Exhibition "Big Stone Bridge" Automatic translate

On October 5, an exhibition dedicated to the history and reconstruction of the Bolshoi Kamenny Bridge will open in the courtyard of the Museum of Moscow. Visitors will be able to see watercolors and autolithographs by Apollinarius Vasnetsov, engravings by the Dutchman Peter Picart, drawings by Sergei Gerasimov and other artists. It will also be possible to consider the part of the farm of the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge dismantled during the reconstruction, which was allegedly damaged by numerous fragments of a high-explosive bomb dropped during the bombing of Moscow in 1941-1942.

According to historians, the bridge "was revered as one of the capital’s wonders along with the bell tower of Ivan the Great, the Sukharev Tower, Tsar Bell, Tsar Pushka." Today it is impossible to imagine one of the most popular postcard views of the Kremlin, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Bersenevskaya, Prechistenskaya and Sofia embankments without him.

The first Stone Bridge was built in 1692 under Peter I. The amount that had to be paid for its construction was so huge that since then Muscovites have had a saying that has survived to this day: "More expensive than the Stone Bridge!" Having stood until 1859, due to dilapidation, the bridge was dismantled and replaced with another one - all-metal on stone supports and with cast-iron trusses. It was the first three-span metal bridge in Moscow, which the townspeople, out of old habit, continued to call "Stone".

The modern single-span arched on steel structures Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge across the Moskva River was built in 1938 by the architects Vladimir Shchuko, Vladimir Gelfreich and Mikhail Minkus. On April 4, 2014, the Moscow Department of Cultural Heritage recognized Bolshoi Kamenny Bridge as a cultural heritage site of regional significance. In 2019, a major overhaul project was developed, and already in July 2020, work began, which ended on August 16, 2021.

Co-organizers of the exhibition:
Department of Cultural Heritage of the City of Moscow
Committee of Municipal Economy of the City of Moscow