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33-493: It is named after the former church of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne . Yakimanka contains the western half of the historical Zamoskvorechye area (its eastern half is administered as Zamoskvorechye District proper), including the Tretyakov Gallery and the territories of Gorky Park and Neskuchny Sad . The boundary between Yakimanka and Zamoskvorechye districts follows Balchug Street and Bolshaya Ordynka Street (north of

66-687: A Christian. Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate was a popular subject in artistic renditions of the life of the Virgin . Symbols associated with Saint Joachim include a book or scroll representing linen makers, a shepherd's staff for the Christian Word, and a basket of doves representing peace. He is almost always clothed in green, the color of hope. The name of the San Joaquin River dates to 1805–1808, when Spanish explorer Gabriel Moraga

99-442: A catchword for an ultraconservative, bearded, pious archetype , the subject of Aleksandr Ostrovsky 's plays. Even the wealthiest of them lived in country-style single-story houses on spacious lots, a few of which remain today. The areas on the edge of the city, where Peter hanged his soldiers, were taken over by grain warehouses and market squares, commemorated in the names of Zhitnaya ("wheat") and Mytnaya ("tax") streets. Yakimanka

132-530: A traditional, low-rise merchant neighborhood, a cluster of large five- to seven-story factory buildings emerged in Golutvin and Bersenevka (Golutvin was the birthplace of Pavel Ryabushinsky ). Most of these are now converted to office space, while Krasny Oktyabr chocolate factory (originally Einem) is scheduled for conversion soon. Hotels catering to businesspeople were built nearby in Boloto and Balchug Street. In 1896,

165-544: Is remembered (with Anne) in the Church of England with a Lesser Festival on 26 July . Joachim is named as the patron saint of fathers, grandfathers, grandparents, married couples, cabinet makers, and linen traders. In medieval art, he often wears a conical Jewish hat . He is often treated as a saint, with a halo , but in the Latin Church , there was some awareness that he had quite likely died too soon to be counted as

198-745: Is a Russian federal highway from Moscow to the border with Belarus , where it becomes the P43 to Bobruysk . Within Moscow Oblast it coincides with the old Kaluga road , until the village of L'vovo . Before the fall of the Soviet Union the A130 (then the A101) was used as a southern alternative to the M1 into Belarus. The route was given a new designation, A-130, on November 17, 2010 in accordance with Government Resolution №928;

231-632: The Babiegorodskaya Dam and the clearing of the Vodootvodny Canal in the 1830s reduced the flood hazard, but the land remained cheap. This led to the steady industrialization of Zamoskvorechye. For example, Gustav List set up his first metalworking factory in Boloto, directly across from the Kremlin (his mansion, also in Boloto, would later house the British embassy). While most of Yakimanka remained

264-683: The Commonwealth of Independent States , has its head office in the district. The Federal Penitentiary Service has its head office in Yakimanka District. Moscow Metro : 55°43′53″N 37°36′14″E  /  55.73139°N 37.60389°E  / 55.73139; 37.60389 Saint Joachim Joachim ( / ˈ dʒ oʊ ə k ɪ m / ; Hebrew : יהויקים , romanized :  Yəhoyāqim , lit.   'he whom Yahweh has set up'; Greek : Ἰωακείμ , romanized :  Iōākeím ) was, according to Christianity ,

297-735: The Council of Trent (1545–1563) restricted the depiction of apocryphal events. No liturgical celebration of Saint Joachim was included in the Tridentine calendar . It was added to the General Roman Calendar in 1584, for celebration on 20 March, the day after the feast day of Saint Joseph . In 1738, it was transferred to the Sunday within the Octave of the Assumption of Mary . As part of his effort to allow

330-560: The Garden Ring ), Korovy Val and Mytnaya Streets (south of the Garden Ring). Territories on the right (southern) bank of Moskva River , now known as Zamoskvorechye, were colonized from the fourteenth century. Two river crossings, west and east of the Kremlin walls, continued south to Kaluga and Serpukhov , and served as main axes of settlement. The western part of Yakimanka District (between

363-518: The Tatar pretender Mazovsha in 1451. Permanent militarized settlements of Muscovites, called slobodas , were established by Prince Vasili III in the early sixteenth century. The fortified line on the site of the present-day Garden Ring was built in 1591–1592 in the reign of Feodor I . The church of St. Joachim and St. Anne at Bolshaya Yakimanka, 13, which gave the district its name, was initially built in 1493 and subsequently rebuilt before being destroyed by

