Tver courtyard. Tverskoe courtyard on Kuznetsky bridge

Kuznetsky Most is one of the most beautiful and most mysterious streets in the capital. Even today she has not lost her original physiognomy. You may not love Moscow, but you simply cannot not love Kuznetsky Most. Historian Ivan Kuzmich Kondratyev shares this opinion: “One of remarkable places Moscow - Kuznetsky Most. Ancient people Moscow called this place Neglinnaya top. Later, Neglinny Verkhov began to be called Kuznetskaya Mountain among Muscovites, because a long row of forges and wretched blacksmiths’ huts with backyards, vegetable gardens and other household utensils huddled here.”

In the old days there really was a bridge on the Kuznetsky Bridge. This bridge was wooden, very bad, but during the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna, in 1754, a stone one was built across Neglinka. The bridge was broken after the French invasion. The Kuznetsky Bridge owes its beauty and buildings to the Russian boyar Count Ivan Larionovich Vorontsov who settled here. Then the blacksmiths here fell silent and the entire Kuznetskaya Sloboda came under his power. The count built six stone houses and laid out English and French gardens with them, dug ponds, erected greenhouses and other estate buildings.

Since the 18th century, Kuznetsky Most has been the center of fashionable French shops and a “sanctuary of luxury.” All the Moscow beau monde came here to buy fashionable things, and then, without leaving far, to show off them. Going to French shops on Kuznetsky is a favorite thing for Moscow dandies and dandies. Kuznetsky Most turned into a fashionable party place, to which luxurious carriages drove up every minute. It was difficult to understand where you were - in Moscow or in Paris, because all around you could hear only French speech. No wonder Famusov exclaims indignantly:

And all the Kuznetsky Bridge, and the eternal French,
From there fashion comes to us, both authors and muses:
Destroyers of pockets and hearts!
When the creator will deliver us
From their hats! caps! and stilettos! and pins!
And book and biscuit shops!

Here on such a street, hidden in the courtyard behind the houses from prying eyes, there are ancient chambers. This site on the Kuznetsky Bridge belonged to the Tver archbishops since the 17th century. The main house of the Tver courtyard - stone two-story chambers, rectangular in plan - were built in the second half of the 17th century. The chambers are located inside the courtyard and face the southern front façade towards the Kuznetsky Bridge. Most likely, they were built over two construction periods. The small rooms of the chambers were covered with box and cylindrical vaults with strippings.

The facades of the building were decorated with modest white stone platbands with endings in the form of kokoshniks, corner and intermediate blades, crowning and interfloor cornices. Until the 1770s, the ensemble of the Tver courtyard included the Church of Arseny, Bishop of Tver, known since 1690. Saint Arseny was the heavenly patron of Tver, so it is not surprising that a temple was consecrated in the residence of the Tver archbishops in honor of this saint. Arseny was born into a noble Tver family, but from childhood he thought and cared only about pleasing God and saving his soul.

After the death of his parents, Arseny distributed the inheritance to the poor and retired to the Kiev Pechersk Monastery, where he took monastic vows. In 1390, Metropolitan Cyprian, who took the monk from Kyiv to Moscow and appointed him in charge of writing, ordained Arseny as bishop of Tver. Demetrius of Rostov writes in the life of the saint: “He zealously preached the word of God: Saint Arseny taught everyone who came to him, like a loving father; in the temple of God he edified his flock like a caring shepherd. The citizens of Tver with great zeal sought to listen to their teaching shepherd.”

At the end of the 18th century, a two-story stone volume with vaults was added to the northwestern corner of the building. The chambers on Kuznetsky Most are associated with the life and work of Archbishop of Tver and Kashinsky Platon. S.G. Pushkarev in the article “Historiography of the Russian Orthodox Church” characterizes Plato as follows: “As a prefect and teacher of the Trinity Seminary, he became famous for the eloquence of his sermons, which made a deep impression on his listeners, including the Empress Catherine II who visited Moscow, who appointed him court preacher and teacher of the law. heir to the throne Pavel Petrovich."

Some buildings of the Tverskoy Metochion were rented out. Moscow expert V.V. Sorokin, in an article dedicated to the Kuznetsky Bridge, notes: “In the second half of the 1770s, the family of a teacher, the Italian Morelli, lived here, who had a general education class, and also gave dancing and clavichord playing lessons to those who wished. One of the family members, Franz Morelli, was a choreographer at the Petrovsky Theater of Medox and a dance teacher at Moscow University from 1782. In the 1810s and 1820s, there was a workshop of the sculptor Santino Campioni producing marble and bronze artistic sculptures.

