Terem on Yakimanka (Excursion to the residence of the French Ambassador). The main house of the city estate N.V.

A mosaic mansion reminiscent of an ancient Russian tower was built not far from the Kaluga outpost by a famous industrialist Nikolay Igumnov.

The merchant Igumnov was a very rich man. Still on satellite map of Abkhazia in the village of Alakhadzy you can distinguish his initials: “INV” - these are cypress alleys, figuratively planted a hundred years ago.

Nikolai Vasilyevich was a co-owner of the Yaroslavl Big Manufactory and had gold mines in Siberia. In 1888, he decided to equip his Moscow residence, which today houses the French Embassy.

The place on Yakimanka was in no way considered prestigious at that time.
Dilapidated houses, distance from the center.
Igumnov justified his choice by the fact that his childhood passed somewhere here (history has not preserved early biographical data; even the year of his birth is unknown). According to other legends, the distance from the center was required for privacy from prying eyes, because the house was not designed for ordinary life.

Be that as it may, Igumnov bought it from a certain merchant Nikolai Lukyanov wooden house, demolished it and attracted the young talented city architect of Yaroslavl Nikolai Pozdeev for a new construction. The architect had just turned 33 at that time, but in Yaroslavl he had already received recognition thanks to a number of high-quality buildings.

The stylistic similarity of the mansion with the masterpiece of Moscow architecture of the same years - the State Historical Museum - is revealed. Today the building is an object cultural heritage federal significance, but initially the Moscow “society” reacted to the palace more than coolly.

According to legend, the upset Igumnov refused to pay for everything that had not been paid in advance, after which the architect Pozdeev committed suicide.

According to another version, the architect died from serious illness at the age of 38. This project became his last work.

It's hard to say whether this is related to tragic fate architect, but Igumnov’s mansion has always been surrounded by dark legends. The most common of them says that the owner settled his dancer-lover in this fairy-tale palace, and when he caught her cheating, he killed her alive. immured the unfortunate woman in the wall.
Since then, her ghost allegedly wanders through the halls of the mansion, disturbing the peace of its inhabitants.

It is unknown who spread the rumors, but Igumnov’s ill-wishers were very influential.

The authorities chose a place of exile that was by no means a resort: the Abkhaz coast of the Sukhumi region was then swampy, infested with malarial mosquitoes and poisonous snakes. After looking around, the disgraced merchant purchased 6 thousand acres of local swamps for next to nothing and began new life. The first successful business was created with the help of fishermen discharged from the Don. Igumnov mastered the trade and opened the first cannery on the Black Sea coast.

Comfortable living conditions were created for the workers: seasonal workers were provided with a dormitory with rooms for two people and large smoking rooms, permanent workers received separate houses, which after a few years became their property.
Igumnov brought eucalyptus trees and swamp cypresses here, which quickly drew excess moisture from the local soils. Chernozem was brought from Kuban, breeding stock was brought from Yaroslavl, and the merchant became interested in gardening. Through his efforts, plantations of tangerines, kiwi, mangoes, and tobacco appeared in these lands, the Abkhazian Bamboo enterprise began operating, and cypress alleys that have survived to this day appeared.

After the revolution, Nikolai Vasilyevich refused to emigrate to France.
He voluntarily transferred his property to the state and got a job as an agronomist at the citrus state farm named after the Third International, which became the name of his former estate.
Nikolai Vasilyevich died in 1924, he was buried modestly, planting his beloved cypress trees on his grave.

But already in 1925 the club was evicted, and people in white coats appeared in Igumnov’s house. A laboratory began to work here to study the brain of the deceased Vladimir Lenin. The German neuroscientist Oskar Vogt was invited to lead this institution. In 1928, the laboratory was elevated to the Brain Institute. The brains here were studied using a special technique, hoping to decipher the phenomenon of genius and create a superman. Scientists tried to find general patterns in the anatomical structure of those whom the authorities considered outstanding specimens
human nature. In the mansion on Yakimanka they began to actively collect the brains of outstanding people. In 1934, Pravda wrote that “the scientific team
The Institute has prepared and is already studying the brains of Clara Zetkin, Lunacharsky, Tsyurupa, Mayakovsky, Andrei Bely, Academician Gulevich.” Soon this unique collection
replenished with the brains of director Stanislavsky, singer Sobinov, Maxim Gorky and Eduard Bagritsky, scientists Michurin, Pavlov, Tsiolkovsky, revolutionary figures
Kalinin, Kirov, Kuibyshev, Krupskaya.

