Chambers of the Tver Compound. XVII century.

Tver Compound - complex historical buildings on Kuznetsky Most Street in Moscow, the former courtyard and residence of the Tver archbishops.

On the Kuznetsky Bridge, ancient chambers lurk in the courtyard behind the houses. Since the 17th century, this site has belonged to the Tver Compound - the residence of the Tver archbishops.

The main building of the Tver Compound - two-story stone chambers, rectangular in plan - were built in the second half of the 17th century. The chambers are located inside the courtyard and face the southern front facade to the Kuznetsk bridge. The facades of the building were decorated with modest white stone architraves.

Until 1770, the compound included the Church of St. Arseny, Bishop of Tver, known since 1690. St. Arseny was the heavenly patron of Tver, so it is not surprising that a church was consecrated in the residence of the Tver archbishops in honor of this saint.

The chambers are connected with the life and work of the Archbishop of Tver and Kashin Platon, a church leader, educator, author of numerous works:

Metropolitan Platon (in the world Pyotr Georgievich Levshin)
1770-1775 - Archbishop of Tver and Kashinsky
1775-1787 - Archbishop of Moscow and Kolomna
1787-1811 - Metropolitan of Moscow

Metropolitan Platon (Levshin) (1737 - 1812) from 1787 Metropolitan of Moscow.

He enjoyed the patronage of Empress Catherine II, was appointed a teacher of the law under Paul I, for whom he wrote "Orthodox Teaching", translated into many foreign languages.

Monument to Metropolitan Platon the work of the sculptor A. A. Bichukov is located in the Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery. The inscription on the pedestal reads: "To Metropolitan Platon from grateful Pererva."

Metropolitan Platon at the Monument "1000th Anniversary of Russia" in Veliky Novgorod

Most likely, the Chambers were built during two building periods. At the end of the 18th century, a two-story stone volume with vaults was added to the northwestern corner of the building.

In 1835, the facades of the chambers were completely remade in the classical style.

"Reconstructed" building of the Tver Compound

Some buildings of the site were rented out as a farmstead. In the 1770s, the family of the Italian music teacher Morelli lived here.

Kuznetsky bridge. 1907-1908. Tverskoye Compound (straight)

In the 1810s and 1820s, the workshop of the sculptor Santino Campioni was located here, producing marble and bronze artistic sculptures. The house served as a meeting place for foreign artists who came to the capital of the Mother See. Various sculptural works came out of this workshop, which also adorned many public houses (the Golitsyn hospital, the house of the Noble Assembly, the house of Count Razumovsky on the Gorokhovo field, palaces in Ostankino and Arkhangelsk and others).

Campioni achieved especially virtuoso art by imitating colorful marble, which he used in the decoration of the Grand Kremlin Palace. The sculptural artistic monuments of Campioni can be seen at the Vvedensky cemetery.

In the buildings of the Tver courtyard, overlooking the street, there were numerous shops that attracted customers with their signs and shop windows. In the 1830s - 1850s, the popular "Polish shop of Gennger and K" rented premises here, which sold educational and stationery, including insanely expensive gold nibs with diamond ends - real works of art.

In the 1860s, painter and portrait photographer Mikhail Borisovich Tulinov (1823-1889) set up a famous photo studio in the house of the Tver courtyard. According to the memoirs of the artist himself, things immediately went uphill: “Saltykov-Shchedrin and Yakushkin, walking along Kuznetskaya Street, noticed my name on the sign. Are in the photo. I take photographs in different poses... After a while, Kraevsky appears, and soon Nekrasov with his famous dog... Finally, Ostrovsky, Pisemsky appear, then Aksakov and Katkov. In Tulinov's studio, young I.N. worked as a retoucher. Kramskoy, who wrote about him in one of his letters: "my father, brother and best friend." When Kramskoy painted the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, he lived in Tulinov's photo studio on Kuznetsky.

