Moscow mansions. Historical wooden estates, mansions and estates in different regions of Russia

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At 36 Starokonyushenny Lane, there is an unusual wooden mansion, a log house in the style of a Russian hut, a family home famous actor Alexander Shalvovich Porokhovshchikov.

About this mystical house Irina Porokhovshchikova, the wife of a famous actor, said shortly before her tragedy: “This house takes everyone. But I can’t break out of it, I’m drawn here!”...

This mansion is a textbook monument of wooden architecture in the “Russian hut” style with unique saw-cut carvings. The wooden house received an award at the World Exhibition in Paris as the personification of the Russian style. The log house was built in 1870-1872 by a businessman and great-grandfather famous artist Alexander Aleksandrovich Porokhovshchikov according to the design of architects D.V. Lyushin and A.L. Gun.

The first tenant of this house was the famous electrical engineer V.N. Chikolev, in which he housed the “Agency for the Sale of Sewing Machines”, which he organized, produced by his factory in Khamovniki. The Agency sold the first sewing machines with Chikolev electric motors.

Then the newspaper editorial office was located in this house, and then a library was opened, after which the “Society of Teachers and Pupils with a Free School...” was founded. Since the late 90s of the 19th century, the house has been converted into housing for wealthy citizens of the capital. During the years of the USSR, various public Soviet institutions were located in this house. In 1995, the wooden house on Starokonyushenny was given a long-term lease for a period of 49 years to the actor A.Sh. Porokhovshchikov, the great-grandson of businessman A.A. Porokhovshchikov and the grandson of his full namesake A.A. Porokhovshchikov, a famous Soviet designer. Grandfather Porokhovshchikov was taken from this house to be shot.

According to the servants who lived in this old house with the Porokhovshchikov family, it was haunted. The girls said that it was hard for them in this large wooden house. At some point, both of them simultaneously began to have some kind of visions. “We inadvertently decided that we were going crazy until we talked to Alexander Shalvovich,” said one of the girls named Marina. – One day I went to pour water. I approach the bathroom and see the shadow of a girl. I got scared, ran to Porokhovshchikov, and told him about what I saw. And he so calmly: “What are you, Marina, afraid of?” “Yes, there’s a girl flying here...” Later, Katya (another girl from the servants) told me that she had more than once observed the shadow of a girl on the sofa. After that, I couldn’t sleep peacefully there at all. Now I remember with horror how we spent the night there. The feeling of fear did not leave us for a minute. If Katya stayed there to sleep alone, she would call me in tears: “Come, I can’t be alone in the house.”

When the girls told the young mistress about their fears, she confirmed that she also felt someone’s presence. And one day Irina Porokhovshchikova said a terrible phrase: “This house will take revenge on us, it’s alive - it takes everyone who lives here.” Her mother died in this house.

Irina knew detailed history this house, but did not have time to tell it to my au pairs. Neighbors said that when this mansion-hut was built by the great-grandfather of the famous artist, soon after moving there she died of unknown illness the owner's young wife...

There were many rooms in the old wooden mansion, in one of them Irina Porokhovshchikova recreated the atmosphere from her childhood, moved things here from the old apartment where she lived as a child, celebrated birthdays there and memorial days your parents. The owner called this room “Mom’s room” and, according to Irina, this was the quietest and “not scary” room.

The famous artist’s wife had another oddity: on the balcony, Irina made two so-called “graves” - one for her mother, and the other in memory of her dead dog. Irina poured earth from the cemetery into the plates, hung grave wreaths and photographs nearby, and lit candles on the balcony every day. The au pairs warned her that it was undesirable to do this, it was “ Bad sign”, and in response they heard from the owner that “she cannot always come to her mother’s grave, and in winter she cannot visit Oden’s (dog’s) grave.” It makes her feel better. They are always with her..."

