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Town Hall

City government body. In St. Petersburg it existed in 1710-21 headed by an inspector and in 1727-43 instead of the City Magistrate. It consisted of a burgomaster and two burgomasters, who were chosen for a year from the wealthiest merchants. She was in charge of the court for the commercial and industrial population, the collection of duties, and registered all the “merchants,” “craftsmen,” and “industrial” people who came to or left St. Petersburg; controlled the correctness of weights and measures, the good quality of products, and set prices for them together with the police. R. was in charge of city transportation (until 1715) and water within the boundaries of St. Petersburg. R. depended on the government administration. Replaced by the restored City Magistrate.

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- in Russia - 1) Center. institution in Moscow for city management. population - merchants and artisans, called. so from 7 Feb. 1699. The R. consisted of a president and 12 mayors and was elected by merchants...
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From book Everyday life in the era Louis XIII author Man Emil

III. Town Hall – day after day. The formation of the bourgeoisie. City militia Administrative power in the capital was exercised by the Town Hall, located in the very center, one might say, in the heart of Paris - on Place de Greve. A majestic structure, partially rebuilt,

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Stockholm City Hall: *Stadshuset

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Old Town Hall

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Every European city has a town square and a town hall. Moscow is no exception. The most familiar concept to us, which is an analogue of the town hall, is the city council.

The town hall was first established in Moscow by Peter I in 1699. In 1728, town halls were established in other cities Russian Empire, and since 1785 they began to be called city councils. Not only city but also court cases were conducted there.
During the reign of Paul I, the original name was restored, although later (since 1870) the city duma and the city government again began to act as bodies of city self-government.
The historical building of the Moscow City Hall (City Duma) is well known to everyone. It was built in 1890-92 in pseudo-Russian style. The architect’s task was to create a project that would stylistically echo the neighboring building - Historical Museum, which opened shortly before in 1883.

Now there is such a rural installation near the Moscow City Hall building

From 1936 to 1993, the Lenin Museum was located in the town hall building.
In St. Petersburg, the town hall was approved by Peter I later than in Moscow - in the 1710s.
Everyone also saw the building of the St. Petersburg City Hall (Duma) on the corner of Nevsky and Dumskaya streets. Its tower is typical of European town halls. Such towers were erected as signal towers in case of fire.

Here, for example, is the tower of the Town Hall in Brussels

Minsk City Hall - administrative building in the central part Minsk, on High Market, built in 1600. There was a clock on the town hall tower, which was of great value for that time.

In the park adjacent to the town hall, there once stood monument to Alexander II, installed in January (dismantled after the revolution).

Results of archaeological excavations

During archaeological excavations In the last third of the 20th century, the foundation, part of the walls, and the pedestal from the portico of the main facade were discovered, which reliably revealed the location of the town hall and its natural dimensions. Finds from the cultural layer included tiles, fragments of dishes, and tiles. Musket balls and several stone and iron cannonballs were found: this can be explained by the fact that a court sat in the town hall building, which tried civil and criminal cases. A fragment of the floor, lined with cobblestones, gives reason to believe that it was there that the guardhouse was located. Fragments of a 17th-century stove decorated with tiles with floral patterns were found. It was established that the walls of the building were erected on empty space, using the mixed masonry technique. The windows were glazed with green round glass and inserted into metal frames; the roof was covered with flat tiles, later replaced with wavy tiles.

Architecture

Building restoration

The idea of restoring the town hall appeared in 1980. The project for the restoration of historical and cultural value is based on scientific research: on the study of authentic drawings, drawings, documents found in the archives of Vilnius, Warsaw, St. Petersburg, Moscow. The results of archaeological excavations in 1978 and 1988 significantly supplemented the information about the destroyed architectural monument.

In 2002, work began on the restoration of the architectural monument at a site determined by archaeological excavations. The work was carried out by Construction Trust No. 1 and JSC Stary Mensk, architect Sergei Baglasov; Belarusian materials were used during the work. The internal layout of the monument was not completely copied, but during the restoration process they tried to preserve its most valuable elements. The thickness of the walls, like the previous building, is half a meter.

