Bolshaya Yakimanka 43, what a building. Russian secrets in the “French” mansion
The residence of the French ambassador, located in the house of the merchant Igumnov, is one of the most beautiful buildings Moscow. The mansion, built of red brick, is located on Bolshaya Yakimanka Street at number 43, not far from the Oktyabrskaya Radialnaya metro station.
Large industrialist Nikolai Vasilyevich Igumnov was a manufacturer, owner of iron mines and gold mines. His life full of events, could well form the basis of a gripping novel. In 2012, the film “Abkhazian Tale” directed by Pavel Bortnikov was released, in which storyline affects the fate of Igumnov.
In 1888, Igumnov bought it from the merchant Nikolai Lukyanov wooden house, located at the end of Yakimanka, which at that time was a poor outskirts of Moscow. To build a new mansion, he invited the young and talented architect Nikolai Pozdeev. He really liked the chapel and Sretenskaya Church, built by Pozdeev in Yaroslavl, and the industrialist wanted to build his house in the same style. The mansion on Yakimanka turned out to be fabulous, reminiscent of a Russian tower: pseudo-Russian style was very popular at that time. The best Dutch-made bricks were used for construction. The facade was decorated with multi-colored tiles based on the drawings of the Russian painter S. Maslennikov, manufactured at the Kuznetsov plant - the largest enterprise for the production of porcelain and earthenware products in Russian Empire. The interiors of the mansion were designed by the then fashionable architect Pyotr Boytsov.
Unfortunately, the architect Pozdeev died too early, at the age of 38 from tuberculosis.
Basics architectural heritage he left Yaroslavl, giving Moscow only one masterpiece.
Igumnov's house is covered in legends. The most popular of them tells about the merchant’s mistress, whom he caught in treason and walled up the unfortunate woman alive in the wall. According to another version, he first killed the girl and buried the corpse with bricks.
Nikolai Vasilyevich was distinguished by his originality and imagination. In 1901, he gave a grand ball at his house and, to surprise the guests, covered the floor with dance hall gold chervonets with the image of the Emperor. One of the guests reported Igumnov for his disrespectful attitude towards the Emperor and the merchant was expelled from Moscow without the right of return.
After the 1917 revolution, the State Scientific Institute for Blood Transfusion was located within the walls of Igumnov’s house, headed by Alexander Bogdanov, the author of the theory of rejuvenation through blood transfusion. The theory turned to dust when Bogdanov died after another experiment.
Then the Brain Institute was located in the mansion, where they also studied the brain of the deceased Vladimir Lenin.
In 1938, Igumnov's house was transferred to the French government for the French embassy. In 1944, President Charles de Gaulle presented awards here to the pilots of the Normandy-Niemen squadron.
In 1979, when the embassy moved to a new building, the mansion became official residence Ambassadors of France. Currently, the ambassador and some embassy staff live here, and official events are also held here.
The interior of Igumnov's house is lavishly decorated and richly decorated. The hall and main staircase blend perfectly with the exterior decoration of the building. Doors with elegant carvings attract attention.
Igumnov’s house is being restored as necessary; the metal roof was replaced several years ago; interior work is planned for this year (2017).
The house of the merchant Igumnov on Yakimanka is striking in the quaintness and pretentiousness of its decorations. Built in the 19th century, it has survived almost unchanged to this day. Today, the French ambassador permanently lives there, so you can’t just sneak in and visit a high-ranking official.
But Igumnov’s house on Yakimanka is still accessible for visits, and discover all of it lush decoration and everyone can do greatness. You can appreciate the external charms if you take a walk around the area. Every brick of the building will tell the story of its creation.
History of the mansion
The building looks like an old Russian tower, built on behalf of Nikolai Igumnov. The house was conceived as the Moscow residence of the owner of the Yaroslavl manufactory. Although Igumnov had large funds, the choice of area for the new building fell on a non-prestigious, poor one. The rich man justified his preference by the fact that he grew up in these parts. Even warnings that the neighboring squalid houses will spoil the impression of luxurious palace, did not convince the entrepreneur to abandon the idea.
Yaroslavl architect Nikolai Pozdeev, a fellow countryman of Igumnov, was invited for construction. Wanting to emphasize the power of the owner, his condition, the most popular and bright style in the architecture of that time - pseudo-Russian. By the way, the Terem Palace was built in the same spirit. was called because of its imitation of old wooden towers.
Sparing no expense on construction, Igumnov ordered Dutch bricks, tiles were ordered porcelain factory Kuznetsov himself.
