Park of the December Uprising July 24th, 2012
The December Uprising Park is located very close to the Ulitsa 1905 Goda metro station in Moscow. It is also known as the park named after the December Armed Uprising, or the park of 1905, as well as the park on Trekhgorny Val. The park was named in honor of the December Uprising of 1905. 
The park itself is not very large, and really looks more like a square, enclosed between residential high-rises. 
In the southern part of the park there is a monument to V.I. Lenin sitting in a chair (sculptor B.I. Dyuzhev, architect Yu.I. Goltsev). The monument was erected here in 1963. It was damaged by vandals - a strong dent was made on the head. 
There are also children's playgrounds in the park: 
In the center of the park there is an obelisk “To the Heroes of the December Armed Uprising of 1905,” built in 1920 with the money of Presnya workers. The monument is included in the list of Moscow cultural heritage sites. 
In the northern part of the park there is a monument "Cobblestone - the weapon of the proletariat." 
This is a bronze copy of the famous sculpture by I.D.Shadra. The monument was erected in the park in 1967 (architects: M.N. Kazarnovsky, L.N. Matyshin). Behind the sculpture there is a small stone wall. In the past, bronze letters were attached to it, from which V.I. Lenin’s statement was composed: “The feat of the Presnensky workers was not in vain. Their sacrifices were not in vain.” However, the letters on the wall are currently missing. The monument is included in the list of Moscow cultural heritage sites. 
Very close to the December Uprising Park, on the corner of Shmitovsky Proezd and 1905 Street, there is a small square where the sculptural composition “Eternal Friendship” is installed. Its authors are Dmitry Ryabichev and his son Alexander Ryabichev. The sculpture was installed on June 16, 1989 as a sign of friendship between the Krasnopresnensky district of Moscow and the Bavarian region of Denkendorf. 
There is also a memorial sign-stele in honor of N.P. Shmit, an active participant in the 1905 revolution and the owner of a furniture factory in Presnya. It was in memory of him that Shmitovsky Proezd was named. 
Yes... it really works. 
Since the entire area surrounding the park is associated with revolutionary events, we will end our walk near the monumental monument to the “Heroes of the Revolution of 1905-1907.” Its authors are sculptors O.A. Ikonnikov and V.A. Fedorov, architects M.E. Konstantinov, A.M. Polovnikov, V.M. Fursov. The monument was erected next to the entrance hall of the Ulitsa 1905 Goda metro station in 1981. The monument is facing Krasnaya Presnya Street. 
Only our own photographs were used - shooting dates 04/21/2011 and 05/25/15
Address: Moscow, Mantulinskaya street, possession 5. metro station “Krasnopresnenskaya”, “Street 1905 Goda”, “Vystavochnaya”
How to get there: From metro station 1905 Street (exit to Krasnopresnenskaya Zastava Square), further along 1905 Street to the intersection with Mantulinskaya Street, to the right. Travel time from the metro is ~ 13-15 minutes.
From Krasnopresnenskaya metro station take bus No. 4 to the Mantulinskaya Street stop. Travel time (not counting waiting for the bus) ~ 8-10 minutes.
From Vystavochnaya metro station (exit to 1st Krasnogvardeisky Proezd) walk along 1st Krasnogvardeisky Proezd towards the Center. Travel time from the metro station is ~ 15 minutes.
According to one version, the name of the estate was given by the stream of the same name, which feeds the water ensemble of the park on the territory of the estate.
The first owner of the estate is considered to be the hero of the Battle of Kulikovo, the cousin of Dmitry Donskoy, Prince Vladimir the Brave.
Later, the estate passed to the family of princes Gagarins, but it gained the greatest fame thanks to another owner - the hero of the Patriotic War of 1812 A. Zakrevsky, later the Minister of Internal Affairs, Adjutant General of Emperor Nicholas I and the Moscow military governor general.
The veteran turned his estate into a monument to the War of 1812. In the estate garden, canals filled with spring water were dug, and each of the rectangular islands formed by them was dedicated to a military leader, under whose command Zakrevsky himself had to fight. On each of these islands he placed busts of his military leaders.
In addition, a white stone octagonal tower called the “Octagon” was built over the spring.
