Passage of K.S. Popov and the Jamgarovs
In the 17th century, the estate of the chamberlain I. M. Verderevsky was located near the banks of the Neglinka River, which included two houses on the street. In the mid-18th century, it passed to Count P. B. Sheremetev…
Trinity Church in Troitskaya Sloboda
The area where the Trinity courtyard was located originally belonged to the neighboring village of Naprudnoye. Later, Peryaslavl coachmen settled here, and in the early 17th century, the land was transferred to the Trini…
Residential Building of E.A. Svechina, S.F. Zimmerman, S.P. Morgunov
In the early 19th century, the Meshchanskaya sloboda was actively developed with noble estates. The house at number 27 (now 25) on 1st Meshchanskaya Street, located between Maslenikov and Seredinsky lanes, belonged to th…
The House of Writer N.F. Pavlov
In the early 19th century, the mansion was owned by Countess E.P. Rostopchina. In the 1840s, this house became known throughout literary Moscow thanks to the "Pavlov Thursdays," attended by such celebrities as N.V. Gogol…
Income House of the First Russian Insurance Society
On Lubyanka Square, at the intersection with Kuznetsky Most Street, in house 21/5, right behind the now-demolished Church of the Introduction, was the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs (NKID) of the USSR, founded…
V. Mayakovsky Museum
In 1919, Vladimir Mayakovsky moved into a room on Lubyanka Passage. Before that, since 1918, he had lived with the Briks in Poluektov Lane, but after another quarrel with Lila Brik, he began looking for his own place. Hi…
Trading Houses of the Jamgarov Brothers
In the 17th century, the site of the current building No. 18 was owned by deacon Nikita Polunin. By the mid-18th century, the plot passed to court councilor A. N. Obolduyev and his heirs.
From 1825 until the 1880s, this…
Leman Mansion
The Leman Mansion, designed in the neo-Gothic style, is located on Granatny Lane in Moscow. Its project was developed by architect Adolf Erichson for Anna-Louise Leman, the wife of honorary citizen of Moscow Robert-Nils …
The House of the Fonvizin Brothers
N.A. Nekrasov's ballad "The Secret" begins with a description of one of Moscow's mansions: "In happy Moscow, on Neglinnaya, with lions, with a fence around, stands alone an ancient house adorned with coats of arms." V.A.…
The Nightingale House
Before you is the once-famous "Nightingale House" in Moscow, which stood at the corner of Vozdvizhenska and Nikitsky Boulevard and was demolished in 1997 during the Luzhkov era. Why was it called "Nightingale"? In the 19…