Portrait of M. B. Tulinov by I. N. Kramskoy

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, all the buildings of the Tver courtyard overlooking the Kuznetsk bridge were occupied by shops and restaurants. Here was one of the famous confectionery Ivan Bartels, Sunday pies from which the whole of Moscow enjoyed. The famous writer and journalist S.F. Ryskin, not having his own corner for a long time, wrote almost all of his works in the basement of the Bartels confectionery. Exhausted by everyday work, Ryskin fell ill with consumption and died at the age of thirty-five.

Residents of all neighboring streets came to the store of the dairy empire "Brothers V. and N. Blandov" every day for fresh milk.

IN AND. Blandow (1847-1906)

Vladimir Ivanovich Blandov founded the first cheese factory in Russia and opened the first dairy plant. In Moscow alone, the Blandovs had about sixty stores where you could buy the best milk, cheese and butter.

Book lovers came to the Tver Compound for literary novelties and antique folios in the stores “Russian Letter” by N. Petrov, “ elementary School» K.I. Tikhomirov, "Education" and "Trading House S. Kurnin". The photo workshop "Dyagochenko", located in the courtyard, was visited by many famous artists, writers, musicians and scientists.

In the basement of one of the buildings of the Tver Compound, at the end of the 19th century, the restaurant "Venice" was opened, which quickly gained incredible popularity. V.A. Gilyarovsky could not fail to mention him in “Moscow and Muscovites”: “From the small restaurants, it was interesting on the Kuznetsky bridge in the basement of the house of the Tverskoy metochion “Venice”. There, in a separate hall with a locked door, the grandfathers of our revolution gathered. And more convenient place was not: at eleven o'clock the restaurant was locked, the audience dispersed - and then friendly conversations began in this small hall with curtained windows.

Kustodiev B.M. Sexual

The kitchen is closed, the buffet is closed, and only the only owner of the restaurant, Vasily Yakovlevich, who almost prayed for each of the visitors to the small hall, serves personally ... Only vodka, beer and cold dishes were served. They sometimes drank until morning. “Relaxedly and intimately with me!” Vasily Yakovlevich used to say. They came singly and in pairs and left the same way through the back door along the deserted Kuznetsky bridge and Gazetny lane at night (then the whole lane from the Kuznetsky bridge to Nikitskaya was called Gazetny), to Tverskaya, to their “Chernyshs” and Olsufiev’s house, where they lived and where they came and illegal people came to spend the night ... "

In the early 1900s, the house overlooking the Kuznetsky Most housed: the Japanese oriental goods store, the Vegetarian Dining Room, the Blandov brothers' dairy store, I. Bertels' bakery and confectionery, K. I. Sanzhi's French laundry, and many bookstores ( “Russian Letter” by N. Petrov, “Primary School” by K. I. Tikhomirov, “Education”, “S. Kurnin Trading House”), as well as antiques and rarities shops.

After the October Revolution, the building of the chambers became residential and retained this function until the 1980s. In 1974, the ensemble of the Tver Compound was included in the list of historical and cultural monuments.

In 1995, according to the project of I.P. Ruben and I.A. Stoletov, the building of the chambers was restored. By the spring of 1996, four buildings of the ensemble were demolished, and the two-story building overlooking the Kuznetsky Most, characteristic of the street of the times of A. S. Pushkin, was “recreated” by building a new business multifunctional complex according to the project of the team of authors headed by architect A. R. Vorontsov .

Currently, a remake with a facade on Kuznetsky Most is occupied by shops and restaurants, bank divisions, and a number of other institutions and organizations.

The main building of the ensemble, the chambers of the Tver Compound, preserved in the courtyard of the site, is an object cultural heritage federal significance. In the second half of the 1990s - 2002, the chambers were again restored according to the project of O. N. Bashilova and A. S. Voskresensky.

