Place Details
Place Details
Firsanova's apartment house
Neglinnaya, 14 is an address well known to many generations of lovers of the Russian steam room. In 1808, the famous Sandunovsky baths appeared here, which quickly turned not only into a hygienic institution, but also into a kind of cultural club. At one time, the poet Alexander liked to relax here Sergeevich Pushkin.
After the death of the founder of the baths, Sila Nikolaevich Sandunov, the baths changed owners several times, and the timber merchant and merchant Ivan Grigorievich Firsanov bought them in 1869. In 1881, the baths became the property of his daughter Vera Ivanovna, who, together with her second husband Alexei Ganetsky decided to turn a popular, but already deteriorating establishment into a real palace of hygiene, combined with a no less large-scale shopping and residential complex.
The famous architect Boris Freidenberg was invited to implement this plan. The old baths were demolished, and two baths were built on the site between Sandunovsky and Zvonarsky lanes. luxury buildings.The first, located on the red line of the Negle inna, was designed as an apartment building. Shops were located on the ground floor, and luxury apartments were located above. A magnificent bath complex appeared on the second line, which housed the renovated Sanduns. The new owners did not change their historical name. The construction of both buildings was completed at the end of 1895.
Vera Firsanova's apartment building soon became no less a landmark of Moscow than the famous baths. The luxurious building in the Baroque style was created as a kind of architectural advertisement for the Sanduny. The decor of the bathhouse and facades of the tenement house was united by a "water" theme - images of newts, sea horses and other mythological aquatic inhabitants. Sculptures of washing boys were placed on the roof, and the patio was decorated in a Moorish style.
In 1902, the writer and playwright Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and his wife Olga Knipper settled in a five-room apartment in the residential part of Firsanova's house, and soon creative life began to boil here. Famous cultural figures of the early twentieth century often visited the mansion - Konstantin Stanislavsky, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin, Vladimir Gilyarovsky, directors and artists of the capital's theaters.
Besides, shortly after the construction of the tenement house, the Nota shop of Peter Jurgenson, who was the owner of one of the largest music publishing houses in Europe, was located in its trading part. Jurgenson was the first in Russia to print complete collections of piano works by Chopin, Schumann, Grieg and Mendelssohn, all of Wagner's operas. In addition, he published works by Russian composers, works on musicology, and textbooks. In 1903, the first free music library in Moscow appeared here.
The music shop was preserved in the building even after the revolution. He successfully survived the years of Soviet power, the collapse of the USSR and the "dashing 90s." In 2004, it was updated with the participation of foreign shareholders, and it is still operating successfully - however, like the former music publishing house of the Yurgensons, which is called "Music".
Today, Firsanova's tenement house is often called the Sandunovsky Passage. The elegant building houses restaurants, shops and various organizations. The building is included in the list of monuments of cultural heritage of federal significance.
Neglinnaya, 14 is an address well known to many generations of lovers of the Russian steam room. In 1808, the famous Sandunovsky baths appeared here, which quickly turned not only into a hygienic institution, but also into a kind of cultural club. At one time, the poet Alexander liked to relax here Sergeevich Pushkin.
After the death of the founder of the baths, Sila Nikolaevich Sandunov, the baths changed owners several times, and the timber merchant and merchant Ivan Grigorievich Firsanov bought them in 1869. In 1881, the baths became the property of his daughter Vera Ivanovna, who, together with her second husband Alexei Ganetsky decided to turn a popular, but already deteriorating establishment into a real palace of hygiene, combined with a no less large-scale shopping and residential complex.
The famous architect Boris Freidenberg was invited to implement this plan. The old baths were demolished, and two baths were built on the site between Sandunovsky and Zvonarsky lanes. luxury buildings.The first, located on the red line of the Negle inna, was designed as an apartment building. Shops were located on the ground floor, and luxury apartments were located above. A magnificent bath complex appeared on the second line, which housed the renovated Sanduns. The new owners did not change their historical name. The construction of both buildings was completed at the end of 1895.
Vera Firsanova's apartment building soon became no less a landmark of Moscow than the famous baths. The luxurious building in the Baroque style was created as a kind of architectural advertisement for the Sanduny. The decor of the bathhouse and facades of the tenement house was united by a "water" theme - images of newts, sea horses and other mythological aquatic inhabitants. Sculptures of washing boys were placed on the roof, and the patio was decorated in a Moorish style.
