Gavrilovskaya settlement

Gavrilovskaya settlement is one of the Moscow settlements . It existed in the 17th century .

The Gavrilovskaya settlement was located near the church of the Archangel Gabriel, which was located in the area of ​​the modern Arkhangelsk lane between Myasnitskaya and Pokrovka . Since this lane in the old days was also called Kotelnikov, we can assume that the settlement was craft. In 1632, there were 62 yards in it. The Church of the Archangel Gabriel was first mentioned in 1551 . Then it was called the Church of Gabriel the Archangel "in the Butchers." In 1620, it is referred to as "Gabriel the Great, which is on Pogany Pond" and even then it is the center of the Gabriel's Patriarchal settlement. Since 1657, the church is already listed as stone.

Since 1699, the property of Peter I, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, began to buy ownership in the Gavrilovskaya settlement north of the church. By 1705, he built a new vast estate. In 1704, the church that stood with it was dismantled and by 1707 a new building was erected, unprecedented in Moscow in height (81 meters), which went down in history under the name of the Menshikov Tower . The new church caused gossip among the inhabitants of Moscow, as it was one and a half fathoms above the bell tower of Ivan the Great. On June 14, 1723, she caught fire from a lightning strike: a wooden spire took up, the fire spread below, and all 50 bells fell, breaking the arches. In the 1770s , the church was restored.