The house served as a meeting place for foreign artists who came to the Mother See of Moscow. From this workshop came various sculptural works that decorated many public houses (Golitsyn Hospital, the House of the Noble Assembly, the house of Count Razumovsky on Gorokhov Field, palaces in Ostankino and Arkhangelskoye and others). Campioni achieved especially virtuoso art in imitation of variegated marble, which he used in the decoration of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Sculptural artistic monuments of Campioni can be seen at the Vvedensky cemetery.”

In the buildings of the Tver courtyard, facing the street, according to the good tradition of the Kuznetsky Bridge, all kinds of shops with colorful signs and luxurious shop windows were located. In the first half of the 19th century, one of the buildings of the estate was rented by the Polish Store of Gennger and Co., which sold educational and stationery supplies, including insanely expensive gold pens with diamond tips - real works of art. In the 1860s, the artist and portrait photographer Mikhail Borisovich Tulinov set up a famous photo studio in the house of the Tver courtyard.

According to the artist’s own recollections, things immediately went uphill: “Saltykov-Shchedrin and Yakushkin, walking along Kuznetskaya Street, noticed my name on a sign. Are in the photograph. I take photographs in different poses... After a while Kraevsky appears, and soon Nekrasov with his famous dog... Finally Ostrovsky, Pisemsky appear, then Aksakov and Katkov.” Young I.N. worked as a retoucher in Tulinov’s studio. Kramskoy, who wrote about him in one of his letters: “my father, brother and best friend" When Kramskoy painted the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, he lived in Tulinov’s photo studio on Kuznetsky.

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, all the buildings of the Tver courtyard facing the Kuznetsky Bridge were occupied by shops and restaurants. Here was one of the famous confectionery shops of Ivan Bartels, from which the whole of Moscow feasted on Sunday pies. Famous writer and journalist S.F. Ryskin, without having his own corner for a long time, wrote almost all of his works in the basement of Bartels’ confectionery. Exhausted by daily work, Ryskin fell ill with consumption and died at the age of thirty-five. Residents of all neighboring streets came to the store of the dairy empire “Brothers V. and N. Blandov” every day for fresh milk.

Vladimir Ivanovich Blandov founded the first cheese factory in Russia and opened the first dairy plant. In Moscow alone, the Blandovs had about sixty stores where they could buy the best milk, cheese and butter. Book lovers came to Tver Compound for literary novelties and antique tomes in the stores “Russian Letter” N. Petrov, “ Primary School» K.I. Tikhomirov, “Education” and “Trading House of S. Kurnin”. The “Dyagochenko” photo workshop, located in the courtyard, was visited by many famous artists, writers, musicians and scientists.

In the basement of one of the buildings of the Tver courtyard in late XIX century, the Venice restaurant opened, which quickly gained incredible popularity. V.A. Gilyarovsky could not help but mention it in “Moscow and Muscovites”: “Of the small restaurants, Venice was the most interesting on Kuznetsky Most in the basement of the Tver Compound house.” There, in a separate room with a locked door, the grandfathers of our revolution gathered. AND more convenient place there wasn’t: at eleven o’clock the restaurant was locked, the audience dispersed - and then friendly conversations began in this small hall with curtained windows.

The kitchen is closed, the buffet is closed, and only the only owner of the restaurant, Vasily Yakovlevich, personally serves, almost praying for each of the visitors to the small hall... Only vodka, beer and cold dishes were served. Sometimes they drank until the morning. “Relaxed and intimate with me!” - Vasily Yakovlevich used to say. They came one by one and in twos and left through the back door along Kuznetsky Most and Gazetny Lane, deserted at night (at that time the entire lane from Kuznetsky Most to Nikitskaya was called Gazetny), to Tverskaya, to their “Chernyshi” and Olsufiev’s house, where they lived and where they came and illegals came to spend the night...”

In 1974, the preserved ensemble of the Tver Metochion was included in the list of historical and cultural monuments of republican significance. In 1993, the Prefecture of Central administrative district of the city of Moscow signed a contract for the reconstruction of the Tver courtyard with large company"Sibneftegaz" As a result, five of the seven buildings were demolished, and very soon modern buildings were built in their place, some of which, with high-tech concrete and tinted glass, did not fit into the surrounding buildings of the ancient Moscow Kuznetsky Most street.

