Kamergerskiy Pereulok or Chamberlain Lane () is a short street with many historical buildings located within the
Boulevard Ring
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in central
Moscow
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. Almost all of the buildings on Chamberlain Lane are classified as architectural monuments.
The street runs from
Tverskaya Street
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in the west to
Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street
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Etymology
The name has been known si ...
in the east.
Artists
The lane is associated with the life and work of many Russian cultural figures. Artists who lived on Chamberlain Lane include writers
Vladimir Odoyevsky
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,
Yuri Samarin,
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; ,Throughout Tolstoy's whole life, his name was written as using Reforms of Russian orthography#The post-revolution re ...
,
Yury Olesha
Yury Karlovich Olesha (, – 10 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet novelist. He is considered one of the greatest Russian novelists of the 20th century, one of the few to have succeeded in writing works of lasting artistic value despite the s ...
,
Mikhail Svetlov,
Eduard Bagritsky
Eduard Georgyevich Bagritsky ( rus, Эдуа́рд Гео́ргиевич Багри́цкий, p=ɨdʊˈard ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪjɪvʲɪdʑ bɐˈɡrʲitskʲɪj, a=Eduard Gyeorgiyevich Bagriczkiy.ru.vorb.oga; February 16, 1934) was a prominent Russia ...
,
Lev Kassil
Lev Abramovich Kassil (; 10 July 1905 – 21 June 1970) was an influential Soviet and Russian writer of juvenile and young adult literature and screenwriter, depicting Soviet life, teenagers, school, sports, culture, and war.
Biography
He was b ...
,
Mikhail Sholokhov
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov ( rus, Михаил Александрович Шолохов, p=ˈʂoləxəf; – 21 February 1984) was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life ...
, and
Venedikt Yerofeyev
Venedikt Vasilyevich Yerofeyev, also Benedict Erofeev or Erofeyev (; 24 October 1938 in Niva-3 Human settlement, settlement, suburb of Kandalaksha – 11 May 1990 in Moscow) was a Russian writer and Soviet dissident.
Biography
Yerofeyev was born ...
; poet
Novella Matveyeva
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; actors
Vera Pashennaya,
Vasily Kachalov,
Alla Tarasova,
Mark Prudkin,
Nikolai Khmelyov,
Sofya Giatsintova,
Lyubov Orlova
Lyubov Petrovna Orlova ( ; – 26 January 1975) was a Soviet and Russian actress, singer, dancer, and People's Artist of the USSR (1950).
Life and career
Lyubov Orlova was born to a family of Russian nobility#Hereditary nobility, Russian h ...
;
painter
Vasily Tropinin
Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (; – ) was a Russian Romanticism, Romantic painter. Much of his life was spent as a serf, not attaining freedom until he was more than forty years old. Three of his more important works are a portrait of Alexand ...
; and composer
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''. , group=n ( – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who l ...
.
Gallery
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Streets in Moscow
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