Moscow International Trade and Industry Bank of L.S. Polyakov
In the 1770s, the plot at the corner of Kuznetsky Most belonged to Count I.I. Vorontsov. By the end of the 18th century, his extensive property, stretching from Rozhdestvenka to Petrovka, was divided into several parts, …
M.S. Shchepkin Higher Theatre School
The M.S. Shchepkin Higher Theatre School at the State Academic Small Theatre of Russia is the oldest theatre school in Moscow. The two-story building at the corner of Neglinnaya and Pushchnaya streets has become a home f…
Church of the Holy Spirit in Talashkino
The Church of the Holy Spirit in the village of Flenovo, located in the Smolensk region, was built in the early 20th century with funds from Princess Tenisheva. Its history begins in the late 19th century when Maria Klav…
Church of Tryphon in Naprudnoye
Once, this temple, one of the oldest in Moscow, was the center of the district and looked significantly larger than it does now.
In the 14th century, there was a palace village of Naprudnoye at this site, surrounded by …
Residential Building, 18th Century, 1883
On the rise from Trubnaya Square to Rozhdestvensky Boulevard, at the corner with Rozhdestvenka, stands a four-story house on a high semi-basement. It stands out with porticos featuring four and six columns on the facades…
Christmas Monastery
On the day of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in 1380, the Battle of Kulikovo took place, and since then this holiday has gained special significance in Russia. Therefore, shortly after the battle, a monastery was founde…
Income House of A.G. Gagarin
Varsonofievsky Lane got its name from the Ascension Varnofiev Monastery, founded here no later than the early 16th century. Next to the monastery was a "poor house" with a cemetery, where the homeless, beggars, and trave…
Ayn Rand's Grave
Ayn Rand, born Alice Zinovievna Rosenbaum, was born on January 20 (February 2) 1905 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, and died on March 6, 1982 in New York, USA. She was an American writer and philosopher, known for h…
Residential Building on Neglinnaya
In the second half of the 18th century, this was a vast estate of Count I.I. Vorontsov, stretching from Rozhdestvenka to Petrovka and from Kuznetsky Bridge to the present Sandunovsky Lane. On the 1793 plan, one-story woo…
The Dolgov House
Since the mid-18th century, a vast estate on the even side of 1st Meshchanskaya Street, now known as Mira Avenue, belonged to the first guild merchant and notable citizen Luka Ivanovich Dolgov.
In the past, there was a …
