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      Shekhtel, Narkomfin and Melnikov's house

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      From Art Nouveau to the avant-garde in an hour: the wave staircase of the Ryabushinsky Mansion, the Narkomfin communal house on “legs” and Melnikov's cylinder house in an Arbat lane.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
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        🖼 Ryabushinsky Mansion (Gorky Museum)
        ул. Малая Никитская, 6/2
        🎟 ticket
        A Shekhtel mansion of 1900 with a wave-like staircase, stained glass and mosaics.
        The wave staircase — an Art Nouveau masterpiece
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        Ryabushinsky Mansion (Gorky Museum)
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Ryabushinsky Mansion (Gorky Museum)
        © Ted.ns · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Shekhtel built the house in 1900–1903 for Stepan Ryabushinsky, whose icon collection was considered the largest in Russia.
        • In 1921–1925 an experimental psychoanalytic kindergarten operated here, attended by Stalin's son Vasily.
        • Maxim Gorky, who moved in here in 1931, called the mansion a "ridiculous house".
        • At meetings of Stalin and Gorky with writers here in October 1932, the term "socialist realism" was discussed and given meaning.
        • During restoration in the mid-1970s a bulky eavesdropping device was found in a wall.
        • The windows of the four floors look identical but get smaller toward the top, which makes the house look taller.
        • The basement kitchen was connected to the dining room by a lift so that dishes reached the table instantly.
        • Gorky's library in the mansion has 12,000 volumes.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Narkomfin Building
        Новинский б-р, 25, корп. 1
        🎟 ticket · a residential building: inside only by guided tour with advance booking
        Moisei Ginzburg's Constructivist communal house on pilotis (stilts) with ribbon windows.
        A communal house from 1930; tours by appointment
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        Narkomfin Building
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        • The building was built in 1928–1930 by Moisei Ginzburg, Ignaty Milinis and engineer Sergei Prokhorov; Ginzburg called it an "experimental house of a transitional type".
        • The People's Commissar of Finance Nikolai Milyutin built himself a two-level penthouse on the roof, in a volume intended for a ventilation chamber.
        • The colours of the flats were chosen by the Bauhaus professor Hinnerk Scheper; the brightest tone was applied to the ceilings.
        • Residents were offered meals in the canteen of the communal block and a mechanical laundry for their linen.
        • The building has three times been on the list of the "100 world buildings under threat of destruction"; in 2016–2020 it was restored by Ginzburg Architects.
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        🏛 Melnikov House
        Кривоарбатский пер., 10
        🎟 ticket · guided tours by appointment only, buy tickets in advance
        A house of two intersecting cylinders with hexagonal windows, built by Konstantin Melnikov for himself in 1927–1929.
        Melnikov's cylinder house — an avant-garde masterpiece. The house and yard are closed for restoration; we look from outside, from Krivoarbatsky Lane
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        Melnikov House
        © Paulkuz · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Melnikov House
        © Trasprd · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Melnikov House
        © Shesmax · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • Architect Konstantin Melnikov built the house for himself and his family in 1927–1929, a rare private house in Soviet Moscow.
        • The house consists of two cylinders of equal diameter cutting into each other, forming a figure eight in plan.
        • Its signature feature is the hexagonal windows: the rear tower has 57 of them, and the only octagonal window is in the living room.
        • The Melnikov family moved in in November 1929; after his parents' deaths, the architect's son, the artist Viktor Melnikov, lived here for the rest of his life.
        • In 2014 the house became a federal monument and a branch of the Shchusev Museum of Architecture.

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