The building, like a gypsy horse, contained everything beautiful that existed in Russian architecture. Because of this excessive magnificence, Pozdeev was branded a provincial architect, absolutely devoid of taste. They made fun of the customer himself no less. Having succumbed to criticism and having heard enough mocking attacks towards the owner, the architect could not stand it and committed suicide. But it was not only criticism that finished off the artist. The house of merchant Igumnov cost a pretty penny and exceeded the original estimate. The customer himself refused to overpay for something that was not included in the primary project. This ruined Pozdeev. The only way out became death.
Legends of the House of Igumnov
Igumnov's house is shrouded in many secrets and legends. The most mysterious to this day is the legend of the dancer. According to it, a rich merchant built a house for his mistress - an amazingly beautiful girl with whom he was madly in love. But he was not the only one who was pleased with the beauty of the eyes and excited the consciousness. Craving for a luxurious life, she managed to host lovers. Having learned about the betrayal, the enraged Igumnov did not kill the beauty, but walled up her body in the walls of the building. Since then they say that the ghost of a restless white girl wanders at night. But the current resident, the French Ambassador, did not complain and does not intend to leave Igumnov’s house on Bolshaya Yakimanka.
Another fable claims that Igumnov’s house almost cost him his life. He ordered the floor of one of the rooms to be lined with gold coins, with the image of the imperial profile facing up. For such thoughtless disrespect, Nikolai was almost exiled, and he had to flee. Probably the merchant would have been found, but the revolution saved his life.
The purpose of the house in different years
Everyone knows that Igumnov’s house is now occupied by the French Ambassador. But this was not always the case, only since 1938. Initially, the purpose of the house is shrouded in mystery: either it is a “dacha”, or an apartment for a mistress. But the fact that it was built for the personal needs of the merchant is certain.
The revolution requisitioned the mansion and made it available to the Goznak factory club. A year after in 1925, the building was transformed thanks to new residents. They were leading doctors who founded the Institute for Brain Research. Researchers tried to penetrate the secret of Vladimir Ilyich’s genius. Then the list of “outstanding brains” was supplemented by samples of the gray matter of many other great people.
Igumnov's house style
Igumnov's house combines elements of many styles. Decorative elements: bell towers, columns, tents - unconnected until that time, intertwined into architectural ensemble under the masterful hand of Pozdeev. Although the structure turned out to be a little heavy, the pseudo-Russian style could not be imagined otherwise.
Despite the fact that the Terem Palace in the Moscow Kremlin had already been built in this style, society did not accept the new resident - the Igumnov house. Art critics At that time, the structure was characterized as a vinaigrette of Greek classicism, Rococo, Renaissance and Gothic.
Now Igumnov’s house in Moscow - architectural monument and an example of high art.
Building exterior
The exterior of the building uses large number decorative elements that were not previously combined during construction. Such imaginary dissonance was achieved by introducing wood carving, figured brickwork, metal forging and even casting into the decoration of the facade.
Nevertheless, the Russian style is a pervasive motif in all elements, although the building, with the exception of the main staircase and the hall to which it leads, is generally considered to be made in the European style.
Igumnov’s house has retained the decoration of its facades, although starting in 1938 it underwent some kind of “Frenchization.” The architects were the first to recognize the splendor of the building and sought to bring a drop of French charm to the Russian heaviness.
Interior
Main style direction The interior of the room is Empire style, and each element reflects the meaning of the word. Igumnov's house contained the breadth of the Russian soul and skillfully combined it with classicism. The finishing of the house was done by Ivan Pozdeev, Nikolai Pozdeev’s brother.
Each piece of furniture was decorated with gilded elements. The halls of the rooms are illuminated large windows, which are inserted into the walls are painted ivory, along them there are pilasters.
The bas-reliefs form frames, inside which elite silk was stretched or paintings were hung.
The brain of the Igumnov house
German neuroscientist Oskar Vogt became the head of a laboratory searching for zones of genius in the brain of the late Vladimir Lenin. In addition to Vogt, several other specialists were settled in the house and worked on this. difficult task. After some time, the laboratory grew into the Brain Institute.
As you know, truth is learned by comparison, therefore, in addition to Lenin’s outstanding mind preserved in alcohol, others began to be brought to the Institute, including Lunacharsky, Zetkin, Bely, Mayakovsky and many others.
