🏛 Pashkov House

A snow-white Neoclassical manor of 1784–1786 with a belvedere; today the building belongs to the Russian State Library.

The client was Captain-Lieutenant Pyotr Pashkov, son of Peter I's orderly; Bazhenov is considered the author of the house, but there are no documents.
It was the first secular building in Moscow from whose windows people looked at the Kremlin not from below.
On Paul I's orders the statue of Minerva, a symbol of the victories of his mother's reign, was removed from the dome.
After the fire of 1812 the belvedere was rebuilt in 1815–1818, presumably by Osip Bove.
From 1861 the Rumyantsev Museum and its library, the future "Leninka", were housed here.
Repairs to the building took almost twenty years, from 1988 to 2007.
In Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita", Woland, Azazello and Levi Matthew meet on the roof of Pashkov House.

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