Armenian lane 1/8c1

The four-storey corner apartment house was built at the beginning of the twentieth century on the site of an old manor house, the main house of which stood on Krivokolenny Lane, and the manor garden opened into Armenian Lane. The manor, which had a traditional classical appearance, was probably built before the fire of 1812. In the 1830s, it was owned by Ivan Nikolaevich and Ekaterina Lvovna Tyutchev, the parents of the poet Fyodor Tyutchev. In 1856, the estate was acquired by Mikhail Katkov and Pavel Leontiev - famous public figures of the mid-XIX century, publishers of the popular magazine "Russian Bulletin" and the newspaper "Moskovskie Vedomosti". Here, in the Armenian Lane, was the editorial office of their magazine and newspaper, as well as the printing house where they were printed. Writers M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, S.T. Aksakov, I.A. Goncharov often visited Katkov and Leontiev in the editorial office. In the late 1870s, the estate passed to the family of music teacher Karl Mikini, who owned it until 1917. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the heirs of Mikini decided to build an apartment house on the site of the old estate. In 1901, a part of the house was built along Armenian Lane, the architect Vladimir Vlastov was the author of the project. In 1905, one of the owners of the estate, an architect (civil engineer) Pyotr Karlovich Mikini is building the second part of the house along Krivokolenny Lane, combining both buildings with a spectacular corner bay window with a balcony in the upper part, topped with a turret. The apartments in the house are 4-5-room, many of them have preserved ceiling stucco, created according to the author's drawings, parquet, built-in furniture. The original design of the front doors and stairs has also reached our days. The house was inhabited by the owner and builder of the house, Peter Mikini, a railway engineer and civil engineer, as well as his brother and co-owner of the house, engineer-technician Viktor Mikini. The rest of the apartments in the house were rented out; on the ground floor, in the corner part, there was a shop. In 1908-1911, one of the apartments in the house was rented by the famous philosopher, publicist and public figure Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev. The house has received the status of a cultural heritage site.