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GlavUpDK restores manor house on Pyatnitskaya Street
GlavUpDK has wrapped up the restoration project for the manor house located in Moscow at 67/bldg. 1 Pyatnitskaya Street. It is a cultural heritage site of federal significance managed by GlavUpDK under the MFA of Russia.
Built at the turn of the 18th–19th centuries—between 1769 and 1812— in 1821, it belonged to a clerk’s wife, Varvara von Schepkovskaya. By that time, the two-story house with a basement had been rebuilt after the fire of 1812 and enlarged with an extension on the courtyard side, a service outbuilding and an outbuilding on the side street, as well as a wooden gallery.
Later, it was owned by merchant Olga Tolokonnikova, merchant Grigory Soloviev, as well as the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Monetchiki as it was occupied by Protoiereus Petr Sakharov.
After the revolution, it was used for communal housing; in the basement there were also workshops of Training and Production Plant No. 2 belonging to the Moscow City Department of the All-Union Society of the Blind.
GlavUpDK’s Major Projects Department and specialized contractors have restored the building's façades to return their original appearance. In particular, they restored the corner portico elements resembling Corinthian half-columns and Corinthian abutments on the main façade, in addition to the decorative cornices, skylight and white stone wall base.
The renovated architectural lighting of the street façades advantageously accentuates the building at night.
The granite wall base on the courtyard side was also restored; architects have also replaced the existing metal terrace railing and recreated the roof drainage system.
Furthermore, the interiors were adapted to present-day usage as engineers replaced internal utility lines and networks, repaired staircases and provided fire protection for existing metal floor beams.
At the end, they improved and landscaped the courtyard and built a new wooden gazebo.
On December 2, the project completion was officially approved by an expert panel, including the Moscow Department of Cultural Heritage.
