The main gate through which you can enter the Christian and Armenian quarters of the Old Part,. This is perhaps the busiest gate in the city, as a huge flow of vehicles and pedestrians passes through it every day. Jaffa Gate is one of the versions of our site.
Passage through the Jaffa Gate occurs through a large opening in the wall. And, by the way, this is the only gate in the city that faces west. They were built in the 16th century by order of the most influential Ottoman ruler, Suleiman I. At that time, they were called the David Gate. The breach in the wall appeared much later, during the visit of the German Kaiser at the end of the 19th century. It is through this gap that the old part of the city is connected to the new one.
Today, many tourists visiting Jerusalem want to visit this attraction, as it is surrounded by many memorable places. For example, crossing the square outside the Jaffa Gate, you can get to the Christian Quarter, where there are about 40 shrines. Also, next to the gate is the famous Tower of David.
Finding the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem is not difficult, since Jaffa Street is one of the central streets of the city. After walking along it at a leisurely pace for 10-15 minutes, you can find yourself straight to the gate. Just behind them there is an information center where you can find out about tours of the city's historical sites.
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Construction
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The gates were built in 1538 by order of the ruler of the Ottoman Empire, Suleiman the Magnificent, on the site of gates from an earlier period. During the Crusader era, the gate was called the Gate of David, named after the nearby citadel (Tower of David). Located in the western part of the Old City at the most important intersection of the western road leading to the port of Jaffa and the southern road leading to and. These two roads are the central arteries of Jerusalem to this day.
Break in the wall
When Kaiser Wilhelm II visited Jerusalem in 1898, the Ottoman authorities decided to destroy part of the fortress wall at the Jaffa Gate and fill up part of the moat at the Tower of David so that the emperor could freely enter the city in his carriage. Through this gap, automobile communication is carried out between the old and new cities to this day.
Clock tower
In 1907, a thirteen-meter clock tower was built above the gate in honor of the 32nd anniversary of the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The tower did not stand for long and was dismantled in 1922.
British Mandate
In 1917, British General Edmund Allenby entered the Old City through the Jaffa Gate on foot as a sign of respect for the city and to avoid comparison with the Kaiser, who visited Jerusalem in 1898.
Gate between 1948-1967
Following the ceasefire between and after the First Arab-Israeli War of 1947-1949, the Jaffa Gate was in no man's land and was closed until 1967.
Square
A small square outside the Jaffa Gate separates the Christian and Armenian quarters. On the right side of the square is the Tower of David (now the Museum of the History of Jerusalem). Immediately behind the gate on the left you can see burials, according to legend, belonging to the builders of the wall, who were executed by order of Sultan Suleiman for not walling Mount Zion.
Currently
After the unification of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War in 1967, the gates opened again. Currently, there is an underground parking lot near the Jaffa Gate for tourists visiting the Old City, as well as the Mamila shopping center.
The Zion Gate is one of eight gates in the fortress wall around the Old City. The gate is located on the southern part of the wall and serves as the entrance to the Armenian Quarter. They were built later than all the other gates in 1540 under the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
The Zion Gate got its name from the fact that its exit leads to Mount Zion, although in ancient times another mountain was called Zion. The Arabs call the gate “Bab An-Nabi Daud”, which translated means “Gate of the Prophet David”, since not far from it there is a tomb where, according to legend, King David is buried.
Ancient decorations belonging to the Mameluke and Turkish periods have been preserved on the gate.
Jaffa Gate
Jaffa Gate is the main gate of the Armenian and Christian Quarters of the old part of Jerusalem, the only gate facing west, towards the Mediterranean Sea. They were built on the site of the previous ones by order of Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire, in 1538.
Jaffa Gate is located at the most important crossroads of two central Jerusalem arteries: the western road, which leads to the port of Jaffa, and the southern road, which leads to Hebron and Bethlehem. In a small square located behind the Jaffa Gate and dividing the Armenian and Christian quarters, on the right is the Tower of David - today it is the Museum of the History of Jerusalem, and on the left are the burial places, according to legend, belonging to the builders of the wall, executed by Sultan Suleiman for the fact that Mount Zion was not them surrounded by a fortress wall.