In 1938, the house came into the possession of the French Embassy.
In 1944, President Charles de Gaulle presented awards here to the pilots of the Normandie-Niemen squadron.
The Dutch brick building is still maintained in perfect condition by employees of the French diplomatic mission.

About the ghost of Igumnov's house.
Rumor has it that there is still a so-called “ white woman" According to legend, this small mansion was given as a gift by the merchant Igumnov to his kept woman. He himself lived in Yaroslavl, and visited the capital on visits. He usually warned the lady of his heart about his arrivals through a sent servant. But one day he arrived without warning and found his beloved with a young cornet... The owner kicked the cornet out, but after that the girl disappeared without a trace. There were rumors that the merchant killed her in his heart, and walled up her corpse in the wall of the mansion.

According to another legend, his young stoker is to blame for everything. The guy allegedly began to flirt with the pretty daughter of a merchant, for which he was soon forever excommunicated from the rich house. True, this did not end the matter. Rumor claims that before leaving, the offended stoker secretly filled the chimneys with clay shards. As a result, when the stoves in the mansion-palace were flooded, the pipes and even the walls began to make terrible sounds (for some reason, especially at night), from which the owner suffered unbearably.

But let's return to home. The pseudo-Russian style was chosen for construction, very fashionable in those days ( Historical Museum, GUM store building, etc.). This style of architecture took inspiration from the image of Russian wooden towers, the most famous of which, the palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in Kolomenskoye, burned down in the 18th century.

Other decorative elements were taken from church architecture(St. Basil's Cathedral) or the churches of Yaroslavl, which perfectly combined brick, stone and multi-colored tiles.

On the high roof of the mansion there is pressed metal for tiles and ceramic inserts. Above the “red porch” (front entrance) there is an elegant antique double arch.
The walls are made of imported Dutch bricks. Window edging made of white stone from the Moscow region. Picturesque bells, onion-topped tents, blown columns. Multicolor mosaic of the rarest tiles, specially painted according to the drawings of the Russian painter S. Maslennikov and manufactured at the famous Kuznetsov factory.

Pozdeev’s talent was able to combine into a single whole various volumes, topped with picturesque tents, and numerous decorative details of different genres (bells, vaulted arches, blown columns, etc.). The result was harmonious, although a little massive.

The interior is also replete with decorations. The hall and the main staircase are a masterpiece of multicolor, perfectly combined with external decoration building.

"Old Russian" hall with a grand staircase.

Extraordinarily beautiful doors. There are four of them in the hall and not one is the same.

Immediately behind the massive doors leading into the living room, the architect completely changes the style and we are immersed in classic decoration. Louis XV-style furniture and magnificent 17th-century tapestries highlight the French spirit of this space. The small salon adjacent to the living room is furnished in the Louis XVI style, and the small dining room is decorated with furniture and fabrics from the Empire era. The formal dining room, very austere and sparsely furnished, bears the stamp of the Middle Ages thanks to its low vaulted ceiling.

We make the transition from one century to another through the gallery in the Empire style. The “exterior in the interior” technique. A finish typically used for façade work. The mirror at the end of the corridor endlessly stretches the room.

Many people are familiar with the history of this house, but repetition - mother teachings, for those who did not know or forgot.
The merchant Igumnov was a very rich man. Still on the satellite map of Abkhazia
in the village of Alakhadzy you can distinguish his initials: “INV” - these are cypress alleys,
figuratively planted a hundred years ago. Nikolai Vasilievich was a co-owner of Yaroslavskaya
Large manufactory, had gold mines in Siberia.
In 1888, he decided to arrange his Moscow residence,
which today houses the French Embassy.

