that there is also a personal space here. Each apartment, whether it is a compact option for 19 squares or a four-bedroom apartment more than a hundred meters, equipped with individual amenities.
If we consider formal characteristics, then the 182-meter AFI Tower skyscraper will consist of 53 floors on which 1216 apartments of different patterns will be located. Yes, yes, it is apartments that are not apartments. Moreover, relatively inexpensive, only 6.3 million rubles. Rent a complex planned in the second quarter of 2023.
The elegant tower with its unusual exterior involuntarily attracts his eyes. As if soft wave, she goes up and becomes the center of visual attraction of the entire District Sviblovo. And all this is in the midst of absolute beauty: the main botanical garden, the cabbage pond, VDHH, Ostankino, Sokolniki, the Elos Island. A panoramic view of Moscow from these places opens just incredible.
Infrastructure
This earlier, in the era to memes, Muscovites laughed, as if in the Botanical Garden area, except for greenery, and no. And here is. The subway appeared here in 1978, although before the name "Botanical Garden" belonged to the station "Prospect Mira", no matter how strange it sounds today. It was originally planned that another entrance to the GBS will be opened near the new station, but something went wrong. Although, of course, you can get through the territory of the botanic through the entrance to the agricultural street, which is 15 minutes from the subway, so in general it turned out normally.
Some time, the Botanical Garden station seemed to citizens of one of the most quiet in the Moscow metro. No, of course, a decent passenger traffic was gathered during the peak hours, but everything else the platform looked deserted even compared to neighboring "VDNH" and "Sviblovo". However, today Botsad turned into a powerful transport and transplant unit - the MCC platform simultaneously opened next to the metro station, and now thousands of people drive to Botsad to transfer to the orange branch and go further - to China-City, Tretyakovskaya "Or in general in" Konkovo ". Again, the station MCC Rosokino is located nearby, and this is a direct transplant to the former platform of Northerner, now obtained the uncomplicated name "Rosokino", and all the Yaroslavl direction already before Alexandrov, Fryazino or Krasnoarmeysk with an inevitable visit to Mytishchi.
In the old years, there was a myth that the trees live on the "botanical". Of course, the mass development in this part of Rosokino and Sviblovo has never been, but there is somehow the residential sector. On Leonov Street, in the agricultural, in Lazorus passage and the passage of Serebryakov - everywhere life. Houses of 1970s, 1980s, the 1990s and 2000 stand on both sides of railways. Everyone like everyone else. Products and schools, barbers and kindergartens. And let the area have not changed many decades, today it develops, is built up with new houses and residential complexes.
Photo: Artem Chernov, renders provided by AFI Development