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The Central Exhibition Hall "Manege" is located in the very center of Moscow in close proximity to the Kremlin. This is one of the best exhibition venues in the country. The building of the Central Manege itself is already an architectural and historical monument significant object culture.

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History of the Manege

The Grand Manege today is one of the beautiful architectural buildings of the capital, historical monument, successfully fitting into the landscape of the metropolis. But this building is almost two hundred years old. The Manege was built in 1817 in honor of the victory in the War of 1812 by order of Alexander I. At that time it was called nothing more than “exertsirgauz”, which means “house for military exercises”. Indeed, in those years the building was clearly not intended to host exhibitions and other cultural events. Those were the times.

The construction of the building did not go as smoothly as the architects and engineers wanted. The wooden structure of the rafters cracked during hot periods, which caused a lot of trouble for the builders. Over time, the rafter structure was rebuilt and the ceiling was attached to the building.

Through the joint efforts of the best architects and engineers, a miracle of Empire-era technology appeared in Moscow. In 1825, the Manege building was decorated with stucco and plaster decorations. Since 1831, mass festivities and concerts began to be held in the Manege building.

Since 1957, the Central Exhibition Hall was opened in the Manege building.

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Building Big Manege was built by order of Alexander I over eight months in 1817 on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the victory in the War of 1812. The construction was carried out according to the design of engineer Augustin Betancourt by a special staff of engineers and architects subordinate to the chief inspector of hydraulic and earthworks in Moscow, Major General Lev Carbonier. The building was then called “exertzirgauz” (house for military exercises).

This is not to say that the construction went smoothly. The idea proposed by Betancourt and implemented by Carbonnier implied a unique technological principle - a one-of-a-kind wooden rafter structure that spanned a space of 44.86 m without intermediate supports. However, with the onset of heat at the end of July 1818, two trusses of the Manege cracked. They were fixed, but a year later, in the heat, damage occurred in the rafters again. By the highest order of Alexander I, from September 1823 to May 1824, the farms were rebuilt, and their number increased from 30 to 45. In August 1824, a ceiling was sewn to the roof of the Manege. The miracle of technology from Empire times is the result of the joint action of many architects. The ideas of A. Betancourt and L. Carbonnier were brought to mind by honest and modest professionals, about whom history is almost silent: Colonel R.R. Bausa, engineer-lieutenant A.Ya. Kashperov and others. The chief architect of the Commission for buildings, the famous Moscow architect Osip Bove, decorated the Manege with stucco and plaster decorations in 1825. Since 1831, concerts and folk festivals were regularly held in the Manege. After the revolution, there was a government garage in Manege, and during the time of Nikita Khrushchev (since 1957), the Central Exhibition Hall opened in the building. Interesting fact said researcher Sergei Petrov, who studied the design of the Manege for many years as head of the Main Directorate for the Protection of Monuments of the USSR. It turns out that in order to preserve the wooden structures, in Beauvais’s time the entire attic was filled with shag. Half a meter. All kinds of rodents and insects do not like this smell. Despite the fact that the shag itself was smoked during the war of 1941–1945, all the structures were as good as new back in the seventies of the 20th century. But even then there was still a thick smell of tobacco in the attic.

It’s interesting that the incident with shag in Manezh brings with it a beautiful trail of cultural associations. Associations relate, first of all, to the history of Russian architecture. That's shag! When pronouncing this, today almost exotic, word, how can one not recall the symbol of the transformation of modern Moscow - the Maxim Gorky Central Park of Culture and Culture, on the territory of which in 1923 the first All-Union Agricultural Exhibition - VSKHV was located and its symbol for subsequent generations was the pavilion built by the young architect Konstantin Melnikov “Makhorka” is one of the first examples of avant-garde form creation.

The Central Manege is currently the main exhibition hall in Moscow. It was built in 1817 by Emperor Alexander I for the five-year anniversary of Russia's victory in the Patriotic War of 1812. The project was developed by the Spanish architect A. A. Betancourt.

Previously, it housed a site for military exercises, then a garage for government vehicles. In 1957, the building was transferred to the Main Department of Culture of Moscow and became the venue for numerous exhibitions, fairs, concerts and festivals.

The exhibition “Orthodox Rus'. My history. The Romanovs”, when due to the huge number of visitors the exhibition was extended several times. Then, for the first time, one could see the diary of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II, personal belongings of the imperial family, and the miraculous icon of the Feodorovskaya Mother of God.

The exhibition of paintings by Ilya Glazunov in 1978 caused a lot of noise. In just one month, more than half a million people visited it. The exhibition featured four hundred paintings, many of which dealt with forbidden topics. You could see with your own eyes such famous paintings as “Russian Icarus”, “Return of the Prodigal Son”, “Tsarevich Dmitry”, “Boris Godunov”.

The building has suffered from fire several times, the last one occurring in 2004. After this, the architect P. Yu. Andreev was involved in restoring and changing the interior. The reconstruction made it possible to significantly increase the exhibition areas and the number of parking spaces near the Kremlin. Now exhibitions can be placed on three floors.