The building was put into operation at the end of 2003. In February 2004 the town hall was opened to visitors and November 4 2004 its grand opening took place.

Modern Minsk City Hall

Today on the ground floor of the building there are exhibition halls for museum exposition Minsk. A model is installed in the large exhibition hall historical center Minsk early XIX V. under a glass dome. On the second floor of the town hall, where the magistrate once sat, there is a hall for receiving honored guests and meetings. The square adjacent to the building was also reconstructed: it acquired the appearance it had at the beginning of the 20th century, with the exception of the missing monument to Alexander II, which was demolished during the revolution. The square is intersected by two oval alleys, along which pyramidal poplars are planted; along its perimeter there are cast iron lanterns, benches in a “retro” style, cast iron lanterns, and there are pedestrian paths.

The tower with a weather vane, 32 meters high, has a clock and the city's coat of arms. Every hour the chimes strike a fragment of the melody (19 seconds of chorus) from the composer’s “Song about Minsk” Igor Luchenko.

Various events in the life of the capital take place here. City Days open at the town hall, and at the festival itself, musical groups perform at its walls and honorary guests of the capital are received.

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Main facade

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Back view

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Side view from the street

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Commemorative plaque at the town hall

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Town Hall from the Europa Hotel

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Theater performance in front of the town hall on City Day, 2010

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Kutuzov, like all old people, slept little at night. He often dozed off unexpectedly during the day; but at night he, without undressing, lying on his bed, for the most part I didn't sleep and thought.
So he lay now on his bed, leaning his heavy, large, disfigured head on his plump arm, and thought, with one eye open, peering into the darkness.
Since Bennigsen, who corresponded with the sovereign and had the most power in the headquarters, avoided him, Kutuzov was calmer in the sense that he and his troops would not be forced to again participate in useless offensive actions. The lesson of the Tarutino battle and its eve, painfully memorable for Kutuzov, should also have had an effect, he thought.
“They must understand that we can only lose by acting offensively. Patience and time, these are my heroes!” – thought Kutuzov. He knew not to pick an apple while it was green. It will fall on its own when it is ripe, but if you pick it green, you will spoil the apple and the tree, and you will set your teeth on edge. He, as an experienced hunter, knew that the animal was wounded, wounded as only the entire Russian force could wound, but whether it was fatal or not was a question that had not yet been clarified. Now, according to the dispatches of Lauriston and Berthelemy and according to the reports of the partisans, Kutuzov almost knew that he was mortally wounded. But more evidence was needed, we had to wait.
“They want to run and see how they killed him. Wait and see. All maneuvers, all attacks! - he thought. - For what? Everyone will excel. There's definitely something fun about fighting. They are like children from whom you can’t get any sense, as was the case, because everyone wants to prove how they can fight. That's not the point now.
And what skillful maneuvers all these offer me! It seems to them that when they invented two or three accidents (he remembered in general terms from St. Petersburg), they invented them all. And they all have no number!”
The unresolved question of whether the wound inflicted in Borodino was fatal or not fatal has already whole month hung over Kutuzov's head. On the one hand, the French occupied Moscow. On the other hand, undoubtedly with his whole being Kutuzov felt that that terrible blow, in which he, together with all the Russian people, strained all his strength, should have been fatal. But in any case, proof was needed, and he had been waiting for it for a month, and the more time passed, the more impatient he became. Lying on your bed in your sleepless nights, he did the same thing that these young generals did, the very thing for which he reproached them. He came up with all possible contingencies in which this certain, already accomplished death of Napoleon would be expressed. He came up with these contingencies in the same way as young people, but with the only difference that he did not base anything on these assumptions and that he saw not two or three, but thousands. The further he thought, the more of them appeared. He came up with all kinds of movements of the Napoleonic army, all or parts of it - towards St. Petersburg, against it, bypassing it, he came up with (which he was most afraid of) and the chance that Napoleon would fight against him with his own weapons, that he would remain in Moscow , waiting for him. Kutuzov even dreamed up the movement of Napoleon’s army back to Medyn and Yukhnov, but one thing he could not foresee was what happened, that crazy, convulsive rushing of Napoleon’s army during the first eleven days of his speech from Moscow - the throwing that made it possible something that Kutuzov still did not dare to think about even then: the complete extermination of the French. Dorokhov's reports about Brusier's division, news from the partisans about the disasters of Napoleon's army, rumors about preparations for departure from Moscow - everything confirmed the assumption that french army broken and about to flee; but these were only assumptions that seemed important to young people, but not to Kutuzov. With his sixty years of experience, he knew what weight should be attributed to rumors, he knew how capable people who want something are of grouping all the news so that they seem to confirm what they want, and he knew how in this case they willingly miss everything that contradicts. And the more Kutuzov wanted this, the less he allowed himself to believe it. This question occupied him all mental strength. Everything else was for him just the usual fulfillment of life. Such a habitual fulfillment and subordination of life were his conversations with the staff, letters to m me Stael, which he wrote from Tarutin, reading novels, distributing awards, correspondence with St. Petersburg, etc. But the death of the French, foreseen by him alone, was his spiritual, the only wish.
On the night of October 11, he lay with his elbow on his hand and thought about it.
There was a stir in the next room, and the steps of Tolya, Konovnitsyn and Bolkhovitinov were heard.
- Hey, who's there? Come in, come in! What's new? – the field marshal called out to them.
While the footman lit the candle, Tol told the contents of the news.
- Who brought it? - asked Kutuzov with a face that struck Tolya, when the candle lit, with its cold severity.
“There can be no doubt, your lordship.”
- Call him, call him here!
Kutuzov sat with one leg hanging off the bed and his big belly leaning on the other, bent leg. He squinted his seeing eye to better examine the messenger, as if in his features he wanted to read what was occupying him.
“Tell me, tell me, my friend,” he said to Bolkhovitinov in his quiet, senile voice, covering the shirt that had opened on his chest. - Come, come closer. What news did you bring me? A? Has Napoleon left Moscow? Is it really so? A?
Bolkhovitinov first reported in detail everything that was ordered to him.
“Speak, speak quickly, don’t torment your soul,” Kutuzov interrupted him.
Bolkhovitinov told everything and fell silent, awaiting orders. Tol began to say something, but Kutuzov interrupted him. He wanted to say something, but suddenly his face squinted and wrinkled; He waved his hand at Tolya and turned in the opposite direction, towards the red corner of the hut, blackened by images.
- Lord, my creator! You heeded our prayer...” he said in a trembling voice, folding his hands. - Russia is saved. Thank you, Lord! - And he cried.