In 1902, the writer and playwright Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and his wife Olga Knipper settled in a five-room apartment in the residential part of Firsanova's house, and soon creative life began to boil here. Famous cultural figures of the early twentieth century often visited the mansion - Konstantin Stanislavsky, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin, Vladimir Gilyarovsky, directors and artists of the capital's theaters.
Besides, shortly after the construction of the tenement house, the Nota shop of Peter Jurgenson, who was the owner of one of the largest music publishing houses in Europe, was located in its trading part. Jurgenson was the first in Russia to print complete collections of piano works by Chopin, Schumann, Grieg and Mendelssohn, all of Wagner's operas. In addition, he published works by Russian composers, works on musicology, and textbooks. In 1903, the first free music library in Moscow appeared here.
The music shop was preserved in the building even after the revolution. He successfully survived the years of Soviet power, the collapse of the USSR and the "dashing 90s." In 2004, it was updated with the participation of foreign shareholders, and it is still operating successfully - however, like the former music publishing house of the Yurgensons, which is called "Music".
Today, Firsanova's tenement house is often called the Sandunovsky Passage. The elegant building houses restaurants, shops and various organizations. The building is included in the list of monuments of cultural heritage of federal significance.
Neglinnaya, 14 is an address well known to many generations of lovers of the Russian steam room. In 1808, the famous Sandunovsky baths appeared here, which quickly turned not only into a hygienic institution, but also into a kind of cultural club. At one time, the poet Alexander liked to relax here Sergeevich Pushkin.
After the death of the founder of the baths, Sila Nikolaevich Sandunov, the baths changed owners several times, and the timber merchant and merchant Ivan Grigorievich Firsanov bought them in 1869. In 1881, the baths became the property of his daughter Vera Ivanovna, who, together with her second husband Alexei Ganetsky decided to turn a popular, but already deteriorating establishment into a real palace of hygiene, combined with a no less large-scale shopping and residential complex.
The famous architect Boris Freidenberg was invited to implement this plan. The old baths were demolished, and two baths were built on the site between Sandunovsky and Zvonarsky lanes. luxury buildings.The first, located on the red line of the Negle inna, was designed as an apartment building. Shops were located on the ground floor, and luxury apartments were located above. A magnificent bath complex appeared on the second line, which housed the renovated Sanduns. The new owners did not change their historical name. The construction of both buildings was completed at the end of 1895.
Vera Firsanova's apartment building soon became no less a landmark of Moscow than the famous baths. The luxurious building in the Baroque style was created as a kind of architectural advertisement for the Sanduny. The decor of the bathhouse and facades of the tenement house was united by a "water" theme - images of newts, sea horses and other mythological aquatic inhabitants. Sculptures of washing boys were placed on the roof, and the patio was decorated in a Moorish style.
In 1902, the writer and playwright Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and his wife Olga Knipper settled in a five-room apartment in the residential part of Firsanova's house, and soon creative life began to boil here. Famous cultural figures of the early twentieth century often visited the mansion - Konstantin Stanislavsky, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin, Vladimir Gilyarovsky, directors and artists of the capital's theaters.
Besides, shortly after the construction of the tenement house, the Nota shop of Peter Jurgenson, who was the owner of one of the largest music publishing houses in Europe, was located in its trading part. Jurgenson was the first in Russia to print complete collections of piano works by Chopin, Schumann, Grieg and Mendelssohn, all of Wagner's operas. In addition, he published works by Russian composers, works on musicology, and textbooks. In 1903, the first free music library in Moscow appeared here.
The music shop was preserved in the building even after the revolution. He successfully survived the years of Soviet power, the collapse of the USSR and the "dashing 90s." In 2004, it was updated with the participation of foreign shareholders, and it is still operating successfully - however, like the former music publishing house of the Yurgensons, which is called "Music".
Today, Firsanova's tenement house is often called the Sandunovsky Passage. The elegant building houses restaurants, shops and various organizations. The building is included in the list of monuments of cultural heritage of federal significance.
Address
st. Neglinnaya 14, bldg. 1A
Source
https://kudago.com/msk/place/neobyichnyij-dom-dohodnyij-dom-v-i-firsanovoj/