The House of the Palace Department was built in 1817 and reconstructed in 1837. The building is designed in the Empire style and has two floors. The facade features a five-axis mezzanine and a portico decorated with stuc…

Anna Egorovna and Mark Markovich Lyuboshchinsky acquired a mansion with columns on Zubovsky Boulevard in 1902. By 1912, they built a tenement house, which now has the address No. 15, building 1. According to family memo…

The ensemble of Provision Warehouses on Zubovsky Boulevard, an example of Moscow's mature classicism, was built in the 1830s for the needs of the military department. The need for new stone warehouses to store "state pr…

The building, which previously served as a guardhouse, is located in the courtyard of house 19 on Komsomolsky Prospekt. It was built in the early 19th century during the formation of the architectural ensemble of the Ham…

The classic facade on the modern Komsomolsky Avenue attracts the attention of Muscovites for a reason. The place where the Chief's House stands was known to the residents of Moscow long before its construction in the ear…

The mansion with a turret and a tall pointed roof was built in 1886 by architect Ivan Mazurin. Its style resembles French Renaissance. From the late 19th century until the revolution, Mazurin himself lived in this house.

Muscovites often passed by the Neskuchny Garden and the Andreevskaya Almshouse on their way to Vorobyovka to cut birch branches for the Feast of the Holy Trinity. I. Shmelev described how they drove past blooming lilacs,…

Neskuchny Garden, one of the most picturesque parks in Moscow, was formed over several decades and was finally completed in 1843. In that year, the territory acquired by the Palace Department from notable nobles was expa…

In 1738, there were two estates in this territory: Captain A. Obukhov of the Semenovsky Regiment and resident V. Polosin from Petersburg. Until 1793, the owners of the plots changed repeatedly until both were acquired by…

In the mid-18th century, the estate of the famous industrialist Prokopy Demidov was located here, who built a palace and laid out a luxurious terraced garden. Later, under the new owner, Count Orlov-Chesmensky, pavilions…