Old Monet Lane

It was named at the end of the 19th century according to the “old” mint , operating in 1701-1737 in the building of the Sovereign of the Khamovy yard built in 1658-1661. Old name: Prikazny Lane (XVII century) and Money Lane - by monetary order at the Mint ^[1] .

In the XIII-XIV centuries, on the site of the current lane, there was a road from transportation through the Moscow River to Serpukhov . The main route of the Serpukhov road moved westward to the modern Bolshaya Polyanka, only in the first quarter of the 17th century, when after the construction of the Earth City and the destruction of the Time of Troubles, there was a complete breakdown of the old Zamoskvorechye building structure. ^[2]

In the 14th century, east of the Serpukhov road, south of the old town of Moscow , the Kadashevskaya settlement appeared (first mentioned in written sources in 1504). Then, to the south of it, along the Serpukhov road, a settlement of interpreters, translators at the Tatars-Hordes ( Tolmachevsky lanes ); the Horde residents themselves supposedly settled nearby, presumably east of the modern Tretyakov Gallery .

In the XVII century, the sovereign Khamovny Dvor became the most important center of Zamoskvorechye, initially located between the beginning of the present Polyanka and Staromonetny lane. As traffic flows to Polyanka, the Khamovny Dvor expanded eastward and soon seized the territory of the old road. In 1658–1661, a fortified castle with towers under high hipped roofs was built for him. In 1701-1737, the Kadashevsky Mint operated on the site of the Khamovny Dvor , on which the lane was eventually named; then it became part of the cloth court, the main buildings of which stood on the Swamp . The Old Mint lane south of the castle was named for the Mint, and the short lane north of it was called Prikazny (by order of monetary affairs). The Old Monet Lane acquired its modern outlines only with the demolition of the dilapidated Hamovy Dvor in 1803. ^[3]

Several thousand people of the Cloth and Mint workers formed the basis of the population of the region, but until the middle of the 18th century the landowners belonged to the highest nobility, and then to merchants. The building of the alley that developed after the fire of 1812 was one- or two-story. Only at the beginning of the XX century the first apartment buildings were built here (No. 10-14, 33). In the Soviet years, the scientific institutes of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the institutions of the nuclear industry settled in the lane. Here, to this day, the estates of the first quarter of the XIX century are preserved, some of them are in disrepair.

Odd side

• No. 1 - apartment building (1889, architect M. M. Cherkasov ).
• No. 3, p. 1 - Office of the Federal Financial Markets Service of the Central Federal District.
• No. 5, p. 1 - Moscow State Medical and Dental University (theoretical building).
• No. 9, p. 1 - city estate, 1819-1822. The building houses the Yakimanka District Employment Center.
• No. 9, p. 2 - bailiff service in the Central Administrative District of Moscow.
• No. 11-17 - the historical development of the site was demolished for the sake of new construction. In the depths of the site, a monument of architecture is preserved - the Medyntsev-Remizov apartment building (XVIII century).
• No. 19/11 - city estate of the XVIII century.

• page 1,   architectural monument (newly discovered object) ^[4] - the main house of the city estate of the merchant I. Ya. Masyagin (1818, rebuilt in the 1870s and 1925). The estate of the Protopresbyter of the Kremlin Assumption Cathedral L.F. Protopopova, completely burned down in 1812 , five years later became the property of the merchant of the 3rd guild I. Ya. Masyagin. By 1819 a new wooden house with a mezzanine was erected on the stone foundation of the old one. In 1870, under the merchant P.P. Bezchastny, the facade was again plastered and probably received the existing decoration. The last owner before 1917 is a hereditary honorary citizen, the head of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior I. D. Ablazhenov. During the NEP, the house belonged to Ilyashev, since 1930 - to the Trust of the Military Topographic Directorate, then - OJSC “439 Central Experimental Military Cartographic Factory”, disbanded in 2009 ^[5] ) ^[6] . The main house was declared unsuitable for use in 1976. All the buildings of the estate were abandoned after the withdrawal of the garage of the Ministry of Defense in the 2000s. In 2012, the Moscow City Heritage agreed with the conclusion of a state historical and cultural examination as an object of cultural heritage of regional significance (the decision was not approved in the established order by the Moscow Government), the rest of the estate was denied protection status ^[7] . The condition of the house is “post-emergency”: the street facade deviated from the vertical, the mezzanine collapsed inside, there is no roof, wooden structures are in serious condition. The house was transferred to a private owner (Staromonetny 19 LLC), which limited itself to swaddling it with another layer of fabric ^[6] . At the end of 2016, Moscow authorities approved a draft urban development plan for the site for the reconstruction of four buildings in Staromonetny Lane, 19/11. During the reconstruction, a public housing complex should appear here. The construction investor will be Intellectcom LLC (the sole owner of this company is Yakov Panchenko) ^[8] . At the beginning of 2017, the Moscow City Heritage Committee submitted for public discussion an act of the State Institute of Ecology and Geosciences for designing documentation to preserve the main house of the city estate of the merchant I. Ya. Masyagin (p. 1) ^[9] . In July 2018, the press service of the Moscow City Heritage announced the beginning of restoration work, the first stage - emergency work - should be completed before the end of 2018. ^[ten]
• p. 2,   TsGFO - office building of the estate, a building of the XIX century.
• p. 5 - printing house warehouse and garage, 1930s; 1970s
• p. 7 - office building of the printing house, 1970s.