The design documentation for the reconstruction of the architectural monument was submitted for approval to the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation after the actual demolition of the buildings and was not approved by it. An extension was made to the main building of the chambers. According to federal agency regarding the use of architectural monuments, during the reconstruction of the Tver courtyard, they violated the legislation of the Russian Federation on urban planning. A two-level underground garage was built right under the ancient chambers. Currently, in a building facing Kuznetsky Most, there are divisions of the Bank of Moscow and a number of other institutions and organizations.

On weekdays during working hours you can go inside the courtyard, examine and photograph the monument architecture XVII century. Or rather, what was left of it as a result of “scientific restoration.” Former Moscow mayor Yu.M. Luzhkov recognized the Sibneftegaz company as the winner of the competition for the best restoration. The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation claims that the chambers were recreated practically from scratch, using modern technologies and materials. However, the chambers look impressive and can be found in modern city, especially in the courtyard of the bank there is a corner of Moscow of the 17th century - albeit a small one, but a miracle.

Former residence of the Tver archbishops.

Until 1770, the courtyard included the church of St. Arseny, Bishop of Tver, known since 1690. Some buildings were rented out by the courtyard. In the 1770s. The family of the Italian music teacher Morelli lived here. In 1810–1820 in the building of the courtyard there was a workshop of the sculptor Santin Campioni, whose works decorated the Golitsyn hospital and the house of the Noble Assembly of the architect M. A. Kazakov, the Razumovsky city estate, the palace in Ostankino, Arkhangelskoye. Campioni also took part in decorating the interiors of the Grand Kremlin Palace with artificial marble.

In the 19th century in the courtyard building overlooking Kuznetsky Most, the premises of the “Polish store of Gennger and Co” were rented, which sold educational and stationery supplies; "English store"; optical stores of Salzfisch and Zeger. In the early 1900s. the house housed: a store of oriental goods “Japan”; "Vegetarian canteen"; Blandov Brothers' Dairy Store; bakery and confectionery of I. Bertels; many bookstores (“Russian Charter” by N. Petrov, “Elementary School” by K. I. Tikhomirov, “Education”, “Trading House of S. Kurnin”).

In the basement of the house there was a popular restaurant “Venice”, described in the chapter “Taverns” of the book by V.A. Gilyarovsky “Moscow and Muscovites”:
“Of the small restaurants, the most interesting one was on Kuznetsky Most in the basement of the Tver Compound house “Venice”. There, in a separate room with a locked door, the grandfathers of our revolution gathered. And there was no more convenient place: at eleven o’clock the restaurant was locked, the audience dispersed - and then friendly conversations began in this small hall with curtained windows.
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This was the only thing that was memorable about the Venice restaurant, which during the day served middle-class passers-by on Kuznetsky Bridge and employees in institutions, and the staggering, dapper public did not deign to pay attention to the cheap restaurant, preferring pastry shops or the neighboring Alpine Rose and Billo.”

In 1974, the entire ensemble of the Tver courtyard was included in the list of historical and cultural monuments of republican significance. In 1993, the prefecture of the Central Administrative District of Moscow signed a contract for the reconstruction of the building of house No. 17 with the Sibneftegaz company. By the spring of 1996, four buildings of the ensemble were demolished, and the building overlooking the Kuznetsky Bridge was “recreated” by building a new office center. An extension was made to the main building of the chambers, which is directly prohibited by the current legislation on the protection of monuments.

The design documentation for the reconstruction of the architectural monument was submitted for approval to the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation after the actual demolition of the buildings and was not approved by it. In October 1997, the Ministry of Culture appealed to the Moscow prosecutor's office with a request to take measures to protect the monuments and bring the perpetrators to justice. In a response letter, the prosecutor's office of the Central Administrative District of Moscow refused to initiate a criminal case regarding the demolition of the architectural monument. Mayor of Moscow Yu.M. Luzhkov recognized the participants in the “scientific restoration” of the chambers of the Tver courtyard, including the Sibneftegaz company, as winners of the competition for the best restoration.

Currently, the main building of the property, the chambers of the Tver courtyard, preserved in the courtyard of the site, is an object cultural heritage federal significance.