It was planned to produce superhumans in a building under former name"Igumnov's House", Moscow. A world revolution in the field of medicine was about to take place on Yakimanka. But the effectiveness was zero, because the Institute turned into a museum, and then was completely liquidated.
Funny coincidence
Next to the modern French Embassy, an embassy chancellery building was built in 1979. Magnificent modern building. Angular, sharp, pyramid-shaped, dark red in color. Ultranovoe, it nevertheless very much resembles another... The Mausoleum in which Lenin’s body rests.
Some historians associate this mysterious coincidence with a semi-legend. Rumor has it that at the end of the 19th century, a certain young man was so amazed by the greatness of Igumnov’s house that he decided to become this young man, supposedly Alexei Shchusev, the author of the famous Mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow.
The Zamoskvorechye quarters, literally speaking “beyond the Moscow River,” were built south of the Kremlin Hill, on floodplain lands previously occupied by the vegetable gardens of the royal court. Since the 14th century, the road to the Tatar Khanate passed here, the memory of which is preserved by the name of the street Bolshaya Ordynka (from “Golden Horde”).
TO 19th century quiet Zamoskvorechye turned into a favorite habitat of the patriarchal Moscow merchants. Their special way of life was described with humor by the writer Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886), who himself was from Zamoskvorechye.
Before the construction of the mansion, a small wooden house stood on this site, erected after the great Moscow fire of 1812 by the merchant of the second guild Nikolai Lukyanov. In 1888, the new owner, Nikolai Vasilyevich Igumnov, submitted a petition to build a new stone house.
Igumnov needed a house that corresponded to his solid position in society: he was one of the directors and owners of the Yaroslavl Big Manufactory, founded at the beginning of the 18th century, and needed a representative house in Moscow, the industrial and commercial heart of Russia.
To develop the project and build the mansion, Igumnov invited the young and talented Yaroslavl architect Nikolai Pozdeev, who at that time held the position of city architect of Yaroslavl. The mansion on Bolshaya Yakimanka in Moscow became last job talented architect.
The pseudo-Russian style was chosen for construction, very fashionable in those days ( Historical Museum, GUM store building, etc.). This style of architecture took inspiration from the Russians wooden towers, the most famous of which - the palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in Kolomenskoye - burned down in the 18th century.
Other decorative elements were taken from church architecture(St. Basil's Cathedral) or the churches of Yaroslavl, which perfectly combined brick, stone and multi-colored tiles. The merchant Igumnov wanted the house to reflect his wealth, and spared no expense on the construction.
In 1893 the mansion was completed. On the high roof of the mansion there is pressed metal for tiles and ceramic inserts. Above the “red porch” (front entrance) there is an elegant antique double arch. The walls are made of imported Dutch bricks. Window edging made of white stone from the Moscow region. Picturesque bells, onion-topped tents, blown columns. Decorative elements of the architecture of St. Basil's Cathedral (Cathedral of the Intercession on the Moat), ancient churches of Yaroslavl. Multicolor mosaic of the rarest tiles, specially painted according to the drawings of the Russian painter S. Maslennikov and manufactured at the famous Kuznetsov factory.
Pozdeev’s talent was able to combine into a single whole various volumes, topped with picturesque tents, and numerous decorative details of different genres (bells, vaulted arches, blown columns, etc.). The result was harmonious, although a little massive.
The interior is also replete with decorations. The hall and main staircase are a masterpiece of multicolor, perfectly combined with the exterior decoration of the building. However, immediately behind the massive doors leading into the living room, the architect completely changes the style and we are immersed in classic decoration.
Furniture in the Louis XV style and magnificent tapestries from the 17th century highlight French spirit this room. The small salon adjacent to the living room is furnished in the style Louis XVI, and the small dining room is decorated with furniture and fabrics from the Empire era. The formal dining room, very austere and sparsely furnished, bears the stamp of the Middle Ages, thanks to its low vaulted ceiling.
However, the Moscow architectural environment did not accept the stranger. The barely erected mansion was subjected to scathing criticism. As the architect V. Stasov sarcastically wrote: “If you like, here’s five arshins of “Greek classicism”, but if not, three and a quarter Italian Renaissance. Or a good slice of Romanesque, six spools of Gothic and a whole pound of Russian." - “But it’s still beauty,” the Muscovites did not let up. “Where else can you find something like that.” - “No,” the experts retorted. “This style of construction is not ours. Alien.” Moscow spirit and eye.” Igumnov, succumbing to these sentiments, quickly became disillusioned with his Yaroslavl architect and refused to pay the costs exceeding the estimate. The disappointed and ruined architect committed suicide. After the revolution of 1917, the house was used for various purposes - it was a medical center, then a worker. club. In 1938 the building was transferred to the French government for the French embassy. Following the completion of the adjacent chancellery in 1979, it became the official residence of the French Ambassadors.
