Monument to A. S. Popov
The idea to establish a monument to Alexander Popov, the famous Russian physicist and inventor of radio, arose in 2009, during the 150th anniversary of his birth. The initiative group initially planned to install a bust …
Meshkov House
The house was built in 1820 according to the design of architect Ivan Svyazyev in the style of late Russian classicism. It has repeatedly suffered from fires and after one of them in 1840 remained empty for 40 years. In …
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Monument to Skobeleva
On July 7, 1882, in the Moscow hotel "Dysso," under mysterious circumstances (officially, heart paralysis), the famous Russian commander Mikhail Skobeleva, hero of Plevna and Shipka, conqueror of Central Asia, passed awa…
Noble Assembly House of Kaluga
In the early 19th century in Kaluga, against the backdrop of active public life development, the need arose for the construction of a building for the Noble Assembly. The initial projects created by the chief architect o…
Doctor Rittenberg's House
Among the architectural monuments of pre-revolutionary Rostov-on-Don stands the residential house of Doctor Rittenberg, who was the chief physician of the Jewish city hospital. He moved to the city in the late 1880s and,…
The Income House of Odessa Merchant Schwartz in Rostov
On the southwest corner of the intersection of Dmitrievskaya Street (now Shaumyan Street) and Kazansky Lane (now Gazetny Lane) stands an elegant pre-revolutionary building that once served as the income house of Odessa m…
Moscow Alexandrovsky Institute
The building was constructed as one of the institutions of the Educational House for "impoverished nobles and commoners" and became one of the first women's educational establishments in Moscow. Its strict classical arch…
Madam Kofus' Income House
Modern Rostov-on-Don boasts numerous architectural monuments from the pre-revolutionary era; however, many of them, instead of being examples of content and attracting tourists, are in a deplorable state. One such histor…
Church of the Savior on Sennaya in St. Petersburg
In the center of St. Petersburg, on Sennaya Square, stood the majestic Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known as "Savior on Sennaya," from the mid-18th century until 1961. It was the architectural dom…
Ipatiev House
In the room where the royal family was shot, investigators discovered an inscription: "Balthasar was killed by his servants that night." This fragment of wallpaper was taken to France by investigator Sokolov. These words…