The surviving building of the chambers is a cultural heritage site of federal significance. Since the 17th century, the site belonged to the Tver courtyard - the residence of the Tver archbishops. Located in the courtyard of the property, the rectangular two-story building of the chambers has a complex layout and may have been erected over two construction periods. The small rooms of the chambers are covered with box and cylindrical vaults with strippings. At the end of the 18th century, a two-story stone volume with vaults was added to the northwestern corner of the building. In 1835, the facades of the chambers were completely redone, but they retained the remains of the cut-down decor made of large profile bricks, as well as fragments of window frames with kokoshniks, corner and intermediate blades, and fragments of interfloor cornices with a curb. The chambers are associated with the life and work of Archbishop Platon of Tver and Kashin - a church leader, educator, and author of numerous works. Until 1770, the compound included the Church of St. Arseny, Bishop of Tver, known since 1690.
“Recreated” building of the Tver courtyard
Tver courtyard (straight), 1903
Chambers of the Tver courtyard (in the courtyard)
Some buildings on the site were rented out by the courtyard. In the 1770s, the family of the Italian music teacher Morelli lived here. In 1810-1820, one of the houses housed the workshop of the sculptor S. Campioni, whose works decorated many buildings and estates in Moscow. The buildings of the Tverskoy courtyard, facing the street, housed numerous shops that attracted customers with their signs and display windows. In the 1830s - 1850s, the popular “Polish Store of Gennger and Co,” which sold educational and stationery supplies, the “English Store,” and the optical stores of Salzfisch and Zeger rented space here. In the 1860s, the amateur artist M. B. Tulinov lived in the house, and his friend and student I. N. Kramskoy visited him. In the early 1900s, the house overlooking Kuznetsky Most housed: the Japan oriental goods store, the Vegetarian Canteen, the Blandov brothers' dairy store, I. Bertels' bakery and confectionery, K. I. Sanzhi's French laundry, and many bookstores ( “Russian literacy” by N. Petrov, “Elementary school” by K. I. Tikhomirov, “Education”, “Trading house of S. Kurnin”), as well as antiques and curiosities stores. At the end of the 19th century, the popular restaurant “Venice”, described in V. Gilyarovsky’s book “Moscow and Muscovites,” operated in the basement of the building. Writers N. N. Zlatovratsky and N. M. Astyrev, publicist V. A. Goltsev, populist P. G. Zaichnevsky visited here.
In 1974, the ensemble of the Tver Metochion was included in the list of historical and cultural monuments of republican significance. In 1993, an investment contract was signed for the reconstruction of building No. 17. The investor under the contract was Mosbusinessbank. By the spring of 1996, four buildings of the ensemble were demolished, and the two-story building facing Kuznetsky Most, typical of the street from the time of A. S. Pushkin, was “recreated” by building a new multifunctional business complex designed by a team of authors headed by architect A. R. Vorontsov . An extension was made to the main building of the chambers, which is directly prohibited by the current legislation on the protection of cultural heritage sites. The design documentation for the reconstruction of the ensemble of the Tverskoy Metochion was not approved by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, and his appeals to the prosecutor's office demanding that those responsible for the destruction of the architectural monument be brought to justice were not satisfied. Moscow Mayor Yu. M. Luzhkov recognized the participants in the “scientific restoration” of the chambers of the Tver courtyard as the winners of the competition for the best restoration. Currently, the remodel with a facade on Kuznetsky Most is occupied by the Privilege jewelry store, divisions of the Bank of Moscow, and a number of other institutions and organizations. The main building of the ensemble, the chambers of the Tver courtyard, preserved in the courtyard of the site, is an object of cultural heritage of federal significance.

The tasteless remodel at Kuznetsky Most, no. 17 hides behind itself the most ancient structure of the street - the white stone chambers of the Tver courtyard of the 17th century (no. 17, p. 4).
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The history of the street and its closely related parallel, Sofiyka, begins with the founding of the Cannon Yard in this area on the banks of the Neglinnaya, which was built around 1475 and occupied an entire block. The builder of the courtyard was the famous architect and “cannon master” Aristotle Fioravante. Near the courtyard, cannon specialists settled - Novgorod blacksmiths, who created the Kuznetskaya Sloboda mentioned in the acts of the 15th century. This settlement was located on the banks of the Neglinnaya and along the slope of the Kuchkov field - the Neglinnaya top, or Kuznetskaya mountain.