After the revolution of 1917, the territory of the estate went to the Society of Gardening Lovers. And in 1932, when a park was opened here (now the Krasnaya Presnya Park and Park), some of the canals were filled in, and the bridges were changed.
By now, almost all the monuments erected in honor of the War of 1812 have been lost, not counting the Tuscan Column in honor of the victory of 1812 (although there are no inscriptions or a winged figure with a sword left on it) and the white stone pavilion-tower “Octagon” - architect estate of D.I. Gilardi.
Preservation of the estate: front cast-iron gates (recreated in the 1990s), a park with canals, a fountain and bridges (1970), the Oktogon garden pavilion (in the 1980s moved several tens of meters to the west (located on Mantulinskaya street to the left of the entrance), Tuscan column on the island.
Krasnogvardeiskie (Studenetskie) ponds Three Krasnogvardeisky ponds are located in the former floodplain of the Studenets River, enclosed in an underground reservoir.
The Upper and Middle ponds are rectangular; The lower one is irregularly quadrangular. Extended to the south by 75, 165 and 190 m. Width up to 30, 40 and 85 m.
Area 0.2; 0.5 and 1.3 hectares respectively.
The Lower Krasnogvardeisky Pond has earthen banks (a strip 0.5 to 3 m wide), but further from the water there is a low wall made of concrete slabs.
Inflow and drainage of water through pipes. It communicates with the Middle Krasnogvardeisky Pond.
Used for near-water recreation, coastal walks and recreational fishing (crucian carp, rotan).
1. Map of the area 1859
2. Gate of the Studenets estate on Mantulinskaya (view from the park), 1928. Source - TsIGI Archive.
 Nizhny Krasnogvardeisky Pond |
 Krasnopresnensky Park |
 Krasnopresnensky Park. Monument to V.I. Lenin. Opened in 1976. Sculptor N.I. Bratsun, architect V.N. Eniosov. |
 Krasnopresnensky Park. Monument to V.I. Lenin |
 Mantulinskaya st., 5/1 building 7. Former cinema "Krasnaya Presnya" |
 Krasnopresnensky Park |
 Front cast iron gates (recreated in the 1990s). |
 Garden pavilion "Oktogon". |
 Estate Studinets. Architect D.I. Gilardi. |
 Park with canals. |
 Krasnopresnensky Park |
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The park was founded in 1932 on the territory of a monument of landscape architecture of the 18th century - the Studenets estate. This is the only example of a park from Peter’s time “in the Dutch manner” preserved in Moscow. It is believed that the name “Studenets” appeared due to a spring well near the road. The water from this well was famous throughout Moscow for its taste and mineral qualities.
The first information about this place dates back to the 14th-15th centuries, when the entire territory on the banks of the Moscow River at the confluence of the Studenets stream was occupied by the village of Vypryazhkov, owned by Prince Vladimir Andreevich Serpukhovsky. In the second quarter of the 15th century, the village passed to the Novinsky monastery, which owned it until the beginning of the 18th century. At this time, the lands were granted to the Siberian governor, Prince Matvey Petrovich Gagarin. He laid the foundation for the estate, planned a park with artificial ponds, and built a wooden palace.
In 1721, Gagarin was convicted and hanged for bribery and embezzlement, and all his property, including his estate, was confiscated. Under Anna Ioannovna, the lands were returned to his son Alexei. Under him, the estate became a place for country festivities called “Gagarin Ponds.”
Alexei Gagarin's daughter Anna married Privy Councilor Count D.M. Matyushkina and received the estate as a dowry. Her daughter Sofya Matyushkina, in turn, married Count Yu.M. Vielgorsky and also received the estate as a dowry. Her son Matvey Vielgorsky sold the estate in 1816 to the merchant N.I. Prokofiev, from whom it passed to Count Fyodor Tolstoy. His daughter Agrafena Tolstaya married the hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, General Arseny Zakrevsky, and received the estate as a dowry. Zakrevsky is credited with arranging and transforming the estate.
