Moscow Walk - Paveletskaya Square Ep. 64

4k] Moscow Walk - Paveletskaya Square The station building was built in 1900 to serve the Ryazan-Ural Railway according to the project of architects N. A. Kvashnin[4] and Yu. F. Diederichs[5][6]. In some online publications it is claimed that the station building was erected in the same year, but according to the project of architect A. F. Krasovsky[7]. The Society of the Ryazan-Ural Railway in Tsarist Russia operated the largest private road that connected 12 densely populated provinces. But the road had no exit to Moscow. In this regard, the board of the road made a request to the government to give permission for the construction of the Paveletz — Moscow branch. In May 1897, permission was obtained from Nicholas II to build the line. The construction of the new branch was completed in a short time: 8.5 months earlier than scheduled. However, the constructed road did not have a station in Moscow. The grand opening of the station took place on September 1 (September 14, new style), 1900. On this occasion, a moleben with water consecration was served. The celebrations were attended by Chief Construction Engineer V. V. Timofeev, heads of services, station staff and representatives of the business world — future shippers. The station was built according to the building canons of that time: the building is symmetrical with an elevated center, high windows, wide and convenient entrance. Along the main facade from the side of the square there were entrances, a lobby, a luggage compartment, public halls and rooms whose purpose requires proximity to the halls: ticket offices, a telegraph office, a pharmacy and a buffet. In the center there is a high, extensive operating room that separated the rooms for first and second class passengers from the third class[8]. The building was built of brick on a rubble foundation in two floors with a third above the middle dome part of the building and with attics above the side protruding parts. The length of the station was 83.7 m . The outer walls were 2.5 bricks thick with a fair margin of safety for a low building. The outer surface of the walls is lined with a special brick, the base is hewn stone, the lobby and cornices in the halls had stucco decorations. There was solidity and solidity in everything.