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House of the Dolgoruky Princes

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This house is known as the chambers of the Dolgoruky princes. Built in the Baroque style in 1764, it is based on earlier white-stone and brick chambers from the 16th and 17th centuries and is a federal cultural heritage site.

After restoration in 1996, the building was recognized as a laureate of the competition for the best restoration in the historical center of Moscow. The restoration project was developed by E.V. Stepanova from the company "Restorer-M."

In 1812, the French General Police, led by commissioners Villers and Pujot, was located in this mansion. The trial of 26 Moscow arsonists also took place here. However, the house is also associated with older legends, according to which torture basements of Maluta Skuratov were located on this site.

Restorer architects Dmitry Sukhov and Nikolai Vinogradov believed that in the 17th century, the chambers belonged to the boyar Vasily Streshnev, the father-in-law of Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich, and later to Kirill Naryshkin, the grandfather of Peter the Great. Later owners included the chamberlain Luka Khitrovo, the Yeropkins, the Buturlins, and Major General Prince Konstantin Cantacuzene.

In 1744, Captain Alexei Dolgorukov of the Butyrsky Infantry Regiment purchased the chambers and commissioned architect Vasily Yakovlev to reconstruct them in the style of Elizabethan Baroque. Matvey Kazakov, a well-known Russian architect, included an image of the facade and the plan of this building in his albums of notable structures in Moscow.

After Alexei Dolgorukov's death in 1782, the house was bequeathed to a former serf, merchant Myrnova, and their children. In the early 19th century, a detailed inventory of the property was compiled.

The estate was separated from Pokrovka Street by a stone fence with iron gates. Behind them, on a half-hectare area, there was an orchard with 80 trees, and at the back of the plot stood the main two-story stone house, accessed by a wide alley.

The front yard, with a decorative fence and lions holding chains, concealed the asymmetry of the layout. The rooms were heated by Dutch tiled stoves, and the halls were furnished with expensive furniture.

In the 1930s, the northwestern corner of the chambers was destroyed during the construction of a new residential building. The ancient part of the Dolgoruky house has preserved a white-stone vaulted basement, an internal staircase, and vaults on both floors.

Geo point

Дом князей Долгоруких

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