Category:Bolshaya Nikitskaya

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Bolshaya (Great) Nikitskaya ulitsa takes its names from the old Nikitsky Monastery founded here in the late 16th. Narrow and densely built Bolshaya Nikiskaya was not reconstructed in Soviet times and kept a lot of remarkable buildings.

At the beginning of Bolshaya Nikitskaya one can see the building of Zoological Museum of Moscow State University (No.6), constructed after Bykovsky’s project especially for this unique collection of zoological rarities. The facade is decorated by zoological mouldings; the light and airy interiors designed by famous animalists design in the same style.

The next attractive building here is the Moscow Conservatory (No.13). Vasily Bazhenov designed it in the late 18th century for princess Catherine Dashkova; in I860 it was bought for the Moscow section of the Imperial Russian Music Society headed by outstanding musician Nikolay Rubinshtein.

In 1954 a monument to Chaikovsky, a famous Russian musician and one of the conservatory's founders, was put up in front of the building. In 1940 the Conservaty was named in his honour and since 1958 the Chaikovsky International Competitions have been held here.

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