I did not think the merchant Danil Nikitich Shcherbakov, that his two-story chambers with shops on the Pokrovskaya Street (now Bakuninskaya) will be famous. However, the story ordered in his own way ...
He bought a plot for construction during the Moscow Plague. Then many houses and courtyards were given for pennies. I called the merchant architect Bortnikova Peter Trofimovich and punished the letteal yes beauty to do.
Chambers came to the glory. Peter I myself was driving and loved. From the crew came out and went to visit.
Scherbakov accepted for all the rules of the emperor, and he later presented his own portrait. Hang up the portrait opposite the sofa, where Peter recreated to rest. This is well written in Dmitry Pokrovsky in the book "Essays of Moscow." The author and portrait, shown by diamonds, saw on the sofa.
The house was built with shopping beds - so Shcherbakov continued the German market, putting trading ranks on a large Gavrikov Lane (now Spartakovsky).
The hosts of the house changed, and in the XIX century a merchant house, where Peter himself rested, turned into a cheap restaurant for the most eligible and poor people of the capital. At the same Pokrovsky read:
"Now all he is engaged in a gray tavern for the lower classes of the population, and can hardly have vodka or tea in his dirty halls, it may come to mind that this house has seen the best days ..."Soviet power has kept this orientation and arranged in the house beer with slot machines. Students "Baumanki" nicknamed the house muddy eyes. Why did not make the museum in the house where even the initial layout of the XVIII century, the mystery was preserved. After all, it is a rarity in the history of Moscow, so that the building inside and outside the centuries does not change.
But it was 1986. The third transport ring was built in Moscow, and the house was decided to demolish the laying of the Lefortovo tunnel. The group of historians, who was then studying at home, shaped the "civil defense" of the building. People sat in him during the day and at night, seeking to prevent demolition. According to the legend, even the Son of the Proba, who commanded the process, joined the Protestants and poured into the benzobac a bulldozer sand and won the time.
It is not known what everything would end, but the then town of Moscow Boris Yeltsin arrived at home. I looked at the house and told demolition to stop. Lefortovo tunnel was postponed for a dozen years, and when they built at Luzhkov, they were without demolition of Phastbakov's chambers.
It is believed that with the very defense of the house, the formation of the city's city's movement and the salvation of the entire historical Lefortovo from death began.
Schecherbakov's chambers, unfortunately, are still closed to visits. Is it time to think about the city authorities about the museum? After all, the building is largely unique, maybe another attraction of the city. The architect managed to harmoniously combine two styles - classicism, only nascent at that time, and baroque.
Externally, the house looks good, although covered with small graffiti and inscriptions.
During the research, they found a bottle of wine bottles of the XIX century in the house, and there is also a hypothesis that was in the house underground move, which led to the pharmacy (demolished) on the opposite side of the street.
As for the subjects found in the wards, they write that they do not disappear, but are in the Museum "German Sloboda" at school number 345. D. M. Karbyshev at Lefortovo Pen, d. 10. It is possible to view the exhibits by agreement with the school administration.
I wrote a letter to school, but I was answered that from the merchant house there is only a lattice from the windows. However, I still go to the museum, and then I'll tell you and show what I saw.
Author - Oleg Bansekin
Source - Springzhizni.ru.