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Beethoven Bicycle Promenade
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During the Year of Germany, historian and musician Sergey Nikitin-Rimsky, MosCultProg group, and Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom prepared a musical and architectural bicycle promenade at small courts of Sokolniki Moscow District.
Why Sokolniki?
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In Sokolniki, where architectural monuments are scattered within the ribbon development, there are plenty of places associated with the names of famous Germans of XVIII-XX centuries, from friends of Peter the Great, botanist of the Alexander era, to Berlin engineers-idealists, who helped the Soviet system to launch tungsten lamp production at Electric plant in 1920-s.
Burning hearts of Moscow Germans: seven buildings, seven stories, seven melodies. Love and lamps. Gardens, brewmasters, and the kind doctor Haass!
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Each stop corresponds to a certain point of Germans’ history in Russia: the building of the shelter named after doctor Haass illustrates the history of a famous German doctor, whom they called Fyodor Petrovich and even the saint doctor in Russia. This is why the project is dedicated to the 240th anniversary of the doctor.
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The stop near the electric station corresponds to the history of two German architects, Alexader Meissner and Maxim Heppener, who combined Gothic and Modern styles to create a perfect item of brick industrial architecture.
Saint Vladimir’s hospital is associated with the life of German industrialist Pavel von Derwies, who built the hospital in memory of his deceased children.
![Fahrradtour in Sokolniki Programm](/sites/default/files/styles/uv_full_content/public/2021-09/stop-7.jpg?itok=45zy5quj)
Sokolniki keeps much more secrets, such as the history of a Hamburg merchant Johan-Leonard Ding, who built the first pasta factory in Moscow, and stories of many other German entrepreneurs, whose names are immediately associated with Russia at the present time.
![Fahrradtour in Sokolniki Musiker](/sites/default/files/styles/uv_full_content/public/2021-09/velo-musiker.jpg?itok=Aj9Ld05T)
The bicycle promenade is accompanied by live music. Themes by the famous German composer and other romanticists are plaid at the stops in a modern version by Velo-Muzyka band. This is why the Beethoven Promenade is dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the great composer.
![Fahrradtour in Sokolniki Sergey Nikitin](/sites/default/files/styles/uv_full_content/public/2021-09/velo-nikitin.jpg?itok=PgOagw4w)
Sergey Nikitin-Rimsky and Grigory Efremov held the bicycle tour.
Sergey NIKITIN-RIMSKY is a historian of Moscow, founder of the Architectural Bicycle Night (Velonotte) international project that takes place in Moscow, Rome, St. Petersburg, Ivanovo, and Kazan. He is a senior fellow at the Moscow Museum.
Grigory EFREMOV is a culture researcher, researcher of Soviet theater of 1920-30-s, and producer of the Architectural Bicycle Night.
![Fahrradtour in Sokolniki alle Teilnehmer](/sites/default/files/styles/uv_full_content/public/2021-09/velo-alle.jpg?itok=0njXBCOT)