Today, the Jaffa Gate houses an underground parking lot for visitors to the Old City, a post office, the Mamila shopping center, and a Christian Information Center.
St. Stephen's Gate
The Gate of St. Stephen is known by several names: the Lion Gate, the Gate of Gethsemane, the Gate of the Blessed Virgin, the Sheep Gate, the Gate of Jehoshaphat, the Gate of the Tribes. Saint Stephen was the first Christian martyr mentioned in the New Testament. He was stoned for preaching the Good News in Jerusalem around 33-36 after the Nativity of Christ. According to Christian tradition, he died as a martyr outside the city wall at the Lion Gate.
The Lion Gate was built in 1538-39 during the reign of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The gate is the entrance to the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, from where the Way of the Cross of the Passion of Jesus Christ begins along Via Dolorosa.
Damascus Gate
The Lady's Gate is also called the Shkhe'm Gate and is one of the most beautiful in all of Jerusalem. This is the northern gate of the Old City, from where you can enter the Muslim Quarter and the nearby Arab market. The stone gate consists of two large loophole towers, the top of which is made of crenellations.
The gate was built by the Ottoman Sultan in 1542 on the site of an ancient Roman triumphal gate that had existed here since the second century. Behind the gates began the road to the cities of Nablus and Damascus, from which their name came. In modern times, the Damascus Gate has been restored.
St. Stephen's Gate (Lion's Gate)
The Gate of St. Stephen is named after the Christian first martyr, according to legend, stoned to death near it. This is not the only name. The second name of the gate - Lion Gate - is given by the bas-reliefs depicting a lion. The lion was the symbol of the Mamluk Sultan Baybars (1260) and was used as a coat of arms by Suleiman II. Legend has it that these were lions that threatened to eat Sulatan Selim I, the father of Suleiman and the first Ottoman Sultan, if he destroyed Jerusalem. Suleiman gave them the name Bab al-Ghor (Gate of the Valley). The Crusaders called their gate the Gate of Jehoshaphat.
These days, on the eastern side of the Old Town, this is the only open gate. From here the path along Via Dolorosa begins. They are the easiest way to get to the Mount of Olives from the city.
Jaffa Gate
The Yaffa Gate is one of the busiest gates of the Old City in Jerusalem; city traffic flows pass next to it. The gate was built in 1538 under Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire.
The Jaffa Gate faces west and is where the ancient route to the Mediterranean port of Jaffa began. The gate also serves as the main entrance to the Christian and Armenian quarters.
To the right of the gate, part of the wall is missing; it was dismantled at the end of the 19th century to make way for the carriage of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany. This gap in the city wall still provides road traffic between the Old Town and the new.
Damascus Gate
The Damascus Gate faces the north of the city, and the road to Nablus and Damascus begins from there. The gate we see now stands on the site of an earlier building from the Roman period. The Roman gate consisted of three arches, the eastern one still standing.
Currently, the Damascus Gate consists of two towers, on each of which you can see hinged loopholes. They are the central entrance to the Muslim quarter and the entrance to the Arab market.
Recently, this landmark has been intensively restored, especially its part, the so-called “crown” - an ornament at the top of the gate, which was destroyed during the Six-Day War between some Arab states and Israel in 1967. He was reconstructed from photographs.
Golden Gate
According to Christian tradition, Jesus Christ entered Jerusalem through the Golden Gate, facing the Mount of Olives and Bethany.
The Golden Gate, the oldest gate of the Old City, is located between the Lion Gate and the Hulda Gate in one of the towers of the eastern wall. Currently they are blocked with stone, but the arches marking the entrance are clearly visible on the wall.
The Golden Gate consisted of two entrances, called the “gate of repentance” and the “gate of mercy.” The gate was built by the Romans after the destruction of Jerusalem during the first Roman-Jewish War.
During the Byzantine Empire, the gates were opened and the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius entered through them after defeating the Persians. After the capture of Jerusalem by the Turks, Suleiman the Magnificent in 1541 ordered the Golden Gate to be sealed tightly to prevent the entry of the Messiah.