From the time of this news until the end of the campaign, all of Kutuzov’s activities consisted only in using power, cunning, and requests to keep his troops from useless offensives, maneuvers and clashes with the dying enemy. Dokhturov goes to Maloyaroslavets, but Kutuzov hesitates with the entire army and gives orders to cleanse Kaluga, retreat beyond which seems very possible to him.

There was a clock on the town hall tower, which was of great value for that time.

Minsk City Hall
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A country	Belarus
Location	Minsk
Architectural style	neoclassical architecture [d]
Date of foundation	And November 4
Date of abolition
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Minsk City Hall

In the park adjacent to the town hall, there once stood a monument to Alexander II, erected in January (dismantled after the revolution).

Results of archaeological excavations

During the archaeological excavations of the last third of the 20th century, the foundation, part of the walls, and the pedestal from the portico of the main facade were identified, which reliably revealed the location of the town hall and its natural dimensions. Finds from the cultural layer included tiles, fragments of dishes, and tiles. Musket balls and several stone and iron cannonballs were found: this can be explained by the fact that a court sat in the town hall building, which tried civil and criminal cases. A fragment of the floor, lined with cobblestones, gives reason to believe that it was there that the guardhouse was located. Fragments of a 17th-century stove decorated with tiles with floral patterns were found. It was established that the walls of the building were erected from scratch, using the mixed masonry technique. The windows were glazed with green round glass and inserted into metal frames; the roof was covered with flat tiles, later replaced with wavy tiles.