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4 unusual facts about Moskva River


Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia

Seven months into her second pregnancy, Alexandra took a walk with her friends on the bank of the Moskva River and jumped directly into a boat that was permanently moored there, but fell as she got in.

Moskva River

The river also flows through the towns of Mozhaysk, Zvenigorod, Zhukovsky, Bronnitsy, Voskresensk, and — at the confluence of the Moskva and Oka — Kolomna.

Pantheon, Moscow

A likely location would probably have been opposite the Kremlin, on the Sophie quay by the Moscow River.

Prince de la Moskowa

Both were victory titles; Ney was created duc d'Elchingen in 1808, after the Battle of Elchingen, and prince de la Moskowa ("prince of the Moskva") in 1812, after the Battle of Borodino outside Moscow.


Garden Ring

Although Boris Godunov, de facto regent of Russia, prevented Crimeans from taking the city north of Moskva River, he anticipated future raids and arranged construction of another defence ring.

Khamovniki District

The district extends from Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge into the Luzhniki bend of Moskva River; northern boundary with Arbat District follows Znamenka Street, Gogolevsky Boulevard, Sivtsev Vrazhek and Borodinsky Bridge.

Mosfilmovskaya Street

Being outside the Garden Ring (Садовое Кольцо), which encircles central Moscow, the street runs south-west across a residential area between the Moskva River and its tributary Setun River (Сетунь).

Sokolnicheskaya Line

The remaining part of the Frunzenskaya Branch went along the Kremlin's western wall past the Russian State Library and into the future site of the Palace of Soviets on the bank of the Moskva River and terminated near the infamous Gorky Park.


see also

Novospassky

Novospassky Bridge, a bridge over the Moskva River in Moscow, Russia