Voznesensky Lane

Voznesensky Lane (Russian: Вознесенский переулок) (first known name - Novgorodsky, and then from the end of the 16th to the end of the 18th century - the Ascension, the end of the 18th century to 1922 - Bolshoy Chernyshyovsky,[1] 1922-1993 - Stankevich, 1994 on, once again Voznesensky) is a lane in Arbat and Prenya districts of the Central Administrative District of the Federal City of Moscow.

Numbering of houses begins from Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street.

Wooden Church of the Assumption in this place known since the beginning of the 16th century, stone built in 1584, the Tsar Feodor I in memory of his coronation, and since then two centuries called Voznesensky Pereulok.

In 1782 he was appointed governor of the Moscow Count Zakhar Chernyshyov, a famous military leader who lived on his estate in Tver.

Since the end of the 18th century Voznesensky Pereulok, at the corner of Tverskaya street which was a governor-general's palace, came to be called the Big Chernyshёvskim.