Income ownership of N.S. Kana
At the beginning of the 20th century, Nikolai Semyonovich Kan, a first-guild merchant, financed the reconstruction of an existing building and the construction of a rental property. The project was entrusted to Fyodor Sh…
Wedding of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna
It has come to pass what she had long dreamed of, and everything went simply and beautifully.
On November 17, 1916, in Kyiv, in a small Three Saints Church, a modest wedding took place for Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovn…
Bacteriological and Agronomic Station of the Botanical Garden of the Imperial Society for the Acclimatization of Animals and Plants
The building on Konyushkovskaya Street is connected to the activities of the first natural science societies in Russia. In 1857, initiated by Professor A. P. Bogdanov of Moscow University and under the patronage of the i…
Kyiv Railway Station
In 1898, the railway connected Moscow with Kaluga and Bryansk. A year later, in the area of Dorogomilovo, the "Moscow-Kyiv-Voronezh Railway Society" built the Bryansk Station, a long single-story wooden building. It did …
Income House of N.S. Titov
The building on Ruzheiny Lane is one of the few well-known structures in Moscow created by architect Mikhail Isakov. Its original appearance has hardly changed since its construction. In designing the facades, the archit…
The House of Decembrist Mikhail Bestuzhev
Not far from the Borodino Bridge, almost on Rostov Embankment, there is a small cozy estate where Decembrist Mikhail Alexandrovich Bestuzhev returned after his exile. He passed away here in 1871.
Bestuzhev's house is a …
Alexandrine (Neskuchny) Palace
The building on Leninsky Prospect, 14, is based on U-shaped chambers built in 1756 as the main house of the estate created by P. A. Demidov, the son of a Ural factory owner and a well-known amateur gardener.
On the gard…
The Summer House of Count Orlov
In 1796, the architect of Count Alexei Grigorievich Orlov created an 'English garden' and built a small pavilion on the edge of a high hill above the river, which later became known as the Summer House. One of its facade…
Restaurant 'In the City of Petrograd'
The traditional Russian restaurant 'A la Ville de Petrograd', founded by an officer of Nicholas II's guard in 1924, is located opposite one of the most beautiful Russian Orthodox churches in Paris, the Alexander Nevsky C…
Apakov Tram Depot
The historic buildings of the Apakov tram depot are located on Shabolovka Street. The total area of the depot structures is 20,500 square meters. This complex of buildings represents significant historical and cultural v…
