Two buildings numbered 27, two pavilions of the Zhuravlyov merchants' estate, were erected in the early 19th century and reconstructed in the late 1850s. Originally single-story, they were connected by a fence with gates leading to the main house of the estate, which was located in the area of the modern Sadovnicheskaya Street. The main house, built in the early 18th century, was demolished in the mid-20th century.
Brothers Roman and Gavrila Zhuravlyov were the founders of the church of Paraskeva on Pyatnitskaya Street in the 1740s, where their families lived. The Zhuravlyovs, prominent industrialists of the 18th century, owned a cloth factory, traded in furs, and engaged in tax farming.
An interesting feature of the estate's layout: the walls of the pavilions from the gates were built at an angle, and the courtyard expanded towards the main house, creating the illusion that the street was further away than it actually was. Later, the pavilions received second floors, and in 2005, a mansard floor was added above the northern pavilion.
Behind the pavilions, in the far part of the estate, now crossed by tram tracks, stands one of the buildings designed by architect Ernst-Richard Niernsee (Klimentovsky Lane, No. 2), built for merchant Mikhail Ivanovich Babanin before World War I. Babanin traded in haberdashery, was a co-owner of the trading house 'M. Babanin and F. Bachurin,' and was the church elder of the Pyatnitsky Church. He died in 1917, before the October Revolution and nationalization. One of his sons, Vladimir, was the elder of the Church of Saint Paraskeva of Friday for ten years after his father's death but was later arrested and received a ten-year sentence in camps. Another son, Konstantin, was an actor at the Moscow Art Theatre and an organizer of the student theater at Moscow State University.
After the revolution, the house became home to many communal apartments, as was the case with most other pre-revolutionary houses. Locals recall that the local youth associated with the Babanins were known for their daring.
On the top floor under the roof are two large round windows, 'bull's eyes.' From one window, artists Max and Anna Birshtain, father and daughter, looked out at Pyatnitskaya Street, Saint Clement, and the Kremlin, having a studio in this house. The entrance of the house still retains the Metlakh tiles from the early 20th century.
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