Preobrazhenskoye District
Preobrazhenskoye District is a district of Eastern Administrative Okrug in the federal city of Moscow, Russia.
Geography
Nearby districts include:- Bogorodskoye to the north
- Severnoye Izmaylovo to the east
- Sokolinaya gora to the south
- Sokolniki to the west
Etymology
The district takes its name from the village of Preobrazhenskoye, where both Tsar Alexis of Russia and his son Peter I of Russia had residences.History
The village of Preobrazhenskoye first appears in records in 1661. At that time two churches were built there; the village took its name after one of them - the. In 1672, during the rule of Alexis of Russia, the first professional theater in Russia was founded here. On November 18 1699, secret diplomatic negotiations between Peter the Great and Western embassies started here, resulting in the signing of an alliance between Russia, Denmark, and Poland-Lithuania against Sweden and the subsequent Great Northern War of 1700-1721.The district has a reputation as the cradle of the Imperial Russian Navy. Peter the Great spent his adolescent years here together with his mother Natalya Naryshkina - exiled by the order of his half-sister the Tsarevna Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia. The famous toy army of Peter the Great consisting of Preobrazhensky and Semyonovsky regiments developed here in the 1680s. Peter began implementing the idea of creating a Russian Navy on the nearby Yauza River. His famous botik, which came to be known as the "grandfather of Russian Navy", was re-launched there.
Transportation
There are forty streets total in the district. These include:- Prostornaya Street
- Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya Street
- Halturinskaya Street
- Preobrazhenskiy Val Street
- 2-aya Pugachevskaya Street
- Hromova Street
- Preobrazhensky Metro Bridge
- Matrossky Bridge
- Elektrozavodsky Bridge
The district is home to Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad and Bulvar Rokossovskogo Metro stations. Cherkizovskaya metro station is located nearby.