Passage San Galli

Former retail premises belonged to the Count I.I. Vorontsov in late XVIII century. His son later became the godfather of Alexander Pushkin. The first French fashion shop opened here and brought the glory of the most "French" street of Moscow to Kuznetsky bridge for many years. A century later, in 1883 , the old buildings were connected by a glazed windows, cast-iron dome designed by architect A. Martynov , and here was the passage of the metallurgical plant of the Count Franz San Galli, who produced art castings, construction parts and heating equipment for the premises. Once again the building was rebuilt in 1896. Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, the store was ransacked during the anti-German riots in May 1915 and closed. In its place, a famous baker N.D. Filippov decided to open the "Pittoresk" café. Young artists participated in the design of interiors of the cafe: Georgy (George) Yakulov , V. Tatlin , A. Osmyorkin , N. Udaltsov , L. Bruni, Rodchenko. The main plot of painting the walls and ceiling was taken from "The Stranger" by A. Blok. Cafe opened after the revolution, in January 1918. Time was hungry and cold. The room was not heated, there was only a sour curd in glasses and pies of frozen potatoes in the cupboard. Nevertheless, in an institution that Yakulov called the "world station of art", Vladimir Mayakovsky and David Burliuk were performing, and Vsevolod Meyerhold was staging Blok's "Stranger" here. By the autumn of 1918, the cafe was taken over by the theater department of the People's Commissariat of Education and was renamed the Red Rooster. It was visited by Sergei Yesenin and Nikolai Klyuev, Valery Bryusov and People's Commissar Lunacharsky. A year later the cafe was closed, and the room became commercial again. For a while, the publishing house Moskovsky Rabochiy was located in the part of the building. Since 1930 the exhibition hall "Vsekohudozhnik" was opened in the house, in 1953 it turned into the Moscow house of the artist. During the Great Patriotic War, the famous agitational posters "Windows TASS" were created here. In 2001, thanks to the restoration work carried out, the passage, which was seriously rebuilt in the 1960s, the pre-revolutionary view was returned. Currently, the building, which is an object of cultural heritage continues to belong to the Moscow House of Artists, houses art salons, gift shops, various exhibitions and fairs are held, charity events are held.