Eastern and Central Europe (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

MOSCOW 133

Melnikov House

Built in the 1920s by

Constructivist architect

Konstantin Melnikov,

who lived here until his

death in 1974, this unusual

cylin drical house is now

dwarfed by the apart ments

on ulitsa Arbat w

Pre-Revolution apartments,

designed for wealthy

Muscovites, are decorated

with fanciful turrets and

sculptures of knights.

. Skryabin House-Museum
This apartment has been
preserved as it was between
1912 and 1915 when experi-
mental composer Aleksandr
Skryabin (1872–1915) lived
here. The furniture in the
rooms is Style Moderne and the
lighting is dim, since Skryabin
disliked direct light.

Pushkin

Museum of

Fine Arts

Herzen House-Museum

was the home of

the radical writer

Aleksandr Herzen

from 1843 to 1846.

The Vakhtangov Theatre was

established here in 1921 by Yevgeniy

Vakhtangov, one of Moscow’s lead-

ing theatre directors. The current

theatre building dates from 1947.

Spasopeskovskiy

Pereulok

On one side of this

lane is the 18th-

century Church of the

Saviour on the Sands.

It overlooks a secluded

square and garden,

a reminder that the

Arbat was at that time

a genteel suburb.

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BOLSHOY NIKOLOPESKOVSKIY

PEREULOK

ULITSA ARBAT

KALOSHIN PEREULOK

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STAR SIGHTS

. Pushkin
House-Museum
. Skryabin
House-Museum