Rukavishnikov House

The Rukavishnikov House is a 19th century Moscow mansion located at 41 Nikitskaya Street .

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The facade of the house Rukavishnikovs. 1906
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The history of ownership is traced from the middle of the 18th century: on the vast stretch of the Bezsonov estate, the plan of 1757 shows one-storeyed stone chambers with a semi-basement. The house that survived the fire of 1812 , in 1830, was built on a mezzanine by the daughter of State Counselor N. A. Simonov. In 1876, the site was once again divided: the western part of it was sold, the owner - the wife of collegiate secretary E. D. Vikulin, Vasily Nikitich Rukavishnikov - the founder of the Rukavishnikov merchant dynasty. The plot was issued to his wife Elena Kuzminichna, from which in the same year she received a request to rebuild the house on the project of A. S. Kaminsky . Having built the second floor and made an extension of the risalit on the north side, Kaminsky also significantly changed the architectural appearance of the facade - “in its eclectic manner peculiar to it, using the motives of Moscow neo-baroque”.

The meetings of the board of the Moscow branch of the Russian Musical Society were often held by K. V. Rukavishnikov who lived here.

In the Russian-Japanese war, the entire second floor was given to a surgical infirmary, which was later converted into the Surgical clinic of E.N. Rukavishnikova ^[1] .

In Soviet times, the house until 1960 was under the jurisdiction of the Moszdravotdel, until it was placed under diplomatic representation. Now here is the embassy of Myanmar .