Gagarinski Alley
The Gagarinsky Alley , Russian переулок Гагаринский is a street in the district of Khamovniki in central administrative district of Moscow lies. It leads radially from Gogol-Boulevard (a section of the boulevard ring ) west to Plotnikow-Gasse and is located between Pretschistenka and Sivzew-Vraschek-Gasse . The length is 0.7 kilometers.
designation
The street got its name after the princely family , whose representatives had a mansion here in the 17th and early 18th of the century. At that time it was named Staraya Konyushennaya Street (it got this name after Konyushennaya Sloboda, a "horse- keeper's settlement "), and there were also tsar stables here . The street has been called Gagarinski since the late 18th century. In 1962 it was renamed Ryleev Street in memory of Kondrati Ryleev . In 1994 Ryleev Street was renamed Gagarinsky Street again.
description
- No. 2: Secretary's house from 1852. The architect Konstantin Thon lived here .
- No. 8: Mstislavski house from 1925 (architect was A. Shusjew).
- No. 11: Faleev House. A stone house from the beginning of the 19th century, rebuilt in 1845, bought in 1895 by architect Nikolai Faleew and redesigned again. After the October Revolution, the house was handed over to the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs and used as a residence for foreign guests and diplomats (journalist John Reed lived and died here ). Now the Abkhazian embassy is here .
- No. 15/7: Steinheil House - was built in 1816. The first resident was Baron Steinheil. The house served as a meeting place for Decembrists to prepare for the uprising. In 1824 Kondrati Rylejew lived here. From 1830 the house belonged to Nikolai Turgenev, who was Ivan Turgenev's uncle, and in 1834 Alexander Suvorov , grandson of the generalissimo of the same name , lived here . From 1872 to 1917 the house belonged to Professor Lev Lopatin and was considered a center of Moscow's cultural life. Here were Leo Tolstoy , Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Alexander Ostrovsky , Fyodor Tyutchev , Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin , Konstantin Stanislavsky , Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko , Vassili Kljutschewski , Sergei Solovyov and many other guest.
- No. 14/5: House from 1914.
- No. 25: A wooden house from 1820. In 1878, Lev Tolstoy stayed here twice as a guest. From 1912 to 1947 it served as a residence for Alexei Shtusev .
House number 2
House number 14/5
House number 25
House number 15/7
House number 8
House number 11