IN last years owner of this mysterious house A.Sh. Porokhovshchikov dreamed of opening a Cultural Center, Porokhovshchikov Museum in the family mansion, but didn’t have time...

The house is beautiful and scary at the same time. What cannot be taken away from the house is its rich history...

Historical wooden estates, mansions and estates in different regions of Russia.

In addition to the interesting wooden mansions and estates of the Moscow region with a fascinating history, there are the same wooden estates with no less interesting fate throughout our large country.

The Russian estate is a whole phenomenon in the life of Russia in the 27th – 19th centuries. Almost every noble or manor house is a museum to some extent, since within its walls historical and artistic values: paintings, engravings, books, furniture, porcelain, family archives. In the mansions of the lords, countless riches were collected from the collection of books, manuscripts, paintings, furniture and weapons - real “rural Tretyakov galleries and the Hermitages"…

1. “Lace House” of the Shastin merchants in Irkutsk.

The visiting card of Irkutsk is the wooden house of the Shastin merchants, built in mid-19th century, is also known as the “lace house”.

Like many wooden houses Russian Empire At that time, this wooden house was also built in the Russian Baroque style and richly decorated with carved wooden patterns. With the gradual external changes of the wooden estate, its wooden ornament also changed, becoming brighter and more beautiful. The estate acquired its current appearance in 1907, when Mr. honorable Sir city ​​of Irkutsk, merchant A.I.Shastin.

The house was restored and restored in our time almost from scratch using archival drawings and old photographs. Abundant decorative decoration facades, complex outlines of the roof with turrets and figured wooden columns make this two-story wooden mansion stand out with its special uniqueness. At the initiative of the French Association for the Preservation of World Monuments, the wooden mansion was included in the list of world protected heritage and, with the support of the Irkutsk mayor's office, was saved from demolition. In 1988, on the basis of the estate, by decree of the mayor of the city, it was created municipal institution"House of Europe" Now it is called that because it was created with the aim of developing and strengthening international relations between Irkutsk and European countries.

2. Magnificent wooden estates and mansions of Tomsk.

One of the oldest cities Western Siberia- Tomsk, founded in early XVII centuries by order of Boris Godunov, surrounded by forest-steppes, impenetrable forests and swamps, is famous for its wooden architecture, as it has preserved many masterpieces of wooden architecture, historical and architectural monuments dating back to the 28th - 20th centuries.

The masterpieces of wooden architecture that decorate the ancient streets and alleys of Tomsk are considered the true pearl of this heritage. Wooden architecture of Tomsk – historical value Russian Federation. Most of the buildings here are over a hundred years old. According to the townspeople, “in no other corner of the world are there such large-scale surviving monuments of wooden construction,” since the zone of historical unique buildings has a total area of ​​more than 10 sq. km. On its territory there are 1800 various houses, of which 200 are monuments of Russian wooden architecture. In the architectural collection of Tomsk you can find wooden houses and merchant estates, made in different styles: classicism and baroque here coexist with bright modern and Russian “oriental” style. Millions of tourists come to Tomsk to see with their own eyes the wooden masterpieces of Russian architecture.

One wooden house in Tomsk especially attracts tourists because, according to legend, a wizard lived in such a house Emerald City from the book of the writer A. Volkov. This mansion is located on Belinsky Street and previously belonged to the architect Khomich. This two-story wooden manor sits on a brick foundation. The unusual shape of the house is given by faceted projections protruding from the front facade, and the splendor of the structure is due to covered verandas, balconies and transition vestibules. The pediments of the tower, supported by unique decorative colonnades, have both classic triangular and arched shapes.

B) Wooden estate of the architect Kryachkov.

The Tomsk Museum of Wooden Architecture is located in the former estate of the architect A.D. Kryachkov. This unusual three-story wooden building is itself an architectural monument of wooden architecture in Tomsk, built in 1909 in the Art Nouveau style. Its design was unusual for its time because the rules fire safety categorically prohibited the construction of wooden buildings over two floors.
The architect Kryachkov was given exceptional permission, but with a reservation, to use cast iron stoves in the house. This is how the first wooden mansion appeared in Tomsk, which had its own heating system, toilet rooms and bathrooms located on the first and second floors.