One way or another, the gates are closed until today. They are best seen from the outside.
Garbage gate
The Garbage Gate is also called the Dung Gate and is located on the south side of the Old City in Jerusalem. The Garbage Gate is the smallest among the other gates of the Old City. However, the main entrance to the Jewish Quarter and the main path to the Western Wall are laid through them. This gate is mentioned in the Bible in the book of Nehemiah. Presumably, the gate received such an obscene name for a city structure due to the fact that through it garbage was removed from the Jerusalem Temple to the Hinnom Valley.
The dung gate was built under the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The Arabs call it the Moorish Gate because of its proximity to the quarter where immigrants from North Africa settled.
New Gate of Jerusalem
Hamida or New Gate is located at an altitude of almost 800 meters above sea level in the wall of the Old City, being the highest point of the fortification. The construction of the gate was carried out at the end of the 19th century on the orders of the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid II, which explains its name. The reason for the construction was the visit of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, but then they were not useful - he used the Jaffa Gate.
Christian pilgrims to the Jerusalem Church of the Resurrection of Christ walked through the Jaffa Gate, and their flow was significant. The construction of the New Gate made it possible to remove the load from them and simplify the path to the shrine from new areas of the city, the Notre Dame De France monastery and the Russian Compound.
During the War of Independence, during which East Jerusalem became Jordanian territory, the New Gate fell on the line dividing Israel and Jordan and was closed. They were reopened only in 1967, when Israel liberated these territories during a week-long war.
Sights of Jerusalem
; and also the only ones located at right angles to the wall. This arrangement may have been chosen as a defensive measure to slow down the advance of attackers; or to orient the gate towards the Jaffa Road, along which pilgrims arrived at the end of their journey from the port of Jaffa.
Like the stones used in the construction of all other parts of the walls of the Old City, the stones of the Jaffa Gate are large sand-colored hewn blocks. The height of the entrance is about 6 meters, and the wall rises another 6 meters above it.
Titles
Both the Jaffa Gate and the Jaffa Road are named after the port of Jaffa on the Mediterranean coast, from which the prophet Jonah set out on his sea voyage and where pilgrims disembarked on their way to the Holy City. The modern Highway No. 1, starting from the western end of the Jaffa Road, is the end of the same route to Tel Aviv-Jaffa.
Arabic name for the gate Bab el-Khalil(Friend's Gate), refers to Abraham, God's favorite, buried in Hebron. Since Abraham lived in Hebron, another name for the Jaffa Gate is “Hebron Gate.” Arabs also call this gate Bab Mihrab Daoud(Gate of David's Prayer Niche) as King David is considered a prophet in Islam. The Crusaders, who rebuilt the citadel nearby (south) of Jaffa Gate, also built a gate behind the current location of Jaffa Gate, calling it "David's Gate" after the Tower of David.
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Ottoman period
Construction
They were inaugurated in 1538 on the site of an earlier gate, as part of a project to restore the walls of the Old City by order of the Ottoman ruler Suleiman the Magnificent.
Just inside the gate, behind the iron bars on the left, there are two graves. It is believed that these are the graves of two architects to whom Suleiman commissioned the construction of the walls of the Old City. According to legend, when Suleiman saw that the architects had left Mount Zion and the tomb of King David outside the walled area, he ordered them killed. However, out of respect for their impressive achievements, he buried them inside the walls next to the Jaffa Gate.
Break in the wall
To the right of the old gate, which is used only by pedestrians, close to it there is a gap in the wall through which the road passes. It was cut through in 1898 when Kaiser Wilhelm II insisted on riding into the city on his white horse. Local legend says that Jerusalem will be ruled by a king who will ride into the city gates on a white horse; Therefore, in order to satisfy the Kaiser's vanity, but to avoid the fate predicted in the legend, the Ottoman authorities preferred to destroy part of the fortress wall and fill up part of the moat at the Tower of David, rather than allow the Kaiser to enter the gate. The emperor decided that he proceeded through the Jaffa Gate. Through this gap, road communication between the old and new towns continues to this day. (According to another version, the “Hole in the Wall” was made so that the Kaiser would not have to dismantle his carriage in order to enter the city.)
