🏛 Moscow Conservatory

Б. Никитская ул., 13/6

A late 19th-century building with the Great Hall, where the world's best musicians perform.

The conservatory was founded by Nikolai Rubinstein; it opened on 1 September 1866.
The plot was bought in 1766 by Princess Ekaterina Dashkova; later the conservatory bought her house for 185,000 roubles.
The current building was laid down on 27 June 1895 to a design by Vasily Zagorsky.
The Great Hall opened on 7 April 1901.
The monument to Tchaikovsky in front of the Great Hall was unveiled in 1954.
On 18 March 1958 the first International Tchaikovsky Competition began here.

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