🚶 Khokhlovsky Lane and the Ukraintsev Chambers

A steep, curving lane with the chambers of a 17th-century duma clerk and a courtyard covered in graffiti.

The name comes from the area of Khokhly, where in the 17th century Cherkassy Cossacks settled next to the Little Russian Court.
From 1697 the chambers belonged to the duma clerk and diplomat Yemelyan Ukraintsev.
After Poltava, Peter I granted the chambers to Prince Mikhail Golitsyn.
From 1770 the Moscow Main Archive of the College of Foreign Affairs was kept here.
At the Jurgenson music press attached to the chambers, almost all of Tchaikovsky's works were first printed.
The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Khokhly was built in 1696.
On the corner with Kolpachny Lane the steep left bank of the little Rachka river has survived.

Part of these routes