Be that as it may, Igumnov bought a wooden house from a certain merchant Nikolai Lukyanov,
demolished it and brought in the young talented city architect of Yaroslavl, Nikolai Pozdeev, for a new construction.
The architect had just turned 33 at that time, but in Yaroslavl he had already received recognition thanks to a number of high-quality buildings. By the way, it cannot be ruled out that the place near the Kaluga outpost was recommended to the customer by the architect, whose childhood was spent near Maloyaroslavets, and whose acquaintance with Moscow came from here.

The house was built in the form of a fairy-tale palace in the pseudo-Russian style.
Igumnov wanted to conquer the Mother See and did not skimp.
Bricks for construction were transported directly to the construction site
from Holland, tiles and tiles were ordered from porcelain factories
Kuznetsov, interior decoration was entrusted to one of the most popular
then architects Peter Boitsov. We managed to combine into a single whole
the most diverse and complex components: turrets, tents, vaults
arches, columns. Stylistic similarities between the mansion are revealed
with a masterpiece of Moscow architecture of the same years - the State
Historical Museum. Today the building is a cultural object
heritage of federal significance, but originally Moscow
The “world” reacted more than coolly to the palace.

According to legend, the upset Igumnov refused to pay for everything,
which was not prepaid, after which the architect Pozdeev
committed suicide. According to another version, the architect died from a severe
illness at 38 years of age. This project became his last work.

The capital did not want to accept a rich and successful provincial.
Soon rumors spread around the city that in Nikolai Vasilyevich’s mansion
there lived a young lover-dancer. One day, without suffering betrayal,
the merchant walled her up alive in the wall.
It is unknown who spread the rumors, but Igumnov has ill-wishers
were very influential.
When in 1901 a merchant decided to throw a ball in a house on Yakimanka,
out of his habit, he wanted to amaze the guests with his scale.
For this purpose the floor dance hall was completely covered with new ones
gold chervonets.
And the very next day in St. Petersburg, Nicholas II was informed that
How Moscow merchants danced on the imperial profiles,
minted on coins.
The reaction followed immediately: by the highest order
Nikolai Igumnov was expelled from the Mother See, without the right to return to it.

The authorities chose a place of exile that was not a resort: the Abkhaz coast
The Sukhumi region was then swampy and infested with malaria mosquitoes
and poisonous snakes. After looking around, the disgraced merchant bought it for next to nothing
6 thousand acres of local swamps and began a new life.
The first successful business was created with the help of fishermen discharged from the Don.
Igumnov mastered the trade and opened the first cannery on the Black Sea coast.

Comfortable living conditions were created for the workers: seasonal workers were provided with a dormitory with rooms for two people and large smoking rooms, permanent workers received separate houses, which after a few years became their property.
Igumnov brought eucalyptus trees and swamp cypresses here, which quickly drew out excess moisture
from local soils. Chernozem was brought from Kuban, breeding stock was brought from Yaroslavl, and the merchant became interested in gardening. Through his efforts, plantations of tangerines, kiwi, mango, tobacco,
The Abkhazian Bamboo enterprise started operating, and cypress alleys that have survived to this day appeared.

History sometimes likes to grimace. If the emperor took the house from the merchant for a ball on coins with his image, then after the revolution and nationalization, the building for several years became... the club of the Goznak factory.
The next owner of the house on Yakimanka lived up to the dark legends that surrounded the mansion: in 1925, a brain research laboratory settled here for 13 years
(since 1928 - Brain Institute).
During this time, the brains of Lenin, Clara Zetkin, Tsyurupa, Lunacharsky, Andrei Bely, Mayakovsky, Gorky, Pavlov, Michurin, Tsiolkovsky, Kalinin, Kirov, Kuibyshev, Krupskaya visited here...

In 1938, the mansion was transferred to the French Embassy. In 1944, President Charles de Gaulle presented awards here to the pilots of the Normandie-Niemen squadron.
The Dutch brick building is still maintained in perfect condition by employees of the French diplomatic mission.

About the ghost of Igumnov's house.
Rumor has it that there is still a so-called “white woman” in the French embassy building.
According to legend, this small mansion was given as a gift by the merchant Igumnov to his kept woman.
He himself lived in Yaroslavl, and visited the capital on visits. He usually warned the lady of his heart about his arrivals through a sent servant.
But one day he arrived without warning and found his beloved with a young cornet...
The owner kicked Cornet out, but after that the girl disappeared without a trace.
There were rumors that the merchant killed her in his heart, and walled up her corpse in the wall of the mansion.

