Samson Manor

The building with columns is the main house of the city estate of Samsonov, the court councilor. The building is wooden, one-story. Erected in 1819 on the stone cellars of the 18th century.

In 1802, this was almost exactly the same house, but it burned down in the Moscow fire of 1812, the basement floor with cellars remained and a new (again, wooden) building was erected on it.

The interiors from 1819 (except for vaulted cellars) still preserved stairs, ovens and a dance hall (partially). The absence of drawings does not allow to present its original architectural appearance. The main facade was restored in 1963.

The first documentary evidence of the estate refers to the years 1731-41. There were several plots, but they were all united into one adviser of the chamber boards Ivan Semyonovich Ogolin, who owned one of them and bought up all the land in the neighborhood.

In the 1820s, another owner, the councilor in charge, Pyotr Aleksandrovich Samsonov, bought a garden from her neighbor Naumova, thereby increasing his land plot.

September 13, 1911 Nikolai Karlovich von Meck became the owner of the land with buildings.

Nikolai Karlovich came from the family of the builder of the Moscow-Ryazan railway Karl Fedorovich von Meck .

Not having a special engineering education, Nikolay decided to follow in his father's footsteps from the bottom - he got a job as a clerk in the Nikolaev railway.

In 1891, he became the youngest Chairman of the Board of the Society of the Moscow-Kazan Railway and worked in this position until the nationalization of 1917.

He focused on the exploration work in the field of locomotive building and related units. It was with the direct participation of Nikolai Karlovich in Russia that the first refrigerated wagon appeared.

He was married to Tchaikovsky's niece, Anna Lvovna Davydova. He stayed in Russia, worked in the State Planning Committee as a representative from the People's Commissariat of Communications.

Repressed - shot in 1929 as a pest, rehabilitated in 1990.