Mansion-tower of Igumnov
An old proverb says: “Yaroslavl is a small town - a corner of Moscow.” But in turn, in Belokamennaya there is a “Yaroslavl” piece: on Bolshaya Yakimanka, opposite beautiful church John the Warrior, for more than 110 years, the miracle tower, the mansion-box of the merchant Igumnov, has been pleasing the eye with its “ancient Russian” forms. (before the revolution they sometimes wrote “Igumenova”), which houses the French embassy.
Before the construction of the mansion, a small wooden house stood on this site, erected after the “Naoleonic” fire of 1812 by the merchant N. Lukyanov. After changing several owners, the building was sold in 1851 to merchant Vera Igumnova. In 1888, the heir, Nikolai Vasilyevich Igumnov, filed a petition for the construction of a new stone building. Igumnov was one of the directors and co-owners of the Yaroslavl Big Manufactory and needed a representative house in Moscow, the industrial and commercial heart of Russia.
To develop the project and build the mansion, the “textile king” invited the talented Yaroslavl architect Nikolai Pozdeev, who held the position of city architect of Yaroslavl. The merchant Igumnov wanted the house to reflect his wealth, and he spared no expense: the brick was ordered from Holland, the tiles were made at the famous porcelain factory of M. Kuznetsov.
The “pseudo-Russian” style was chosen for the building, popular in the 1880s-1890s and drawing inspiration from the image of Russian wooden towers, the most famous of which is the wooden palace of the 17th century. Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in Kolomenskoye (now successfully “recreated” in concrete). Also, decorative elements were taken from temple architecture (St. Basil's Cathedral, Yaroslavl churches). Igumnov's "Terem" is replete with many decorative details in the Russian style: arches with "weights", "blown" columns, ceramic inserts, a combination of brick and stone, various roof tents. The interiors are European, with the exception of the “a la rus” hall with a grand staircase.
Mansion house N.V. Igumnova
Bolshaya Yakimanka, 43
(1888-1893, architect N.I. Pozdeev)
"A unique building in the "Russian" style - a large merchant mansion, the decor of the facades of which is woven huge amount various polychrome tiles produced by the M.S. Kuznetsova. The abundance of ceramic decoration, its inventive but strictly traditional use, as well as the forms of the structure, were apparently inspired by the author, a Yaroslavl by birth, medieval architecture Yaroslavl. In addition to ceramics, the building used elements of wood carving, white stone, metal forging and casting, painting (on the vaults), and elements of figured brickwork. The gate's patterned lattice is interesting; its manufacturing technique is reminiscent of the cut-out metal valances of cornices. The luxurious interior decoration has been preserved."
from "Architectural Guide"(I.L. Buseva-Davydova, M.V. Nashchokina, M.I. Astafieva-Dlugach; 1997)
"N.V. Igumnov became known to the general Moscow public by building a mansion for his life on Yakimanskaya Street. Igumnov’s mansion was built really very beautiful, in the Russian style. As they said, a million rubles were spent on it. This marvelous mansion was built on poor "
from the memoirs of merchant N.A. Varentsov, ogoniok.com
filmed in August 2009:
The weather got in the way - sometimes clouds, sometimes sun:
building to the right of the mansion
(I wonder what its original purpose was - maybe as a gatekeeper?):
fence lattice - now for some reason painted in white, and before it was black:
right side:
balcony:
It looks like the old “carpentry” has been preserved:
right tower tent
(if you compare it with the pre-revolutionary photo, there is no completion at the top now):
general view from the Church of Ivan the Warrior
(sorry, because of the parked cars it was not possible to remove the whole thing):
tiles under the eaves and tin (?) imitation of a carved wooden valance bordering the roof overhang:
dormer window (?) and chimney:
three of the five windows on the 2nd floor of the central projection:
All sorts of figurines and clocks are neatly placed on the windowsills:
stone and metal carvings; The tiled inserts were apparently partially restored or replaced:
a little higher - another birdhouse on the scaly roof:
But the end of the central (as opposed to the right) tent survived:
roof:
"red porch", designed as the central entrance:
tent over the left side of the house:
stone patterning and beautiful drainpipes:
general view from Yakimansky Lane, 08/2009:
aka, 04/2005:
After 4 years, the beautiful gate gate to the left of the mansion has disappeared somewhere: in its place is now a terrible blank door:
"gate to the courtyard of Igumenov's house; designed and built by N.I. Pozdeev", 1892-1893:
I really hope that the old gate is still under restoration and this misery is temporary:
interiors (I wonder if the French are allowed there on the Days Historical heritage?): "Old Russian" hall with a grand staircase
(photo from updk.ru)
Many people are familiar with the history of this house, but repetition - mother teachings, for those who did not know or forgot.