Kuznetsky Most is one of the most beautiful and most mysterious streets of the capital. She has not lost her original physiognomy even today. It is possible not to love Moscow, but it is simply impossible not to love the Kuznetsk Bridge. Historian Ivan Kuzmich Kondratiev shares this opinion: “One of the remarkable places in Moscow is the Kuznetsky Most. ancient people Moscow called this place Neglinny top. Later, Muscovites began to call Neglinny Verkh Kuznetskaya Gora, because a long row of forges and squalid huts of blacksmiths with backyards, vegetable gardens and other household supplies huddled here.

In the old days, there really was a bridge on the Kuznetsky Most. This bridge was wooden, very poor, but during the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna, in 1754, a stone one was built across the Neglinka. The bridge was broken after the French invasion. The Kuznetsk Bridge owes its beauty and buildings to the Russian boyar Count Ivan Larionovich Vorontsov who settled here. Then the blacksmiths fell silent here and the entire Kuznetsk settlement came under his power. The count built six stone houses and laid out English and French gardens, dug up ponds, erected greenhouses and other manor buildings.

Since the 18th century, Kuznetsky Most has been the center of fashionable French shops and a “sanctuary of luxury”. All the color of the Moscow "beau monde" came here to buy fashionable little things, and then, without leaving far, to flaunt them. Going to the French shops on Kuznetsky is a favorite thing for Moscow dandies and dandies. The Kuznetsky Most turned into a fashionable place for festivities, to which luxurious carriages drove up every minute. It was difficult to understand where you were - in Moscow or in Paris, because only French was heard around. No wonder Famusov exclaims indignantly:

And all the Kuznetsk bridge, and the eternal French,
From there, fashion to us, and authors, and muses:
Destroyers of pockets and hearts!
When the Creator delivers us
From their hats! bonnets! and studs! and pins!
And bookstores and biscuit shops!

Here on such a street, hidden in the courtyard behind the houses from prying eyes, ancient chambers lurk. This site on the Kuznetsk bridge belonged to the archbishops of Tver since the 17th century. The main house of the Tver Compound - two-story stone chambers, rectangular in plan - were built in the second half of the 17th century. The chambers are located inside the courtyard and face the southern front facade to the Kuznetsk bridge. Most likely, they were built during two building periods. The small rooms of the chambers were covered with duct and cylindrical vaults with stripping.

The facades of the building were decorated with modest white stone architraves with kokoshnik-shaped endings, corner and intermediate blades, crowning and interfloor cornices. Until the 1770s, the ensemble of the Tver Compound included the Church of Arseny, Bishop of Tver, known since 1690. Saint Arseny was the heavenly patron of Tver, so there is nothing surprising in the fact that a temple was consecrated in the residence of the Tver archbishops in honor of this saint. Arseny was born into a noble Tver family, but from childhood he thought and cared only about pleasing God and saving his soul.

After the death of his parents, Arseny distributed the inheritance to the poor and retired to the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery, where he took monastic vows. In 1390, Metropolitan Cyprian, who took the monk from Kyiv to Moscow and appointed him in charge of writing, ordained Arseniy as a bishop of Tver. Dimitry of Rostov writes in the life of the saint: “He zealously preached the word of God: Saint Arseny taught everyone who came to him like a loving father; in the temple of God he edified his flock, like a caring shepherd. Citizens of Tver with great zeal strove to listen to their teaching pastor.

At the end of the 18th century, a two-story stone volume with vaults was added to the northwestern corner of the building. The chambers on the Kuznetsk bridge are connected with the life and work of the Archbishop of Tver and Kashin Platon. S.G. Pushkarev in the article "Historiography of the Russian Orthodox Church” characterizes Plato in this way: “As a prefect and teacher at the Trinity Seminary, he became famous for the eloquence of his sermons, which made a deep impression on the listeners, including Empress Catherine II, who visited Moscow, who appointed him court preacher and teacher of the law to the heir to the throne, Pavel Petrovich.