The “Census of Moscow Households” of 1620 reports the names of homeowners on the then existing street corresponding to the modern Kuznetsky Most. Here we see the courtyard of the Tver “Archbishop Pafnutius”, the princely courts of Zasekin, Zvenigorodsky and Mosalsky, the courtyards of the “patriarchal boyar” Koltovsky and some Alexei Teplitsky. Below, closer to Neglinnaya, live “fur” blacksmiths and cab drivers: Savelyev, Vasiliev, “Matvey, Timoshka, Martynka” - without nicknames, etc. Among them are “Kalinka the cook”, “horse master” Kipriyanko Eremeev and even Prince Fyodor Obolensky . The enterprising “Ivashko Gladin” keeps baths here, fortunately the river is close. One of the characteristic features of local land ownership is the abundance of lands of the spiritual department: the Tver metochion, the metochion of the Suzdal Pokrovsky, Suzdal Spas-Efimiev and Kostroma Epiphany monasteries.

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“What made the restored chambers of the Tver courtyard (17th century) especially unique was the fact that they almost completely preserved their historical surroundings - the estate buildings of the 18th-19th centuries. One of the wings was under state protection. Extremely interesting was the two-story 19th century house down the street, which retained courtyard galleries. In 1996, most of the buildings on the property were demolished; in its place, the architect Vorontsov built a large office complex with an extremely aggressive appearance, which disfigured the prospect of the Kuznetsky Bridge and completely crushed the ancient chambers."
"List of destroyed cultural monuments in the city of Moscow"
(c) A. Mozhaev

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“The fate of reconstruction also befell the unique Moscow monument of the 17th century - the Tver courtyard, whose completeness and plasticity had considerable artistic and urban planning value. More than four years ago, serious passions boiled over the reconstruction of the courtyard, and the case was almost brought to court. Now on the site of the demolished The mansions are dominated by modern bank buildings, and the chambers themselves were restored. However, after all the work was completed, it turned out that they were locked in the bank’s courtyard and are guarded not so much by the state as by the security service of this commercial structure. According to experts, there is a two-level underground garage. The Ministry of Culture and the Moscow authorities remade the Tver courtyard "at their own discretion", demolishing and rebuilding everything that did not suit them in the monument."
Billion for the right to transfer, newspaper "Culture", October 2002.

Chambers of the Tver courtyard. 17th century

Tverskoye Metochion is a complex of historical buildings on Kuznetsky Most Street in Moscow, a former courtyard and residence of the Tver archbishops.

On Kuznetsky Most, in the courtyard behind the houses, ancient chambers are hidden. Since the 17th century, this site belonged to the Tver courtyard - the residence of the Tver archbishops.

The main building of the Tver courtyard - stone two-story chambers, rectangular in plan - were built in the second half of the 17th century. The chambers are located inside the courtyard and face the southern front façade towards the Kuznetsky Bridge. The facades of the building were decorated with modest white stone platbands.

Until 1770, the compound included the church of St. Arseny, Bishop of Tver, known since 1690. St. Arseny was the heavenly patron of Tver, so it is not surprising that a temple was consecrated in the residence of the Tver archbishops in honor of this saint.

The chambers are associated with the life and work of Archbishop of Tver and Kashinsky Platon - church leader, educator, author of numerous works:

Metropolitan Platon (in the world Pyotr Georgievich Levshin)
1770-1775 - Archbishop of Tver and Kashinsky
1775-1787 - Archbishop of Moscow and Kolomna
1787-1811 - Metropolitan of Moscow

Metropolitan Platon (Levshin) (1737 - 1812) since 1787 Metropolitan of Moscow.

He enjoyed the patronage of Empress Catherine II and was appointed teacher of the law under Paul I, for whom he wrote “Orthodox Teaching,” translated into many foreign languages.

Monument to Metropolitan Platon the work of the sculptor A. A. Bichukov is located in the Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery. The inscription on the pedestal reads: “To Metropolitan Plato from grateful Pererva.”

Metropolitan Platon at the Monument “1000th Anniversary of Russia” in Veliky Novgorod

Most likely, the Chambers were built over two construction periods. At the end of the 18th century, a two-story stone volume with vaults was added to the northwestern corner of the building.

In 1835, the facades of the chambers were completely redone in the classical style.

“Recreated” building of the Tver courtyard

Some buildings on the site were rented out by the courtyard. In the 1770s, the family of the Italian music teacher Morelli lived here.

Kuznetsky Bridge. 1907-1908. Tverskoye Compound (direct)

In the 1810-1820s, there was a workshop of the sculptor Santino Campioni for the production of marble and bronze artistic sculptures. The house served as a meeting place for foreign artists who came to the Mother See of Moscow. From this workshop came various sculptural works that decorated many public houses (Golitsyn Hospital, the House of the Noble Assembly, the house of Count Razumovsky on Gorokhov Field, palaces in Ostankino and Arkhangelskoye and others).

