The Central Exhibition Hall "Manege" is located in the very center of Moscow in close proximity to the Kremlin. This is one of the best exhibition venues in the country. The building of the Central Manege itself is already a monument of architecture and a historically significant cultural object.
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History of the Manege
The Bolshoi Manege today is one of the most beautiful architectural buildings in the capital, a historical monument that successfully fits into the landscape of the metropolis. But this building is almost two hundred years old. The Manege was built in 1817 in honor of the victory in the war of 1812 on the orders of Alexander I. At that time it was called nothing more than "exercirgauz", which means "house for military exercises". Indeed, in those years the building was clearly not intended for exhibitions and other cultural events. Such were the times.
The construction of the building did not go as smoothly as the architects and engineers wanted. The wooden structure of the rafters cracked during the hot period of time, which caused a lot of trouble for the builders. Over time, the structure of the rafters was rebuilt and the ceiling was sewn to the building.
With the joint efforts of the best architects and engineers, a miracle of Empire technology appeared in Moscow. In 1825 the building of the Manege was decorated with stucco and stucco decorations. Since 1831, mass folk festivals and concerts have been held in the Manezh building.
Since 1957, the Central Exhibition Hall has been opened in the Manezh building.
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Building Big Manege It was built by order of Alexander I within eight months in 1817 on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the victory in the war of 1812. The construction was carried out according to the project of engineer Augustine Betancourt by a special staff of engineers and architects subordinate to the chief inspector of hydraulic and earthworks in Moscow, Major General Lev Carbonier. The building was then called "exercirgauz" (house for military exercises).
It cannot be said that the construction work went smoothly. The idea proposed by Bettencourt and implemented by Carbonnier implied a unique technological principle of a unique wooden structure of rafters that spanned a space of 44.86 m without intermediate supports. However, with the onset of heat at the end of July 1818, two truss trusses of the Manege cracked. They were corrected, but a year later, in the heat, damage to the rafters again occurred. By the highest order of Alexander I, from September 1823 to May 1824, the farms were rebuilt, and their number increased from 30 to 45. In August 1824, a ceiling was sewn to the roof of the Manege. The miracle of Empire technology is the result of the joint action of many architects. The ideas of A. Betancourt and L. Carbonier were brought to mind by honest and modest professionals, about whom history is almost silent: Colonel R.R. Bausa, lieutenant engineer A.Ya. Kashperov and others. The chief architect of the Commission for Buildings, the famous Moscow architect Osip Bove, in 1825 decorated the Manege with stucco and stucco decorations. Since 1831, concerts and folk festivals have been regularly held in the Manege. After the revolution, there was a government garage in the Manezh, and during the time of Nikita Khrushchev (since 1957), the Central Exhibition Hall was opened in the building. An interesting fact was told by the researcher Sergei Petrov, who studied the design of the Manege for many years in the position of head of the Main Directorate for the Protection of Monuments of the USSR. It turns out that in order to preserve wooden structures, in the time of Beauvais, the entire attic was covered with shag. For half a metre. All kinds of rodents and insects do not like this smell. Despite the fact that the shag itself was smoked out during the war of 1941-1945, all the structures were as good as new in the seventies of the XX century. But even then there was still a thick smell of tobacco in the attic.
It is interesting that the incident with the shag in the Manezh draws a beautiful trail of cultural associations. Associations concern, first of all, the history of domestic architecture. That's after all - shag! Saying this, today almost exotic, word, how can one not recall the symbol of the transformations of modern Moscow - the Maxim Gorky Central Park of Culture and Culture, on the territory of which the first All-Union Agricultural Exhibition - the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition was located in 1923. And its symbol for subsequent generations was the pavilion built by the young architect Konstantin Melnikov "Makhorka" is one of the first examples of avant-garde shaping.
The Central Manege is currently the main exhibition hall of Moscow. It was built in 1817 by Emperor Alexander I on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Russia's victory in the Patriotic War of 1812. The project was developed by the Spanish architect A. A. Betancourt.
Previously, it housed a site for military exercises, then a garage for government vehicles. In 1957, the building was transferred to the Main Department of Culture of the city of Moscow and became the venue for numerous exhibitions, fairs, concerts and festivals.
The exhibition “Orthodox Russia. My story. Romanovs”, when due to the huge number of visitors the exhibition was extended several times. Then for the first time one could see the diary of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II, the personal belongings of the imperial family, the miraculous icon of the Theodore Mother of God.
The exhibition of paintings by Ilya Glazunov in 1978 made a lot of noise. In just one month, more than half a million people visited it. The exhibition featured four hundred paintings, many of which dealt with forbidden topics. You could see with your own eyes such famous paintings as "Russian Icarus", "The Return of the Prodigal Son", "Tsarevich Dmitry", "Boris Godunov".
The building has repeatedly suffered from fire, the last one happened in 2004. After that, the architect P. Yu. Andreev was engaged in the restoration and change of the interior. The reconstruction made it possible to significantly increase exhibition areas and the number of parking spaces near the Kremlin. Now exhibitions can be placed on three floors.
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- daily from 12:00 to 22:00, except Monday.
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