Today in the exposition of the Tomsk Museum you can admire samples different decors, which decorated the houses: platbands, cornices and pilasters, fragments of wooden log houses, as well as a collection of Kasli stove castings made at Demidov’s factories.

B) Wooden house of the merchant Golovanov.

There are in Tomsk and famous building Russian-German Friendship Society or the famous “House with a Tent,” which looks like a fairy-tale tower and once belonged to the merchant Golovanov. With a complicated composition of wooden facades, the house exhibits features characteristic of Russian wooden architecture. This extraordinary beauty The wooden house is made in sky blue and white colors, and the filigree lace carvings blend harmoniously with the surrounding landscape, especially in winter, when the snow-white wooden carvings on the intricate eaves can be confused with frost on the trees.

A wooden manor that previously belonged to pediatrician Vasilyev. In addition to the architectural solutions characteristic of Russian Art Nouveau, this wooden mansion has features characteristic of the Norwegian style in the form of decorations on the pediments and the presence of a round window, and flat carvings give it a special unique look.

Wealthy residents of Tomsk competed with each other in the sophistication of the construction and decoration of their wooden houses, which is why in this ancient town of Western Siberia there were so many real masterpieces of Russian wooden architecture, of which not all are represented.

Many different wooden homesteads and old mansions still scattered throughout Mother Russia. Each of these buildings has its own unique image, its unique architecture and interesting story. It’s impossible to tell about everyone at once, let’s get acquainted with at least some of them selectively...

Among the tall stone high-rise buildings, on one of the central streets of the million-plus city of Krasnoyarsk, behind a low wooden fence there is a small island of land, which by some miracle has preserved its quiet provincial appearance in the stormy ocean of modernity. On this “island” there is a wooden mansion famous artist Vasily Ivanovich Surikov. The center of the museum-estate is a two-story wooden house, built in 1830 by the artist’s grandfather and father.
Surikov's estate is a typical Cossack estate XIX- the beginning of the 20th century, which includes the house itself, an outbuilding, outbuildings and a vegetable garden. At 12 years old future artist left home to study artistic craft V northern capital, where he remained and worked for the rest of his life in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The artist’s mother lived in this house until old age and maintained it independently until her death in 1895.

In the 1930s, Surikov’s daughters donated the house-estate to the city, and in 1948, on the 100th anniversary of V.I. Surikov, a house-museum was opened in honor of his name. In 1978, the outbuilding, built in the early 1900s, became the property of the Museum, then the bathhouse and stable with two barns were reconstructed. The image of the Surikov estate was completely restored, after which it received the status of an estate museum.

On the ground floor of the artist’s house there are living rooms with preserved original furnishings: with furniture, dishes, clothing and household items, and on the second floor there is a workshop with an exhibition of paintings and personal belongings of Surikov.

The Lieutenant General's Travel Palace in the town of Narovchat, Penza Region, is a beautiful log house of the 19th century, richly decorated with saw carvings. Nowadays, this house is a monument to wooden architecture of Russian wooden architecture. Our children and grandchildren stayed there famous poet A.S. Pushkin. And the history of this amazing manor house is as follows...

The owner of the Travel Palace was once a cavalry guard, Lieutenant General Ivan Andreevich Arapov. He served in the Council of Ministers of Agriculture and the Council of the Main Directorate of Horse Breeding of Russia. The agricultural economy of I.A. Arapov was considered exemplary in the Penza province.

In the first half of the 19th century, Arapov built this rich estate. It included a two-story log house with a mezzanine and a four-column portico, 2 one-story outbuildings and outbuildings. This wooden estate was built with the expectation that Tsar Nicholas I would visit Lieutenant General Arapov in Narovchat during his trip to Russia. But Nicholas I passed by without turning to Narovchat, without bestowing his visit on the hospitable general.

