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12, Gorokhovsky Lane
12, Gorokhovsky Lane
Gorokhovsky Lane is located in an old Moscow district between Basmannaya Sloboda, Zemlyanoy Val, and the Yauza River floodplain. The street got its name from a pea field that existed in this area many centuries ago.
The lane still retains the patriarchal coziness and unhurried pace of life of old Moscow. A prime example of the era's architecture is the two-story mansion at modern number 12. The first mentions of a building on this plot date back to the post-fire period of Moscow—the second half of 1812. At that time, the estate belonged to Guard Sub-Lieutenant M.V. Bulygina.
In 1881, the new owner of the plot, Actual State Counselor K.V. Pagenkopf, commissioned architect A.O. Vivien to rebuild the house in the Italian Renaissance style. A horizontal stucco frieze divided the facade, painted in pale lilac, into two halves. The ground floor was rusticated and featured windows with very simple architraves, while all ten windows on the second floor were adorned with lunette (semicircular) "Greek" pediments on brackets.
The central part of this floor was accentuated by a balcony with an openwork railing, supported by four giant ornate brackets. The balcony door was framed similarly to the windows, and beautiful gates stood in front of the mansion entrance.
Interestingly, the mansion was neighbored by the building of the former private women's gymnasium named after V.P. von Derviz (No. 10), the house of S.K. Morozov (No. 14), and the complex of the former Evangelical Orphanage (No. 17; today, the Sergei Andriyaka Watercolor School is located here).
Soon after the October Revolution, the estate was nationalized. In the 1950s, the mansion was transferred to the operational management of the UpDK under the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs (now GlavUpDK under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), and diplomatic missions have been housed here ever since.
The lane still retains the patriarchal coziness and unhurried pace of life of old Moscow. A prime example of the era's architecture is the two-story mansion at modern number 12. The first mentions of a building on this plot date back to the post-fire period of Moscow—the second half of 1812. At that time, the estate belonged to Guard Sub-Lieutenant M.V. Bulygina.
In 1881, the new owner of the plot, Actual State Counselor K.V. Pagenkopf, commissioned architect A.O. Vivien to rebuild the house in the Italian Renaissance style. A horizontal stucco frieze divided the facade, painted in pale lilac, into two halves. The ground floor was rusticated and featured windows with very simple architraves, while all ten windows on the second floor were adorned with lunette (semicircular) "Greek" pediments on brackets.
The central part of this floor was accentuated by a balcony with an openwork railing, supported by four giant ornate brackets. The balcony door was framed similarly to the windows, and beautiful gates stood in front of the mansion entrance.
Interestingly, the mansion was neighbored by the building of the former private women's gymnasium named after V.P. von Derviz (No. 10), the house of S.K. Morozov (No. 14), and the complex of the former Evangelical Orphanage (No. 17; today, the Sergei Andriyaka Watercolor School is located here).
Soon after the October Revolution, the estate was nationalized. In the 1950s, the mansion was transferred to the operational management of the UpDK under the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs (now GlavUpDK under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), and diplomatic missions have been housed here ever since.
