Built in 1535-1538, the Bird Tower is part of the Kitai-Gorod Wall. It is a semicircular tower made of red brick without a roof. In the 1870s, the section of the wall between the Bird and Trinity Towers was demolished, a…

The church of Saint Martyr Tatiana, an Orthodox church with the status of a Patriarchal courtyard, is the chapel of Lomonosov Moscow State University. It is located in the right wing of a city estate from the late 18th c…

The Vyarvilskiy House, also known as the Orlenok Puppet Theater, stands on the site where a two-story house of merchant M.E. Falina once was. From 1865 to 1901, the Penza provincial zemstvo administration was located her…

Varvarka, one of the oldest streets in Moscow, got its name from the local church. The Varvarka street is mentioned as early as the 15th century with a wooden church of St. Barbara. In the early 16th century, the wooden …

In memory of the heroic act of Baron Wrangel at Kaushen. On August 19, 1914, exactly 108 years ago, the squadron of the Life Guards Cavalry Regiment, commanded by Rittmeister Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, conducted …

In the 1966 documentary, Nabokov and Stravinsky meet and drink scotch.

The ballet "The Rite of Spring" by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky was first presented on May 29, 1913, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The decorations, costumes, and libretto were created by Nikolai Roerich…

After the fire of 1812, in 1820, the main house with wings on the sides was built along the alley. In the late 1860s, the estate was acquired by Praskovya, the eldest daughter of the famous merchant Gerasim Khlyudov. She…

Information about the building The urban estate belonged to Moscow merchants Ivan and Nikolai Egorovich Orlov. They traded in leather goods in Moscow at the Gostiny Dvor shop on Okhotny Ryad on Varvarka, called "Trading…

In 1938, Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky was working on the rehearsal of the play "Tartuffe" based on Molière's work.