Clock tower
Panoramic view of the modern gate square. Note the gap in the wall, now used for vehicle access to the Old Town
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- Do you hear? - he said.Petya recognized the sounds of Russian voices and saw the dark figures of Russian prisoners near the fires. Going down to the bridge, Petya and Dolokhov passed the sentry, who, without saying a word, walked gloomily along the bridge, and drove out into the ravine where the Cossacks were waiting.
- Well, goodbye now. Tell Denisov that at dawn, at the first shot,” said Dolokhov and wanted to go, but Petya grabbed him with his hand.
- No! - he cried, - you are such a hero. Oh, how good! How great! How I love you.
“Okay, okay,” said Dolokhov, but Petya did not let him go, and in the darkness Dolokhov saw that Petya was bending down towards him. He wanted to kiss. Dolokhov kissed him, laughed and, turning his horse, disappeared into the darkness.
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Returning to the guardhouse, Petya found Denisov in the entryway. Denisov, in excitement, anxiety and annoyance at himself for letting Petya go, was waiting for him.
- God bless! - he shouted. - Well, thank God! - he repeated, listening to Petya’s enthusiastic story. “What the hell, I couldn’t sleep because of you!” Denisov said. “Well, thank God, now go to bed.” Still sighing and eating until the end.
“Yes... No,” said Petya. – I don’t want to sleep yet. Yes, I know myself, if I fall asleep, it’s over. And then I got used to not sleeping before the battle.
Petya sat for some time in the hut, joyfully recalling the details of his trip and vividly imagining what would happen tomorrow. Then, noticing that Denisov had fallen asleep, he got up and went into the yard.
It was still completely dark outside. The rain had passed, but drops were still falling from the trees. Close to the guardhouse one could see black figures of Cossack huts and horses tied together. Behind the hut were two black wagons with horses standing, and in the ravine the dying fire was red. The Cossacks and hussars were not all asleep: in some places, along with the sound of falling drops and the nearby sound of horses chewing, soft, as if whispering voices were heard.
Petya came out of the entryway, looked around in the darkness and approached the wagons. Someone was snoring under the wagons, and saddled horses stood around them, chewing oats. In the darkness, Petya recognized his horse, which he called Karabakh, although it was a Little Russian horse, and approached it.
“Well, Karabakh, we’ll serve tomorrow,” he said, smelling her nostrils and kissing her.
- What, master, aren’t you sleeping? - said the Cossack sitting under the truck.
- No; and... Likhachev, I think your name is? After all, I just arrived. We went to the French. - And Petya told the Cossack in detail not only his trip, but also why he went and why he believes that it is better to risk his life than to make Lazar at random.
“Well, they should have slept,” said the Cossack.
“No, I’m used to it,” answered Petya. - What, you don’t have flints in your pistols? I brought it with me. Isn't it necessary? You take it.
The Cossack leaned out from under the truck to take a closer look at Petya.
“Because I’m used to doing everything carefully,” said Petya. “Some people just don’t get ready, and then they regret it.” I don't like it that way.
“That’s for sure,” said the Cossack.
“And one more thing, please, my dear, sharpen my saber; dull it... (but Petya was afraid to lie) it was never sharpened. Can this be done?
- Why, it’s possible.
Likhachev stood up, rummaged through his packs, and Petya soon heard the warlike sound of steel on a block. He climbed onto the truck and sat on the edge of it. The Cossack was sharpening his saber under the truck.
- Well, are the fellows sleeping? - said Petya.
- Some are sleeping, and some are like this.
- Well, what about the boy?
- Is it spring? He collapsed there in the entryway. He sleeps with fear. I was really glad.
For a long time after this, Petya was silent, listening to the sounds. Footsteps were heard in the darkness and a black figure appeared.
- What are you sharpening? – the man asked, approaching the truck.
- But sharpen the master’s saber.
“Good job,” said the man who seemed to Petya to be a hussar. - Do you still have a cup?
- And over there by the wheel.
