Walking Garden Ring from Ruzheynyy lane to Novy Arbat | Прогулки по Садовому кольцу до Нового Арбата

Soon after the raid on Moscow, the hordes of the Crimean Khan Kazy-Girey in 1591-1592. by order of Boris Godunov, an earthen rampart was flooded around Moscow, which was a closed ring about 16 km long. At its top, an oak wall up to 5 m high was erected with 34 exit towers and about a hundred blind towers. Outside, along the rampart, a moat was dug, flooded with water. The shaft, built surprisingly quickly, in just a year, was named Skorod by Muscovites. This was the name of a part of the city, also known as Derevyanny, and later - Zemlyanoy Gorod - the area between the shaft and the White City, as well as the Moskva River. The earthen city was inhabited by artisans, peasants and small traders, and in Zamoskvorechye lived mainly archers, therefore it was often called the Streletskaya Sloboda. During the Time of Troubles (1598-1613) wooden walls and towers burned down. The rampart itself survived and was soon flooded, and a “prison“ was built on top of it - a palisade of thick logs directed upw