Profitable buildings of the Jamgarovs

In the XVII century on this territory was the possession of the clerk N. Polunin, which bordered on the Suzdal Compound from the north. In the middle of the 18th century, the plot was owned by the court adviser A.N. Obolduev and then his heirs. Later, the house that survived the fire of 1812 belonged to the titular counselor N. Bakhtereva. Since 1825, for more than 50 years, ownership belonged to the Moscow merchant V. Sokolov and his heirs. ^[2] Sokolovs leased premises to various shops: straw hats "French Bazaar"; silverware, cutlery, and tea accessories from the K. Peets factory; traded linen and linen "Dutch store" I. Levinson. In the 1880s, a glass pavilion-lantern was built above a courtyard of the photographer’s studio M. M. Panov , which was located here. In the late 1880s, first, the banker brothers Dzhamgarovs became tenants and then owners of the land. ^[2]

Wolf Publishing Store (right side)

In 1893, on the order of the Dzhamgarovs, the architect B.V. Freidenberg built a three-story house. The symmetrical facade of the building is decorated with lion masks, the central part is highlighted by a baroque metal dome with a weather vane on the mast. Four large windows on the ground floor, the shape of which was initially bay-like, set the scale of the building. Further, the window openings are arranged in decreasing magnitude: on the second floor - medium, on the third - the smallest. ^[one]

Since the 1860s, when the property belonged to the Sokolovs, small bookstores began to be placed here, and in the 1890s the publishing house "M.O. Wolf Association" opened a large bookstore, after the revolution called the "Bookstore of Writers ". M.O. Wolf's publishing house published scientific works, popular and children's literature, illustrated large-format publications, serial editions of the Library of Famous Writers, Moral Novels for the Young, and The Library of the Young Reader ^[3] .

At the beginning of the 20th century, the "Slavic Auxiliary Society in Moscow" was located here, which saw as its goal the spiritual and cultural rapprochement of the Slavs. The Society included the publisher and educator I. D. Sytin , writer and journalist V. A. Gilyarovsky and many other public figures of the beginning of the century. At the end of the 1920s, the house was the office of the International Book press distribution organization, whose antique department was headed by P. P. Shibanov , ^{[4] [5]} then a bookstore in foreign languages. The bookstore “Golden Shop” worked here for a long time, preserving the original interior design of two halls, destroyed in the 1990s when the Smolensk Diamonds and Men's Shops were placed here ^[6] . Until today, the Bookstore of Writers continues to operate in the building. In 1980, when they were planning to move the store to another place, the writers insisted on leaving it in its original place. ^[7] The House of a Foreign Book store is also located here, which provides educational and fiction literature in foreign languages ^[8] . Since the 1950s, a representative office of the Moldavian SSR has been housed in the house, now part of the building is occupied by the Embassy of Moldova in the Russian Federation.

Trading house "N. Zharkov and M. Sokolov ”(left)

In 1907 - 1909, the corner building with Rozhdestvenskaya was rebuilt by order of the Dzhamgarov architect A.E. Erichson and entered into a single architectural complex of ownership No. 18/7. ^[1] In some sources, the authorship of the building is incorrectly attributed to the architect A. Kuznetsov . ^[9] An elegant three-story building in the Art Nouveau style, the front of which is almost entirely occupied by shop windows, is distinguished by a peculiar rhythm of vertical and horizontal articulations, rounded visors-cornices and small window glazing (preserved only partially in the third floor). Initially, almost all the interfloor horizontal rods of the facade contained advertising signs, some of which were already initially envisaged in the Erichson project. The facade of the house echoed with the design of the building of the trading house “M. Y. Maslennikov and Co. ”, which occupied the corner of the Kuznetsk Bridge and Bolshaya Lubyanka (see Kuznetsk Bridge, house number 24 ). ^{[1] [10]} Numerous shops were located in the apartment building of the Dzhamgarovs: the trading house “N. Zharkov and M. Sokolov ”, fur products of M. I. Rogatkin-Hedgehog, shoe Henry Veys, a shop of manufactory“ Select ”, a Viennese furniture salon Jacob and Joseph Kon and others. In Soviet times, the house was also occupied by various shops and institutions. Until recently, a sewing studio was located on the ground floor of the building. ^{[9] [11]}

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