I.A. Arapov’s wife is Alexandra Petrovna, daughter of N.N. Pushkina-Lanskaya from her second marriage (A.S. Pushkin’s widow Natalya Goncharova), so the children and grandchildren of the famous classic had a direct connection to visits to Narovchat in general and to Arapov’s house in particular.

The memorial plaque states that I.A. Arapov “helped rebuild Narovchat with considerable personal funds” after the fire that destroyed everything in 1890, and grateful residents unanimously awarded him the title of Honorary Citizen of the city.

The history of the Panskoe estate, which is located in Kaluga region 15 km from the town of Maloyaroslavets. Main house This estate was finally built in 1814 and has survived to this day. This wooden two-story mansion in the style of Russian classicism is a typical Noble Nest. Its appearance evokes the works of Russian classics Pushkin, Turgenev, Goncharov, Tolstoy. Best place for filming, for example, the poem “Eugene Onegin” cannot be found.

The history of the Panskoye estate began long before 1805, when Colonel Dmitry Ivanovich Kudryavtsev, in his will, took possession of a village in this area.

In 1805-1806 D.I. Kudryavtsev participates in the foreign campaign of the Russian army. In Warsaw he found his young wife Sofya Alexandrovna. The story of their marriage was unusual.

Sophia grew up as an orphan in Warsaw under the care of trustees. When the girl Sophia was 10 years old, in 1794 the Poles rebelled against the Russians. Six months later, Russian troops crushed the uprising and occupied Warsaw. In the house where the girl lived, a wounded Russian officer lay, who was visited by friends, among whom was Kudryavtsev. After 2 years, in 1796, despite the fact that officer Dmitry Ivanovich was already 40 years old, and Sofia Alexandrovna was 12, he proposed to her and the Polish girl - illegitimate daughter King Stanisław August Poniatowski, accepted the marriage proposal of an adult man. Adoptive parents experienced financial difficulties and did not object to the marriage of Kudryavtsev and Sophia, since they were burdened by financial worries about their adopted daughter.

After his marriage, Kudryavtsev continued to serve in Warsaw, then in Volyn, and then transferred to St. Petersburg. In the end, in 1810, the general retired and went to his estate, where he began construction of a new estate. Since the general’s young wife was Polish, both the estate and the village that grew up around it began to be called Panskoe. The Kudryavtsev family and their children lived in the estate permanently.

Russian nobles loved to imitate European architectural fashion, but they did not adopt everything, but only what they liked. There were a lot of forests in the area, so it was most affordable to build estates from wood, in which even in winter, with well-heated stoves, it was dry and comfortable; a wooden house made of logs was well heated and retained heat; it was easier to build from available building materials that grew everywhere.

The wooden manor was assembled from logs and covered with planks. A wooden portico consisting of six wooden columns was attached to the central part of the house. The opposite façade also had a six-column portico and two rows of windows. To the right and left of the house were attached outbuildings for the entrance and two semicircular pavilions.

General Kudryavtsev died in 1818. His wife Sophia died in 1835. They had 12 children. The Panskoye estate was inherited by the Kudryavtsevs' son Alexander. The nobility of Maloyaroslavets district elected him as their trustee for his special services in agronomy and industrial production.

Already during the third generation, the Kudryavtsev estate began to fall into disrepair. And after the revolution, the mansion housed various public organizations. Despite the occupation in 1941, the war spared the estate. After the occupation, the house was a summer pioneer camp, and since 1945, a home for war orphans. In 1950-1957 – a sanatorium for sick children, then a sanatorium Orphanage for preschoolers. In 1991, the house was disbanded and since then the Panskoye estate has been empty and gradually falling into disrepair.

