In this beautiful green house, built between 1903 and 1906 in the Vienna Secession style by architect Illarion Alexandrovich Ivanov-Shitz, there was until recently one of the oldest maternity hospitals in Moscow, maternity hospital No. 6 named after A. A. Abrikosova. It is now closed. We are losing our history by erasing from the memory of future generations the names of outstanding citizens and their selfless work for the future. What secrets do the walls of this house hold?

Agrippina Alexandrovna Abrikosova, born Musatova, gave birth to 22 children for her husband, the 'chocolate king' of Russia, Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov, and dedicated much of her life to motherhood, childhood, and issues of childbirth assistance. Thanks to her efforts, a small free maternity shelter and clinic for women with six beds opened on Miusskaya Street in Moscow in 1889. The institution was called 'Free Maternity Shelter and Gynecological Clinic with Permanent Beds of Agrippina Alexandrovna Abrikosova in Moscow.' About two hundred children were born here each year, and the mortality rate among newborns and mothers was only one percent, which was an outstanding figure for that time.

Agrippina Alexandrovna passed away in 1901, leaving a will in which her relatives appealed to the Moscow authorities with a proposal to donate 100,000 rubles for the construction and equipment of a city free maternity shelter named after A. A. Abrikosova. The Moscow City Duma accepted the proposal, allocating a plot of land in Miusskoye Field, and in 1903 the building project created by architect I. A. Ivanov-Shitz was approved.

The organizer of the construction and the guardian of the maternity hospital became the son of the Abrikosovs, Vladimir Alekseevich, and the shelter itself was designed and equipped according to the ideas of Alexander Nikolaevich Rakhmanov, the son-in-law of the Abrikosovs, an outstanding obstetrician and the first director of the maternity hospital.

On May 25, 1906, the maternity shelter was consecrated, and on June 3 of the same year, the reception of mothers began. The facade of the building had inscriptions: 'City Maternity Hospital' and 'named after A. A. Abrikosova.' Thus, the dream of Agrippina Alexandrovna Abrikosova was realized, whose descendants became famous in various fields of science and culture. Among them are Nobel Prize winner in Physics A. A. Abrikosov, academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences A. I. Abrikosov, artist M. F. Shemyakin, People's Artist of the USSR A. L. Abrikosov, and others.

However, on December 6, 1918, the maternity hospital was renamed in honor of N. K. Krupskaya, who had no children and advocated for abortions. After A. N. Rakhmanov left in 1925, the name Abrikosova was forgotten, and the name Krupskaya appeared on the facade of the maternity hospital instead of hers. In the lobby, instead of a memorial plaque for Agrippina Alexandrovna, her portrait appeared.

The building was repeatedly reconstructed. In 1994, the descendants of the Abrikosovs achieved the return of the maternity hospital's historical name. In 1999, it became the first maternity hospital in Moscow to receive the WHO/UNICEF title: 'Baby-Friendly Hospital.'

Today, the maternity hospital No. 6 named after Agrippina Alexandrovna Abrikosova, which gave life to many generations of Muscovites, effectively no longer exists.