Kursky Railway Station
Originally, Kursky Railway Station was located elsewhere and had a different name. A small wooden Nizhny Novgorod station was built outside the city at the Pokrovskaya Zastava, now known as Abelmanovskaya, on the left si…
House of the Vanyushin Merchants
The House of the Vanyushin Merchants in Uralsk, Kazakhstan, is a historical building constructed with funds from the Vanyushin family in the late 1870s and early 1880s. It is a monument of architecture and history. Initi…
Legacy of the 'Vodka King'
On Vagankovsky Hill in Moscow stands the building of the Russian State Library, formerly known as the Pashkov House. It is one of the most beautiful structures in the capital, mentioned in Bulgakov's novel "The Master an…
Vostryakov School
The large charitable complex on the banks of the Yauza began construction in 1888 according to the will of the famous Moscow merchant of the first guild, Gerasim Ivanovich Kludov. His daughters, the heirs, became the mai…
First Hospital of the Country
In 1707, according to a document from the state archive of ancient acts, Peter I issued a decree to build a hospital in a suitable location for the treatment of the sick. This order led to the opening of the first state …
Sakhalin Penal Colony
In the mid-19th century, Japan ceded the resource-rich island of Sakhalin to Russia. The authorities in St. Petersburg decided to turn this harsh territory into a large prison.
Before the official annexation of Sakhalin…
The Mystery of the 'Moscow Rothschild'
In pre-revolutionary Russia, three brothers stood out: Samuel, Jacob, and Lazarus, born to the well-known Jewish merchant Solomon Polyakov. Inheriting a commercial instinct from their father, Samuel became a railway magn…
Kosheleva Estate
Currently, this architecturally beautiful building houses the Lenin District Court. After extensive restoration, it is hard to recognize the former urban estate of the 19th century.
Originally, the estate building, cons…
Charity House with the Church of St. Gerasimus of Jordan
After the death of his only son, manufacturing advisor Gerasim Ivanovich Khudov decided to create a large charitable institution funded by his capital. He purchased a large estate from merchant Vasiliev, a former factory…
Factory Ensemble of Alexey Gubkin A. Kuznetsov and Co.
The name of the street Syromyatnicheskaya appeared in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and is associated with the Syromyatnichesky palace stable settlement, founded in the 16th century. Here lived craftsmen who mad…