In the Kaluga region, of the wooden Empire monuments, only a few houses in Kaluga and a mansion in the Panskoe estate have survived.

6. Wooden estate “Ampiala” in Priozersk, Leningrad region.

A wooden manor with a turret is an example of Finnish wooden modernism, the pearl of a small town near St. Petersburg. In the middle of the 19th century, the Russian merchant Vasiliev owned an estate in these parts. After Vasiliev, the owners of these places were several more owners, replacing each other, until Juho Ampiala, whose Finnish name This unusual wooden mansion with a turret still stands today. The main building of the estate was built in the 90s of the 19th century; it was two-story: on the lower floor there were 5 rooms, a kitchen and an entrance hall, and on the upper floor there were 2 rooms. Already under Juho Ampiala, the estate was being completed: in 1903, the architect Harold Neovius added central building third floor with summer rooms and observation tower. There were 18 heated rooms, 4 country pavilions, containing 24 rooms with stoves. Finnish artist Juho Ampiala was a Finnish artist, famous Finnish writers, artists and musicians came to stay with him. In the summer, up to 50-60 guests lived at his estate.

The Ampiala estate is a wonderful example of northern modernism. The house was taken under state security in 2001. Not long ago the estate became private property and the new owners opened a hotel in it.

7. “House of Artists” in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl region.

An excellent copy of a sample of wooden architecture from the early 20th century is a two-story building, which is located at the intersection of two streets in small town Rybinsk, Yaroslavl region. This wooden mansion was erected by the owner S.G. Gordeev in 1900.
The owner did his best. The property turned out to be richly decorated and elegant. The house seems to be on display at a crossroads. In architecture wooden mansion There are two high tents, rising above the corner part of the building and having a rather complex completion in the form of a cross-patterned barrel with forged spiers. On the second floor of the house, a balcony with a wrought-iron openwork lattice unites the facades in a semicircle. The window frames, made in the “Moscow Baroque” style, also serve as decoration.

The Gordeev estate was reconstructed in 1990. By this time, the original itself was already dilapidated and neglected, almost beyond restoration. Rybinsk artists, led by A. Zhdanov, built a copy that completely replicated the original. Before the reconstruction, photographs of the wooden manor were taken and a detailed drawing was drawn up. The dilapidated building was demolished and a brick building was built a little to the side. Using photographs, plans and drawings, specialists restored the wood paneling and decorations to their original appearance.

“Margarita Nikolaevna and her husband together occupied the entire top of a beautiful mansion in a garden in one of the alleys near Arbat. A charming place! Anyone can see this if they want to go to this garden. Let him contact me, I will tell him the address, show him the way, The mansion is still intact."
M.A. Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"

In Belokamennaya, especially in its old center, there are a lot of all kinds of mansions of pre-revolutionary “old” and “new Russians”, as well as buildings similar to mansions different architecture. Many of them are real decorations of the capital, and some are simply masterpieces. Photo 2005-2008.

a pair of winter mansions on Staraya Basmannaya: on the left is the yellow wing of the Prove merchants’ house (1884, architect R.A. Gedike), the pink one on the right is the mansion of T.A. Kudryavtsev/women’s gymnasium of E.B. Gronkovskaya (1902, architect P. K. Mikini)

the mansion of V.V. Pravdina in the Art Nouveau style on Sadovaya-Sukharevskaya, aka “cop”, whose door was pulled by Kostya Wallet from “The Place to Meet”;
another wretched shit-dealer grew up behind, and the buildings on the right were demolished in 2007
(1908, architect A. Pravdin, A. A. Galetsky-?)

