Pokrovka Street (in 1940-1992 – Chernyshevsky Street) is a street in the Central Administrative District of Moscow. Passes from the Armenian lane to Zemlyanoy Val Square (Garden Ring). It continues on Maroseyka Street and lies between Myasnitskaya and Vorontsovo Pole streets.
Crosses the area of the Pokrovsky Gates.
The numbering of houses is conducted from the Armenian lane.
The continuation of Pokrovka is Staraya Basmannaya Street.
The modern building of the street mainly belongs to the 19th – early 20th century.
Notable buildings
On the odd side
No. 1/13, p. 1, TsGFO – I. N. Shinkov’s profitable property store (1913, architect K. N. Kostomarov; 1990s).
No. 1/13/6, p. 2, an architectural monument (federal) – the Levashovs’ house, built based on the chambers of the 18th century.
No. 1/13/6, p. 2 (part), an architectural monument (federal) – a residential building (based on an outbuilding of a city estate, the end of the 18th century – the 19th century; 1871, architect Vasily Barkov).
No. 3/7 building 1a, an architectural monument (federal) – the estate of B. I. Tolstoy (M. P. Meshcherskaya), the end of the 18th century.
No. 5/16, p. 3, TsGFO – the house of the clergy of the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Pokrovka (in Kotelniki) (1874, architect Alexander Kaminsky; late 1870s – 1880s; early 1890s).
No. 5, p. 5, an architectural monument (regional) – the house of the clergy of the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Pokrovka, the end of the 18th century (with a fragment of the bell tower, 1698-1699, the end of the 18th century, the 19th century).
No. 7/9-11 – a residential building of the “Military Builder” cooperative (1928, architect Konstantin Apollonov). In the 1930s, the editorial office of the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper was located here.
No. 9, Central State Federal District – the main house of the city estate of Shcherbakov-Arbatskikh.
No. 11, Central State Federal District – the apartment building of the Sludskys with shops (1909, architect Mikhail Gleinig; 1950, architect Gletmen).
No. 13, p. 1, an architectural monument (regional) – the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity v Gryazakh at the Intercession Gates (1745-1752; 1826; 1856-1861, architect Mikhail Bykovsky).
No. 17, building 1 – hotel at the Pokrovsky Gates, architect Vasily Stasov.
No. 19 – the profitable house of the grain merchant F. S. Rakhmanov (1898-1899, architect Peter Drittenpreis) – one of the first Moscow apartment buildings in the Art Nouveau style.
No. 25 (in the yard) – tenement house (1903, architect Leonid Stezhensky).
No. 27 – the city estate of the Botkins:
No. 27, p. 1, an architectural monument (a newly discovered object) – the main house of the city estate of S. S. Botkina (1780s; 1840s; 1867, architect Alexander Kaminsky). Before the revolution of 1917, the private museum of the Botkins was located here, where the works of Vasily Polenov, Vasily Vereshchagin, Konstantin Makovsky, Pavel Trubetskoy and others were exhibited.
No. 27, p. 2, an architectural monument (a newly discovered object) – an outbuilding of the city estate of S. S. Botkina (XIX century).
No. 29, an architectural monument (a newly discovered object) is the profitable house of Ya. A. Babushkin (1897, architect Lev Kekushev; rebuilt in 1909 by architect Nikolai Strukov).
No. 31, p. 3, an architectural monument (regional) – Chamberlain V. I. Mashkov’s chambers (1752, architect Dmitry Ukhtomsky; rebuilt in 1875 according to the project of architect Maxim Geppener).
No. 31 (in the yard) – apartment building (1900s, architect Vitaly Kozhushek).
No. 35 is an apartment building (1903, architect Flegont Voskresensky), in 1954 it was built on two floors.
No. 37 – “The House of Political Prisoners”, a residential building of the “Politkatorzhanin” cooperative (early 1930s, architects N. V. Likin, D. P. Znamensky, S. P. Leontovich, S. P. Rastrepin).