Under him, the manor house was rebuilt (project), a unique system of canals and ponds was created, and a landscape layout of the park with asymmetrically located pavilions was created. Zakrevsky’s main idea was to create here a kind of monument to the Patriotic War of 1812. He filled the park with sculptures of military leaders, erected a monument to the war in the form of a Tuscan column (architect V.P. Stasov, preserved). An octagonal gazebo-fountain “Octagon” (architect D.I. Gilardi) was placed above the well with spring water. At the end of 1973, the gazebo was moved to another location. It has survived with some losses.
In 1831, Zakrevsky sold the estate to P.N. Demidov, who in 1834 donated it to the state with the aim of establishing a school for the Russian Society of Gardening Lovers in it. After the nationalization of the estate in 1918, the Society of Gardening Lovers was located here. Many new plantings appeared on the territory, but at the same time many monuments were lost, bridges were demolished, some canals were filled in, sculptures were destroyed, and the palace was destroyed. In the 1920s The park was crossed by a railway line from Trekhgornaya Zastava.
In 1998, the park's main entrance gates were recreated, but in a new location. In 2010, restoration of the manor house began.
The remains of the summer theater and the monument to V.I. have been preserved from the Soviet period. Lenin (sculptor N.I. Bratsun, architect V.N. Eniosov).
The main plantings in the park are poplar and linden alleys, and there are willows. The area of the park is 16.5 hectares.
Krasnopresnensky district of the capital. Here, every street, every alley is a witness to the rebellious December days of 1905, which Vladimir Ilyich Lenin called a “dress rehearsal” for the Great October Socialist Revolution.
In the names of the streets - Dekabrskaya, Druzhinnikovskaya, Barrikadnaya, 1905, Vosstaniya Square, in granite obelisks and bronze monuments, in the inscriptions on marble plaques mounted on the walls of factory buildings - the breath of the unforgettable 1905 is felt in everything.
A symbol of the proletarian courage and revolutionary fortitude shown by the Presnensky workers in the heroic days of the first Russian revolution is a majestic monument erected on Krasnopresnenskaya Zastava Square near the Ulitsa 1905 Goda metro station. Built according to the design of sculptors O. A. Ikonnikov, V. A. Fedorov and architects M. E. Konstantinov, A. M. Polovnikov, V. N. Fursov in honor of the 75th anniversary of the December armed uprising of 1905, it was solemnly opened on the eve of the start of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU - February 17, 1981.
Three five-meter bronze sculptural groups rose on a low, extended pedestal of polished red granite. In the center of the composition are warriors with weapons in their hands under a waving banner. Their images seem to embody the features of the leaders of the rebellious Moscow proletariat, such as N. E. Bauman and Z. Ya. Litvin-Sedoy.
To the right of them is a fight between an unarmed worker and a girl with a mounted gendarme - in memory of the episode when young weavers from Trekhgorka Maria Kozyreva and Alexandra Bykova (Morozova) with a red banner boldly rushed towards the Cossacks and forced them to turn back.
On the left is a fallen revolutionary fighter and a woman in anger and grief, raising her hands clenched into a fist.
On the pedestal there is an inscription: "Dedicated to the revolution of 1905-1907."
“Here on December 7, 1905, with a powerful factory whistle, workers in the workshops of the Moscow-Brest Railway announced the beginning of a general political strike and an armed uprising in Presnya,”- says the memorial plaque (1974, sculptors G. D. Raspopov, V. I. Yudin, architect G. P. Karibov) on the main building of the electrical machine-building plant "In Memory of the 1905 Revolution."
For ten minutes in the frosty air the calling whistle of the railway workers could be heard, at whose signal the entire working Moscow went on strike.
On December 11, the newspaper “Izvestia of the Moscow Council of Workers’ Deputies” wrote: “On the streets of Moscow, for many hours, a series of bloody battles of the insurgent people with the tsarist troops has been going on... Rifle salvos are continuously crackling. Cannons are being fired at the gathering crowds of workers. Snow covers the street pavements. is abundantly watered with the fresh blood of freedom fighters."
The most persistent and brutal battles were endured by the Presnya fighting squads, to which armed workers' detachments from other areas were constantly drawn. A detachment led by Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze arrived from Ivanovo-Voznesensk to help the Presnensk soldiers.
