a friend designed the façade. famous architect osif bawe, very quickly the place for maneuvers began be used for horseback competitions, in the middle of the 19th century for exhibitions and concerts, at the end of the century a cyclists club was located in manege, leo tolstoy mastered the bicycle here. at the beginning of the 20th century, the building was given over to a government garage, then again as an exhibition hall. in 2004 , the arena burned down almost completely, but it was restored, and today it is again a museum and exhibition association. on december 12 , 1875, the russian scientist and military engineer pavel yablochkov made one of the main discoveries of the 19th century, he invented artificial lighting, the so-called electric the candle that illuminated the largest cities in europe and latin america was based on a new principle of an arc lamp using a simple reliable circuit, coal... walls with a porcelain insert that served as a conductor of electricity. newspapers all over the world wrote that russian light is a miracle of our time. yablochkov received the patent i