Research Institute of Art Studies
A walking tour of Tverskaya Street and Pushkinskaya Square, as well as the tour route will take you along one of the shortest alleys in Moscow – Kozitsky.
- The only mansion on Kozitsky Lane, surrounded by apartment buildings, was built at the end of the 18th century, and its most famous owner is Anna Ivanovna Lobkova, the mother of the famous bibliographer and friend of A. S. Pushkin, Sergei Alexandrovich Sobolevsky. She owned a large fortune and during her time the entire estate was completed and the volume of the main building was increased. In the second half of the 19th century, A.I. Lobkova rented out the house for apartments. The future famous historian V. O. Klyuchevsky lived here when he was a student at Moscow University. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries . the house belonged to the city, it housed the city printing house, where tram tickets were printed. In the post-revolutionary period, the future famous Soviet writer Alexander Tvardovsky lived in the dormitory. In Soviet times, the mansion did not escape transformation into communal housing. Since 1964, the mansion has housed the Art Research Institute.
- Pilasters and mascarons with female faces are well preserved on the facade of the house. This is a classic example of a late 18th-century Moscow manor house. The house survived the fire of 1812 and is connected by its history with the name of Marie-Henri Bayle, known to us under the pseudonym Stendhal.
- During the tour
- You will find out:
- What kind of advertising trick did St. Petersburg merchants Eliseev come up with during the pompous opening of their first grocery store in Moscow;
- In which house, after returning to the USSR from emigration, the family of the famous Soviet pop singer and actor A. Vertinsky settled;
- Where the Soviet writer N. Ostrovsky spent the last months of his life;
- Why did Muscovites nickname the corner house on Tverskaya Street "House under the skirt" and what does the famous ballerina O. Lepeshinskaya have to do with it?;
- In which house did the most famous film actress of the USSR, L. P. Orlova, spend the last years of her life;
- Why is the Lobkova mansion considered one of the few houses in Moscow that has preserved the appearance of the city at the end of the XVIII century;
- What surprised and amazed the French soldiers who entered Moscow in 1812 in the Lobkova mansion;
- The history of the Lobkova mansion, from the year of its construction to the present day;
- What contribution did Igor Grabar make to the history of the creation of the Institute of Art Studies?
- You will see:
- Restored historical interiors of the Pubkova Mansion;
- Recreated stucco molding and ceiling paintings of the mansion interiors;
- Mysterious allegories that decorate the inner chambers of the mistress of the house;
- Fragments of an ancient stove and fireplaces that were originally in the house, but were partially lost during subsequent alterations of the mansion.;
- Fragments of the interiors of the dormitory where A. Tvardovsky lived;
- The building, in the style of "Soviet constructivism", which houses the memorial apartment of Vertinsky.
- The duration of the tour is 2.5 hours. The tour route passes through Pushkin Square, Tverskaya Street and Kozitsky Lane.
- GATHERING OF THE GROUP: in the center of the hall of the Tverskaya metro station of the Zamoskvoretskaya (green) line No. 2.
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