Slavic bazaar

The history of this domain goes back centuries. The left side belonged to different merchants in the 16th century, the right one to Mikhail Nikitovich Romanov, the nephew of Queen Anastasia. He served as Grigory Otrepiev. In 1626, the yard belonged to the Duke I.M. Vorotynskaya , then to his heirs, then the estate passed to the Treasury. In 1700, the auction was arranged in order to sell the yard. It was bought by Count Boris Petrovich Sheremetev. From the time of Vorotinsky there were stately chambers. Count built lodges with a patterned fance down the street. The betrothal of fifteen years old Countess Natalia Sheremeteva (1714-1771) with Prince Ivan Dolgoruky, a friend of Peter II was lavishly celebrated in the wards in 1729. Soon Peter II died and Dolgoruky felt in disgrace, but the bride is not disowned him and followed him to the exile in Belozerov. Her husband was executed In 1738. Three years later, she was pardoned and returned to Moscow, and later moved to Kiev, where she became a nun and wrote her memoirs. Synodic Printing House acquired the land in 1761. In 1777 the dilapidated structure was dismantled, and the architect Nazarov built a new house with a gate. In 1868, the Synod Office decided to rent out the house to known Moscow developers Porohovschikov and Azanchevsky to increase revenue. In 1869-71 the architect Roman Gedike built the hotel building on St. Nicholas street for them, and a semi-circular yard of building for commercial premises. P.I. Tchaikovsky, A.S. Suvorin, N.A. Rimsky- Korsakov, Gleb Uspensky, V.V. Stasov stayed in the hotel over the years. Architects A.L. Gong and P.E. Kudryavtsev built up in the hotel room, " Russian conversation" for public lectures and meetings in the style of Russian Uzoroche (patterns) in 1875. Historians Pogodin and Popov and many others delivered their speeches here. I.E. Repin created his famous painting "The Slavic composers" for this hall. Now it is at the Moscow Conservatory. The hotel was often mentioned in the works of A.P. Chekhov: he had been here many times with his friend Suvorin. There were rendezvous of the main characters of "The Lady with the Dog"; Trigorin set up a date with Nina Zarechnoj in "Slavic Bazaar". August Weber remade a semicircular building in the Porokhovshchikov’s yard into a restaurant in 1873. Thus was born the famous "Slavic Bazaar". In this restaurant Nemirovich -Danchenko and Stanislavski discussed the idea of creating a new private theater, which later became Moscow Art Academic Theatre. After the revolution, dining room opened in the building, and in 1966 restaurant was reopened again. In 1993 it burned down. Its ruins are still shamefully closed by building grid in the yard. The hotel housed the People's Commissariat of Justice since 1917. There was also "M.I. Kalinin Palace of builders", Jewish Theater of Musical Comedy. Then Department of Energy moved in. Theatrical tradition of the place continued in 1969, when there was opened Children's Musical Theatre of Natalia Sats. The Sat’s theatre received a new building on the Lenin Hills in 1979. The place was taken by the Chamber Music Theatre of B.A. Pokrovsky, who is here to these days. The rest of the space is occupied by offices.