In the 1830s, the merchants Bakhrushin acquired a large plot with a house from the heir of merchant Gusyatnikov, Lieutenant F.M. Gusyatnikov. In the 18th century, the Gusyatnikov family was a well-known merchant lineage, owning many houses in Moscow. A neighboring street was named in their honor, which is now called Letnikovskaya. Alexei Fyodorovich Bakhrushin settled in this house with his wife Natalia Ivanovna Potolovskaya. Their three sons, Pyotr, Alexander, and Vasily, grew up here. After the death of the elder Bakhrushins, the house passed to the family of the eldest son Pyotr, and his large family lived there until they moved to the house opposite on Bolshoy Markov Lane, where the Bakhrushins' cloth factory, managed by Pyotr Alexeyevich, was located. After the move, the old ancestral home went to Alexei Petrovich Bakhrushin and his wife Anna Stepanovna Makeeva. This was their first family home. Alexei Petrovich was fond of collecting books, porcelain, and other antiques. He was said to be very stingy, as he would go to Sukharevka every Sunday to bargain.
In 1903, Alexei Petrovich and his wife moved with their collection to a house on Vorontsovo Pole, and the old house housed the office of the Partnership of Tannery and Cloth Factories 'Alexei Bakhrushin Sons.'
In 1917, the tannery was nationalized, and a Moscow hardware factory was organized in its place. Nowadays, the house has been rebuilt beyond recognition, and a business center 'Vivaldi Plaza' has opened in it. Unfortunately, only the old office building reminds us that there once stood the largest tannery owned by one of the most generous Russian philanthropists.
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