Prechistenskaya Embankment, Building 35, Levenson House Prechistenskaya Embankment is located on the left bank of the Moskva River in the Khamovniki district between Novokrymsky Proyezd and Lenivka Street. In the 16th century, this was the central entrance to the White City, and as a result, the area became an expensive and respectable neighborhood. The embankment has retained this status to this day. While strolling here today, you might notice the two-story yellow mansion located at number 35. The building owes its existence to Alexander Levenson, a renowned publisher, founder and owner of a printing house (and later, the Quick Printing Partnership). Levenson's firm earned most of its capital from printing and selling inexpensive pictures, posters, and printed copies of icons, as well as publishing family magazines. However, the publisher didn't neglect premium products: it was Levenson who printed facsimiles of ancient Russian literary monuments, lavishly illustrated books, and special anniversary editions. As for the mansion on Prechistenskaya Embankment, at the end of the 19th century, the entrepreneur commissioned Konstantin Gurov (Lev Kekushev's assistant) to build a residential building, and the work was completed in 1897. However, at the beginning of the next century, due to the collapse of the basement, the building was rebuilt in 1901 according to designs by Fyodor Shekhtel, which gave it new features. The style of the eclectic mansion with Art Nouveau elements was inspired by Northern European Baroque. On the left, the façade is decorated with a faceted bay window with a decorative Baroque dome covered in metal scales, while on the right is the main entrance with a decorative attic gable over the cornice. After the revolution, the building housed communal apartments, and in recent decades the mansion has been used for the needs of the diplomatic corps.