GlavUpDK participates in Historical and Cultural Heritage Days

It’s a years-long tradition for GlavUpDK under the MFA of Russia to cooperate with the Moscow Cultural Heritage Department in organizing Historical and Cultural Heritage Days every April and May.

This year the Days offered architecture connoisseurs an opportunity to visit the mansions under the GlavUpDK operating control. They could examine magnificent buildings in the neo-baroque, neo-classicism, neo-Gothic, eclecticism and Art Nouveau styles, developed by renown architects such as Fyodor Schechtel, Lev Kekushev, William Walcot, etc.

 The guided tours were held in the building now housing the Embassies of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Armenia, Canada and the Kingdom of Norway. Video tours were shot inside the Embassies of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Cyprus, the Kingdom of Netherlands.

 At GlavUpDK under the MFA of Russia, we express our heartfelt gratitude to the diplomatic missions participating in the Historical and Cultural Heritage Days, and value the fact that the Embassies took the current epidemiological situation into account, allowing the visitors into their buildings subject to the general sanitary limitations and precautions.

 During the Historical and Cultural Heritage Days, the guests could also visit O. Korobkova’s mansion (33-35 Pyatnitskaya St.), the Tsvetkov Gallery (29 Prechistenskaya Emb.) and F. Schechtel’s mansion (28 Yermolayevsky Lane).

 For a hundred years, GlavUpDK safeguards invaluable monuments of our history and culture and restores their original beauty while providing the foreign diplomats with living and working conditions as befits their high status in Russia. We do that while strictly following the requirements of the Russian cultural heritage protection laws; the Moscow Mayor’s office and the Muscovites appreciate our efforts.

Outside of the Historical and Cultural Heritage Days, anyone interested in the interior decorations and the history of the mansions can view them at the GlavUpDK Cultural Heritage Sites webpage.