Naming
In 19th century this street was named Lavalev Street (у́лица Лава́лева), then Zadny Lane (За́дний переу́лок), Glukhoy Lane (Глухо́й переу́лок), and finally Vyazemsky Lane, after the landowners, the Vyazemskys family. It was renamed Belgorodskaya Street (Белгоро́дская у́лица) on December 15, 1952, but a year later, on January 4, 1954, the original name was restored.
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Famous quotes containing the word naming:
“See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul—half a drop! ah, my Christ!—
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!—
Yet will I call on him!—O, spare me, Lucifer!—
Where is it now? ‘T is gone; and see where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!—
Mountains and hills, come, come and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Husband,
who am I to reject the naming of foods
in a time of famine?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)