Historical reference. Panorama Novo-Ekaterininskaya Hospital

Multidisciplinary City Clinical Hospital No. 24 is one of the oldest clinics in Moscow. The medical activities of the institution are based on the principles established since the founding of the clinic: a combination of practice with science, education and professional development of staff.

1775

Decree of Empress Catherine on the establishment of a permanent civil hospital. The hospital was opened in 1776 in the building of the former Quarantine Yard on 3rd Meshchanskaya Street (now it is Shchepkin Street, 61/2). In honor of the founder and first philanthropist, the hospital was named Ekaterininskaya.

1883

Transfer of the hospital to the mansion of the Governor-General of Moscow D.V. Golitsyn, next to the Strastnoy Monastery. The building was erected in 1716 by the architect M.F. Kazakov. This is how the "Novo-Ekaterininskaya" hospital appeared, which became the largest in Moscow.

In the period of 50-60s. XIX century clinics of the medical faculty of Moscow University were placed in the hospital and the forces of leading Russian specialists were concentrated. Alexander III allowed the hospital to be given the name Imperial, on the day of the centenary of which a medal was knocked out.

The names of prominent Russian physicians who worked there in different years are closely connected with the history of the hospital. Surgeons A.A. Bobrov, S.P. Fedorov, A.V. Martynov, P.A. Herzen, therapists A.A. Ostroumov, N.A. Semashko, G.A. Zakharyin, neuropathologists A.Ya. Kozhevnikov, S.S. Korsakov, P.I. Rossolimo and many other specialists made a great contribution to the development of Russian medicine. Their work has not lost its significance even today.

In 1879, A.A. Ostroumov (1844-1908) began his teaching career here. Many prominent doctors worked here, including F.I. Inozemtsev and G.A. Zakharyin. Among the medical students who had an internship at the Novo-Ekaterininskaya Hospital was A.P. Chekhov.

In 1930, the Faculty of Medicine of the University became an independent institution. A sanitary and hygienic faculty is being created at the institute, the clinical base of which is a hospital.

During the Great Patriotic War the hospital of the Moscow garrison functioned in the hospital. Subsequently, the hospital was named City Clinical Hospital No. 24.

In 1978, three hospitals of the Sverdlovsk District Health Department (No. 24, No. 28, No. 9) were merged into one institution at the location of hospitals No. 28 and No. 9 (Pistsovaya St., 10). On Strastnoy Boulevard, only the surgical coloproctological services of the hospital, diagnostic departments, the consultative department and the rehabilitation department for stoma patients, administrative and economic departments of the hospital remained.

In 2009, a new building was put into operation at 10 Pistsova Street, where all branches from Strastnoy Boulevard moved.

year 2014. Reorganization of healthcare in Moscow. The City Clinical Hospital No. 24 included the Interdistrict Department of Multiple Sclerosis and the city hospital No. 8 joined with the service of obstetrics and nursing of premature babies.

Since 2014, on the basis of City Clinical Hospital No. 24, the project "Territory of Coloproctology" has been launched: a platform for interaction between the professional community of surgeons, coloproctologists, and oncologists.

Clinic No. 24 hosts ten medical departments of leading universities and universities. These include the Departments of General Surgery, Hospital Therapy, Radiation Diagnostics and Therapy of the Russian National Research Medical University. N.I. Pirogov, ultrasound diagnostics and surgery of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia.

The main profile direction of the surgical activity of the clinic for almost forty recent years has been COLOPROCTOLOGY. To date, the hospital has 5 coloproctological departments, 3 of which are oncological.

In City Clinical Hospital No. 24, all coloproctological operations existing in world medical practice are performed, many of which were developed within the walls of Clinic No. 24.

About 7,000 surgeries are performed within the walls of the clinic every year, of which 4,000 are for oncocoloproctology, and more than half of them are LAPAROSCOPIC. At the dawn of the development of laparoscopic surgery, GKB 24 was one of the first medical institutions not only in Russia, but throughout the world, where they began to use this technique for diseases of the colon and rectum (1993). Created and functioning MOSCOW CITY CENTER OF COLOPROCTOLOGY.

Currently, the clinic maintains and increases the priority of laparoscopic surgery, performing minimally invasive organ-preserving operations and actively introducing transanal endoscopic microsurgery.

