House of Writers
House of Writers, located in Lavrushinsky Lane in Moscow, is an important monument of architecture and cultural heritage. Its history dates back to the 17th century, when it was granted to Semyon Titov, a nobleman of the time. He built stone chambers, which have survived until today. In 1935, the General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow proposed to continue the Boulevard Ring through Zamoskvorechye. The route of the ring included passing through the Ordynsky dead-end and intersecting Lavrushinsky Lane. Space was allocated for new buildings as part of the project. One of the sites, on the corner of Lavrushinsky Lane and the Ordynsky Dead-end, became the site for a new apartment building. This building replaced the old wings and structures. The USSR Writers’ Union made significant efforts to move the site to a Soviet writer’s housing and construction cooperative. However, the cost of renting apartments was high, ranging from 8,000 to 20,000 rubles. The first stage of the building was completed in 1937, but it was handed over with some defects that were only corrected after the Great Patriotic War. Construction of the second stage then began. Many famous writers lived in this building, including Boris Pasternak, Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov, Konstantin Paustovsky, Mikhail Prishvin, and Nikolai Gribachev. For decades, this house was the centre of literary life in Moscow. In the courtyard of the building, there are stone chambers from the 17th and 18th centuries, which have become the Museum of Moscow Streltsy, or “Streletsky Chambers.” These chambers add historical significance to the complex.
Address: Moscow, Lavrushinsky lane, 17, p. 2
