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Sysalina-Golofteevs Urban Estate

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The estate is located between two Ordynkas, hence it has addresses on both streets. In the 17th century, it was inhabited by musketeers, whose families occupied small plots with wooden houses. In the early 18th century, after Peter I disbanded the musketeer army, these plots passed to other owners and were consolidated into large estates, from which this estate was formed. In the mid-18th century, a stone two-story main house was built in the center of the estate, facing Bolshaya Ordynka and featuring a ceremonial courtyard. The economic yard was located on the northern side, by Malaya Ordynka, while the southern part had a garden planted in the mid-18th century.

From the early 19th century until the 1830s, the estate was owned by merchant Andrei Grigorievich Sysalin. Under him, an elegant classical fence with gates and wide pilasters, topped with cornices, appeared along Bolshaya Ordynka. The pilasters had gates for entering the territory. In the second half of the 19th century, the gates were rebuilt, and the pilasters were covered with plaster in a historicist style. Today, these pilasters lack the 19th-century decorations, but classical details have been preserved under the plaster. Instead of gates, the pilasters now have niches for tools. The cast-iron fence along Bolshaya Ordynka, although damaged, remains a decoration of the street and awaits restoration.

In the 1850s, an extension was added to the main house from the side of Malaya Ordynka, and a two-story northern wing was built facing Bolshaya Ordynka. In the 1860s, the estate was acquired by the Golofteeva merchants, who in 1883 connected the main house and the northern wing with a passage featuring an arch for access to the economic yard.

The modern appearance of the estate was acquired in the 20th century. In the early 1920s, it was rented by the All-Russian Textile Syndicate, which in 1923 decided to reconstruct the estate for the housing of employees. The project by civil engineer L. A. Serk was implemented in the mid-1920s. All old buildings were unified with a third floor, and the arch to the backyard was built over. The facades received new treatment with rusticated pilasters, based on classical architecture with Serk's unique features. This style was popular in the provinces in the 1920s but was rarely seen in Moscow.

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Городская усадьба Сысалина, Голофтеевых

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