I can only repeat my old post about this historic building, about this hospital...
As we know, on the morning of January 1, 2013, two buildings built in the first third of the 19th century were completely demolished.,
which were part of the complex of the Novo-Ekaterininsky hospital on Strastnoy Boulevard (house 15/29, buildings 4 and 8).
I would like to offer one thing ... if your hands itch like that, then demolish, freaks, some kind of cottage of your own, yeah .. somewhere in the Rublevo-Uspensky reservation ...
Original taken from
New Catherine Hospital

Photo from the 1900s

A monumental building in the style of Russian classicism with a 12-column portico. This is an architectural monument of the end of the 18th century (1786-1790), the former palace of the princes Gagarins. The huge house was occupied by a chamberlain family of three. In the center of the building there was a spacious dance hall, to the right of it were the living quarters of the owners, to the left - an arena for riding. Downstairs lived a serf servant. The palace stood in the middle of a large park with pavilions, ponds and fountains. In 1802 - 1812 here was the English club, which in 1806 honored the hero of the battle of Shengraben P.I.Bagration.

In 1812, a terrible year for Moscow, the famous French writer Stendhal (pseudonym of Henri Beyle), who served in the commissariat of the Napoleonic army, visited this building.
Admiring the architecture of Moscow palaces, he wrote about the English Club: “There is not a single club in Paris that could compare with it.” whose beauty surpasses everything that Paris knows". Alas! The building was burned down. In 1825-1828 it was restored by O. I. Beauvais and, under the guidance of Dr. A. I. Paul, adapted for a hospital. In 1833, it transferred patients from the Ekaterininsky hospital in connection with the dilapidation of its buildings (hence the name - New Catherine. The date "1775" on the pediment of the building refers to the year the Ekaterininsky hospital was founded. By decree of 1845, it was turned into the clinical base of the medical faculty of Moscow University. Here were one of the first hospital therapeutic clinics and surgical clinics with a urological department (1846) and the Department of Pathological Anatomy (1849) were established in Russia. linen number 24. The remains of the park, a fence with a gate, an Empire-style chapel at the clinical morgue have been preserved.

Newsreel frame. 1957 New Catherine Hospital is visible behind the trees of Strastnoy Boulevard.

Curious fact. In 1939, the hospital found itself at the epicenter of an outbreak of plague that came to Moscow. It was not a medieval plague that claimed thousands of lives and left entire streets of the dead. She did not come with thousands of infected rats and myriads of fleas. She came in the person of a scientist, Professor Berlin, Deputy Director for Science of the Saratov Plague Institute (the Institute still exists under a different name - "Microbe"). Berlin gathered in Moscow for a report at the Collegium of the People's Commissariat of Health. On the day of his departure, he conducted experiments with an anti-plague vaccine on animals infected with virulent live plague microbes. Either he himself was not careful enough, or he was rushed to finish the experiments and get ready for the road - but he arrived in Moscow already sick, with a high temperature, and in this state he delivered a report at the College.
Summoned to the sick Berlin, who did not recover from the blow (the death of his son - d1), old man R. diagnosed lobar pneumonia - and sent the patient to the nearest New Catherine's hospital, which is near the Petrovsky Gates. This hospital at that time, as now, was the clinical base of a number of clinics of the 1st Moscow Medical Institute, prominent professors worked in it.
In the emergency room of the hospital, the doctor on duty, Dr. Gorelik, examined the patient and immediately suspected not just lobar pneumonia, but pneumonic plague. Suspicions were quickly justified.
The NKVD was actively involved in organizing the fight against the spread of a possible epidemic. As soon as it became clear what a monstrous danger Moscow faced, emergency measures were taken to prevent the development of the epidemic. Thanks to these measures - and perhaps because the development of epidemics has its own patterns, but the plague claimed only three lives: Berlin, Gorelik and the hospital hairdresser.
The New Catherine Hospital was immediately declared under martial law. A unit of the NKVD troops arrived here. There were guards at the entrances and exits of the hospital, not letting anyone in or out. The functions of the commandant of the hospital were assigned to Professor I. G. Lukomsky, who was among the detainees, the head of the dental clinic (More details -

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architectural monument (federal)

Novo-Ekaterininskaya Hospital (Manor Gagarin listen)) - building No. 15/29 on the corner of Petrovka Street and Strastnoy Boulevard in Moscow. Initially, it was the estate of the princes Gagarins, in 1802-1812 it housed the English Club, since 1833 - the Novo-Ekaterininskaya Hospital, which in 1945 was reorganized into the city clinical hospital No. 24, she occupied the house until 2009. Currently, the estate is part of the complex of buildings of the Moscow City Duma.