(having crossed the road and ahead of her family, the girl let out a victorious cry:)

looks like the recently built city villa of the “new Russian” on M. Polyanka:

on the corner of Devyatkina and Sverchkov lanes - a house with a “classical” portico,
a typical monument of the Moscow post-fire Empire style of the 1820s:

pink house with a strange high attic on Malaya Ordynka:

I.I. Nekrasov’s mansion (someone’s embassy) at the intersection of Khlebny and M. Rzhevsky lanes:
(1906, architect R.I. Klein)

the most beautiful modern mansion of I.A. Mindovsky on Povarskaya (now the Embassy of New Zealand)
(1903, architect L.N. Kekushev)

magnificent entrance to mansion of E.D. Dunker/O. Tsetlina(Embassy of Cyprus) at the beginning of Povarskaya
(perestroika - 1890s, architect I.S. Kuznetsov; 1910s, architect A.N. Zeligson):

complex of the Indian Embassy on Vorontsov Field - two mansions with a beautiful lattice: G.F. Bardygina and E.G. Mark
(1911-1912, the first - architect I.T. Baryutin, the second - architect K.V. Apollonov)

the legendary villa of S.P. Ryabushinsky/M. Gorky in the style of the Vienna Secession on M. Nikitskaya
(1900-1903, architect F.O. Shekhtel)

peaked mansion of A. Leman/P. A. Bazilevsky (“neo-Gothic”) with a huge chimney in Granatny Lane, neighbor of the House of Architect:
(1896, architect A.E. Erichson)

remodeled house (?) in the park on Presnya, on Mantulinskaya (?)

wonderful wooden mansion of G.A. Palibin (1818) in Dolgy Lane (Burdenko Street), on Plyushchikha:

a long one-story house, also in the vicinity of Plyushchikha:

modest kid on Shchepkina street:

Apparently, the outbuilding of the estate on Myasnitskaya, not far from the Garden Ring:

now a bank (they say of the Moscow Patriarchate) on St. Sergius of Radonezh, on Rogozhka -
its modern façade has been well restored:

the magnificent house of the merchant N.S. Vorobyov on Bolshaya Polyanka with a personalized coat of arms (now there is something pedagogical there)
(1905, architect L.V. Stezhensky)

a magnificent mansion with a corner faceted “tower” at the intersection of Medvezhy and Skatertny lanes:
(1905, architect V.P.Voinikov-?)

building with a figured attic in Verkhny Predtechenskoye, on Presnya:

Pechatnikov Lane - house with caryatids (1896)

the famous "Spanish courtyard" on Vozdvizhenka - luxury mansion A.A.Morozova
(1894-1899, architect V.A. Mazyrin)

and Leo Tolstoy in “Resurrection” called it a “stupid house” and “a stupid unnecessary palace for some stupid and unnecessary person”:

something embassy again, on Malaya Dmitrovka:

cozy outbuilding on Verkhnyaya Radishchevskaya, on Taganka:

the very interesting mansion of A.I. Kekusheva on Ostozhenka; It’s a pity that the lion on the roof was not preserved and the lower right corner was poorly built
(1900-1903, architect L.N. Kekushev, V.S. Kuznetsov)

estate outbuilding with lions and flying pegasuses on Prechistenka:

neo-gothic "castle" of Baron A.L. Knop in Kolpachny Lane, on Pokrovka:
(1900, architect K.V. Treiman)

retail factory store confectionery factory "Siu" (now - "Bolshevik") on Leningradsky Prospekt, which has been working according to the profile for > centuries (the "Siu" factory was built by architect Oscar Didio in 1884):

the first Moscow mansion in the Art Nouveau style - the house of O. List / N. Koussevitzky in Glazovsky Lane:
(1898-1899, architect L.N. Kekushev)

beer restaurant with turrets on Vorontsovskaya:

some kind of homemade perestroika - also on Taganka, in Mayakovsky Lane:

mansion of Y.A. Polyakov (now the residence of the English envoy) in B. Nikolopeskovsky Lane, on Arbat:
(1898, architect I.A. Ivanov-Shits)

neoclassical mansion of the Seconds on the Spasopeskovskaya site (the so-called “Spaso House”, residence of the US Ambassador)
(1913-1915, architect V.D. Adamovich, V.M. Mayat)

a stylish mansion in the classicist style with ugly double-glazed windows in Vspolny Lane:

amazing neo-gothic masterpiece- “castle” of Savva Morozov/Z.G. Morozova on Spiridonovka
(1893-1898, architect F.O. Shekhtel, artist M.A. Vrubel)

