Plotnikov Lane

It arose on the site of the palace Carpentry (Carpentry) settlement of the XVII century. It got its modern name in 1922 from the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Plotniki , located in this lane (known since 1625, destroyed in the 1930s). From the XVIII century to 1922 - Nikolsky Lane, along the same church ^[1] . Among his other names were: Nikolsky, Storozhev ^[2] .

Plotnikov Lane starts from Bolshoi Mogiltsevsky and runs north, almost at the very beginning of the lane Glazovsky leaves, then Maly Mogiltsevsky and Gagarinsky adjoin to the right, Sivtsev Vrazhek crosses, adjoins Krivoarbatsky , after which it ends on Arbat . At the corner with the Arbat stands a monument to Bulat Okudzhava.

Odd side

• No. 11 - Archive of Foreign Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation ;
• No. 13 - a house built in 1985. In 1991-1994, the vice-president of the USSR G. I. Yanaev ^[3] , the manager of the affairs of the Central Committee of the CPSU Kruchin, the minister of foreign affairs of the USSR E. A. Shevardnadze lived in it.
• No. 15 - The Mansion ( 1884 , architect M.K. Geppener ), currently the Indus Restaurant. Since 1889, the house belonged to the lawyer A. I. Urusov ; in 1892, after graduating from the conservatory, S. V. Rachmaninov did not live here for long ^[4] (at that time there was number 19 at the house - see letter to J. K. Guismans Urusov dated April 2, 1893. ^[5] ) ^[6] . The house housed A. N. Strekalov's photo studio “Northern Photography” ^[7] . At the beginning of the XX century, this estate was bought by the granddaughter of the Decembrist Mikhail Fedorovich Orlov - Elizaveta Nikolaevna Orlova. Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon lived in one of the wings of the house. Later, E. N. Orlova built a rather large house in the courtyard in which they settled downstairs: she herself and her mother and her sister, who was married to Professor Kotlyarevsky , and she built the top floor with a mezzanine for the Gershenzon family ^[8] .
• No. 19/38 - Anastasyinsky needlework school (1908, architect A.N. Zeligson ) ^[1] . Here lived in a corner possession: from 1893 to the beginning of the 20th century, the first Russian theoretical physicist, professor N. A. Umov ; in the 1920s - pianist-teacher, professor at the Moscow Conservatory (in 1920-1924 its rector), People's Artist of the USSR K. N. Igumnov ; Professor of Moscow University and Shaniavsky University , mineralogist and crystallographer G.V. Wulf , professor of bacteriologist P.V. Tsiklinskaya (1859-1923); philologist D. N. Ushakov ^[2] . Currently - kindergarten No. 2277;
• No. 21 - Apartment building (1906, architect N. D. Begichev ). In the 1900s. the poet and writer Andrei Bely lived ^[2] .
• No. 23/47 - a corner house (along Arbat, No. 47) with mail on the corner; on the contrary - a monument to Bulat Okudzhava (sculptor - George Frangulyan ). Once there was a small one-story property right in front of the church of Nicholas in Plotniki, but it was bought by the church and in 1910, according to the project of architect M.D. Kholmogorov , a 4-storey apartment building was built specifically for the servants of the Arbat churches, where they settled with their by families. After the 1917 revolution, the apartments of Orthodox ministers were turned into communal apartments, where workers and former peasants who came to Moscow and fled from hunger and complete devastation from the province were lodged. Before the war itself, in 1941, two upper floors were built on, where families of large employees of the Ministry of Armament were placed in special separate apartments; the house was tiled, an elevator was launched. These separate apartments were large one-room apartments, over time, their inhabitants erected wall partitions, making the apartments two- or even three-room. Their descendants continued to live in apartments. In one of these apartments on the top floor there lived a family of Russian cartoonist Vitaly Peskov ^{[9] [10]} ), the same apartment was connected with the childhood and subsequently the tragic fate of his young stepson Viktor Korshikov , a talented music critic and author of humor ^[11] . Now, a monument to Bulat Okudzhava has been erected in front of the entrance - there used to be an ice cream kiosk for decades; inside the kiosk, specially cold temperatures were maintained and sellers, even in the very summer heat, worked in sheepskin coats .

On the even side

• No. 4/5 (on Maly Mogiltsevsky per. ),   architectural monument (regional) - apartment building (1907, architect N. I. Zherikhov ), owned by G. E. Broydo ^[1] .

The four-story building has two main facades - the western and northern ones, facing Plotnikov and Maly Mogiltsevsky lanes, respectively. The facades are decorated with a sculpted frieze and a cornice with stucco decoration, the portal of the main entrance is also decorated with stucco molding. The bas-relief frieze consists of “antique” sculptures representing the muses of art, history and science and the galleries of Russian writers and poets of the 19th century, including N. V. Gogol, A. S. Pushkin and L. N. Tolstoy. The sculptor is not exactly known (possibly - L. S. Sinaev-Bernstein ); unknown and the motives of the customer of this unusual house. It is believed that the Frisians were originally intended for the Museum of Fine Arts on Volkhonka , but were rejected by I.V. Tsvetaev because of their frivolous content.

Among those who lived in the house: pathologist I. F. Klein , archaeologist B. N. Grakov (1899-1970), boxer S. S. Shcherbakov ^[12] .

The facade is in poor condition, the sculptures are destroyed. Since the building is privately owned, the city authorities refuse to allocate funds for restoration, the HOA claims that they also do not have such funds ^[13] . In 2018, the facade was restored.