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Building until the 19th century[ | ]

The estate was built in 1774-1776 for Prince Sergei Gagarin according to the design of the architect Matvey Kazakov. In the 1786-1790s, the owner of the house was Sergey Sergeevich Gagarin, after him the house passed to his sons - Nikolai and Sergey. Between 1802 and 1812 the estate was leased to the English Club. In 1806, a dinner was held in the estate building in honor of Prince Pyotr Bagration after the victory at Shengraben. The picture of that evening, according to the memoirs of contemporaries, was restored by the writer Leo Tolstoy in the novel War and Peace. After the capture of Moscow by the French, the estate was occupied by the headquarters of the chief quartermaster of the Napoleonic army. Among the quartermaster officers was the famous French writer Henri Bayle (Stendal), who noted that they did not have a single club in their homeland that could compare with the English club in Moscow. After the French left Moscow, the house was badly burned out in a fire.

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The founder of the hospital, Dmitry Golitsyn, 1835

The building has been empty since 1812, in 1828 it was bought by the military governor-general of Moscow Dmitry Golitsyn for 45 thousand rubles to build a hospital in it. For this purpose, the architect Osip Bove was invited. He restored the estate, and also built several additional buildings and the Alexander Nevsky Church (building No. 9; it was rebuilt in 1872-1876 according to the project of architect Alexander Nikiforov). Instead of a front suite in the new project, operating rooms and wards for patients were arranged, the arches on the basement floor were replaced by horizontal lintels imitating keystones, and a spectacular frieze was made as decoration. In 1833, by decree of Nicholas I, the building housed the New Catherine's Hospital, which provided free treatment even for the lower classes. In 1846, one of the first in Russia, hospital clinics were established in the hospital - a surgical one with a urological department and a therapeutic one.

In 1876, the hospital received the status of the Imperial. Until 1884, patients were received only by doctors on duty, who changed daily. Since 1884, specially dedicated residents took up the appointment, among them the therapist Vasily Shervinsky, neuropathologists Vladimir Muratov and Grigory Rossolimo.

The names of prominent Russian physicians who worked there in different years are closely connected with the history of the hospital. Surgeons Alexander Bobrov, Sergei Fedorov, Pyotr Herzen, Alexei Matynov, Fyodor Inozemtsev, therapists Nikolai Semashko, Zakharyin Grigory, Roman Luria, neuropathologists Alexei Kozhevnikov, Sergei Korsakov, Grigory Rossolimo. In 1879, Alexei Ostroumov (1844-1908) began his teaching career in the hospital. Among the medical students who practiced at the Novo-Ekaterininsky Hospital was Anton Chekhov.

The Novo-Ekaterininsky hospital, which was financed from the treasury, also worked after the revolution. In 1930, the hospital became the clinical base of the founded Faculty of Sanitation and Hygiene.

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After the war, the hospital received the status of City Clinical Hospital No. 24. In 1978, three hospitals of the Sverdlovsk District Health Department (No. 24, No. 28, No. 9) were merged into one institution, they were allocated building No. 10 on Pistsovaya Street. Surgical coloproctological services of the hospital, diagnostic departments, consultative department and rehabilitation department for stoma patients, administrative and economic departments of the hospital remained on Strastnoy Boulevard.

In 2009, a new building on Pistsovaya Street was put into operation, the remaining hospital departments on Strastnoy Boulevard moved into it. After the move, the manor building was not used in any way.

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Buildings from the yard before restoration

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Demolished monuments
	Pokoinitskaya before demolition
	Laundry before demolition

In 2008, a project for the restoration of the building of the Novo-Ekaterininskaya Hospital was prepared, developed by the architectural workshop of Stanislav Maltsev as part of the implementation of the order of the Government of Moscow dated October 10 No. 2363-RP "On the placement of the main wedding palace of the city of Moscow in the building at the address: Strastnoy Boulevard, 15 / 29, p. 1 (Central Administrative District of Moscow)”. The project was approved by the Moscow Department of Cultural Heritage in December 2010. However, this project was abandoned due to the high cost (5 billion rubles) and problems with parking.

