Published on: 2026-09-30
Source: Moscow Government – Правительства Москвы –
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At Library No. 19 named after F.M. Dostoevsky, there will be a lecture about 18th-century Moscow. In 1712, Peter I moved the court to Saint Petersburg, and Moscow became the “second city,” but it was precisely in the 18th century that it experienced one of the most dramatic and underrated transformations in its history.
Listeners will be told about the 1714 ban on stone construction, fires, epidemics and the plague of 1771, as well as the birth of a new face of the Capital: the 1775 regular plan, the Boulevard Ring on the site of the White City, the Mytishchi aqueduct, and the classicism of Vasily Bazhenov and Matvey Kazakov.
The lecturer is Nikolay Shabunin, the founder and curator of the educational project, and a practicing architect. Moscow of the 18th century appears as a city that was not designed as a capital, but that rebuilt itself, creating an appearance recognizable even today.
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