According to another legend, his young stoker is to blame for everything. The guy allegedly began to flirt with the pretty daughter of a merchant, for which he was soon forever excommunicated from the rich house.
True, this did not end the matter. Rumor claims that before leaving, the offended stoker secretly filled the chimneys with clay shards.
As a result, when the stoves in the mansion-palace were flooded, the pipes and even the walls began to make terrible sounds (for some reason, especially at night), from which the owner suffered unbearably.

But let's return to the house. A pseudo-Russian style was chosen for construction,
very fashionable in those days (Historical Museum, GUM store building, etc.).
This style of architecture took inspiration from the image of Russian wooden towers,
the most famous of which is the palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in Kolomenskoye -
burned down in the 18th century.

Other decorative elements were taken from church architecture
(St. Basil's Cathedral) or the churches of Yaroslavl, in which it is beautiful
Brick, stone and multi-colored tiles were combined.

On the high roof of the mansion there is pressed metal under the tiles,
ceramic inserts. Above the "red porch" (front entrance
elegant antique double arch.
The walls are made of imported Dutch bricks. White window trim
Moscow region stone. Picturesque bells, onion-topped tents,
blown columns. Multi-colored mosaic of the rarest tiles, specially
painted according to drawings by the Russian painter S. Maslennikov
and manufactured at the famous Kuznetsov plant.

Pozdeev’s talent managed to combine various volumes into a single whole,
topped with picturesque tents, and numerous decorative
details of different genres (bells, vaulted arches, blown columns, etc.).
The result was harmonious, although a little massive.

On museum day I was lucky enough to get inside! There will be a lot of photographs so that you can say that you saw what it was like inside. I apologize for the quality of some of the photographs and the people in the frame. It's difficult to take perfect pictures during a tour.

The interior is also replete with decorations. The hall and main staircase are a masterpiece of multicolor, perfectly combined with the exterior decoration of the building.
"Old Russian" hall with a grand staircase.

Extraordinarily beautiful doors
There are four of them in the hall and not one is the same

The fragment shows what the painting was originally like. There is an idea to refresh the walls, which I don’t like at all.

We go up to the second floor.

We open the massive door and...we find ourselves from the Middle Ages into the interiors of Louis XV

We make the transition from one century to another through a gallery in the Empire style. Reception of the exterior into the interior.
The finishing is usually used for facade work. The mirror at the end of the corridor endlessly stretches the room.

On the corridor side, the door is very simple, without decoration.

Unfortunately, I didn’t find anything about the interiors of the house. Therefore, I suggest you look at the photographs and information
try to find it yourself, maybe you'll have better luck.

Round, mirrored room. Very bright, flirty.

The hospitable hosts prepared us tea and coffee.

View from the window onto the balcony.

Ten thousand tiles on my head!
Here it is, the very place where I would go on museum night, or during the day, and whenever. A ton of slip in my side! I’ve been wanting to get inside for so many years now, and never once have my arrival in Moscow coincided with a free visit day. I have already photographed it length and breadth from all possible angles with a variety of lenses. I know what each type of tile looks like, I know which roofs have ceramic tiles and which have metal ones. He “bribed” the guards and visited the guarded perimeter behind the house to remove it from behind the fence and find out what it looked like from the yard. But I never got inside. And on the day of the museums it was open, it turns out that the pottery wheel is fine with me... although no, this is already too much. Thank you m_m_mira for the link.
Let’s not despair: I still managed to get into the Atrium in Kolomenskoye, which means I’ll get here someday. In the meantime, look at other people's photos.

Original taken from aroundtree to the House of Merchant Igumnov on Yakimanka.

Museum Day was a success. I visited the house of merchant Igumnov, the residence French Ambassador in Russia.