In 2012, the building was transferred to the Moscow Property State Unitary Enterprise, by its order, workshop No. 13 “Mosproekt-2 named after. M. V. Posokhin "developed a new draft design of the restoration: it provided for a change in the facades of the building. In the same year, work began on the restoration of the estate. The general contract agreement was concluded with the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Ateks" and is being carried out by the subcontractor LLC "Stroykomplekt" under the supervision of "Mosproekt-2 named after. M. V. Posokhin. The cost of the work was estimated at 3.1 billion rubles.

On December 19, 2012, the working group of the Moscow Government Commission on urban planning activities in the zones of protection of cultural heritage sites considered the demolition of three buildings (buildings 3, 4, 8) that were part of the Novo-Ekaterininsky hospital complex. On December 26, a meeting of the commission was held, on the evening of December 31, construction equipment was brought to the territory of the former hospital, and on January 1, 2013, the buildings were completely demolished.

In June 2013, the Maltsev Architectural Workshop and the Arkhnadzor movement filed a lawsuit with the Moscow Arbitration Court demanding that the demolition of the buildings be declared illegal. Maltsev referred to the Decree of the Government of Moscow No. 907, which prohibited any construction within the boundaries of the protected zone of the monument. The claim was rejected. In August of the same year, Maltsev filed a second lawsuit, which concerned copyright for the restoration project. He claimed that his workshop developed the initial project for the restoration of the Novo-Ekaterininskaya Hospital, however, the project was transferred to the Mosproekt-2 State Unitary Enterprise without their consent and in violation of copyright. In July 2015, the Moscow Arbitration Court recognized the exclusive rights to the restoration project for the Maltsev Architectural Workshop, and in October this decision was confirmed by the 9th Arbitration Court of Appeal.

In 2015, the restoration was completed, which took place on an area of ​​11 thousand m². Inside the building, 90% of the ceilings were replaced, brick walls and vaults were restored (1 million special bricks were used for this), sandstone floors of the vestibule were recreated, as well as historical parquet. Based on the preserved fragment of the cast-iron step, the restorers reproduced the appearance of the main staircase. The wooden walls and arches were restored in the house church, the architectural and planning structure was restored, the painting on the plot "Ascension of Christ" was cleared and supplemented. A small piece of marble was used to recreate the colonnade. On the basis of archival data and surviving fragments of decoration in the assembly hall, specialists restored the original parquet and stucco decoration on the ceiling. The historical painting of the walls in oil painting technique was recreated from a small fragment that was discovered during the restoration. During the restoration, fragments of the facade wall of the building at the turn of the 17th-18th centuries were discovered, which had been hidden for more than 250 years. They are unique evidence of the architecture of the first stone buildings built in Moscow after the death of Peter I.

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From 2013 to 2015, archaeologists worked on the territory of the former hospital, they discovered more than 5,000 valuable items: ceramic dishes, jewelry, a collection of carved bone items, a numismatic collection, including coins of the Holy Roman Empire and ancient state awards of Western Europe. In addition, ceramic toys were discovered, for example, children's toy pistols of the 19th century were found for the first time. An important find on the territory was the decree of Emperor Nicholas I on the establishment of a hospital in the building of the estate, as well as the plan of 1828, according to which the building was built at that time and a park was laid out. Also during the excavations, scientists stumbled upon garnet stones from mines located in the north-west of Rus', the total weight of the stones was 2.5 kg.

Entrance of the Moscow City Duma[ | ]

In November 2015, the Moscow City Duma moved from the complex of buildings on Petrovka to a new building on the territory of the Novo-Ekaterininskaya Hospital.

On April 24, 2017, a park was opened near the complex of buildings of the Moscow City Duma, which can be visited by everyone on weekends and holidays. You can see the architectural complex from the inside only as part of organized excursion groups.

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Estate building, 2016

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New building of the Moscow City Duma, 2016

The project of the new building, which houses the Moscow City Duma, was developed by the Speech bureau. The authors of the project were Mikhail Posokhin and Sergey Tchoban. The building area was 2,212 m².

