Residential Buildings of the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
The residential buildings of the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and the Moscow Synodal Office are located on a large plot at the intersection of Vozdvizhenka Street and Yanishev Lane. Since the mid-15th centu…
House of V.V. Grushetsky (Old Man Bolkonsky's House)
House number 9 on Vozdvizhenskaia has both literary and historical significance. It is mentioned in the novels "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace" and is connected to the family of Leo Tolstoy.
The house was built by Co…
National Garden Created by Olga Konstantinovna
In Athens, near the former royal palace, there is a beautiful National Park, created at the initiative of Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna Romanova, Queen of the Hellenes and granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I. She was…
Russian Fort
One of the bays of the island is called Russian. In the 19th century, there was a Russian naval base here that assisted Greece in restoring its fleet.
The House Where Artist V.A. Serov Lived and Worked
A small estate in Moscow's Starovagankovsky Lane has been preserved since the mid-19th century. Although the outbuildings were lost, the main house, facing the lane with seven windows, remains.
In 1514, a church was bui…
Neo-Gothic of the Electrozavod
The Moscow Electrolamp Plant (MELZ) is considered the oldest enterprise in the Soviet and Russian electronics industry. It was here that the serial production of incandescent lamps began for the first time in the USSR. O…
City Estate of V.Ya. Lepeshkina
In the 18th century, the plot on Znamenka Street between the Cross Exaltation and Starovagankovsky Lanes was divided between the properties of the Apraxins and Levashovs. The Apraxins' property retained its boundaries, w…
Income House of E.V. Balikhina
In the early 20th century, two income houses numbered 13 and 15 were built on Znamenka, on the site of an ancient estate. This estate previously belonged to Prince Sergey Nikolayevich Golitsyn, and from the mid-19th cent…
Mansion of I. E. Ponomarev
The old estate of Prince Sergey Nikolaevich Golitsyn was located at the corner of Znamenka and Malaya Znamenka Lane since 1776. It was destroyed in the fire of 1812 and was not restored to its former appearance.
On the …
Golitsyn Estate
Fifteen minutes later, three trucks arrived at the gate in Vagankovsky, where the entire staff of the branch, led by the manager, loaded up. As soon as the first truck, swaying at the gates, drove into the alley, the emp…