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396-509: The 1850s, opened to the public in 1892. The existing building, with a facade designed by Apollinary Vasnetsov , was completed in 1899–1904. Pavel Tretyakov also financed the construction and operation of the free housing for widows and children of Russian artists, located north from the Gallery. Morozov Hospital, the city's first surgical hospital for children, started in 1896 as a two-room Red Cross clinic. The Morozov family financed construction of

429-533: The 1932–1938 Moscow Canal : floods were no longer a threat for the Yakimanka lowlands. River banks that formerly shifted every season were firmly set in granite; all downtown Moscow river and Vodootvodny Canal bridges were rebuilt to six- to eight-lane capacity. Major destruction of Yakimanka took place in Leonid Brezhnev 's time. The western side of Bolshaya Yakimanka was rebuilt in the high-rise style typical of

462-627: The Kaluga road and the Moskva River, was home to the country houses of the Golitsyn , Demidov , Trubetskoy , Stroganov and later Orlov families. In 1793, Prince Dmitry Golitsyn bequeathed 900,000 roubles to build Moscow's first free public hospital. The project, supported by the dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna , was completed in 1796–1802 by Matvey Kazakov . Although the Golitsyn family owned lands nearby,

495-434: The Moskva River and Bolshaya Yakimanka Street) was regularly flooded, and thus its inhabited area was contained within a 700-meter-wide tract of land between Bolshaya Yakimanka and Bolshaya Ordynka streets (formerly the Kaluga and Serpukhov roads). The floodland was gradually built out in the nineteenth century when the Babiegorodskaya Dam was completed, but even then a large field existed near Krymsky Bridge until 1972, when

528-571: The Soviet government (see 19th century photo ). Yakimanka District has had a diverse and rapidly changing ethnic and social composition: The century was preceded by mass executions of streltsy . September 30, 1698 Peter I hanged 36 soldiers at the Serpukhov Gate, 36 at the Kaluga Gate, etc., physically destroying the human core of the sloboda system. By 1720, all streltsy troops were disbanded. At

561-578: The churches of St. Joachim and St. Anne, St. Maron , St. Gregory of Nyssa , and others; the Church of St. John the Warrior remained the only functioning church in Yakimanka. St. Joachim and St. Anne was torn down in 1933. However, compared to other districts, the Joseph Stalin era brought very little damage to Yakimanka; the area seemed to be neglected. In the 1920s, the old Wine and Salt Court in Bersenevka

594-622: The city built an electrical power plant in Zamoskvorechye District (MOGES-1, the oldest existing power plant). The second power plant , built specifically for the tram network, emerged in Yakimanka District, also in Bersenevka, and operates today. Since that time, electrical and oiling offices are major tenants on the Balchug island. The late nineteenth century was also a time of charity and social experiments. The Tretyakov Gallery , which started as Pavel Tretyakov 's private collection in

627-589: The first time in the 2nd-century apocryphal infancy-gospel the Gospel of James (also called the Protoevangelium of James ). Joachim was a rich and pious man, who regularly gave to the poor. However, Charles Souvay, writing in the Catholic Encyclopedia , says that the idea that Joachim possessed large herds and flocks is doubtful. At the temple, Joachim's sacrifice was rejected, as the couple's childlessness

660-430: The hospital was set on Stroganov family land. Hospital construction continued on Kaluga Road throughout the next century. Today, these hospitals belong to Yakimanka District and are known as First City (Первая Градская). The Fire of 1812 swept the entire area except for a few blocks in the southern end of Bolshaya Yakimanka and Kazakov's hospital (which took care of both Russian and French troops). The construction of

693-461: The husband of Saint Anne , the father of Mary, mother of Jesus , and the maternal grandfather of Jesus . The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Gospel of James , part of the New Testament apocrypha . His feast day is 26 July, a date shared with Saint Anne. The story of Joachim, his wife Anne (or Anna), and the miraculous birth of their child Mary, the mother of Jesus, was told for

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726-525: The liturgy of Sundays to be celebrated, Pope Pius X (term 1903–1914) transferred it to 16 August, the day after the Assumption, so Joachim may be remembered in the celebration of Mary's triumph. On May 28, 1906, Pope Saint Pius X introduced the indulgence of 300 days, that can be obtained once a day, for each invocation of "Saint Joachim, spouse of Saint Anne and father of the Blessed Virgin". The feast