The facade of the building is decorated with pseudo-columns and a portico, which are in tune with the front front of the old mansion. The building itself has a rectangular plan, thanks to which it was possible to organize the layout of the interior as rationally as possible. The meeting room covers an area of ​​363 m², the voting room is 24 m², and the lounge is 40 m². The office of the Chairman of the Council is 176 m² and includes a meeting room, a reception room and a rest room. Each of the four deputies also has an office with the same set of rooms, but with a total area of ​​81 m². Each of the 45 deputies was given an office of 30 m².

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Notes [ | ]

1. Channel Four - news Archived February 20, 2015.
2. Evgeny Osipov. The historic building of the Catherine's hospital will be restored (indefinite) (February 21, 2014). Retrieved 11 August 2017.
3. Novo-Ekaterininskaya Hospital (indefinite) (2017). Retrieved 11 August 2017.
4. N. Korostelev. NOVO-EKATERININSKAYA (indefinite) . Moscow Journal (December 2002). Retrieved 11 August 2017.
5. Public activists proposed a number of options for accommodating the depository of the Moscow Kremlin Museums (indefinite) (October 6, 2010). Retrieved 11 August 2017.
6. Public activists proposed alternatives for placing the depository of the Moscow Kremlin Museum (indefinite) (October 11, 2010). Retrieved 11 August 2017.
7. Historic quarter: from the past to the future (indefinite) (2004). Retrieved 11 August 2017.
8. Natalya Demidyuk. "Arhnadzor" demands to restore the outbuildings of the Novo-Ekaterininskaya hospital (indefinite) (January 15, 2013). Retrieved 11 August 2017.

Two years ago, the Moscow Duma moved into a restored mansion on Strastnoy Boulevard, turning it into a fortress. Now, in order to see the architecture of Kazakov and Beauvais (and also Choban and Kuznetsov), one has to become a deputy. The second option is to sign up for a tour. And so did Afisha Daily.

In 2015, without a noisy housewarming party, the Moscow City Duma moved from Petrovka, 22, to the territory of the former Gagarin estate on Strastnoy Boulevard. The old building was transferred to the department of Yuri Chaika - the Prosecutor General's Office occupies quite a lot of real estate in the area of ​​​​Petrovka and Bolshaya Dmitrovka. And the apparatus of the Moscow Duma, together with the Public Chamber of the city, now works on the estate, where for almost 200 years - from 1833 to 2009 - the Novo-Ekaterininskaya Hospital was located.

It was restored, cleared, strengthened the old fences and installed new ones. Right there, in the protected zone of the monument, a new building was built for meetings and public discussions, which is generally prohibited by law - and as Archnadzor announced in 2013. The building was designed by the Speech bureau, founded by Sergei Tchoban and Sergei Kuznetsov, the current chief architect of Moscow. The planning of the entire complex was carried out by Mosproekt-2, the bureau of Posokhin-son named after Posokhin-father, the chief architect of Moscow in the 1960s-1980s.

What is the complex of the Moscow City Duma: visualization of "Mosproekt-2"

From the hospital to the Duma

By 2009, the beds from the old hospital were taken to a modern building in the Savelovskaya area. In the vacated palace on Strastnoy Boulevard under Luzhkov, they planned to place the Museum of Moscow, which left the Church of St. John under the Elm on New Square; then they thought about opening the main wedding palace in the city - registry office No. 1. As a result, a contract for restoration in 2012 was concluded with the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Ateks of the Federal Security Service of Russia. For 3.1 billion rubles, they were supposed to re-equip the area of ​​the hospital in 18.5 thousand square meters for Moscow deputies and the Duma apparatus. "Ateks" - a company with a solid website - was engaged in many important government orders: the restoration of the Mausoleum, the Arc de Triomphe on Kutuzovskaya, the Hall named after. Tchaikovsky. A week ago, the company's executives were detained in the case of embezzlement during the construction of Putin's residence in Novo-Ogaryovo.