Many people are familiar with the history of this house, but repetition is the mother of learning, for those who did not know or forgot.
The merchant Igumnov was a very rich man. Still on the satellite map of Abkhazia
in the village of Alakhadzy you can distinguish his initials: “INV” - these are cypress alleys,
figuratively planted a hundred years ago. Nikolai Vasilievich was a co-owner of Yaroslavskaya
Large manufactory, had gold mines in Siberia.
In 1888, he decided to arrange his Moscow residence,
which today houses the French Embassy.

The capital did not want to accept a rich and successful provincial.
Soon rumors spread around the city that in Nikolai Vasilyevich’s mansion
there lived a young lover-dancer. One day, without suffering betrayal,
the merchant walled her up alive in the wall.
It is unknown who spread the rumors, but Igumnov has ill-wishers
were very influential.
When in 1901 a merchant decided to throw a ball in a house on Yakimanka,
out of his habit, he wanted to amaze the guests with his scale.
For this purpose, the floor of the dance hall was completely covered with new
gold chervonets.
And the very next day in St. Petersburg, Nicholas II was informed that
how the Moscow merchants danced on the imperial profiles,
minted on coins.
The reaction followed immediately: by the highest order
Nikolai Igumnov was expelled from the Mother See, without the right to return to it.

Comfortable living conditions were created for the workers: seasonal workers were provided with a dormitory with rooms for two people and large smoking rooms, permanent workers received separate houses, which after a few years became their property.
Igumnov brought eucalyptus trees and swamp cypresses here, which quickly drew out excess moisture
from local soils. Chernozem was brought from Kuban, breeding stock was brought from Yaroslavl, and the merchant became interested in gardening. Through his efforts, plantations of tangerines, kiwi, mango, tobacco,
The Abkhazian Bamboo enterprise started operating, and cypress alleys that have survived to this day appeared.

According to another legend, his young stoker is to blame for everything. The guy allegedly began to flirt with the pretty daughter of a merchant, for which he was soon forever excommunicated from the rich house.
True, this did not end the matter. Rumor claims that before leaving, the offended stoker secretly filled the chimneys with clay shards.
As a result, when the stoves in the mansion-palace were flooded, the pipes and even the walls began to make terrible sounds (for some reason, especially at night), from which the owner suffered unbearably.

Other decorative elements were taken from church architecture
(St. Basil's Cathedral) or the churches of Yaroslavl, in which it is beautiful
Brick, stone and multi-colored tiles were combined.

Extraordinarily beautiful doors
There are four of them in the hall and not one is the same

The fragment shows what the painting was originally like. There is an idea to refresh the walls, which I don’t like at all.

We go up to the second floor.

We open the massive door and...we find ourselves from the Middle Ages into the interiors of Louis XV

On the corridor side, the door is very simple, without decoration.

Unfortunately, I didn’t find anything about the interiors of the house. Therefore, I suggest you look at the photographs and information
try to find it yourself, maybe you'll have better luck.

Round, mirrored room. Very bright, flirty.

The hospitable hosts prepared us tea and coffee.

View from the window onto the balcony.

Recently I visited the house of the merchant Igumnov - the residence of the French ambassador to Russia. Many people are familiar with the history of this house. The merchant Igumnov was a very rich man. To this day, on the satellite map of Abkhazia in the village of Alakhadzy, one can distinguish his initials: “INV” - these are cypress alleys, figuratively planted a hundred years ago. Nikolai Vasilyevich was a co-owner of the Yaroslavl Big Manufactory and had gold mines in Siberia. In 1888, he decided to equip his Moscow residence, which today houses the French Embassy.

The place on Yakimanka was in no way considered prestigious at that time. Dilapidated houses, distance from the center. Igumnov justified his choice by the fact that his childhood passed somewhere here (history has not preserved early biographical data; even the year of his birth is unknown). According to other legends, the distance from the center was required for privacy from prying eyes, because the house was not designed for ordinary life.

Be that as it may, Igumnov bought a wooden house from a certain merchant Nikolai Lukyanov, demolished it and hired a young talented city architect of Yaroslavl, Nikolai Pozdeev, for a new construction project. The architect had just turned 33 at that time, but in Yaroslavl he had already received recognition thanks to a number of high-quality buildings. By the way, it cannot be ruled out that the place near the Kaluga outpost was recommended to the customer by the architect, whose childhood was spent near Maloyaroslavets, and whose acquaintance with Moscow came from here.