The merchant Igumnov was a very rich man. Still on satellite map Abkhazia
in the village of Alakhadzy you can distinguish his initials: “INV” - these are cypress alleys,
figuratively planted a hundred years ago. Nikolai Vasilievich was a co-owner of Yaroslavskaya
Large manufactory, had gold mines in Siberia.
In 1888, he decided to arrange his Moscow residence,
which today houses the French Embassy.
The place on Yakimanka was in no way considered prestigious at that time.
Dilapidated houses, distance from the center.
Igumnov justified his choice by the fact that his childhood passed somewhere here (history has not preserved early biographical data; even the year of his birth is unknown). According to other legends, the distance from the center was required for privacy from prying eyes, because the house was not designed for ordinary life.
Be that as it may, Igumnov bought a wooden house from a certain merchant Nikolai Lukyanov,
demolished it and brought in the young talented city architect of Yaroslavl, Nikolai Pozdeev, for a new construction.
The architect had just turned 33 at that time, but in Yaroslavl he had already gained recognition thanks to a number of good buildings. By the way, it cannot be ruled out that the place near the Kaluga outpost was recommended to the customer by the architect, whose childhood was spent near Maloyaroslavets, and whose acquaintance with Moscow came from here.
The house was built in the form of a fairy-tale palace in the pseudo-Russian style.
Igumnov wanted to conquer the Mother See and did not skimp.
Bricks for construction were transported directly to the construction site
from Holland, tiles and tiles were ordered from porcelain factories
Kuznetsov, interior decoration was entrusted to one of the most popular
then architects Peter Boitsov. We managed to combine into a single whole
the most diverse and complex components: turrets, tents, vaults
arches, columns. Stylistic similarities between the mansion are revealed
with a masterpiece of Moscow architecture of the same years - the State
Historical Museum. Today the building is a cultural object
heritage of federal significance, but originally Moscow
The “world” reacted more than coolly to the palace.
According to legend, the upset Igumnov refused to pay for everything,
which was not prepaid, after which the architect Pozdeev
committed suicide. According to another version, the architect died from a severe
illness at 38 years of age. This project became his last work.
The capital did not want to accept a rich and successful provincial.
Soon rumors spread around the city that in Nikolai Vasilyevich’s mansion
there lived a young lover-dancer. One day, without suffering betrayal,
the merchant walled her up alive in the wall.
It is unknown who spread the rumors, but Igumnov has ill-wishers
were very influential.
When in 1901 a merchant decided to throw a ball in a house on Yakimanka,
out of his habit, he wanted to amaze the guests with his scale.
For this purpose, the floor of the dance hall was completely covered with new
gold chervonets.
And the very next day in St. Petersburg, Nicholas II was informed that
how the Moscow merchants danced on the imperial profiles,
minted on coins.
The reaction followed immediately: by the highest order
Nikolai Igumnov was expelled from the Mother See, without the right to return to it.
The authorities chose a place of exile that was not a resort: the Abkhazian coast
The Sukhumi region was then swampy and infested with malaria mosquitoes
and poisonous snakes. After looking around, the disgraced merchant bought it for next to nothing
6 thousand acres of local swamps and began a new life.
First successful business was created with the help of fishermen discharged from the Don.
Igumnov mastered the trade and opened the first cannery on the Black Sea coast.
Comfortable living conditions were created for the workers: seasonal workers were provided with a dormitory with rooms for two people and large smoking rooms, permanent workers received separate houses, which after a few years became their property.
Igumnov brought eucalyptus and swamp cypresses here, which quickly drew out excess moisture
from local soils. Chernozem was brought from Kuban, breeding stock was brought from Yaroslavl, and the merchant became interested in gardening. Through his efforts, plantations of tangerines, kiwi, mango, tobacco,
The Abkhazian Bamboo enterprise started operating, and cypress alleys that have survived to this day appeared.
