- Peredelkino
Peredelkino is a
dacha complex situated just to the south-west ofMoscow . The settlement originated as the estate of Peredeltsy, owned by the Leontyevs (maternal relatives of Peter the Great), then by PrincesDolgorukov and by theSamarins . After a railway passed through the village in the 19th century, it was renamed Peredelkino. In1934 Maxim Gorky suggested to hand over the area to theUnion of Soviet Writers . Within several years, about fifty wooden cottages were constructed in Peredelkino to Soviet writers by German designs.Among the litterateurs who settled in Peredelkino were
Boris Pasternak ,Korney Chukovsky ,Arseny Tarkovsky (all three buried at the local cemetery),Ilya Ehrenburg ,Veniamin Kaverin ,Leonid Leonov ,Ilya Ilf ,Isaak Babel ,Vsevolod Ivanov ,Nikolay Zabolotsky ,Boris Pilnyak ,Lilya Brik ,Konstantin Simonov ,Alexander Fadeyev , andMikhail Bakhtin . More recently,Yevgeny Yevtushenko ,Andrei Voznesensky ,Bella Akhmadulina ,Robert Rozhdestvensky , andZurab Tsereteli moved into the area as well. Turkish communist poetNazim Hikmet has also spent the early years of his self-imposed exile in USSR at Peredelkino.It is supposed that the village was satirized by
Mikhail Bulgakov as Perelygino, a writers' colony described in his novel "The Master and Margarita ". The village also featured prominently in theJohn le Carré spy novel "The Russia House ".In
1988 , the cottages of Chukovsky and Pasternak were proclaimed memorial houses, while the area of Peredelkino was designated a "historical and cultural reservation". A decade later, the dacha ofBulat Okudzhava was also opened to the public as a museum. After the collapse of the USSR, Peredelkino was taken over by the Russian new rich. Many new apartment buildings were constructed in Novo-Peredelkino district nearby.As of 2005 , the most eminent resident of Peredelkino is PatriarchAlexis II , whose summer residence of Lukino (originally built in the delightfulRussian Revival style for Baron de Bodé) adjoins a 17th-century church of the Saviour's Transfiguration.The territory of the complex is divided between three administrative formations: its eastern portion is located in jurisdiction of
Western Administrative Okrug ofMoscow , its northwestern portion—in jurisdiction ofOdintsovsky District ofMoscow Oblast , and its southwestern portion—in jurisdiction of Leninsky District of Moscow Oblast.ee also
External links
* [http://www.peredelkino-land.ru/eng/index.shtml Unofficial website of Peredelkino] en icon
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