One of the remarkable places of the revolutionary Krasnaya Presnya is the former Gorbaty Bridge (corner of Konyushkovskaya and Rochdelskaya streets), named the 1905 Bridge in memory of the bloody battles of workers with the tsarist troops. Here, during the days of the uprising, barricades were erected to block the path from the city center to the strongholds of the fighting squads of the Shmita furniture factory, the Danilovsky sugar factory (now the Mantulin plant) and the former Prokhorovskaya manufactory (Trekhgorka).
This stone bridge was built at the end of the 17th century to replace one of the wooden dams that once blocked the mouth of the Presnya River, forming a chain of ponds. Only the upper ponds on the zoo's territory have been preserved; the rest were filled in over time. Gradually, the bridge itself almost completely sank into the ground.
Restorers restored it. They were again faced with white stone, and the roadway was covered with paving stones. The stone parapets, as before, are connected by wooden railings. The bridge has street lamps from the early 20th century. An artificial reservoir has been created under its arched span. And next to the updated bridge, on a granite pedestal, a bronze three-figure sculptural composition dedicated to "To the heroes of the vigilantes, participants in the barricade battles at Krasnaya Presnya."
In a single impulse, a young worker with a rifle, an elderly warrior mortally wounded in a battle with the enemy, and a female worker with an unfurled red banner in her hands are captured.
The opening of the revolutionary memorial, created by sculptor D. B. Ryabichev and architect V. A. Nesterov, took place on December 22, 1981.
“Krasnaya Presnya was the main fortress of the uprising, its center. The best fighting squads, led by the Bolsheviks, were concentrated here,”- reads the inscription on the wall of the lobby of the Krasnopresnenskaya metro station, in front of which stands a bronze sculpture of a worker-combatant on a three-meter pedestal made of polished granite.
The monumental figure of the armed worker embodies the heroism and greatness of the proletariat, which rebelled against tsarism.
The statue of the Druzhinnik of the Fifth Year, built in 1955, for the 50th anniversary of the revolutionary battles of 1905, was created by sculptor A. E. Zelensky and architect K. S. Alabyan, the author of the Krasnopresnenskaya metro station.
In the park named after 1905, a memorial ensemble was built in memory of the heroes of the first revolution in Russia.
A bronze sculpture of a worker breaking a stone from a cobblestone street to use as a weapon is mounted on a low granite slab. Behind it is a wall lined with light gray granite, on which Lenin’s words are placed in applied bronze letters: “The feat of the Presnensky workers was not in vain. Their sacrifices were not in vain.”
This is a bronze cast copy of the famous sculpture “Cobblestone - Weapon of the Proletariat”, created by I. D. Shadr back in 1927 and since then has been permanently on display at the Tretyakov Gallery.
Memorial "Cobblestone - the weapon of the proletariat"
"To the heroes of the December Uprising of December 1905"- an inscription was carved on a black granite obelisk installed in the park on 1905 Street in 1920, with money raised by the workers of Krasnaya Presnya.
For twelve days, from December 7 to 19, the unequal, bloody battle lasted, agitating all of Russia. For twelve days Presnya was in the power of the workers.
On December 15, by order of Nicholas II, the Semenovsky Life Guards Regiment with two thousand soldiers arrived from St. Petersburg to Moscow to suppress the uprising, and then the Ladoga Regiment.
The fighting went on day and night. Presnya was burning in the glow of a fire. The warriors managed to hold back the first onslaught of the tsarist troops, but further resistance became impossible, and on December 19 the heroic Presnya stopped fighting.
On Druzhinnikovskaya Street in the Pavlik Morozov Children's Park there is another granite memorial, also built in 1920, on the front side of which there is an inscription carved into a niche: "December uprising on Presnya. December 1905, December 1920." and on top - a hammer and sickle.
The obelisk was erected on the site where, during the uprising, the Shmita furniture factory was located, the fighting squad of which offered particularly stubborn resistance to the Semyonov guards.
Nikolai Pavlovich Shmit (1883-1907) - student at Moscow University. Having inherited a factory from his father, he did a lot to improve the lives of workers. He reduced the working day from 12 to 9 hours, increased wages, and actively contributed to the creation of an underground Bolshevik organization at his enterprise. During the uprising of 1905, he armed the workers at his own expense.