The hussar took the cup.
“It’ll probably be light soon,” he said, yawning, and walked off somewhere.
Petya should have known that he was in the forest, in Denisov’s party, a mile from the road, that he was sitting on a wagon captured from the French, around which the horses were tied, that the Cossack Likhachev was sitting under him and sharpening his saber, that there was a big black spot to the right is a guardhouse, and a bright red spot below to the left is a dying fire, that the man who came for a cup is a hussar who was thirsty; but he knew nothing and did not want to know it. He was in a magical kingdom in which there was nothing like reality. A large black spot, perhaps there was definitely a guardhouse, or perhaps there was a cave that led into the very depths of the earth. The red spot might have been fire, or maybe the eye of a huge monster. Maybe he’s definitely sitting on a wagon now, but it’s very possible that he’s not sitting on a wagon, but on a terribly high tower, from which if he fell, he’d fly to the ground for a whole day, a whole month - keep flying and never reach it . It may be that just a Cossack Likhachev is sitting under the truck, but it may very well be that this is the kindest, bravest, most wonderful, most excellent person in the world, whom no one knows. Maybe it was just a hussar passing for water and going into the ravine, or maybe he just disappeared from sight and completely disappeared, and he was not there.
Whatever Petya saw now, nothing would surprise him. He was in a magical kingdom where everything was possible.
He looked at the sky. And the sky was as magical as the earth. The sky was clearing, and clouds were moving quickly over the tops of the trees, as if revealing the stars. Sometimes it seemed that the sky cleared and a black, clear sky appeared. Sometimes it seemed that these black spots were clouds. Sometimes it seemed as if the sky was rising high, high above your head; sometimes the sky dropped completely, so that you could reach it with your hand.
Petya began to close his eyes and sway.
Drops were dripping. There was a quiet conversation. The horses neighed and fought. Someone was snoring.
“Ozhig, zhig, zhig, zhig...” the saber being sharpened whistled. And suddenly Petya heard a harmonious choir of music playing some unknown, solemnly sweet hymn. Petya was musical, just like Natasha, and more than Nikolai, but he had never studied music, did not think about music, and therefore the motives that unexpectedly came to his mind were especially new and attractive to him. The music played louder and louder. The melody grew, moving from one instrument to another. What was called a fugue was happening, although Petya did not have the slightest idea what a fugue was. Each instrument, sometimes similar to a violin, sometimes like trumpets - but better and cleaner than violins and trumpets - each instrument played its own and, not yet finishing the tune, merged with another, which started almost the same, and with the third, and with the fourth , and they all merged into one and scattered again, and again merged, now into the solemn church, now into the brightly brilliant and victorious.
“Oh, yes, it’s me in a dream,” Petya said to himself, swaying forward. - It's in my ears. Or maybe it's my music. Well, again. Go ahead my music! Well!.."
He closed his eyes. And from different sides, as if from afar, sounds began to tremble, began to harmonize, scatter, merge, and again everything united into the same sweet and solemn hymn. “Oh, what a delight this is! As much as I want and how I want,” Petya said to himself. He tried to lead this huge choir of instruments.
“Well, hush, hush, freeze now. – And the sounds obeyed him. - Well, now it’s fuller, more fun. More, even more joyful. – And from an unknown depth arose intensifying, solemn sounds. “Well, voices, pester!” - Petya ordered. And first, male voices were heard from afar, then female voices. The voices grew, grew in uniform, solemn effort. Petya was scared and joyful to listen to their extraordinary beauty.
The song merged with the solemn victory march, and drops fell, and burn, burn, burn... the saber whistled, and again the horses fought and neighed, not breaking the choir, but entering into it.
Petya didn’t know how long this lasted: he enjoyed himself, was constantly surprised by his pleasure and regretted that there was no one to tell it to. He was awakened by Likhachev's gentle voice.
- Ready, your honor, you will split the guard in two.
Petya woke up.
- It’s already dawn, really, it’s dawning! - he screamed.