759-631: The new building of the Tretyakov Gallery was built. The clover leaves on the district's coat of arms are a memory of these fields. (See Balchug for an explanation of the Vodootvodny Canal flood control development that separated the Bersenevka and Boloto neighborhoods from the mainland and the history of the island.) The lands south of the Moskva River, exposed to southern enemies, were regularly destroyed by raiders, notably by Algirdas in 1366 and 1368, Tokhtamysh in 1382, Edigu in 1408, and

792-422: The same time, craftsmen lost their businesses when the royal court relocated to Saint Petersburg . The patchwork sloboda system of Zamoskvorechye fell apart, and within the 18th century social diversity settled down. Bolshaya Yakimanka remained a quiet street of single-family households, many of them still farming on the floodlands; Bolshaya Ordynka was inhabited by wealthy merchants. Zamoskvorechye merchant became

825-493: The time. Similar structures appeared in Polyanka Street, both as infills and as block-wide projects. This was followed by facadist "reconstruction" of the 1990s-2000s and new high-rises like the 15-story Copernicus building. The city, however, rejected construction of the avant-garde towers designed by Erick van Egeraat . The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC or MAK), the aviation accident technical investigation body of

858-749: The two-story existing building in Bolshaya Polyanka. Another free hospital was operated by the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent . Finally, the city and private philanthropists also provided cheap or free housing; the largest public housing projects were launched in the 1890s in Boloto. The best known of these projects, Bakhrushin Free Apartments (1898-1900, Sofiyskaya Embankment, 26), now houses Rosneft headquarters. In 1922, Bolshevik authorities closed and looted 22 churches in Zamoskvorechye, including

891-639: Was destined for great things. Parallels occur in the Hebrew Bible in the case of Sarah , the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac ; Hannah , the mother of Samuel ; and in the New Testament in the case of the parents of John the Baptist . The cycle of legends concerning Joachim and Anne was included in the Golden Legend (around 1260) by Jacobus de Voragine . This cycle remained popular in Christian art until

924-553: Was established as an administrative district in 1782, when Catherine II divided Moscow into 20 police districts. In particular, Zamoskvorechye was divided between the Yakimanka and Pyatnitzkaya police precincts. A different development began at the end of the century on the Kaluga road outside the Garden Ring (which at that time was a city rampart, not a garden or a street). The present-day territory of Gorky Park and Neskuchny Sad, between

957-480: Was interpreted as a sign of divine displeasure. Joachim consequently withdrew to the desert, where he fasted and did penance for 40 days. Angels then appeared to both Joachim and Anne to promise them a child. Joachim later returned to Jerusalem and embraced Anne at the city gate , located in the Walls of Jerusalem . An ancient belief held that a child born of an elderly mother who had given up hope of having offspring

990-539: Was not done. The only trace of this project is the 1937 Writers' Apartments building facing the Tretyakov building (expanded in the 1950s and 2000s); it housed elite writers like Yevgeny Petrov of Ilf and Petrov fame, Boris Pasternak , and Konstantin Paustovsky . Similar grand Stalinist buildings were planned all along the new route, but were cancelled. The most important outcome of Stalin's projects came with completion of

1023-549: Was replaced by the House on Embankment ; further south, Moscow's first cooperative apartment building was completed in 1926. Gorky Park development began in 1923 with the first All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition; in 1928, the fairgrounds were reopened as a public park. The existing Stalin-style entrance arch was added later, in 1950s. The 1935 Moscow Master Plan called for completing the Boulevard Ring through Zamoskvorechye, which

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1056-807: Was surveying east from Mission San José to find possible sites for a mission. The name was in common use by 1810. In Islam he is called Imran ( Arabic : عمران , romanized :  ʿImrān ). According to the Quran in Surah Al Imran , Imran is the father of Maryam and grandfather of ʿIsa . [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). " St. Joachim ". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company. Kaluga road 54°33′58.3″N 34°35′44.2″E  /  54.566194°N 34.595611°E  / 54.566194; 34.595611 The Russian route A130

1089-635: Was then celebrated as a Double of the Second Class , a rank that was changed in 1960 to that of Second Class Feast . In the 1969 revision of the General Roman Calendar, it was joined to that of Anne, for celebration on 26 July. The Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches commemorate Joachim on 9 September, the Synaxis of Joachim and Anne, the day after the Nativity of Mary . Joachim

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