Some buildings of the Tver Compound were rented out. Muscovite V.V. Sorokin, in an article on the Kuznetsk bridge, notes: “In the second half of the 1770s, the family of a teacher, an Italian Morelli, lived here, who had a general education class, and also gave dance lessons and playing the clavichord to those who wished. One of the family members, Franz Morelli, since 1782 was a choreographer at the Petrovsky Theater of Medox and a dance teacher at Moscow University. In the 1810s-1820s, the workshop of the sculptor Santino Campioni was located here, producing marble and bronze artistic sculptures.

The house served as a meeting place for foreign artists who came to the capital of the Mother See. Various sculptural works came out of this workshop, which also adorned many public houses (the Golitsyn hospital, the house of the Noble Assembly, the house of Count Razumovsky on the Gorokhovo field, palaces in Ostankino and Arkhangelsk and others). Campioni achieved especially virtuoso art by imitating colorful marble, which he used in the decoration of the Grand Kremlin Palace. The sculptural artistic monuments of Campioni can be seen at the Vvedensky cemetery.

In the buildings of the Tver courtyard, overlooking the street, according to the good tradition of the Kuznetsk bridge, there are all kinds of shops with colorful signs and luxurious shop windows. In the first half of the 19th century, one of the buildings of the farmstead was rented by the “Polish shop of Gennger and K”, which sold educational and stationery, including insanely expensive gold nibs with diamond ends - real works of art. In the 1860s, the artist and portrait photographer Mikhail Borisovich Tulinov set up a famous photo studio in the house of the Tver metochion.

According to the memoirs of the artist himself, things immediately went uphill: “Saltykov-Shchedrin and Yakushkin, walking along Kuznetskaya Street, noticed my name on the sign. Are in the photo. I take photographs in different poses... After a while, Kraevsky appears, and soon Nekrasov with his famous dog... Finally, Ostrovsky, Pisemsky appear, then Aksakov and Katkov. In Tulinov's studio, young I.N. worked as a retoucher. Kramskoy, who wrote about him in one of his letters: "my father, brother and best friend." When Kramskoy painted the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, he lived in Tulinov's photo studio on Kuznetsky.

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, all the buildings of the Tver courtyard, overlooking the Kuznetsk bridge, were occupied by shops and restaurants. Here was one of the famous confectionery Ivan Bartels, Sunday pies from which the whole of Moscow enjoyed. The famous writer and journalist S.F. Ryskin, not having his own corner for a long time, wrote almost all of his works in the basement of the Bartels confectionery. Exhausted by everyday work, Ryskin fell ill with consumption and died at the age of thirty-five. Residents of all neighboring streets came to the store of the dairy empire "Brothers V. and N. Blandov" every day for fresh milk.

Vladimir Ivanovich Blandov founded the first cheese factory in Russia and opened the first dairy plant. In Moscow alone, the Blandovs had about sixty stores where you could buy the best milk, cheese and butter. Book lovers came to the Tver Compound for literary novelties and antique folios in the stores "Russian Letter" by N. Petrov, "Primary School" by K.I. Tikhomirov, "Education" and "Trading House S. Kurnin". The photo workshop "Dyagochenko", located in the courtyard, was visited by many famous artists, writers, musicians and scientists.

In the basement of one of the buildings of the Tver Compound, at the end of the 19th century, the restaurant "Venice" was opened, which quickly gained incredible popularity. V.A. Gilyarovsky could not fail to mention him in “Moscow and Muscovites”: “From the small restaurants, it was interesting on the Kuznetsky bridge in the basement of the house of the Tverskoy metochion “Venice”. There, in a separate hall with a locked door, the grandfathers of our revolution gathered. And there was no more convenient place: at eleven o'clock the restaurant was locked, the audience dispersed - and then friendly conversations began in this small hall with curtained windows.

