Dear K.O., you are asking how many ponds do we, the Moscovites, have in a place called “Patriarchal ponds”?! to

Yes, you were lucky to see only one square-shaped pond (thanks to the improvement of the 1950s). I am pleased to explain your confusion, arising in connection with the inconsistency of this fact with the use in the title of the "Patriarchal ponds" of the form of the multiple number.

The whole thing is that in the 17th century in the patriarch's estate on the Kozy Bled there were three ponds - two on the Bubna river and one on its annex (this river belongs to the basin of the Presny river). Only one of the ponds - the source of the river Bubna - has reached the present time, you have seen it, and two others together with rivers were filled in the first half of the 19th century, and in their place is now the Triple Streets. This is why "square"

I am very pleased that you are so interested in the history of our city. Write more!