• No. 23 - Institute of Rare Metals RAS ( Giredmet ).

• No. 27 - city estate, buildings of the early 19th century.
• No. 29 - the house of the director of the drinking collections of Moscow G.V. Likhonin, built in the 1770s. Until the 1920s - the Almshouse V. Ya. Lepёshkina for blind women named after Prince Vladimir Dolgorukov ^[11] . Now here is the Institute of Geography RAS .
• No. 31 - city estates, buildings of the early 19th century. Are managed by the Mineral Resources Institute .

• No. 31, p. 7,   architectural monument (newly discovered object) - the house of A.I. and V.V. Arshinovs (1879; 1905, architect F.O. Shekhtel ).

• No. 33 - the apartment building of Princess Elizabeth Feodorovna (1914, architect D. M. Chelishchev ) ^[12] .
• No. 35 - Institute of Geological Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1925-1929, architect V. A. Vesnin ^[13] ), after being divided into the USSR Academy of Sciences and the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry RAS.
• No. 35, p. 2 - apartment building (1887, architect N. N. Vasiliev ) ^[14] .
• No. 41/33 - building of the XIX century.

On the even side

• No. 4 - a two-story house, architect M.F. Kazakov (?, The first project).
• No. 10 - apartment building Panyusheva, 1912, architect A. V. Ivanov ^[1] .
• No. 12 - apartment building at the beginning of the 20th century.
• No. 14 - the apartment building of Borisov (1914, architects N. D. Ivanov , A. M. Khomko ). The building is occupied by the Embassy of Oman in Russia .
• No. 14/11 (overlooking the Bolshaya Polyanka) - the house of Nashchokina, XVIII century - 1900s.
• No. 16/13 (overlooking the Bolshaya Polyanka) - city estate, 1849-1950.
• No. 18 - residential complex "Seasons" (2004) ^[1] .

• No. 22 of building 1, 2, 3 is the city ​​estate of the merchant wives of Afimya and Irina Chizhov ^[15] . Empire monument of 1831-1838 years of construction. The main house is based on earlier buildings (dating has not been established). The main house has almost completely retained its appearance, except that in the 1920s the windows of the lower floor were trimmed. Interiors lost ^[16] . The building housed the Institute of the Lithosphere of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , now GIN RAS .
• No. 26 - establishments of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency of Russia .
• No. 32/19 - the courtyard of the church of St. Gregory of Neocaesarea . The church overlooking Bolshaya Polyanka was built in 1662-1679 by Ivan Kuznechik and Karp Guba. The first rector was Andrei Postnikov, confessor of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich .

• Monument-bust to V.V. Arshinov (sculptor N.E. Sarkisov) - in front of house No. 29 ^[17] .

• Metro stations Polyanka , Tretyakovskaya
• 700 bus , trolleybus 1 from Dobryninskaya metro station, Polyanka, Lenin Library

The lane is mentioned in the Cimmerian Summer novel by Yuri Slepukhin :

Around noon, hungry, Nika appears in the courtyard along Old Monetny Lane, where the first fourteen years of her life passed. Everything is still here: the same spreading shady poplars, the same pot-bellied and beam-backed two-story outbuilding, which they promise to demolish for a year already. Now, probably, it makes no sense: it’s cheaper to wait until it falls apart.