Moscow University
It is usually said that Moscow University is located on Sparrow Hills, and this is true, but not entirely: its historical part is situated on Mokhovaya Street. The building with a large dome and wide portico is clearly v…
Zoological Museum (Moscow, Mokhovaya St.)
The building of the Zoological Museum on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, constructed between 1896 and 1902, is considered one of the outstanding works of architect Konstantin Mikhailovich Bykovsky. He created one of the firs…
University Printing House
House number 10 on Strastnoy Boulevard is associated by many residents with the printing house of Moscow University, although this is not its first address. The university printing house with a bookstore was opened in 17…
St. Nicholas Church (Wallsend)
St. Nicholas is an Orthodox parish of the Russian tradition serving Newcastle and the Hunter Valley. The parish includes Belarusians, Ukrainians, Russians, Finns, Macedonians, and other Orthodox Christians of various nat…
Residential Building of A. A. Muromtsev
This two-story house at the corner of Bolshaya Nikitskaya and Gazetny Lane is a typical example of Moscow architecture from the early 19th century. Its foundation may consist of chambers from the mid-18th century, belong…
The Gudovich House
One of the houses on Bryusov Lane, adorned with stucco and a coat of arms, is part of a large building that once faced Tverskaya Street. In the early 19th century, the house belonged to the sons of Count Ivan Vasilyevich…
House of A.S. Trubetskoy-Bove
It is not exactly known who first owned the estate on Petrovsky (formerly Bogoslovsky) Lane. However, it is known that the stone chambers, built in the shape of the letter P with rich white stone carved window frames and…
Houses of Affordable Apartments Named After G.G. Solodovnikov
From 1906 to 1908, on 2nd Meshchanskaya Street, now Gilyarovskogo Street, at addresses 57 and 65, "houses of affordable apartments for poor people, both single and families" were built according to the designs of archite…
Smirnovs' Income House
The dark six-story income house was built in 1912-1913 by chamberlain V. Smirnov and his brother Oleg.
In the mid-18th century, this extensive estate belonged to the Buturlins. The plot extended deep into the courtyard.…
Marina Tsvetaeva's House in Czechia
A hundred years ago, Marina Tsvetaeva moved to the attic of Mr. Saska's house in the village of Mokropsy near Prague. In this modest room with a small diamond-shaped window, she spent a month and a half of her emigrant l…