Campioni achieved especially virtuoso art in imitation of variegated marble, which he used in the decoration of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Sculptural artistic monuments of Campioni can be seen at the Vvedensky cemetery.”

The buildings of the Tverskoy courtyard, facing the street, housed numerous shops that attracted customers with their signs and display windows. In the 1830s - 1850s, the popular “Polish store of Gennger and Co” rented premises here, which sold educational and stationery supplies, including insanely expensive gold pens with diamond tips - real works of art.

In the 1860s, artist and portrait photographer Mikhail Borisovich Tulinov (1823-1889) set up a famous photo studio in the house of the Tver courtyard. According to the artist’s own recollections, things immediately went uphill: “Saltykov-Shchedrin and Yakushkin, walking along Kuznetskaya Street, noticed my name on a sign. Are in the photograph. I take photographs in different poses... After a while Kraevsky appears, and soon Nekrasov with his famous dog... Finally Ostrovsky, Pisemsky appear, then Aksakov and Katkov.” Young I.N. worked as a retoucher in Tulinov’s studio. Kramskoy, who wrote about him in one of his letters: “my father, brother and best friend.” When Kramskoy painted the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, he lived in Tulinov’s photo studio on Kuznetsky.

Portrait of M. B. Tulinov by I. N. Kramskoy

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, all the buildings of the Tver courtyard overlooking the Kuznetsky Bridge were occupied by shops and restaurants. Here was one of the famous confectionery shops of Ivan Bartels, from which the whole of Moscow feasted on Sunday pies. Famous writer and journalist S.F. Ryskin, without having his own corner for a long time, wrote almost all of his works in the basement of Bartels’ confectionery. Exhausted by daily work, Ryskin fell ill with consumption and died at the age of thirty-five.

Residents of all neighboring streets came to the store of the dairy empire “Brothers V. and N. Blandov” every day for fresh milk.

IN AND. Blandow (1847-1906)

Book lovers came to the Tver courtyard to buy literary novelties and antique tomes in the stores “Russian Letter” by N. Petrov, “Elementary School” by K.I. Tikhomirov, “Education” and “Trading House of S. Kurnin”. The “Dyagochenko” photo workshop, located in the courtyard, was visited by many famous artists, writers, musicians and scientists.

At the end of the 19th century, the Venice restaurant opened in the basement of one of the buildings of the Tver courtyard, which quickly gained incredible popularity. V.A. Gilyarovsky could not help but mention it in “Moscow and Muscovites”: “Of the small restaurants, Venice was the most interesting on Kuznetsky Most in the basement of the Tver Compound house.” There, in a separate room with a locked door, the grandfathers of our revolution gathered. And there was no more convenient place: at eleven o’clock the restaurant was locked, the audience dispersed - and then friendly conversations began in this small hall with curtained windows.

Kustodiev B.M. Sexual

In the early 1900s, the house overlooking Kuznetsky Most housed: the Japan oriental goods store, the Vegetarian Canteen, the Blandov brothers' dairy store, I. Bertels' bakery and confectionery, K. I. Sanzhi's French laundry, and many bookstores ( “Russian literacy” by N. Petrov, “Elementary school” by K. I. Tikhomirov, “Education”, “Trading house of S. Kurnin”), as well as antiques and curiosities stores.

After the October Revolution, the building of the chambers became residential and retained this function until the 1980s. In 1974, the ensemble of the Tver Metochion was included in the list of historical and cultural monuments.

In 1995, according to the project of I.P. Ruben and I.A. Stoletov, the restoration of the chamber building was carried out. By the spring of 1996, four buildings of the ensemble were demolished, and the two-story building facing Kuznetsky Most, typical of the street from the time of A. S. Pushkin, was “recreated” by building a new multifunctional business complex designed by a team of authors headed by architect A. R. Vorontsov .

Currently, the remodel with a façade on Kuznetsky Most is occupied by shops and restaurants, bank divisions, and a number of other institutions and organizations.

The main building of the ensemble, the chambers of the Tver Metochion, preserved in the courtyard of the site, is a cultural heritage site of federal significance. In the second half of the 1990s - 2002, the chambers were again restored according to the design of O. N. Bashilova and A. S. Voskresensky.

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