Vagankovo

Church of St. Nicholas in Old Vagankovo

(Old) Vagankovo is a former village that became part of Moscow in the 16th century. Its location is determined by Starovagankovsky Lane and by the Nikolskaya Church in Old Vagankovo .

Another church, Blagoveshchenskaya, was once located in the courtyard of the modern building of the Russian State Library .

Content

1 Etymology
2 History
3 notes
4 Literature

Etymology

The exact origin of the name of the village is unknown. The researchers put forward various explanations: from the theory that there was a fun court of Moscow rulers, to the origin of the name from the tax for weighing the goods, which was called "vagan" ^[1] :

Some local historians associate the name of the village with a monetary tax for weighing goods brought for sale, which was called vagan (“wag” - large scales, “important” - to weigh). The place where the weighing took place was called vaganese ^[2] . It is possible that before the village became a suburban estate of the ruling dynasty, it was Vaganese, since there was a road to the western lands.
According to another version, the name comes from the verb vaganite , which V. I. Dahl in his dictionary marked as "Vologda" and gave an explanation: "pamper, naughty, play, joke" ^[3] . In the XV-XVI centuries on Vagankov hill was the Amusing royal court. The Sloboda church, built in the XIV-XV centuries, was dedicated to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker , who was considered the patron saint of buffoons and travelers.
In modern scientific journals, the hypothesis about the origin of the village name from the non-canonical name Vaganka or Vagan, which means "wahlak, man, peasant" ^[4] ^[2] , prevails.

Excerpt from the toponymic directory

“Vagankovo has been known from documents since 1446. There was a“ amusing ”tsar’s court, where the kennel lived, providing royal hunting. In the XVII century. he was transferred to a new place (see Novovagankovsky lane ), and the village became known as Old Vagankovo . <...> It is believed that once there lived buffoons who allegedly “waggled” (entertained) the king and the boyars. The name was also associated with the word vag — scales, leverage ( dr. Russian vaganne — weighing goods to collect duties, Vagan — the place of weighing). But no data on buffoons, nor on the customs outpost in the village. Vagankovo is not. It is more likely that the toponym is formed from the diminutive form of Vaganok , Vaganka of the non-canonical name Vagan ( vagan - wahlak , simpleton, in some dialects - a carpenter), cf. the name of Vaganov, nickname Vagankov (1440) ” ^[4] .

History

In the first half of the 15th century in Vagankovo there was a suburban courtyard of Sofya Vitovtovna , the widow of Grand Duke Vasily Dmitrievich . His annals were first mentioned under the year 1446 ^[1] :

The great prince ( Vasily II ) came to Moscow on the month of November on the 17th day, and a hundred in the yard of his mother ( Sofya Vitovtovna ) outside the city on Vagankovo
- Simeonovsky chronicle

For a long time the village was in direct princely possession. In 1472, Prince Dmitry Yuri Vasilievich bequeathed a village to his brother, Grand Duke Ivan III . At the direction of his successor, Aleviz New built the Church of the Annunciation in Vagankovo. In the time of Ivan the Terrible , an oprichnina court was located here. Before the start of its construction, the inhabitants of the village and palace servants were transferred to a new place outside the Earthen City , in the Presnya district, where they formed the settlement New Vagankovo ^[1] , the memory of which is preserved in the name of the Vagankovsky cemetery .

In the same place after the oprichnina court there was a shooter settlement. Her archers were erected opposite the Borovitsky Gate of the Kremlin, the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker , known as "Nikola Streletsky." It was first mentioned in 1623, and by 1657 it was rebuilt in stone ^[1] .

Notes

↑ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ History of Moscow districts, 2005 , p. 44.
↑ ¹ ² Moscow: all streets, squares, boulevards, alleys / Vostryshev M. I. - M .: Algorithm , Eksmo, 2010 .-- S. 551–552. - ISBN 978-5-699-33874-0 .
↑ Folk etymology pedals the similarity of the name with the word “ vagant ” ( Latin vagant - “wandering”), as in the 12th – 13th centuries Europe it was called wandering university students, songwriters and performers, who in the 15th – 16th centuries transformed into troupes of wandering artists wandering folk actors. However, in pre-Petrine times such a word was not known in Russia.
↑ ¹ ² Ageeva R.A. , Alexandrov Yu.N. , Bondaruk G.P. and other streets of Moscow. Old and new names. Toponymic dictionary-reference book / Ans. ed. E.M. Pospelov . - M .: Publishing Center "Science, Technology, Education", 2003. - S. 279. - 336 p. - ISBN 5-9900013-1-2 . .

Literature

Vagankovo // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
History of Moscow regions: encyclopedia / Averyanov K.A. - Moscow: AST, 2005 .-- 830 p. - ISBN 5-17-029169-8 .

[_d440f8569c41f86f-1] ¹ ² ³ ⁴ History of Moscow districts, 2005 , p. 44.

[Энц-2] ¹ ² Moscow: all streets, squares, boulevards, alleys / Vostryshev M. I. - M .: Algorithm , Eksmo, 2010 .-- S. 551–552. - ISBN 978-5-699-33874-0 .

[3] Folk etymology pedals the similarity of the name with the word “ vagant ” ( Latin vagant - “wandering”), as in the 12th – 13th centuries Europe it was called wandering university students, songwriters and performers, who in the 15th – 16th centuries transformed into troupes of wandering artists wandering folk actors. However, in pre-Petrine times such a word was not known in Russia.

[топоним-4] ¹ ² Ageeva R.A. , Alexandrov Yu.N. , Bondaruk G.P. and other streets of Moscow. Old and new names. Toponymic dictionary-reference book / Ans. ed. E.M. Pospelov . - M .: Publishing Center "Science, Technology, Education", 2003. - S. 279. - 336 p. - ISBN 5-9900013-1-2 . .