Chlebny Alley

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Chlebny Alley

The Chlebny Alley ( Russian Хлебный переулок Chlebny pereulok ) is a road that on the border of the districts of Arbat and Presnensky in the Central Administrative District of Moscow lies. It runs parallel to Powarskaya Street from Merslyakovsky Street to Skatertny Street. The length is 0.66 kilometers.

history

Chlebny Alley is located on the area of ​​the former Powarskaya sloboda . This was an area where Tsar's cooks and other service personnel lived and worked. The main street of Sloboda was Powarskaya Street (Cooks Street), along Chlebny Street lived bakers (Chleb means bread) and there were court bakeries. When Saint Petersburg became the new capital in 1712, the court with the court kitchen was transferred there. Then the Powarskaya Sloboda area was built up of noble houses and merchants' houses. At the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century, houses were built on Chlebny Street.

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Belgian embassy
  • House number 15 - the Gribow mansion was built in 1909 by the architects Boris Welikowski and Alexei Milykow, with the assistance of Leonid Wesnin for the merchant Wladimir Gribow. A building in the style of classicism , with a colonnade, fronton and two cast iron lions. After the October Revolution, this was first an administration of the military topography of the Red Army, then a school. After the Second World War and to this day, the Belgian embassy resides here, as well as the Belgian military attaché. The building was restored by Belgium. In 1961, after the death of Patrice Lumumba , massive demonstrations were held in front of the building and the building was somewhat damaged.
Usadba Kamynina
  • House number 2/3 - classical Kamynins mansion (Russian: Usadba Kamynina) . The oldest building in the alley, construction began in 1758, the right wing of the central building was erected in 1770, the left wing in 1778. The first owner was Chief Procuror Lykjan Ivanovich Kamynin. It was damaged during the fire in 1812 , bought in 1815 by the merchant MP Sabelin and rebuilt in 1821–1823. After that the building was used as a tenement house. At the beginning of the 20th century there was a private high school. Now the Institute of Study of the USA and Canada of RAW (Russian Институт США и Канады РАН ) is located here .
  • House number 6 - a two-story building from 1868 by the architect Kasimir Grinewski . The well-known scientist Dmitri Nikolayevich Anuchin lived here from 1911 to 1923 .
  • House number 6a - a one-story wooden house from 1830, a cultural monument. The composer Nikolai Kotschetow lived here from 1902–1925 , and from 1925–1951 his son Vadim Kotschetow, also a composer, lived here.
  • House number 8 - a tenement house from 1903, built by Vladimir Vladimirovich Sherwood .
  • House number 20/3 - the Nekrasov house, was built in 1906 by Roman Iwanowitsch Klein for the Siberian gold digger Iwan Ignatjewitsch Nekrasow in the modern and neo-Gothic style. Now the Ambassador of Chile resides here .
  • House number 18/6 - was built for himself by the architect Sergei Solowjow , with the help of Marija Wassiljewna Jakuntschikowa and Nikolai Andrejewitsch Andrejew . Former Georgian embassy , since 2008 a Swiss diplomatic mission has been located here , which conducted diplomatic communication between Russia and Georgia.
  • House number 19 - a residential building from 1913. The well-known psychiatrist Pyotr Borisovich Gannuschkin lived here from 1919–1933 . In 1918 there was also a conspiratorial quarter of Bruce Lockhart here .
  • House number 21/4 - a two-story MA.-Tarasow mansion, was built in 1909–1910 by Michail Geisler and Karl Greinert.
  • House number 22 - wooden house from 1858, belonged to EK Fadejewa.
  • House number 24 - five-story residential building built in 1904 by Konstantin Fyodorowitsch Burow . From 1948–1968 the Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Danilowitsch Sokolowski lived here .
  • House number 28 - residential building from 1815 in the style of the Empire . Was rebuilt in 1887, 1991, 1909. The composer Alexei Nikolajewitsch Werstowski lived here, and the German military attaché Ernst-August Köstring resided here from 1935–1941 . The Icelandic embassy has been here since 1944 .

Web links

Commons : Chlebny-Gasse  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 55 ° 45 ′ 20.1 "  N , 37 ° 35 ′ 37.5"  E