The house was built in the form of a fairy-tale palace in the pseudo-Russian style. Igumnov wanted to conquer the Mother See and did not skimp. Bricks for construction were brought to the construction site directly from Holland, tiles and tiles were ordered from Kuznetsov's porcelain factories, and interior decoration was entrusted to one of the most popular architects of that time, Pyotr Boytsov. It was possible to combine the most diverse and complex components into a single whole: turrets, tents, vaulted arches, columns. The stylistic similarity of the mansion with the masterpiece of Moscow architecture of the same years - the State Historical Museum - is revealed. Today the building is a cultural heritage site of federal significance, but initially the Moscow “society” reacted to the palace more than coolly.

According to legend, the upset Igumnov refused to pay for everything that was not paid in advance, after which the architect Pozdeev committed suicide. According to another version, the architect died of a serious illness at the age of 38. This project became his last work.

The capital did not want to accept a rich and successful provincial. Soon rumors spread throughout the city that a young dancer-mistress lived in Nikolai Vasilyevich’s mansion. One day, without suffering betrayal, the merchant walled her up alive in the wall. It is unknown who spread the rumors, but Igumnov’s ill-wishers were very influential. When in 1901 a merchant decided to throw a ball in a house on Yakimanka, he, as was his habit, wanted to amaze the guests with its grandeur. For this purpose, the floor of the dance hall was completely covered with brand new gold chervonets. And the very next day in St. Petersburg, Nicholas II was reported how the Moscow merchants danced on the imperial profiles minted on coins. The reaction followed immediately: by the highest order, Nikolai Igumnov was expelled from the Mother See, without the right to return to it.

The authorities chose a place of exile that was by no means a resort: the Abkhaz coast of the Sukhumi region was then swampy, infested with malarial mosquitoes and poisonous snakes. After looking around, the disgraced merchant purchased 6 thousand acres of local swamps for next to nothing and began a new life. The first successful business was created with the help of fishermen discharged from the Don. Igumnov mastered the trade and opened the first cannery on the Black Sea coast.

Comfortable living conditions were created for the workers: seasonal workers were provided with a dormitory with rooms for two people and large smoking rooms, permanent workers received separate houses, which after a few years became their property. Igumnov brought eucalyptus trees and swamp cypresses here, which quickly drew excess moisture from the local soils. Chernozem was brought from Kuban, breeding stock was brought from Yaroslavl, and the merchant became interested in gardening. Through his efforts, plantations of tangerines, kiwi, mangoes, and tobacco appeared in these lands, the Abkhazian Bamboo enterprise began operating, and cypress alleys that have survived to this day appeared.

After the revolution, Nikolai Vasilyevich refused to emigrate to France. He voluntarily transferred his property to the state and got a job as an agronomist at the citrus state farm named after the Third International, which became the name of his former estate. Nikolai Vasilyevich died in 1924, he was buried modestly, planting his beloved cypress trees on his grave.

History sometimes likes to grimace. If the emperor took the house from the merchant for a ball on coins with his image, then after the revolution and nationalization, the building for several years became... the club of the Goznak factory. The next owner of the house on Yakimanka lived up to the gloomy legends that surrounded the mansion: in 1925, a brain research laboratory settled here for 13 years (since 1928 - the Brain Institute). During this time, the brains of Lenin, Clara Zetkin, Tsyurupa, Lunacharsky, Andrei Bely, Mayakovsky, Gorky, Pavlov, Michurin, Tsiolkovsky, Kalinin, Kirov, Kuibyshev, Krupskaya visited here...

In 1938, the mansion was transferred to the French Embassy. In 1944, President Charles de Gaulle presented awards here to the pilots of the Normandie-Niemen squadron. The Dutch brick building is still maintained in perfect condition by employees of the French diplomatic mission.

