On the rise from Trubnaya Square to Rozhdestvensky Boulevard, at the corner with Rozhdestvenka, stands a four-story house on a high semi-basement. It stands out with porticos featuring four and six columns on the facades and a rusticated first floor. This house, a long-time resident of the area, has survived while its surroundings were replaced by concrete copies in the early 21st century. It remembers the times when the alleys of Sretenskaya Hill housed the 19th-century "red-light district," the Bird Market on Truba, the horse-drawn tram that ascended Rozhdestvensky Boulevard, and the electric tram that replaced it. Built in the 18th century, the house was only slightly damaged in the Napoleonic fire. In the 1810s-1820s, the newspaper "Moscow Vedomosti" advertised the seed shop of Mikhail Smirnov, located on the first floor, where various vegetable seeds were sold. In the 19th century, the house frequently changed owners: it first belonged to Karl and Andrey Zholi, then to the Ladyzhensky family. Apartments were rented here by professors of the Moscow Conservatory, and in 1869, cello lessons by V. K. Orberg were held in the house. The most famous owner of the house in the 1880s was Moscow attorney and horse breeder Nikolai Petrovich Shubinsky, husband of the great actress Maria Nikolaevna Yermolova. Although the couple did not live in this house, it was used as an income property. Their marriage lasted seven years but became fictitious due to personal relationships. Yermolova and Shubinsky's daughter, Margarita, recalled the difficulties in their marriage. In 1889, Shubinsky bought a house on Tverskoy Boulevard, where Yermolova spent the last forty years of her life. After the revolution, Shubinsky emigrated and died in 1921 in Bulgaria. In 1883, the building was partially reconstructed, and a fourth floor was added. In the early 20th century, the house belonged to A. L. Trusova, and it housed the zoological shop of I. A. Bubnov, competing with the Bird Market. Before the revolution, the owners of the house were the Filimonov family. During the Soviet era, the building had communal apartments. The house is now under state protection.
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