The reconstruction was also not without scandals: the site “Know Moscow” opened by the mayor’s office describes an episode when “... on New Year’s Eve 2013, under mysterious circumstances, two outbuildings of the 19th century on the territory of the hospital were demolished.” A conflict arose between the Maltsev Workshop, which carried out survey work and a project for scientific restoration under the registry office, and Mosproekt-2, which ultimately designed the complex for the Duma based on their materials. Maltsev's lawsuits regarding the demolition and copyright infringement were rejected by the court. The public campaign of Arkhnardzor, which warned that Moscow laws would be adopted in an illegally constructed building, also came to nothing.

At the same time, the restoration was presented as a gift to the city. They promised to connect the manor park with the Hermitage Garden by pedestrian Uspensky Lane. They said that "... the building will become an adornment of the Boulevard Ring" and "... will work for Moscow and Muscovites." “It is by him that we can imagine Moscow rebuilt after the fire of 1812,” Shvidkovsky, rector of the Moscow Architectural Institute, said in an interview with TVC, “a visible symbol of Russian culture, and now it has taken on the form that it was.”

As a result, from the boulevard one can really observe the front portico of Matvey Kazakov - just like in the days of the hospital. But it’s impossible to see the symbol of culture from Uspensky Lane: the lane, ennobled in 2015 under the My Street program, is now the meeting point of two fences around the Hermitage and the Moscow City Duma. You can get on its territory only if you have some business - to the deputy, in the Moscow Public Chamber, you are invited to a tour or to an exhibition.

Afisha Daily asked for a tour through the press service. Entrance and exit from each building - strictly according to the lists. “Meeting with a deputy, photographing ...” - everything is in accordance with the regulations. The tour was led by Nina Konovalova, an expert on Japan from the Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning, a student of the festival "Architecture". For about an hour, together with a group of strict ladies, she drove up the main staircase, the halls of the second floor and the courtyards of the Gagarin estate. She also showed the new building, recommending additional information about it "...search on the Internet." Here's what we heard and saw from her.

The Gagarin Manor - the former Novo-Ekaterininskaya Hospital

First floor corridor

The estate was built according to the project of Matvey Kazakov in 1776 for Prince Sergei Gagarin, one of Catherine II's administrators. The Kazakov project included a number of technological tricks: for example, the smoke from the stoves went through the labyrinths in the ceilings, and in this way the building was heated. On the first floor there were the master's offices and chambers, guests were met here. The highest ceilings were on the second: receptions were held there. On the third, one wing was occupied by servants, the other by tutors. During the restoration, the floors of the first floor were covered with sandstone, Russian marble, unpolished and non-slip. It is alleged that this was the floor under Kazakov himself.

Chandelier on the first floor

They tried to stylize the lamps at the beginning of the 19th century. Then, by the size of the chandelier, it was possible to judge how important a particular space plays: in the main hall it should have been the brightest. Candles burned until two or three in the morning - until the guests began to leave. At the beginning of the 18th century, rich people could afford chandeliers with six candles, and only by the end of the century complex lamps spread - several floors.

Main staircase

Only the noble public could climb the stairs from the first to the second floor - the servants had their own. The original stairs were gutted after the hospital moved in 2009. The contractors spent 20 tons of cast iron on restoration. It was based on a preserved fragment of a step and a photograph from the beginning of the 20th century.

On the wall are the chairmen of the City Duma of different times. The position itself appeared in 1762, they chose authoritative and wealthy people for it: at least 40 years old, with real estate worth at least 15,000 rubles. Among the portraits are Sergei Tretyakov, brother of the founder of the gallery, Pavel, and one of the last mayors, Vladimir Mikhailovich Golitsyn.

For reference: in the income statement for 2015, the current chairman of the Moscow City Duma, Alexei Shaposhnikov, lists a 270-meter apartment and a cottage of 277 sq. 43-year-old Aleksey Shaposhnikov is a hereditary deputy: his father sat in the Duma of the 4th convocation on Petrovka. Both represent United Russia.

Second floor corridor

The first owner of the house, Sergei Gagarin, died in 1782. Ten years later, his heirs leased the building to the famous English Club, one of the evenings in which - a gala dinner in honor of Prince Bagration - is described in the novel "War and Peace": "On March 3, in all the rooms of the English Club there was a groan of talking voices, and, like bees on a spring migration, they scurried back and forth, sat, stood, converged and dispersed, in uniforms, tailcoats and some others in powder and caftans, members and guests of the club. Powder-coated, in stockings and boots, livery footmen stood at every door, trying hard to catch every movement of the guests and members of the club in order to offer their services. Most of those present were old, respectable people with broad self-confident faces, thick fingers, firm movements and voices.