On the night of December 17, 1905, Nikolai Shmit was arrested and, after 14 months of imprisonment, killed in a prison cell.
The memorial sign, which has the shape of a cube lined with granite, depicts a relief portrait and the inscription minted in copper: “Shmit Nikolai Pavlovich is a revolutionary student, an active participant in the preparation of the December armed uprising of 1905 in Presnya. On February 13, 1907, he was brutally killed by the tsarist secret police in Butyrka prison.”
A memorial sign to N.P. Shmit (sculptors G.D. Raspopov, V.I. Yudin, architect G.P. Karibov) was built in Shmitovsky Proezd and opened on December 9, 1971.
"To the fighter for the workers' cause, Mantulin Fedor Mikhailovich, executed in 1905 on December 19,"- reads the inscription on a white marble board mounted on a granite slab, installed in 1920 in the courtyard of house No. 24 on Mantulinskaya Street.
F. M. Mantulin (1880-1905) worked as a machinist at the Danilovsky Sugar Factory (now the Krasnopresnensky Sugar Refinery named after Mantulin). During the days of the December armed uprising, he was the organizer and leader of the plant’s combat squad. On December 19, early in the morning, when tsarist troops entered the factory, many workers were arrested and some were shot.
“Sleep, dear comrades, we will avenge you. You were the first to raise the banner of uprising. We brought it to the dictatorship of the proletariat. We swear to bring it to the triumph of world communism. From the workers of the Krasnopresnenskaya Trekhgornaya municipality. 1905-1923,”- carved on a marble plaque mounted on the facade of one of the buildings of the weaving factory, under the names of 14 defenders of Presnya, shot on December 21, 1905.
The memory of the participants in the 1905 revolution is also carefully preserved by the residents of the Perovsky district of the capital, whose fighting squads fought with the Cossacks and cadets on Kalanchevskaya (now Komsomolskaya) Square during the December events. Having blocked the Kazan station, they, under the command of driver A.V. Ukhtomsky, disarmed military trains traveling along the Kazan railway to Moscow.
After the suppression of the uprising, the Perov vigilantes from Ukhtomsky’s detachment were shot. Alexei Vladimirovich Ukhtomsky (1876-1905) himself was executed in Lyubertsy.
In memory of the Perov workers who died in the fight against tsarism, a bronze sculpture of a worker was installed on Kuskovskaya Street on a granite pedestal (sculptor V.V. Glebov, architect A.M. Kaminsky). On the pedestal is carved: "To the participants of the Moscow December uprising of the revolution of 1905 from the workers of the city of Perovo. November 1957."
A street and an alley in Moscow and one of the stations of the Moscow Railway near Lyubertsy, where a monument was erected to the hero of the revolution of the fifth year (1960, sculptor N.A. Dvoretskaya) are named after the driver A.V. Ukhtomsky.
On the southern side of the Tsaritsynsky pond (Krasnogvardeisky district, Lenino-Dachnoe residential area) in 1977, on the 60th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, a granite obelisk was built, dedicated to the memory of those who in 1905 took up arms to fight against tsarist autocracy, and in 1917 - fought for the establishment of workers' and peasants' power.
The monument was erected on the spot where veterans of two revolutions were buried. Decorated with an embossed image of a waving banner with the slogan “All power to the Soviets,” 46 names are carved on it, and among them is the name of F. S. Shkulev, whose song “We are blacksmiths” has survived for decades.
Philip Stepanovich Shkulev (1868-1930) is one of the founders of Russian proletarian poetry, a worker, who came from a peasant family in the village of Pechatniki, which was part of the Lublin district of Moscow. That's why there is a street here named after him. The song “We are blacksmiths” was written by him at the height of the 1905 revolution. Her revolutionary pathos was highly appreciated by V.I. Lenin. It is no coincidence that in May 1912, when the workers' newspaper Pravda was born, Vladimir Ilyich invited F. S. Shkulev to collaborate in it. The memory of the Bolshevik poet is carefully preserved by the students of school No. 773, located on Polbina Street, 18. A museum room dedicated to Shkulev has been created there.