Gorokhovaya Street () is a north-south thoroughfare in the
Central Business District
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of
Saint Petersburg
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.
Gorokhovaya Street is one of central Saint Petersburg's major thoroughfares, extending from the
Admiralty and running south, crossing the
Moyka River and the
Griboyedov Canal, crossing
Sadovaya Street near
Sennaya Square. Continuing south, it crosses the
Fontanka River with the
Semenovsky Bridge, and ends at
Zagorodny Prospect.
History
The street was planned and laid after the catastrophic fires of 1736 and 1738 destroyed most of the buildings on of Saint Petersburg. The original name Sredny Prospect (literally the Middle Prospect) outlined its connection to other two prospects converging on the
Admiralty building, Saint Petersburg
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Buildings
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:
Nevsky Prospect (known as Bolshoy, The Larger, Prospect) and
Voznesensky Avenue (known as Maliy, The Lesser, Prospect).
In 1770, the street received its present name Gorokhovaya Street (literally Pea Street). According to a popular legend the name comes from a German merchant Harrach, whose name was russified as Gorokhov. Some historians find the legend unconvincing as no records indicate presence of a merchant named Harrach and merchants named Gorokhov were not associated with the street.
Cheka
The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission ( rus, Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия, r=Vserossiyskaya chrezvychaynaya komissiya, p=fsʲɪrɐˈsʲijskəjə tɕrʲɪzvɨˈtɕæjnəjə kɐˈmʲisʲɪjə, links=yes), ...
office headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky situated in house number 2 of the street.[
In 1991, after the ]Perestroika
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the name Gorokhovaya was restored.[
]
Landmarks
Briantsev Youth Theatre, one of the first professional children's theatres in Russia
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, has been located on the street since 1922.
The nearest subway stations are Sennaya Ploshchad and Pushkinskaya.
The titular character of Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov ( , ; rus, Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Гончаро́в, r=Iván Aleksándrovich Goncharóv, p=ɪˈvan ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪdʑ ɡənʲtɕɪˈrof; – ) was a Russian novelist best known for his n ...
's novel '' Oblomov'' lives on Gorokhovaya Street. It is featured in several other works of literature, including Gogol
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Gogol used the grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works " The Nose", " Viy", "The Overcoat", and " Nevsky Prosp ...
's " Diary of a Madman," Dostoyevsky's ''The Idiot
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The titl ...
'', and Chernyshevsky's '' What Is to Be Done?''.
Gorokhovaya Street was formerly named "Dzerzhinsky Street", after Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky.
External links and references
Photographs of buildings on Gorokhovaya Street
References
Streets in Saint Petersburg
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