The Chertkov House
In the 16th century, there was a estate of the Volynskys at this location. By the end of the 17th century, it passed to the Kasimov princes, whose lineage ended around 1728. The property with stone chambers then went to …
Venediktov-Shnaubert-Monoszon Urban Estate
On the 18th-century plans along the banks of the Rachka River, now hidden in an underground collector, along the red line of Kolpachny Lane, named after the old settlement of cap makers, stone buildings were depicted. Th…
Church of Apostle Jacob in Kazennaya Sloboda
The wooden church at this site is first mentioned in 1625, although there are reasons to believe it existed earlier. At that time, there was the State Kazennaya Sloboda, which was responsible for storing the royal treasu…
Residential House of the Medyntsev Merchants
In the second half of the 19th century, residential buildings began to appear on Pokrovsky Boulevard, including house No. 8. This happened after a significant portion of the territory at the beginning of the boulevard wa…
Andronov Estate, Lepyokhin Clinic and Maternity Home
Lepyokhin Lane, previously known as a alley, connected Pokrovka Street with Kazarmenny Lane. In the late 18th century, part of it was built up, and it became a dead end, although it continued to be marked on maps as Alle…
Catholic Church of St. Louis
Between Malaya Lubyanka Street and Milyutinsky Lane stands a church that has remained active since its opening and is the oldest of the surviving Catholic churches in Moscow.
In the 18th century, the land on which the c…
The Bykovsky House
Once wooden structures stood on this site, and then a stone house appeared, belonging to the merchant's son Mikhail Ivanovich Prigodin. Before the 1812 war, the owner became Varvara Dmitrievna Poluektova. In the late 183…
Church of the Wisdom of God (Moscow, Pushkin/Lubyanka Street)
The church in question is the only remaining reminder of the settlement of migrants from Veliky Novgorod in Lubyanka. These people were relocated to Moscow not of their own will, but by the order of the Grand Duke of Mos…
The Execution House
House 23 on Nikolskaya Street has a rich history. Its lower floors preserved fragments of the chambers of the princes Khovansky from the 17th century. In the 19th century, the building belonged to the Moscow Crafts Admin…
The House-Studio of V.M. Vasnetsov
The artist Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (1848, 1926) lived with his family in a house on Troitsky Lane, which now bears his name, from 1894 to 1926. The house was built in 1894 according to his own sketches and drawings…