The kitchen is closed, the buffet is closed, and only the only owner of the restaurant, Vasily Yakovlevich, who almost prayed for each of the visitors to the small hall, serves personally ... Only vodka, beer and cold dishes were served. They sometimes drank until morning. “Relaxedly and intimately with me!” - Vasily Yakovlevich used to say. They came singly and in pairs and left the same way through the back door along the deserted Kuznetsky bridge and Gazetny lane at night (then the whole lane from the Kuznetsky bridge to Nikitskaya was called Gazetny), to Tverskaya, to their “Chernyshs” and Olsufiev’s house, where they lived and where they came and illegal people came to spend the night ... "

In 1974, the surviving ensemble of the Tver Compound was included in the list of historical and cultural monuments of republican significance. In 1993, the prefecture of Central administrative district of the city of Moscow signed a contract for the reconstruction of the Tver Compound with the large company Sibneftegaz. As a result, five buildings out of seven were demolished, and in their place very soon modern buildings were built, some of which, with high-tech concrete and tinted windows, did not fit into the surrounding buildings of the old Moscow Kuznetsky Most Street at all.

The project documentation for the reconstruction of the architectural monument was submitted for approval to the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation after the actual demolition of the buildings and was not approved by it. An extension was made to the main building of the chambers. According to federal agency on the use of architectural monuments, during the restructuring of the Tver Compound, they violated the legislation of the Russian Federation on urban planning. A two-level underground garage was built right under the ancient chambers. At present, the building, facing the Kuznetsky Most, houses divisions of the Bank of Moscow and a number of other institutions and organizations.

On weekdays, during working hours, you can go inside the courtyard, view and photograph the monument architecture XVII century. Or rather, what was left of him as a result of "scientific restoration". Former Mayor of Moscow Yu.M. Luzhkov recognized the Sibneftegaz company as the winner of the competition for the best restoration. The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation claims that the chambers were recreated almost from scratch, using modern technologies and materials. However, the chambers look impressive and come across in modern city, especially in the courtyard of the bank, a corner of Moscow of the 17th century - albeit a small one, but a miracle.

A tasteless remake at Kuznetsky Most, 17 hides the most ancient building the streets are the white-stone chambers of the Tver Compound of the 17th century (d.17, p.4).
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The history of the street and its closely related parallel - Sofiyka - begins from the moment the Cannon Yard was founded in this area on the banks of the Neglinnaya, which was built around 1475 and occupied a whole block. The builder of the courtyard was the famous architect and "cannon ostensibly" Aristotle Fioravante. Specialists in the cannon business settled near the courtyard - Novgorod blacksmiths, who created the Kuznetskaya Sloboda mentioned in the acts of the 15th century. This settlement was located on the banks of the Neglinnaya and along the slope of the Kuchkov field - the Neglinny top, or the Kuznetsk mountain.

The "Census of Moscow Courtyards" of 1620 reports the names of homeowners on the street that already existed then, corresponding to the modern Kuznetsky Most. Here we see the court of the Tver "Archbishop Pafnutiy", the princely courts: Zasekin, Zvenigorodsky and Mosalsky, the courts of the "patriarchal boyar" Koltovsky and some Alexei Teplitsky. Below, closer to Neglinnaya, live "fur" blacksmiths and cabbies: Savelyev, Vasiliev, "Matvey, Timoshka, Martynka" - without nicknames, etc. Among them are "Kalinka cook", "horse master" Kipriyanko Yeremeev and even Prince Fyodor Obolensky . Enterprising "Ivashko Gladin" keeps baths here, fortunately - the river is close. one of characteristic features local land ownership is the abundance of lands of the spiritual department: the Tver courtyard, the courtyard of the Suzdal Pokrovsky, the Suzdal Spas-Efimiev and the Kostroma Epiphany monasteries.

