🚶 Spiridonovka Street

A street between Patriarch's Ponds and Nikitskaya with Art Nouveau mansions and quiet courtyards.

The street is named after the Church of St Spyridon of Trimythous on the Goat Marsh, patron of shepherds; the church was demolished in 1930.
From 1945 to 1992 the street bore the name of Alexey Tolstoy: he lived in no. 4, which has been his museum-apartment since 1987.
Alexander Blok lived in no. 6 in 1903–1904.
Tarasov House (no. 30/1) was built by Ivan Zholtovsky in 1909–1912, and the ceiling painting of the great hall was done by Yevgeny Lanceray.
Ilya Golosov's building no. 24/1 (1932–1936) stands on the site of the demolished Spiridonovka church.
In the TV series "Kitchen", the restaurant Claude Monet was "located" in no. 25.

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