Elizabetes Street (Riga)

The street was planned to create a plan for urban development after the burning of the wooden buildings of the Riga suburbs during the Patriotic War of 1812 . A new project was created to trace the streets of Riga, the implementation of which was carried out on Aleksandrovskaya Street (now Brivibas), named after Tsar Alexander I , as well as Elizavetinskaya Street, which was named after Alexander's wife, Russian empress Elizaveta Alekseevna . The outskirts were successfully reconstructed during the reign of Riga Governor Philip Osipovich Paulucci . In fact, Elizavetinskaya Street served as the boundary that ran between a territory free from urban development (in military tradition such places in the history of European fortified cities were called esplanades (or glacis), and the first wooden buildings with gardens and private gardens that were located in the outskirts ( at the site of the former esplanade today in Riga are located public and representative buildings, as well as a chain of city parks, one of which has kept the name Esplanade .

Street Elizavetinskaya stretched from the First pasture dam ( Ganibu ) in the south-east direction, covering the ancient part of the city, to the banks of the Daugava in the area of ​​the current Central Market . In 1885, the street was extended towards the port , to the current Export Street. After a while, Elizavetinskaya Street was shortened: the section on the territory of the Moscow suburb was separated from the railway to the Daugava, which was named Turgenevskaya Street .

In 1940 , after Latvia joined the USSR , Elizavetinskaya Street was renamed Kirov Street.

The building of Elizabetes Street is very heterogeneous: there are two-storied wooden buildings and taller stone ones, made mostly in the style of national romanticism , vertical and decorative modernism .

The building is different depending on the section of the street where it is located, in many respects due to the location of the street along the forbidden city line for wooden construction (it was introduced in 1860); An important role was played by the nearby Riga Boulevard Ring , which is rich in parks and squares.

Earlier, at the intersection of Brivibas and Elizabetes streets (in Soviet times, Lenin and Kirov) there was a monument to VI Lenin .

Houses 4 and 12 were built according to the designs of the architect Karl Felsko (1883 and 1897). Residential building number 33 was designed by architect M. O. Eisenstein and was made in an unusual style of decorative modern with a predominance of the tendency to saturate facades with mythological symbols. This building is distinguished by a rich decoration, corresponding to the concept of horror vacui (“fear of unfilled spaces” in the visual arts).

On Elizabetes there is a building (d. 2 ), built in 1974 for the Central Committee of the KPL (architects Vilcins, A. Udris, A. Stanislavskis, now the Center for International Trade).

D. 61 - cinema " Splendid Palace " (1923, architect Friedrich Skuins ) ^[2] . The first cinema in the Baltic countries, in which sound films were shown. The first building in the city of reinforced concrete, built by order of filmmaker Vasily Emelyanov . The building of the cinema and the decoration of the interiors are recognized as cultural monuments of national importance ^[3] .

• In 1945-1958, an outstanding Latvian novelist and statesman Vilis Lācis lived in house No. 13.
• In 1944–1966, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Europe, Arvid Pelshe, lived at number 21a.
• Famous Riga artist Karlis Padegs (1911–1940) lived in apartment number 55 in apartment number 55 from 1918 in Riga.
• In the 1920s-30s in the house number 63, square. 5, lived the famous Riga film mogul, the creator of the Splendid Palace cinema Vasily Yemelyanov .
• In 1932–1940, Soviet Latvian painter, sculptor and graphic artist Janis-Roberts Tilbergs lived in house number 101.
• From 1948 to 1992, the writer Nikolai Zadornov lived in the house on the corner with Rupniecibas Street (a memorial plaque was opened in 2009).
• In the house 57 there is a memorial apartment (square 26) by famous artists R. Suta and A. Beltsova ^[4] .

• Rīgas ielas. 3. sējums. - Mārupe: Drukātava, 2009. - P. 21-26. - ISBN 978-9984-798-86-8 (Latvian)
• Kirova street // Riga: Encyclopedia = Enciklopija "Rīga" / ch. ed. P. P. Eran. - Riga: Main edition of encyclopedias , 1989. - p. 364. - 880 p. - 60 000 copies - ISBN 5-89960-002-0 .

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