Profitable house of the insurance company "Anchor" - a building in Moscow ( Bolshaya Lubyanka St., 11). It was built in 1879 according to the project of the architect A. E. Weber on the basis of an older structure [1] . In 1918, the Cheka was housed in the building, and there was F. Dzerzhinsky's office there [2] . The building has the status of a cultural heritage site of federal significance [3] .
| Building | |
| Profitable house of the insurance company "Anchor" | |
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| A country |  Russia |
| City | Moscow , st. Bolshaya Lubyanka , 11 |
| Architectural style | eclecticism |
| Architect | A. E. Weber |
| Date of construction | 1879 |
| Status |  Object of cultural heritage No. 7710397000 |
History
In the first half of the 19th century, possession in Bolshaya Lubyanka belonged to a wealthy merchant and the famous antiquarian D. A. Lukhmanov . Then he was bought by the insurance company "Anchor". In 1879, the house of the merchant Lukhmanov was rebuilt according to the design of the architect A. E. Weber [1] .
In 1918, the building was transferred to the Cheka and the office of F. Dzerzhinsky. In 1919, V.I. Lenin repeatedly visited there [2] . Presumably, in the basements of this building, the first executions were carried out under Soviet rule. According to some reports, they lasted until 1954 [1] .
Architecture
Profitable house of the insurance company "Anchor" is built in the spirit of eclecticism . In its design, Renaissance motifs are visible: pilasters with stucco- decorated panels , medallions with busts , arched niches, and balustrades. Colored ceramic panels are placed in the semicircular niches above the windows of the second floor. The edges of the house are flanked by gable roofs [4] .
In the main lobby was a large dvuhmarchevaya stairs. In the niche on the first platform of the stairs was a sculpture of an ancient goddess with a lantern in her hand [5] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 My little Moscow: famous Germans in the Russian capital: a guidebook / ed.-comp. N. B. Leonova. - Moscow: MSNK-press, 2014. - P. 22. - ISBN 978-5-98355-109-1
- ↑ 1 2 Fedosyuk Yu. A. Moscow in the Garden Ring. - M .: Moscow Worker, 1983. - P. 308.
- Building of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage // data.mos.ru
- ↑ Moscow: Architectural Guide / I. L. Busev-Davydova, M. V. Nashchokina , M. I. Astaf'eva-Dlugach. - M .: stroiizdat, 1997. - p. 137. - 412 p. - ISBN 5-274-01624-3 .
- ↑ Oleg Fochkin Urban Legends . M. Ripol-Classic, 2017