Dzirnavu Street ([зы], Latvian. Dzirnavu iela , translated as Mill ) is one of the key streets in the central part of Riga . It starts from the intersection with Pulkvezh Briezh Street (Colonel Friedrich Briedis ), on the territory of the former Pontoon Dams, the large-scale residential development of which began in the second half of the XIX century ( eclectic buildings, mainly in the traditions of neoclassicism and German neo-Gothic ); ends in the historical Moscow suburb at the intersection with Maskavas street (Moskovskaya) . The total length of the street - 3081 meters [1] .
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Architectural Dominants
On the street there are buildings built mainly in the style of national romanticism in the period before the First World War . At the same time, authentic wooden buildings have been preserved, for example, in the area from Pulkvezh Briezh to Antoniyas and from Gogol to Maskavas. There is no public transport on the Dzirnavu Street (except for fixed-run taxis). On the section from Pulkvezh Briezh street to Ernest Birzniek-Upish street, the traffic is one-way, and then, to Maskavas street , two-way.
Formation history
Mill Street ( Latvian. Dzirnavu ) was mentioned already in the 18th century in connection with the mill ponds, which were located as early as the 16th — 17th centuries on agricultural pasture land not far from the beginning of the street. The street got its name from the mills that were nearby: in 1754, mills between Bolshaya Peschanaya and Banna streets are mentioned on the map of the Riga suburbs. Thus, Dzirnavu Street is one of the oldest streets of the Petersburg suburb , retaining the original name. It started from the old Lazaretnaya street from the sandy defensive moats , which were designed by the Swedish fortifying engineer I. Rodenburg. Crossed the Big Sandy Street (the future boulevard of Alexander) and Bannaya Street (now Krisyan Street Baron ). After the demolition of the fortifications and the unification of the Internal (Old) city with the External , Molskaya Street was joined in 1885 by Bolshaya Kanatnaya ( Grosse Reeperstrasse ), which continued to the embankment . The continuation to the First pasture dike of Riga (now Pulkvezha Briezha Street) was named the Mill Dam in 1876; she was also attached to Mill Street. As a result of the extension, the length of the street exceeded three kilometers.
After the demolition of the old wooden buildings within the framework of the development of the construction of apartment houses, which was supervised by the Riga Construction Inspectorate, five-stone and six-story stone buildings were built on Dzirnavu Street, which met the concept of national romanticism. Before the war, there were relatively many taverns, pubs and red-light houses here, due to which the street gained a somewhat scandalous reputation.
The only name change is
Only once in its history did it change its name during the Nazi occupation, when it was named after the composer Richard Wagner , who from 1837 to 1839 lived in a wooden house at the intersection with Aleksandrovskaya (not preserved to this day) from the Russian merchant Bodrov. There he worked intensively on the opera Rienzi . The wooden building was demolished, and the new house was built according to the design of the Latvian architect Eyžen Laube . After the liberation of Riga in 1944, the street returned the name Dzirnavu.
Famous residents
- From 1900 to 1915, famous Russian chemist Paul Walden lived in house No. 3.
- At number 16, Arkady Raikin spent the first 5 years of his life.
- In the house at the crossroads of Dzirnavu and Krishyan Valdemara , Fyodor Ivanovich Shalyapin once stayed in the apartment of his friend, a doctor by profession, although usually the singer preferred the Metropol hotel . In the Soviet period, here was located the famous restaurant "Tallinn". Currently, the building is in desolation.
Notes
- ↑ Rīgas ielu pamatlielumi (Latvian) (xls). Open data . Riga City Council (January 1, 2016). The appeal date is August 15, 2016.
Literature
- Dzirnavu street // Riga: Encyclopedia = Enciklopēdija "Rīga" / ch. ed. P. P. Eran. - Riga: The main editors of encyclopedias , 1989. - p. 296-297. - 880 s. - 60 000 copies - ISBN 5-89960-002-0 .