It was not easy to become a member of the club: it was required to have an impeccable reputation, to have the patronage of one of the participants (there were about 400 people in the club), in addition, to be wealthy enough to contribute 30 rubles a month. Many great writers succeeded in this: Pushkin, Baratynsky, Chaadaev, Karamzin, Zhukovsky, Krylov, Tolstoy, Ostrovsky, Nekrasov and Gogol were members of the club.

Lamp on the second floor

During the French occupation of Moscow in 1812, it was planned to house the headquarters of Napoleon's cavalry, in which Stendhal served, in the Gagarin mansion. He wrote to his correspondents that they did not have a single club in their homeland that could compare with the English in Moscow.

In the same 1812, the mansion burned down and stood in ruins for ten years. In 1828, it was bought by the Governor-General Golitsyn in order to transport here the hospital of Dr. Paul, which until then was located on 3rd Meshchanskaya Street and was called Ekaterininskaya in honor of the nearby church. The destroyed building was adapted for medical needs by the architect Osip Bove, the author of the Bolshoi Theater. On the site of the Gagarin greenhouses, he erected several outbuildings, which had just been demolished on New Year's Eve, and also built the Church of Alexander Nevsky. Instead of a ceremonial enfilade in the new project, operating rooms and wards for patients were arranged. The Novo-Ekaterininskaya Hospital was about half a century older than the Knickerbocker Hospital and was also famous for its advanced clinical techniques.

servant ladder

In Soviet times, the Novo-Ekaterininskaya Hospital, which turned into the 24th city hospital, was badly damaged. The ceilings were empty, the wall paintings were painted over, the walls were tiled, and linoleum was laid on the parquet. In the restored mansion, this homelessness is surprisingly felt. Here, plastic doors coexist with suspended ceilings, and new-made lamps and chairs, like in a school assembly hall, with diligent attempts to restore antiquity.

Oval hall on the second floor

The large oval hall used to be the epicenter of balls and receptions; one of the walls has a niche for an orchestra. The walls and 12 columns are finished with artificial marble. The painting on the ceiling has not been preserved; this is not even a reconstruction, but a historical fantasy - along with parquet and stucco on the ceiling.

Rose room on the second floor

Descriptions of the color scheme of Matvey Kazakov were not found - they decided to choose pig pink, common in the era of romanticism. On the lower part of the walls there is a snag: a painting that imitates wood trim.

Grisaille under the ceiling of the second floor

A trick of the same kind can be found in the corridor: there is a stucco painting, which does not always mean that the builders wanted to save on materials. This frieze has been restored from a fragment found during the replacement of ceilings.

The main house of the manor and the semicircular service building to the left of it were built in the style of classicism. Presumably, the author of the project was a well-known.

In 1806, a solemn reception was organized in this building in honor of P.I. Bagration, described in the novel by L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace".

After the occupation of Moscow by the French army in 1812, the headquarters of the chief quartermaster was located in the house at 15, Strastnoy Boulevard. One of the quartermaster officers was Henri Bayle, the future famous French writer Stendhal.

In 1821, a semicircular service building was restored, which was leased to the organizer of circus performances, Fenardi.

Since 1826, the restoration of the main house at Petrovka, 29 began according to the project of the architect O.I. Beauvais. In 1828, the building was bought by the treasury and given to the order of public charity.

Novo-Ekaterinskaya Hospital on the corner of Petrovka and Strastnoy Boulevard

In 1833, the hospital, which was named Novo-Ekaterininskaya, moved to the restored house. On the pediment of the building appeared the date of its foundation - 1775.

On the basis of the hospital, clinics of the Medical and Surgical Academy were opened, and since 1846 - the Medical Faculty of Moscow University.

In the 1980s, only some departments of the hospital remained at 15 Strastnoy Boulevard, the main part of which was transferred to another location.

In 2009, the hospital at the corner of 29 Petrovka Street moved completely to new buildings specially built for it on Pistsovaya Street. The building on Strastnoy Boulevard was transferred to the city.