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Volkonsky House

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Tenants pay their rent to a company known as Meridian, which is in turn owned by a company known as Intererservis, which is wholly owned by Lyudmila Alexandrovna Shkrebnyova, which is Putina's maiden name. Putina's sister, Olga Alexandrovna Tsomayeva, was previously General Director of Intererservis.
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The modern look of the house was formed in the reconstructions at the turn of 20th century and in the 2010s. The north facade facing Vozdvizhenka Street was rebuilt in 1897 by architect K. Terek, and the facade facing Holy Cross Lane and the dome on the corner of the house were added by P. Zarutsky
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Vasily Vladimirovich Grushetsky (1743 - 1813) bought the land in 1774 and built much of the house over the next few years. He was an officer of the Semenov Life Guards regiment and fought in the Russian-Turkish war of 1768 -1774. He was an in-law and subordinate of Prince
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In 2013, despite numerous objections by politicians and cultural figures, the building was reconstructed, increasing the height from 2 to 4 stories, and rebuilding the dome.
364: 46:. The building was constructed in the 18th and 19th centuries, but was completely rebuilt in 2013, raising its height from two stories to four. 271: 107: 89:. Tolstoy visited the Ryumins and met P. S. Scherbatovaya in the house. She was the prototype of Kitty Scherbatskaya in his 1878 novel 221: 320: 78:. Volkonsky was the maternal grandfather of Leo Tolstoy, and is believed to be the prototype of Prince Bolkonsky in 75: 374: 359: 56: 129:, is owned by the Centre for the Development of Inter-personal Communications (CDIC), which is controlled by 369: 82:. The novel refers to "an old, gloomy house on Vozdvizhenka", where some of the scenes of the novel occur. 299: 384: 74:
The house later belonged to his daughter P. V. Muraveva-Apostol, who sold the house in 1816 to Prince
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The CDIC's offices are in the building, but it is mainly occupied by commercial tenants, including
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in 1907. Before 2009, the house was identified by a plaque as an object of cultural heritage.
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In the early twentieth century the mansion was owned by Shamsi Asadulaev, an oilman from
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Artur Ocheretny, Putina's current husband, chairs the CDIC's management board.
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From the 1830s the mansion belonged to the Rumin family, who were nobility from
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Index


Vozdvizhenka Street
Moscow
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Vasily Dolgorukov
Crimea
Perekop
Alushta
Nikolai Sergeyevich Volkonsky
Ryazan
Anna Karenina
Baku
Azerbaijan
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Reuters
Lyudmila Putina
Vladimir Putin
VTB Bank
Sberbank
Burger King



"The house of old Bolkonsky"
The Rough Guide to Moscow
138
ISBN
9781858287003
""Old, gloomy house on Vozdvizhenka""

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