After the revolution, Nikolai Vasilyevich refused to emigrate to France.
He voluntarily transferred his property to the state and got a job as an agronomist at the citrus state farm named after the Third International, which became the name of his former estate.
Nikolai Vasilyevich died in 1924, he was buried modestly, planting his beloved cypress trees on his grave.
History sometimes likes to grimace. If the emperor took the house from the merchant for a ball on coins with his image, then after the revolution and nationalization, the building for several years became... the club of the Goznak factory.
The next owner of the house on Yakimanka lived up to the dark legends that surrounded the mansion: in 1925, a brain research laboratory settled here for 13 years
(since 1928 - Brain Institute).
During this time, the brains of Lenin, Clara Zetkin, Tsyurupa, Lunacharsky, Andrei Bely, Mayakovsky, Gorky, Pavlov, Michurin, Tsiolkovsky, Kalinin, Kirov, Kuibyshev, Krupskaya visited here...
In 1938, the mansion was transferred to the French Embassy. In 1944, President Charles de Gaulle presented awards here to the pilots of the Normandy-Niemen squadron.
The Dutch brick building is still maintained in perfect condition by employees of the French diplomatic mission.
About the ghost of Igumnov's house.
Rumor has it that there is still a so-called “white woman” in the building of the French embassy.
According to legend, this small mansion was given as a gift by the merchant Igumnov to his kept woman.
He himself lived in Yaroslavl, and visited the capital on visits. He usually warned the lady of his heart about his arrivals through a sent servant.
But one day he arrived without warning and found his beloved with a young cornet...
The owner kicked Cornet out, but after that the girl disappeared without a trace.
There were rumors that the merchant killed her in his heart, and walled up her corpse in the wall of the mansion.
According to another legend, his young stoker is to blame for everything. The guy allegedly began to flirt with the pretty daughter of a merchant, for which he was soon forever excommunicated from the rich house.
True, this did not end the matter. Rumor claims that before leaving, the offended stoker secretly filled the chimneys with clay shards.
As a result, when the stoves in the mansion-palace were flooded, the pipes and even the walls began to make terrible sounds (for some reason, especially at night), from which the owner suffered unbearably.
But let's return to the house. A pseudo-Russian style was chosen for construction,
very fashionable in those days (Historical Museum, GUM store building, etc.).
This style of architecture took inspiration from the image of Russian wooden towers,
the most famous of which is the palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in Kolomenskoye -
burned down in the 18th century.
Other decorative elements were taken from church architecture
(St. Basil's Cathedral) or the churches of Yaroslavl, in which it is beautiful
Brick, stone and multi-colored tiles were combined.
On the high roof of the mansion there is pressed metal under the tiles,
ceramic inserts. Above the "red porch" (front entrance
elegant antique double arch.
The walls are made of imported Dutch bricks. White window trim
Moscow region stone. Picturesque bells, onion-topped tents,
blown columns. Multi-colored mosaic of the rarest tiles, specially
painted according to drawings by the Russian painter S. Maslennikov
and manufactured at the famous Kuznetsov plant.
Pozdeev’s talent managed to combine various volumes into a single whole,
topped with picturesque tents, and numerous decorative
details of different genres (bells, vaulted arches, blown columns, etc.).
The result was harmonious, although a little massive.
On museum day I was lucky enough to get inside! There will be a lot of photographs so that you can say that you saw what it was like inside. I apologize for the quality of some of the photographs and the people in the frame. It's difficult to take perfect pictures during a tour.
The interior is also replete with decorations. The hall and main staircase are a masterpiece of multicolor, perfectly combined with the exterior decoration of the building.
"Old Russian" hall with a grand staircase.
Extraordinarily beautiful doors
There are four of them in the hall and not one is the same
The fragment shows what the painting was originally like. There is an idea to refresh the walls, which I don’t like at all.
We go up to the second floor. 
We open the massive door and...we find ourselves from the Middle Ages to the interiors of Louis XV 
We make the transition from one century to another through a gallery in the Empire style. Reception of the exterior into the interior.
The finishing is usually used for facade work. The mirror at the end of the corridor endlessly stretches the room.
On the corridor side, the door is very simple, without decoration.
Unfortunately, I didn’t find anything about the interiors of the house. Therefore, I suggest you look at the photographs and information
try to find it yourself, maybe you'll have better luck. 
Round, mirrored room. Very bright, flirty.
The hospitable hosts prepared us tea and coffee.
View from the window onto the balcony. 