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"The restored chambers of the Tver Compound (17th century) were especially unique because they almost completely preserved their historical surroundings - manor buildings of the 18th-19th centuries. One of the outbuildings was under state protection. A two-story house of the 19th century along the street, which preserved courtyard galleries, was extremely interesting. In 1996, most of the development of the property was demolished, and in its place, the architect Vorontsov built a large office complex of an extremely aggressive appearance, disfiguring the perspective of the Kuznetsk bridge and completely crushing the ancient chambers.
"List of destroyed cultural monuments in the city of Moscow"
(c) A.Mozhaev

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"The fate of the reconstruction also befell the unique Moscow monument of the 17th century - the Tver Compound, whose completeness and plasticity had considerable artistic and urban planning value. More than four years ago, serious passions boiled over the reconstruction of the courtyard, and the case almost went to court. Now, on the site of the demolished of the mansions, modern banking buildings rise, and the chambers themselves have been restored. However, upon completion of all the work, it turned out that they were locked in the courtyard of the bank and were guarded not so much by the state as by the security service of this commercial structure. Directly under the chambers there is a two-level underground garage. According to experts The Ministry of Culture, the Moscow authorities remade the Tver Compound "at their own discretion", demolishing and rebuilding everything that did not suit them in the monument.
A billion for the right to transmit, newspaper "Culture", October 2002

The former residence of the Tver archbishops.

Until 1770, the church of St. Arseny, Bishop of Tver, known since 1690, was part of the farmstead. Some buildings were rented out by the farmstead. In the 1770s the family of the Italian music teacher Morelli lived here. In 1810–1820 in the building of the courtyard there was a workshop of the sculptor Santin Campioni, whose works decorated the Golitsyn hospital and the house of the Noble Assembly of the architect M. A. Kazakov, City estate Razumovsky, a palace in Ostankino, Arkhangelsk. Campioni also took part in the decoration of the interiors of the Grand Kremlin Palace with artificial marble.

In the 19th century in the courtyard building overlooking the Kuznetsky Most, they rented the premises of the Polish Shop of Gennger and K, which sold educational and stationery supplies; "English shop"; optical stores Salzfisch and Seger. In the early 1900s the house housed: a store of oriental goods "Japan"; "Vegetarian Dining Room"; dairy shop of the Blandov brothers; bakery and confectionery I. Bertels; many bookstores (“Russian Letter” by N. Petrov, “Primary School” by K. I. Tikhomirov, “Education”, “S. Kurnin Trading House”).

In the basement of the house there was a popular restaurant "Venice", described in the chapter "Taverns" of the book by V.A. Gilyarovsky "Moscow and Muscovites":
“From small restaurants, I was interesting on the Kuznetsky Most in the basement of the Venice Tver Compound. There, in a separate hall with a locked door, the grandfathers of our revolution gathered. And there was no more convenient place: at eleven o'clock the restaurant was locked, the audience dispersed - and then friendly conversations began in this small hall with curtained windows.
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Only this was the memorable restaurant "Venice", during the day serving passers-by on the Kuznetsk bridge of the middle class and employees in institutions, and the staggering dandy public did not honor the cheap restaurant with attention, preferring to it the confectionery or the neighboring "Alpine Rose" and "Billo".

In 1974, the entire ensemble of the Tver Compound was included in the list of historical and cultural monuments of republican significance. In 1993, the prefecture of the Central Administrative District of Moscow signed a contract with Sibneftegaz for the reconstruction of the housing estate No. 17. By the spring of 1996, four buildings of the ensemble had been demolished, and the building overlooking the Kuznetsky Bridge was "recreated" by building a new office center. An extension was made to the main building of the chambers, which is directly prohibited by the current legislation on the protection of monuments.

The project documentation for the reconstruction of the architectural monument was submitted for approval to the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation after the actual demolition of the buildings and was not approved by it. In October 1997, the Ministry of Culture applied to the Moscow Prosecutor's Office with a request to take measures to protect the monuments and bring those responsible to justice. In a response letter, the prosecutor's office of the Central Administrative District of Moscow refused to initiate a criminal case on the fact of the demolition of the architectural monument. Mayor of Moscow Yu.M. Luzhkov recognized the participants in the "scientific restoration" of the chambers of the Tver Compound, including the Sibneftegaz company, as the winners of the competition for the best restoration.

