Running City Moscow 2015

Filippovskiy per., 13, bldg. 2  

55.750014, 37.597908 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

West wall of the building

Season in the painting

Detailed answer

Answer: autumn

autumn

Historical background

The earliest of the names this street was known under is Protasyevskiy pereulok, named so after a local landlord. In the 16th century it was called Ikonnaya ulitsa (Icon Street) for the Office of Isography located here (“isography” is “icon painting” in Greek). A community of icon painters lived here. Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia Fillip had lived here as well. He initiated the construction of a church named after his heavenly patron, Philip the Apostle. When the Metropolitan rose against the brutality of Ivan the Terrible, he was murdered. Fillip was canonised in the mid-16th century. And although Filippovskiy pereulok (Philip Lane) was officially named after the church, people had always associated the name with the Metropolitan. In 1959 the street was renamed Aksakov pereulok in memory of writer Sergey Timofeevich Aksakov, who had rented an apartment in house No. 9 in this street in 1849-1851. It was there that he had held “Aksakov Saturdays” which were attended by literary figures of Moscow. The name Filippovskiy pereulok (Philip Lane) was returned in 1993.

Present in routes of categories Lion & Unicorn