Description of the attraction
Domontovich House (House on Gorokhovaya) was built in the middle of the 19th century. The building differs from the surrounding by its architecture, which was inherent in Russian late classicism.
The complex of buildings consists of two houses of three floors and courtyard wings, which are located on all sides in a narrow courtyard. The door leading to the balcony is made in the form of a frame of two Ionic columns with a small pediment. The balcony itself is mounted on granite brackets. Tiled stoves and stucco cornices are what have been preserved from the original decoration of the house.
The first owner of the site was Praskovya Timofeevna Mokhova. From the Chief Police, she got this place for the construction of a house. Her husband Vasily Alekseevich was a merchant. Upon entering the service, Vasily became a nobleman and received the title of provincial secretary. Praskovya and Vasily built a house on the site, but soon they had to sell it, having previously mortgaged it in 1784. The commissar's widow, Ekaterina Chulkova, bought their houses. In 1797 the house passed to Yekaterina Abramovna Voronkova, colonel. After Ekaterina Abramovna, the plot belonged to Colonel Vasiliev and the merchant Klinin. In 1825, there were two houses and an outbuilding on the site, built on as a third floor. After that, the Domontovichs owned the house for almost 60 years.
The head of the Domontovich family, Ivan Georgievich (1781-1854), was a district judge. His wife, Elizaveta Varlaamovna, née Shirin, was the mother of their nine sons: Nicholas, Alexander, Pavel, Vladimir, Varlaam, George, Ivan, Mikhail and Konstantin. It is noteworthy that in the 40s. settled in the house of the Domontovich family, Nestor Vasilievich Kukolnik, writer, playwright (1809-1868).
Igor Severyanin was born and spent his first seven years of his life in this house. Igor's mother, Natalya Stepanovna, was the second wife of Georgy Ivanovich, the son of Ivan Georgievich Domontovich. When her husband died, she married the staff captain Lotarev Vasily Petrovich, and Igor was born to her. Natalia maintained good relations with the relatives of her first husband and lived in their house with her second husband and son.
The owner of the house, Elizaveta Varlaamovna, died in 1873, when she was 83 years old. Four of her sons became heirs. Soon, in 1897, Konstantin Ivanovich died. After himself, he left heirs, a son Mikhail and a daughter Alexandra, but the owner was the wife of Constantine and the mother of Mikhail and Alexandra, Adel Konstantinovna, nee Mravinskaya. A few years later, Adele married a second time, to the officer of the Life Guards Cavalry Regiment Nikolai Mikhailovich Kamenev, who was the aide-de-camp. In 1912, Kamenev, became a major general, as well as a member of the Military Council and the fashionable English club. Receptions at the Domontovichs' house were held invariably on Saturdays.
Adel Konstantinovna Kameneva was the owner of the house on Gorokhovaya until the 17th year of the 20th century and lived there with her family. Before the revolution, the Kamenevs lived in a large apartment on the second floor, from which they made five apartments after nationalization. The Kamenevs were not kicked out, they were not arrested for their noble origin, but they were given a room, the area of which was 36 sq. M. Its windows overlooked the street. It is likely that they were assisted by A. Kollontai (nee Domontovich), she was the niece of Konstantin Ivanovich Domontovich. N. M. Kamenev died in the 1920s, Adel Konstantinovna died in the blockade, and Evgenia, their daughter, after the Great Patriotic War, went to live in Moscow.
The house on Gorokhovaya is an architectural monument and is under state protection.