The first mansions in Moscow appeared in the 17th century. At first, they were brick chambers with a mandatory porch at the entrance, in which wealthy merchants or courtiers lived. Then mansions in Moscow began to be built for foreigners arriving in Russia for service. This is how a whole “German Settlement” appeared behind the Yauza, in which houses were built in the likeness of buildings in Germany, Sweden or Holland. Under Peter I, even models of gates and the height of fences for mansions were legally approved.

In the 18th century, the confrontation between the two continued in Moscow. architectural styles: a Russian city estate and a European mansion. In the second half of the 18th century, Moscow mansions acquired an increasingly ceremonial appearance. As a rule, the main building is located in the center, and wings are erected on the sides of it. As a rule, the courtyards in such houses opened onto a garden or park. An example of such mansions is the Apraksin house on Pokrovka or the Pashkov house on Mokhovaya. These mansions could rightfully be called palaces; they were built during the reign of Emperor Alexander I.

Most of Moscow's luxurious mansions burned down during the fire of 1812. After the expulsion of Napoleonic army from Moscow, the city began to be rebuilt, but in a different style. New mansions are being built smaller and not as magnificent. Most often they are one-story with a mezzanine or two-story. Some houses were built of brick, and some of wood. Then they were sheathed with planks and covered with stone-like plaster. Such mansions have survived to this day on Burdenko Street, as well as in Denezhny and Vlasyevsky lanes.

By the end of the 19th century, modernism was increasingly spreading in Moscow architecture, displacing classicism. The best samples Art Nouveau style in Moscow are the Ryabushinsky mansion, which was built by F. Shekhtel on Nikitskaya Street, as well as many houses created by L. Kekushev.

After October revolution In 1917, mansions were no longer built in Moscow. Lines from “Hymn of the Great Red Army” by N.A. Klyuev: “Peace to huts, war to palaces” became the slogan of some representatives of the new government. Many mansions were destroyed throughout the 20th century, but about a thousand buildings that can be classified as mansions have survived in Moscow. Many of them today house foreign embassies, museums, hospitals, administrative and other institutions.

Mansions built from the 17th to early 20th centuries are architectural monuments and during their restoration it is necessary to take the utmost care in order to preserve and restore details characteristic of a bygone era.

Ancient mansions of Moscow are houses that belonged to large merchants and nobles. This most interesting monuments allowing you to see the features of Moscow architecture different eras. Many of them have been perfectly preserved to this day; they house museums or have become municipal or office buildings. Tours of the mansions will allow you to imagine what the Capital looked like several hundred years ago, when such buildings formed the basis of urban architecture.

Chambers (as ancient Moscow mansions are often called) can make up entire streets with original buildings. As a rule, these are buildings 2-3 floors high, built of brick. They were built according to unique designs and reflect the style of the era to which they belong. Such houses are named after their first owners or famous residents. For example, with a tour you can visit the mansion where the rebel Hetman Mazepa once lived.

Residences and commercial buildings

A number of mansions in Moscow were built not only for people to live in. Shops and workshops opened in them. Despite the fact that many of these buildings look faded and do not have bright architecture, they still arouse great interest. Houses built in the 16th and 17th centuries bear the stamp of history; a lot of important events are associated with them.

What differs from them are the mansions that became the residences of Moscow princes, major merchants, as well as ambassadors of foreign states. These are luxurious buildings that amaze unusual architecture. Many of them still house the headquarters of foreign diplomats. You won’t be able to get inside, but during the tour you will be able to see the facades and listen to the guide’s story about the construction of the building and its history.