No. 39 – residential building (1980s, architect Pyotr Skokan).
No. 41 – a residential building of the Medsantrud cooperative (1928-1929, architects Alexander Grinberg, Vladimir Kildishev).
No. 47 – cinema “Novorossiysk” (1977, architects Pyotr Skokan, Yu. Pavlov), now – the Central House of the Entrepreneur and the cinema “35 mm”.
On the even side
No. 2/1, building 1 – a residential building with shops (the beginning of the 19th century), an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
No. 4 – the house of the Sirotinins – a classic three-story “post-fire” house with a mezzanine.
No. 6 – a residential building with shops (1821, 1836), an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
No. 8, building 1 – the main house of the city estate of A. S. Ushakov – A. N. Tolzin – the profitable property of F. P. Picoli (1780s; early 1800s; 1850; late 1990s), valuable city-forming object.
No. 10, p. 1 – city estate of the 18th-19th centuries, the house of Colonel A.N. Ozerov, an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
No. 10, p. 2 – Profitable house of A. E. Molchanov, later the store of P. Olovyanishnikov, 1891. In the mid-1990s, the second floor was built on. It has the status of a valuable city-forming object.
No. 12, p. 1 – a two-story house of the clergy of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity on the Muds near the Pokrovsky Gates, 1810-1820s (changes in the design of the 1890s-1900s, 1940s-1950s), a valuable city-forming object.
No. 14/2, p. 1a – the estate of T. F. Eminsky, 1780-1820, an identified object of cultural heritage.
No. 16 – hotel at the Pokrovsky Gates.
No. 20/1, p. 1 – “Dwelling house at the Pokrovsky gate” (1936, architects Lazar Cherikover, B. V. Minikh).
No. 22/1, p. 1 – Apraksin-Trubetskoy Palace (Apraksinsky Palace), 1766-1768, architect Dmitry Ukhtomsky. Also known as “commode house”.
No. 22a, p. 1 – the residential building of the Andronovs (the last third of the 18th century, the end of the 19th century), an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
No. 24 – residential building (1876, architect Pavel Ivanov).
No. 26/1 – Church of the Resurrection of the Word in Barashy, 1734.
No. 28/6, pp. 1, 3 – the city estate of the Yemelyanovs (1829, 1883, architect Mikhail Bugrovsky), an object of cultural heritage of federal significance.
No. 36/1 – a residential building (1871, architect Alexander Nikiforov), a valuable city-forming object.
No. 38 – tenement house (1914, architect Franz Kontrim). The house was built on the site of the right wing of the Shuvalovs’ estate.
No. 38a – the main house of the city estate of the Shuvalovs (Ivan Shuvalov, later the Golitsyns) – the gymnasium of L. N. Valitskaya (1770s, restructuring of the late XIX – early XX centuries). The building is included in the albums of particular buildings by Matvey Kazakov; one of the most significant buildings in Moscow, built in the period of early classicism. An object of cultural heritage of federal significance.
No. 40 is the profitable house of the merchant Fyodor Nikolaevich Konkin (1900, architect Sergei Sokolov).
No. 40b – the left wing of the Shuvalovs’ city estate (early 19th century), an object of cultural heritage of federal significance.
No. 42, p. 5 – a residential building (end of the 18th century; 1860; 1875, architect Mitrofan Arseniev), an identified object of cultural heritage.
No. 44 – tenement house (1909, architect Vladimir Shervud). The design of the house bears Baroque decorative motifs, rare for Moscow Art Nouveau.
No. 48 – tenement house (1910, architect Ivan Bogolepov).
No. 50 – Theater on Pokrovka.
No. 50/2 – the bell tower of the Church of John the Baptist in Kazyonnaya Sloboda (1772), an object of cultural heritage of federal significance.
Transport
Pokrovka forms a single transport artery together with Maroseyka Street. The nearest metro stations to Pokrovka are Kitay-Gorod, Sretensky Boulevard, Krasnye Vorota and Kurskaya Koltsevaya.
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