• No. 6/8 - apartment building (1909, architect G.K. Oltrazhevsky ). Since the 1910s, the family of the biologist N.V. Timofeev-Resovsky . In the 1920-1930s. lived N. M. Kizhner , one of the organizers of the Soviet aniline-paint industry ^[2] . Currently - the Second Commercial and Industrial House;
• No. 10 - a residential building. They lived here in the 1914-1916s. geochemist and mineralogist A. E. Fersman ; in 1920-1930s - professor of chemistry A. M. Nastyukov ; sculptor V. I. Mukhina (apt. No. 7) ^[2] , actor Yuri Yakovlev ^[14] , composer Tikhon Khrennikov ^[15] , and singer Ivan Surzhikov ^[16] also lived in the house.
• No. 12 - At this place in the 1880s. The last years have passed, professors of mechanics and mathematics A. Yu. Davidov , one of the founders of the Moscow Mathematical Society. A centuries-old oak tree grew in the courtyard, in the shadow of which, as old-timers say , composer Anton Rubinstein and chess player Alexander Alekhin liked to relax ^[2] . Under the Soviet regime, there was a Party Central Committee hotel closed to outsiders with a winter garden and other sights, where delegations of foreign friends and associates were received and serviced, in particular, they hosted Fidel Castro . Currently, the hotel "Arbat". The hotel belongs to the Office of the President of the Russian Federation.
• № 20 - Professor of Mechanics N. N. Buchholz lived in a house on this place for a long time. He was a parishioner and altarman of the church of St. Nicholas in the Carpenters ^[17] .
• No. 24 (house 45 on Arbat) - on this place was the main attraction of the alley - the Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas in Plotniki. For the first time the church is mentioned in documents of 1625. It was built by the inhabitants of a small settlement of "sovereign carpenters". ^[18] Her story is as follows. After the Time of Troubles and burning, Moscow began to be rebuilt; the need for carpenters grew - even the new sovereign, the first Romanov, had nowhere to properly settle in the Kremlin. An extensive settlement of palace carpenters appeared on the Arbat, and they built a wooden church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which was gradually nicknamed Plotnitskaya (in Plotniki). In the years 1670-1677 the church was rebuilt into a stone single-domed. “Stone Nicola with the main Trinity throne was built according to the letter of Patriarch Joachim and was listed“ in the Carpentry settlement ”, which testifies to the version of the carpenters who lived here at the peak of the heyday of the Arbat palace settlements” ^[19] . The three-tier bell tower dates from 1771. Over the years of existence, thrones, refectory and chapels have been attached to the church several times (the chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was built in 1692, the chapel of the Balykin Mother of God - in the middle of the XIX century). In the XVIII century, near the Church of St. Nicholas in Plotniki, the possession of the boyar Vasily Ivanovich Streshneva (1707-1782), a statesman, chamberlain, senator, one of the relatives of Evdokia Streshneva , the second wife of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich, was located; immediately at the wedding, the seedy family of the Streshnevs became a favorite. See Photo of the Church of St. Nicholas in Carpenters of 1882 . This temple remembered little A.S. Pushkin . At the beginning of 1807, the family of the future poet lived in Krivoarbatsky Lane , in the parish of the St. Nicholas Church in Plotniki, and little Pushkin was his parishioner, which remains in the records of the confessional books ^[19] . Among the parishioners of Nikola in Plotniki there was the family of the Slavophil philosopher A.S. Khomyakov (1804-1860), although Father Pavel Benevolensky from the St. Nicholas Cathedral at Serebryany Lane , nearby, on the other side of the Arbat, remained the confessor of A.S. Khomyakov himself. where previously lived Khomyakov at Arbat, 23 ^[19] ; nevertheless, the remaining members of his family, when changing their address, preferred to walk closer to Nicola in Plotniki, and even made friends with her priest: “Having learned that the priest’s wife is ill with consumption, the Khomyakovs presented her with a well-fed cow so that she always had fresh milk” ^{[ 19]} . In the same church, the son of the Khomyakovs, Nikolai , was baptized, whose godfather was Gogol . During the revolution, the rector of the Church of St. Nicholas in Plotniki was Archpriest Vladimir Vorobyov , the grandfather of the modern priest Vladimir Vorobyov , the current rector of the St. Tikhon Theological Institute. He was soon arrested. While he was in custody, hieromonk Varlaam served in the St. Nicholas-Plotnikov Church (shot in 1937 at the Butovo training ground ; canonized, commemorated February 20). However, in March 1925, Vladimir Vorobyev was released from prison. Since 1927, near N. Nikola in Plotniki lived M. N. Nesterov , who became his parishioner; the artist presented the Crucifixion of his work to the temple ^[19] . For some time, a parishioner and even a temple altar was a famous mechanic N. N. Buchholz ^[17] . In 1929 the temple was closed, and then in 1932 it was demolished. Archpriest Vladimir Vorobyov died in custody in 1940. In this place in 1935 a residential building was erected (architect L. M. Polyakov ), where the descendants of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin and Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy were settled, surrounded by them with special honor, and also lived there: architect V. G. Gelfreikh , polar explorer I. D. Papanin , writer M. S. Shaginyan , translator into Russian of the proletarian anthem “ International ” A. Ya. Kots ^{[11] [19]} . One of the departments of the Diet grocery store was placed on the ground floor.

Near the St. Nicholas Church in Plotniki was the house of Gryaznova, where in the first half of the 1820s the poet and translator Mikhail Dmitriev lived. Here at his dinners were Mikhail Zagoskin and other writers.

• The official website of the Khamovniki district council
• All-Moscow classifier of streets of Moscow OMK UM (inaccessible link)
• The names of Moscow streets . Toponymic Dictionary / R. A. Ageeva, G. P. Bondaruk, E. M. Pospelov and others; author foreword E.M. Pospelov. - M .: OGI, 2007. - (Moscow Library). - ISBN 5-94282-432-0 .
• Plotnikov Lane: institutions and organizations.
• The Persistence of Memory. Plotnikov Lane, 4.