The previously invisible horses became visible up to their tails, and a watery light was visible through the bare branches. Petya shook himself, jumped up, took a ruble from his pocket and gave it to Likhachev, waved, tried the saber and put it in the sheath. The Cossacks untied the horses and tightened the girths.
“Here is the commander,” said Likhachev. Denisov came out of the guardhouse and, calling out to Petya, ordered them to get ready.
Quickly in the semi-darkness they dismantled the horses, tightened the girths and sorted out the teams. Denisov stood at the guardhouse, giving the last orders. The party's infantry, slapping a hundred feet, marched forward along the road and quickly disappeared between the trees in the predawn fog. Esaul ordered something to the Cossacks. Petya held his horse on the reins, impatiently awaiting the order to mount. Washed with cold water, his face, especially his eyes, burned with fire, a chill ran down his back, and something in his whole body trembled quickly and evenly.
- Well, is everything ready for you? - Denisov said. - Give us the horses.
The horses were brought in. Denisov became angry with the Cossack because the girths were weak, and, scolding him, sat down. Petya took hold of the stirrup. The horse, out of habit, wanted to bite his leg, but Petya, not feeling his weight, quickly jumped into the saddle and, looking back at the hussars who were moving behind in the darkness, rode up to Denisov.
- Vasily Fedorovich, will you entrust me with something? Please... for God's sake... - he said. Denisov seemed to have forgotten about Petya’s existence. He looked back at him.
“I ask you about one thing,” he said sternly, “to obey me and not to interfere anywhere.”
During the entire journey, Denisov did not speak a word to Petya and rode in silence. When we arrived at the edge of the forest, the field was noticeably getting lighter. Denisov spoke in a whisper with the esaul, and the Cossacks began to drive past Petya and Denisov. When they had all passed, Denisov started his horse and rode downhill. Sitting on their hindquarters and sliding, the horses descended with their riders into the ravine. Petya rode next to Denisov. The trembling throughout his body intensified. It became lighter and lighter, only the fog hid distant objects. Moving down and looking back, Denisov nodded his head to the Cossack standing next to him.
- Signal! - he said.
The Cossack raised his hand and a shot rang out. And at the same instant, the tramp of galloping horses was heard in front, screams from different sides and more shots.
At the same instant as the first sounds of stomping and screaming were heard, Petya, hitting his horse and releasing the reins, not listening to Denisov, who was shouting at him, galloped forward. It seemed to Petya that it suddenly dawned as brightly as the middle of the day at that moment when the shot was heard. He galloped towards the bridge. Cossacks galloped along the road ahead. On the bridge he encountered a lagging Cossack and rode on. Some people ahead - they must have been French - were running from the right side of the road to the left. One fell into the mud under the feet of Petya's horse.
Cossacks crowded around one hut, doing something. A terrible scream was heard from the middle of the crowd. Petya galloped up to this crowd, and the first thing he saw was the pale face of a Frenchman with a shaking lower jaw, holding onto the shaft of a lance pointed at him.
“Hurray!.. Guys... ours...” Petya shouted and, giving the reins to the overheated horse, galloped forward down the street.
Shots were heard ahead. Cossacks, hussars and ragged Russian prisoners, running from both sides of the road, were all shouting something loudly and awkwardly. A handsome Frenchman, without a hat, with a red, frowning face, in a blue overcoat, fought off the hussars with a bayonet. When Petya galloped up, the Frenchman had already fallen. I was late again, Petya flashed in his head, and he galloped to where frequent shots were heard. Shots rang out in the courtyard of the manor house where he was with Dolokhov last night. The French sat down there behind a fence in a dense garden overgrown with bushes and fired at the Cossacks crowded at the gate. Approaching the gate, Petya, in the powder smoke, saw Dolokhov with a pale, greenish face, shouting something to the people. “Take a detour! Wait for the infantry!” - he shouted, while Petya drove up to him.
