Description of the attraction
Vladimirskie Torgovye Ryad is located on Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street, which is the main and one of the oldest. Previously, it was called Bolshoi, and at the beginning of the 17th century it was part of the Vladimirka tract from Moscow and the central street of the city.
In ancient times, the Vladimir bargaining was located on the place where the building of the House of Officers is located today. In the 17th century, there was a white-stone church of the Exaltation to the Torga, built in 1218. By the beginning of the 18th century, bargaining moved to the western part of the city, behind a trading bridge thrown across a natural moat. Wooden trading buildings were on fire more than once. That is why the authors of the first general plan of the city of Vladimir, which was approved in 1781 by Catherine II, proposed to build a stone Gostiny Dvor, which supposedly was supposed to decorate the main city street and occupy an entire block.
The construction of the Trading Rows was carried out since 1787 at the expense and by order of the merchants of Vladimir. In those days, the governor of Vladimir was P. G. Lazarev is the father of the famous navigator M. P. Lazarev. The location was very profitable commercially. Gathering together, the merchants of Vladimir decided to build stone shops in Vladimir, contrary to the general plan, going to the Trade Bridge from the Golden Gate.
The shopping arcade in the plan had the shape of a quadrangle with a wide open area inside, where the central market was located until the 1960s. In the arched galleries from the facades of the building there were shops. The architectural and stylistic unity of the building was lost after several reconstructions. Only the southern part of the shopping arcade has survived to this day.
Presumably, the project of the building of the Trade Rows in the classical style was developed by the architect Nikolai von Berk, who at that time was engaged in the regular development plan of the city. The galleries of the St. Petersburg Gostiny Dvor served as a prototype of the building.
In 1790, the construction of the first line along Tsaritsynskaya and central streets was completed. In 1791, 51 shops operated in the Trade Rows, where they sold all kinds of goods from shoes and clothes to food. Behind the Trading Rows was the Market Square with shops and shops. It was possible to get there through the passage in the shopping galleries from the side of Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street, which was popularly called the "woman's gate".
In 1792, the construction of the northern wing began, where flour and butcher shops were to be located, the project of which was carried out by the architect I. A. Chistyakov.
In 1913, a two-story rotunda was added to the eastern wing, designed by S. M. Zharova, diversifying the architectural and stylistic nature of the building. The arcature of the facade of the rows echoed the columns of the portico of the Nikolo-Zlatovrat church (it has not survived to this day), as well as the house of the Noble Assembly (today the House of Officers), which stood on the same side of the street.
The first provincial library was located above the "woman's gate" in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. It only existed on private donations. The library occupied two rooms. There was also a reading room. In 1908 the library was transferred to P. Ilyin's house.
In 1911, the owners of the Boyarinov and Kuznetsov trading house decided to rebuild their shops located in the front line of the Trading Rows. The merchants settled on the project of the architect S. M. Zharova. Thus, a two-storey store appeared, which the residents of Vladimir also call "bricks" - because of the appearance of the building - glazed bricks were used in the decoration of the facade of the store.
In 1914 V. A. Petrovsky, the owner of a corner shop on Tsaritsynskaya Street, also decided to rebuild the retail premises according to the project of the same architect. Vladimirtsy and this store have found their name. Because of the round tower, which was decorated with bas-reliefs, this store was called "Round GUM" (today it is the "House of Clothes").
During the expansion of Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street, carried out in 1950-1952, most of the rows lost their arcature design. The northern part of the Trading Rows was also dismantled.
Currently, the Shopping arcade continues to fulfill its original functions. It is planned to restore their northern part. Today, Vladimirskie Torgovye Ryad is the largest shopping center in the city and the region, with an area of more than 30,000 square meters, moreover, it is an architectural monument of local importance.
