Майский просек в Сокольниках

 Russian Federation > Moscow > Sokolniki District

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"May the glades" "From the time of the son of Alexei Mikhailovich of Emperor Peter the Great in Sokolniki were settled captive Swedes, who according to the European custom of celebrating May 1st day of Holy Walpurgis -. Walpurgis Night custom is only in his own way, as the summer meeting, began to celebrate and Muscovites. For the festivities the emperor hacked in Sokolniki grove glades (in the park, they are referred to in the masculine), named Maisky. Until 1917, May 1, the townspeople came to the park by families and organized tea parties and sports games. Along with a peaceful public began to gather and revolutionaries. So in the XX century and become Mayday from the date of the meeting of the summer in the revolutionary days, and already no one remembers the Walpurgis night. May glade is the oldest in the park and the most famous. it leads to the main entrance towards the Deer groves and ponds, and in the direction of the Transfiguration and the Yauza river. "