At present, the main building of the property, the chambers of the Tver Compound, which has been preserved in the courtyard of the site, is an object of cultural heritage of federal significance.

The surviving building of the chambers is an object of cultural heritage of federal significance. Since the 17th century, the site belonged to the Tver Compound - the residence of the Tver archbishops. Located in the courtyard of the property, the two-story chamber building, rectangular in plan, has a complex layout and may have been erected over two building periods. The small rooms of the chambers are covered with duct and cylindrical vaults with stripping. At the end of the 18th century, a two-story stone volume with vaults was added to the northwestern corner of the building. In 1835, the facades of the chambers were completely redone, however, they retained the remains of a cut-down decor made of large-sized profile bricks, as well as fragments of window frames with kokoshniks, corner and intermediate blades, fragments of interfloor cornices with a curb. The chambers are connected with the life and work of the Archbishop of Tver and Kashin Platon - a church figure, educator, author of numerous works. Until 1770, the church of St. Arseny, Bishop of Tver, known since 1690, was part of the compound.
"Reconstructed" building of the Tver Compound
Tver Compound (straight), 1903
Chambers of the Tver Compound (in the yard)
Some buildings of the site were rented out as a farmstead. In the 1770s, the family of the Italian music teacher Morelli lived here. In 1810-1820, one of the houses housed the workshop of the sculptor S. Campioni, whose works decorated many buildings and estates in Moscow. In the buildings of the Tver courtyard, overlooking the street, there were numerous shops that attracted customers with their signs and shop windows. In the 1830s - 1850s, the popular "Polish shop of Gennger and K" rented premises here, which sold educational and stationery supplies, the "English shop", optical shops of Salzfisch and Seger. In the 1860s, an amateur artist M. B. Tulinov lived in the house, who visited his friend and student I. N. Kramskoy. In the early 1900s, the house overlooking the Kuznetsky Most housed: the Japanese oriental goods store, the Vegetarian Dining Room, the Blandov brothers' dairy store, I. Bertels' bakery and confectionery, K. I. Sanzhi's French laundry, and many bookstores ( “Russian Letter” by N. Petrov, “Primary School” by K. I. Tikhomirov, “Education”, “S. Kurnin Trading House”), as well as antiques and rarities shops. In the basement of the building at the end of the 19th century, the popular restaurant "Venice", described in the book "Moscow and Muscovites" by V. Gilyarovsky, worked. The writers N. N. Zlatovratsky and N. M. Astyrev, the publicist V. A. Goltsev, and the populist P. G. Zaichnevsky were here.
In 1974, the ensemble of the Tver Compound was included in the list of historical and cultural monuments of republican significance. In 1993, an investment contract was signed for the reconstruction of housing development No. 17. The investor under the contract was Mosbusinessbank. By the spring of 1996, four buildings of the ensemble were demolished, and the two-story building overlooking the Kuznetsky Most, characteristic of the street of the times of A. S. Pushkin, was “recreated” by building a new business multifunctional complex according to the project of the team of authors headed by architect A. R. Vorontsov . An extension was made to the main building of the chambers, which is directly prohibited by the current legislation on the protection of cultural heritage sites. The project documentation for the reconstruction of the ensemble of the Tver Compound was not approved by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, and his appeals to the prosecutor's office demanding that those responsible for the destruction of the architectural monument be brought to justice were not satisfied. Moscow Mayor Yu. M. Luzhkov recognized the participants in the "scientific restoration" of the chambers of the Tver Compound as the winners of the competition for the best restoration. Currently, a remake with a facade on the Kuznetsky Most occupies jewelry shop Privilege, divisions of the Bank of Moscow, a number of other institutions and organizations. The main building of the ensemble, the chambers of the Tver Compound, which has been preserved in the courtyard of the site, is an object of cultural heritage of federal significance.