Если кто не знает, Матросская тишина – это улица in Moscow, located near the slowly flowing Yauza River, between the Sokolniki Park and the Transfiguration Square. And besides the famous detention facility, which she is known to most people, she hides many other secrets.
Historical digression
The street arose at Peter the Great. The emperor built a sailing factory here, and with it there was a settlement for sailors who had been released from service.
Character, painful and military, streetreceived even then, and later it persisted. Now here are SIZO No. 1, a tuberculosis clinic, a psychiatric hospital and a car repair plant. Residential buildings - this is a construction work in the style of constructivism in the 1920s. In the building of the car-repair plant in the time of the revolutionary 1917 was the headquarters of the rebellious Sokolniki district.
Virtually all street buildings are built ofred or maroon bricks, their monochrome is disturbed by greenery and the flowering of numerous limes. The street is very old-Moscow, retaining its slow and cruel charm among the mad noise of the capital.
History of the insulator
In the time of the great Catherine, the history of the famous place of incarceration began. In 1775, there was opened a strait-house for "pre-torn".
Moscow correctional prison appeared in 1870year. New buildings for it in 1912 were built by the architect BA Alberti. It is interesting that he was from the places of deployment of the Don army. He is also known as the author of one of the monuments on the Borodino field. In 1918, there appeared a correctional facility for minors. And only after the death of Stalin, in 1956, there appeared the famous prison "Matrosskaya Tishina". This is the first investigative isolator of the Moscow GUVD. On the territory of the isolator "Matrosskaya Tishina" there is one more, higher level, subordinate not to the Moscow police, but to the FSIN of Russia, where members of the State Emergency Committee, Khodorkovsky, Rutskoi and Mavrodi were kept at different times.
The escape
In the history of the isolator, only one successful escape from the "Matrosskaya Tishina" was recorded.
In 1995, he was hit by a Kurgancriminal group, the performer of dozens of successful murders, including the murder of criminal authorities, Alexander Solonik. This escape remains a mystery, but he will explain, if you believe that the famous killer served in the top secret organization "White Arrow", the secret special service of the Russian government that deals with the elimination of the kings of the underworld.
In the 2000s there were two more escape attempts, butThe prisoners were detained during the day. Everyone is also aware of the more or less successful attempts of the following fugitives: Oleg Topalov, Alexander Ershov, Vasily Slavgorodsky, Alexey Dulger.
Protects the street Sailor's silence and all itsresidents of the Church of the Annunciation, once (in 1907) built for soldiers and officers who lived in the nearby sapper barracks. Now the restoration of the holy place is handled by the headquarters of the Airborne Forces, also located nearby.
