Kazan Cathedral
The Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God is located at the intersection of Nikolskaya Street and Red Square, on the site of the historic battle with the Poles that took place on November 1 (October 22) 1612. At …
Auditorium Building of Moscow University
In the 1830s, Moscow University faced a shortage of space, and in 1832, Emperor Nicholas I ordered the acquisition of a plot with two houses opposite the Main Building of the university. In the 16th century, this plot ma…
City Duma Building
The City Duma building was constructed between 1890 and 1892. Before that, there was a house for the Provincial Authorities, built in 1820 by architect Yevgeny Paskal. In photographs of Moscow from the 1880s, you can see…
Chizhovskoye Courtyard
Chizhovskoye Courtyard, the largest and most famous in Kitai-Gorod, is located at the corner of Bogoyavlensky Lane and Nikolskaya Street, extending to the Sheremetev estate. Previously, there was the Church of the Myrrh-…
Troekurov Chambers
Opening date and history of appearance
The word "chambers," borrowed from the Italian palazzo, is used to denote ancient houses in Russia built of brick and stone in Russian cities and monasteries from the late 15th to …
House of Wine Merchants Depre
The second house from the corner with Kuznetsky Bridge, built in the French style, belonged to one of the most famous wine trading companies of pre-revolutionary Russia, "K.F. Depre".
The history of this firm began in t…
Kitaigorod Wall
In 1535, by the order of Elena Glinskaya, mother of Ivan IV, the construction of the stone Kitaigorod Wall began. Before that, there was a moat with an earthen rampart and wooden fortifications for protection against ene…
Slavic Bazaar
The history of this estate goes back centuries. In the 16th century, the left part belonged to various merchants, while the right part belonged to Mikhail Nikitich Romanov, the nephew of Tsarina Anastasia, who employed G…
Income House of I.G. Khryashchev and V.I. Vargin
Information about the building
Ilinka Street is sometimes referred to as Moscow City, just like Kuznetsky Most Street, due to the large number of banks and commercial institutions. The right side of Ilinka, starting fro…
V. V. Luzhsky's Dacha 'Chaika', 1904, Architect V. A. Simov
At the beginning of the 20th century, a columnist wrote in the newspaper 'Voice of Moscow': 'Ah, this repeats itself year after year with inevitable consistency. As soon as the sun becomes warmer and starts to warm the e…
