Pashkov House

Address : Mokhovaya ulitsa 1

One of the most beautiful buildings in Moscow dating from the Classical period, this house stands on the site of an 18th-century manor belonging to Prince A. A. Menshikov. In 1782 the estate was acquired by P. E. Pashkov (a descendant of an orderly of Peter the Great), for whom in 1784-1788 architect V. 1. Bazhenov built a house that in the opinion of contemporaries was "one of the wonders of the world." Compositionally the main building and wings atop ancient Vagankov Hill are in the Neoclassical style, but their many Baroque features include an abundance of sculpture and exuberant decoration. The layout of the terraced garden with its stairways, sculptures, and fountains is modeled on Italian Baroque gardens. The garden was surrounded by a beautiful wrought iron fence that still stands along Znamenka St. The front entrance of the house opened onto Starovaganovsky pereulok. Destroyed in the fire of 1812, the interiors of the house were renovated in 19111915, when a new building was added by N. L. Shevyakov on the Znamenka side. In 1843 the house accommodated the Institute of the Nobility, then in 1849 a men's secondary school, and beginning in 1869 the Rumyantsev Museum and library. Today it is part of the Russian State Library.

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