Россия в дореволюционных фотографиях
Дом купца Н.В.Игумнова
Улица Якиманка, Москва
1895-1910 с современными фотографиями интерьера
Russia in pre-revolutionary photographs
House of the merchant N.V. Igumnov
Yakimanka Street, Moscow
1895-1910 with modern interior photographs
Music from the ballet suite "Lady and the Hooligan" by D. Shostakovich
Built in the Pseudo-Russian style in 1895, the House of the merchant Igumnov is a architectural monument. Nikolai Igumnov, a Russian merchant, philanthropist and co-owner of the Large Yaroslavl Manufacturing and trade Co. with gold mines in Siberia. Igumnov gave the commission of building the houser to the city architect of Yaroslavl, N. Pozdeev, . In 1893, the architect died of tuberculosis and the construction was completed by his brother.
The walls of the mansion were made of red brick, the tiles were decorated with multicolour mosaics imported from Holland, with Moscow white stone . The decorative tiles were ordered from the Kuznetsov factory....
Nikolai Igumnov built his mansion to show off his wealth and become accepted in "high society". But they would have nothing to do with this "pretentious" merchant. In 1901, so it is said, Igumnov arranged a grand ball in his new mansion. To enhance the effect, he scattered brand new gold coins on the floor with a portrait of Tsar Nicholas II. The next day, the police reported that in the house of the merchant of the first guild Igumnov, the dancers trampled underfoot the bright face of the autocrat of All Russia. An urgent order was issued - the house was confiscated, and the unreliable merchant was exiled to Abkhazia.....
Today the house is the official residence of the French Ambassador.