About the ghost of Igumnov's house. Rumor has it that there is still a so-called “white woman” in the French embassy building. According to legend, this small mansion was given as a gift by the merchant Igumnov to his kept woman. He himself lived in Yaroslavl, and visited the capital on visits. He usually warned the lady of his heart about his arrivals through a sent servant. But one day he arrived without warning and found his beloved with a young cornet... The owner kicked the cornet out, but after that the girl disappeared without a trace. There were rumors that the merchant killed her in his heart, and walled up her corpse in the wall of the mansion.

But let's return to home. For the construction, a pseudo-Russian style was chosen, which was very fashionable at that time (Historical Museum, GUM store building, etc.). This style of architecture took inspiration from the image of Russian wooden towers, the most famous of which, the palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in Kolomenskoye, burned down in the 18th century.

Other decorative elements were taken from church architecture (St. Basil's Cathedral) or Yaroslavl churches, which beautifully combined brick, stone and multi-colored tiles.

On the high roof of the mansion there is pressed metal for tiles and ceramic inserts. Above the “red porch” (the main entrance there is an elegant antique double arch. The walls are made of imported Dutch brick. The window edging is made of white stone from the Moscow region. Picturesque bells, onion-shaped tent tops, blown columns. Multi-colored mosaic of the rarest tiles, specially painted according to the drawings of the Russian painter S. Maslennikov and manufactured at the famous Kuznetsov plant.

Then we go up to the second floor, open the massive door and... we find ourselves from the Middle Ages into the interiors of Louis XV! We make the transition from one century to another through a gallery in the Empire style. Reception exterior to interior. Finishing usually used for facade work. The mirror at the end of the corridor endlessly stretches the room.

Address: Bolshaya Yakimanka, 43c1.
Nearest metro:"Oktyabrskaya", "Polyanka".

The capital did not want to accept a rich and successful provincial.
Soon rumors spread around the city that in Nikolai Vasilyevich’s mansion
there lived a young lover-dancer. One day, without suffering betrayal,
the merchant walled her up alive in the wall.
It is unknown who spread the rumors, but Igumnov has ill-wishers
were very influential.
When in 1901 a merchant decided to throw a ball in a house on Yakimanka,
out of his habit, he wanted to amaze the guests with his scale.
For this purpose, the floor of the dance hall was completely covered with new
gold chervonets.
And the very next day in St. Petersburg, Nicholas II was informed that
how the Moscow merchants danced on the imperial profiles,
minted on coins.
The reaction followed immediately: by the highest order
Nikolai Igumnov was expelled from the Mother See, without the right to return to it.

Comfortable living conditions were created for the workers: seasonal workers were provided with a dormitory with rooms for two people and large smoking rooms, permanent workers received separate houses, which after a few years became their property.
Igumnov brought eucalyptus trees and swamp cypresses here, which quickly drew out excess moisture
from local soils. Chernozem was brought from Kuban, breeding stock was brought from Yaroslavl, and the merchant became interested in gardening. Through his efforts, plantations of tangerines, kiwi, mango, tobacco,
The Abkhazian Bamboo enterprise started operating, and cypress alleys that have survived to this day appeared.

According to another legend, his young stoker is to blame for everything. The guy allegedly began to flirt with the pretty daughter of a merchant, for which he was soon forever excommunicated from the rich house.
True, this did not end the matter. Rumor claims that before leaving, the offended stoker secretly filled the chimneys with clay shards.
As a result, when the stoves in the mansion-palace were flooded, the pipes and even the walls began to make terrible sounds (for some reason, especially at night), from which the owner suffered unbearably.

Other decorative elements were taken from church architecture
(St. Basil's Cathedral) or the churches of Yaroslavl, in which it is beautiful
Brick, stone and multi-colored tiles were combined.

Extraordinarily beautiful doors
There are four of them in the hall and not one is the same

The fragment shows what the painting was originally like. There is an idea to refresh the walls, which I don’t like at all.

We go up to the second floor.

We open the massive door and...we find ourselves from the Middle Ages into the interiors of Louis XV

On the corridor side, the door is very simple, without decoration.

Unfortunately, I didn’t find anything about the interiors of the house. Therefore, I suggest you look at the photographs and information
try to find it yourself, maybe you'll have better luck.

Round, mirrored room. Very bright, flirty.

The hospitable hosts prepared us tea and coffee.

View from the window onto the balcony.