The First Moscow Secondary School

Address : Bolshoi Znamensky pereulok 2/16

In the 18th century the land on which the building stands belonged to the Ladyzhensky family, to whom it was awarded by General Field Marshal R A. Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky in 1775. The house was rebuilt in the first decade of the 19th century, and in 1819 it became the First Moscow Gymnasium, or Secondary School. Students included such prominent figures as A. N. Ostrovsky, M. R Pogodin, S. M. Soloviev, R A. Kropotkin, and V. F. Snegirev. In the so called Higher Women's Courses opened here in 1872. During the Soviet period the building housed the University of Workers of the East.

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