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Data
Status:	District
City:	Moscow
Area:	8,0 km²
Population:	109,993 (2002 Census)
Population density:	13,750 pers/km²
Postal code:	113000-119000

Tagansky District on map of Moscow

Taganksky District (Russian: Таганский район, Таганка), of Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia, is located east of Kitai-gorod. It takes its name from the former Taganskaya sloboda, where in the 16th century the copper-smiths lived. The modern center of this district is the Taganskaya Square, where the Taganka Theatre is located.

1 History
2 Modern history
3 Notable cultural and educational facilities
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

This section is based on P.V.Sytin's "History of Moscow Streets" (1948)

Present-day Solyanka, Taganskaya and Vorontsovskaya streets, the westbound road starting at Zaryadye, are a part of an old road to Kolomna and Ryazan that existed since thirteenth century. Different names of the same road are a legacy of historical growth, contained within concentric rings of city walls.

The name of the district goes back to Turkic tagan, an iron tripod uses to suspend cooking pots over open fire. Blacksmiths making this hardware for muscovite army settled in Taganskaya Sloboda in seventeenth century. In 1632, the settlement counted 93 households. A large settlement of craftsmen, counting 189 households, existed on Yauza bank. Even larger sloboda settlements were housing streltsy troops, but where disbanded after Streltsy Uprising of 1698. The vacant lots where taken over by traders, in particular Old Believers, who formed Rogozhskoye settlement and established Rogozhskoye Cemetery (1771) on the eastern edge of present-day district.

In 1762-1772, Karl Blank designed and built The Orphanage, which, expanding over time under the management of Giliardi family, took over all the territory between Zaryadye, Yauza and Solyanka street.

Higher social classes appreciated Taganka since 1790s, when Batashov family built a neoclassicist Batashov Palace (1798). In 1812, when French troops took over Moscow, the palace housed Joachim Murat's headquarters; this saved the palace from the fire that razed most of Moscow. Still, Batashov had to set aside 300,000 roubles to fix the damages. In 1876, the city purchased the palace from Golitsyn family for a hospital.