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Igumnov House (russian: «Дом Игумнова») is a historic house in
/ref> architect and the client agreed to discard the existing structure altogether and redesign the building from scratch; its dimensions, as built, increased to 45×33 meters. After 13 years of slow progress the building attracted public attention and became a target of numerous art critics, detesting its pseudo-Russian luxury; whether for this reason or due to sheer greed, Igumnov refused to compensate cost overruns to Pozdeyev; the ruined architect committed suicide in October 1893. After the
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Embassy of France in Moscow
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Igumnov House (russian: «Дом Игумнова») is a historic house in Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
, currently used as the residence of the French Ambassador to Russia. The house is located at 43 Bolshaya Yakimanka Street (russian: ул. Большая Якиманка, 43) in the Yakimanka District
Yakimanka District (russian: райо́н Якима́нка) is a district of Central Administrative Okrug of the federal city of Moscow, Russia. Population:
It is named after the former church of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne. Yakimanka cont ...
of Moscow.
The building
It is the oldest building occupied by the French embassy, facing Yakimanka Street (No. 43) - Igumnov House - was built in 18831893 to the design by Nikolay Pozdeyev (1855-1893), and cost the architect his life. Igumnov family acquired the lot in 1851; in 1880 Nikolay Igumnov hired Nikolay Pozdeyev to rebuild the old two-storyempire style
The Empire style (, ''style Empire'') is an early-nineteenth-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts, representing the second phase of Neoclassicism. It flourished between 1800 and 1815 durin ...
mansion into a larger residence. Pozdeyev, a graduate of Imperial Academy of Arts
The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the Thre ...
, already had five years of practice as the town architect of Yaroslavl
Yaroslavl ( rus, Ярослáвль, p=jɪrɐˈsɫavlʲ) is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow. The historic part of the city is a World Heritage Site, and is located at the confluence ...
, where Igumnov had substantial investments in textile mills. Halfway through the project, in 1888, Embassy of France. History/ref> architect and the client agreed to discard the existing structure altogether and redesign the building from scratch; its dimensions, as built, increased to 45×33 meters. After 13 years of slow progress the building attracted public attention and became a target of numerous art critics, detesting its pseudo-Russian luxury; whether for this reason or due to sheer greed, Igumnov refused to compensate cost overruns to Pozdeyev; the ruined architect committed suicide in October 1893. After the
October Revolution
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the nationalised building was taken over by a communal club, then by medical institutions. These included the Institute of Blood Transfusion established by Alexander Bogdanov
Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Богда́нов; – 7 April 1928), born Alexander Malinovsky, was a Russian and later Soviet physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and B ...
in 1926. He lived there with his wife, Natalia Bogdanovna. Following his death, Natalia had Bogdanov's son move into her flat, the two of them remaining there until 1937.
The Embassy of France has occupied it continuously since 1938. A larger, modernist Embassy structure (No. 45) was built on an adjacent block in 1979; since that year, Igumnov House became an official residence of the ambassador. Embassy of France. History/ref> In August 2007 the management of
GlavUpDK
The Main Directorate for Servicing the Diplomatic Corps under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia (russian: Главное управление по обслуживанию дипломатического корпуса при МИД Ро ...
, the state organization in charge of embassy buildings, announced a forthcoming restoration of the building, estimated to cost 10 million US dollar
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s. RIA Novosti, 17 August 200/ref> Igumnov House is open to visitors once a year, on the
International Museum Day
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.
See also
*France–Russia relations
France–Russia relations, also known as Franco-Russian relations or Russo-French relations (, russian: Российско-французские отношения, ''Rossiysko-frantsuzskiye otnosheniya''), have seldom been friendly.
In the 18th ...
* Diplomatic missions in Russia
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References
External links
*Embassy of France in Moscow
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Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
Ambassador residences in Moscow
Houses completed in 1893
France
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Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Moscow