Information about the building

In this house were born Pavel Tretyakov (1832-1898), an honorary citizen of Moscow, and his brother Sergey Tretyakov (1834-1892), who served as the mayor of Moscow from 1877 to 1881, as well as their three sisters. Here lived the ancestors of the famous patrons and collectors, creators of outstanding collections of Russian and foreign painting, and subsequently, the house remained in the ownership of their descendants. This building became the ancestral home of the Tretyakov family.

The house, typical of merchant architecture in Golutvino, with a stone first floor and a wooden second, was built in 1791 by Colonel M. M. Pavlova. To this day, only the lower floor has survived, having endured the fire of 1812. In 1795, this house with the adjacent land between 1st Golutvinsky Lane and the Moscow River passed into the personal ownership of the third guild merchant Zakhar Tretyakov, the grandfather of Pavel and Sergey. In 1830, the land was divided among the heirs, and the house was transferred to brother Mikhail Tretyakov for eternal and hereditary ownership.

According to contemporaries, the father of the Tretyakov brothers, Mikhail Zakharovich, was a thoughtful man who took his children's education seriously. It was here in Golutvino that they received a complete home education. Mikhail Zakharovich served as the church elder of the Church of Nikola in Golutvino, located nearby, from 1836 to 1845. The family referred to their estate as the 'Babye Gorod estate' and only left it once due to the reconstruction of the second floor for the needs of the large family. The move occurred to the mansion of the Ryabushinskys, located nearby. After the death of Mikhail Zakharovich in 1850, the house passed into the ownership of brothers Pavel and Sergey upon reaching adulthood.

For over a century, the territory was improved, and the house was rebuilt, but its boundaries and type remained unchanged: 'two-story residential, lower stone, upper wooden.' Entrances, staircases, and non-residential premises were added to the house. The Tretyakovs engaged their son-in-law A. S. Kaminsky as the architect. The territory included a factory building, a drying facility, commercial baths, a stable, sheds, cellars, and much more.

The house remained in the Tretyakov family until 1918, after which it housed communal apartments until the 1970s. In the late 1970s, during the construction of the neighboring Central Committee of the CPSU hotel (now the 'President Hotel'), the house survived a fire and restoration, during which the wooden floor was dismantled and rebuilt from brick, clad in wood.

Restoration

Since early 2016, the State Tretyakov Gallery has been working on the conservation and reconstruction of the Tretyakov memorial house, which will become a museum-memorial center and a new attraction point on the art mile route from the New Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val to the Old one on Lavrushinsky Lane in the coming years.

In 2021, the restoration was completed. During the work, the dilapidated walls were reinforced, and the brickwork was restored, as well as wooden window frames made of oak were recreated according to historical drawings.

The Tretyakov House became a laureate of the 'Moscow Restoration, 2021' competition in the categories of 'best organization of repair and restoration work' and 'high quality of repair and restoration work.' The restoration architects were awarded for scientific and methodological guidance.