🏛 Yeliseyev House (former Yeliseyevsky shop)

Тверская ул., 14

A neo-Gothic facade and display windows of 1901; the food hall itself has been closed since 2021.

Grigory Yeliseyev bought the former Kozitskaya mansion in 1898; the architect Baranovsky led its conversion into a shop.
For three years the building stood wrapped in wooden scaffolding, and townspeople wondered what was inside; the scaffolding came down on the morning of the opening.
The shop opened on 23 January (5 February) 1901; Gilyarovsky described the ceremony in Moscow and Muscovites.
The entrance to the wine department was made from Kozitsky Lane: wine could not be sold within 100 m of a church, and the Strastnoy Monastery stood 90 m away.
The display of goods in pyramids, later copied by many shops, was Yeliseyev's idea.
From the 1920s the shop was officially called Gastronom No. 1.
In the early 1980s, in the "Yeliseyevsky case", the shop's director Sokolov was sentenced to death.