“Wait?.. Hurray!..” Petya shouted and, without hesitating a single minute, galloped to the place from where the shots were heard and where the powder smoke was thicker. A volley was heard, empty bullets squealed and hit something. The Cossacks and Dolokhov galloped after Petya through the gates of the house. The French, in the swaying thick smoke, some threw down their weapons and ran out of the bushes to meet the Cossacks, others ran downhill to the pond. Petya galloped on his horse along the manor's yard and, instead of holding the reins, strangely and quickly waved both arms and fell further and further out of the saddle to one side. The horse, running into the fire smoldering in the morning light, rested, and Petya fell heavily onto the wet ground. The Cossacks saw how quickly his arms and legs twitched, despite the fact that his head did not move. The bullet pierced his head.
After talking with the senior French officer, who came out to him from behind the house with a scarf on his sword and announced that they were surrendering, Dolokhov got off his horse and approached Petya, who was lying motionless, with his arms outstretched.
“Ready,” he said, frowning, and went through the gate to meet Denisov, who was coming towards him.
- Killed?! - Denisov cried out, seeing from afar the familiar, undoubtedly lifeless position in which Petya’s body lay.
“Ready,” Dolokhov repeated, as if pronouncing this word gave him pleasure, and quickly went to the prisoners, who were surrounded by dismounted Cossacks. - We won’t take it! – he shouted to Denisov.
Denisov did not answer; he rode up to Petya, got off his horse and with trembling hands turned Petya’s already pale face, stained with blood and dirt, towards him.
“I’m used to something sweet. Excellent raisins, take them all,” he remembered. And the Cossacks looked back in surprise at the sounds similar to the barking of a dog, with which Denisov quickly turned away, walked up to the fence and grabbed it.
Among the Russian prisoners recaptured by Denisov and Dolokhov was Pierre Bezukhov.
There was no new order from the French authorities about the party of prisoners in which Pierre was, during his entire movement from Moscow. This party on October 22 was no longer with the same troops and convoys with which it left Moscow. Half of the convoy with breadcrumbs, which followed them during the first marches, was repulsed by the Cossacks, the other half went ahead; there were no more foot cavalrymen who walked in front; they all disappeared. The artillery, which had been visible ahead during the first marches, was now replaced by a huge convoy of Marshal Junot, escorted by the Westphalians. Behind the prisoners was a convoy of cavalry equipment.
Jaffa Gate - Jaffa Gate. Behind the scenes this is like the main gate Old Town. Legend has it that the last conqueror Jerusalem will enter the city through Jaffa Gate(in Hebrew - Sha'ar Jaffa)... "Zero kilometer", the zero point of all roads Israel is located on an area of about Jaffa Gate. They were built in 1538 by order of the ruler of the Ottoman Empire Suleiman the Magnificent on the site of the old, old gate. If you want to live close to Jaffa Gate, Tower of David and Jerusalem History Museum- you can book and find a hotel.
With the name, everything is simple - the exit from the gate leads in the direction of the port city of Jaffa. But in the era of the Crusaders, the gate was called the Gate of David, named after the nearby citadel (Tower of David). Also sometimes called Hamid Gate, after the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid II. In general, the walls of the Old City were erected by order of Suleiman and absorbed the entire city territory, except for Mount Zion. For this oversight, Suleiman executed the builders of the wall (two architects) - and these tombstones are located immediately outside the gate, on the left. The gate was narrow, but it was expanded in 1898 in connection with the arrival of German Emperor Wilhelm II and his wife Augusta Victoria (by the way, descendants of the Crusaders). They wanted to enter the city on horseback, in carriages with their retinue. To satisfy this whim, a fragment of the wall was dismantled and the ditch was filled in. This is how a breach appeared in the city wall near the Jaffa Gate. The hole was no longer closed - cars now drive through it. Currently, there is an underground parking lot near the Jaffa Gate for tourists visiting the Old City, as well as the Mamila shopping center, a post office, a tourist information office, a Christian information center and the entrance to the Tower of David. There is also a taxi rank at the gate. Also called Hamid Gate, after the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid II. After the Old City was occupied by Jordan following the 1948 war, the gates were closed. In 1967, after the Six Day War, it was reopened. After William and his wife, in 1917, the British General Allenby passed through the Jaffa Gate after the victory over the Turks. In 2000 - Pope John Paul II during his peace visit to Jerusalem. There will be an opportunity - go too...
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