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Moscow City Hall (Moscow)

Russia / Moscow / Moscow / Tverskaya ulitsa, 13
 administrative building, town hall, 1947_construction, 1780s construction, object of cultural heritage of regional importance (Russia), relocated building/structure

Town Hall

The former Moscow City Hall, facing Hotel Moskva is a historical architecture situated to the east of the State Historical Museum in a hybrid style of the Russian Revival and Neo-Renaissance styles. Dmitry Chichago was the architect, when his plan was approved in 1887, but work started in 1890. 18th-century Kitai-gorod Mint was the first restructured structure of this project. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the duma was disbanded and the large building was handed over to the Lenin Museum. Moscow City Duma reinstated its headquarters in a modest building of the former Moscow Soviet on Petrovka Street after fall of Communism. Presently, the city hall exhibiting the collections of the State Historical Museum.
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Coordinates:   55°45'40"N   37°36'30"E

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  • AkilinaL
    I haven't the foggiest idea where the above information was derived but it describes the City Duma which is just outside Red Square. Regarding the Moscow Mayor's Office which is the building at this location: Catherine the Great rewarded Zakhar G. Chernyshev (1722-1784) with the post of Moscow's Governor-General for his victories in the 1760 Russo-Prussian war. Not knowing what to do with the bricks from the Bely Gorod wall, Chernyshev is said to have ordered the construction of this red and white building. The building may have been designed and modified twice by Matvei Kazakov, first in 1782 and later in 1791. Initially this was Chernishev's personal residence. After his death the building was either left to the city in his will or sold by his family to his successor as Governor, Yakov Bryusov (1732-1791). Subsequently, it became the official residence of all Moscow governors until 1917. During Soviet times it was the home of the Mossoviet, or Moscow City Council. Increase in the size of the bureaucracy resulted in an addition in the 1930s. Then in 1946 Dmitri N. Chechulin (1901-1981) modified the building further, adding two additional stories to the top. At the same time the entire building was moved back fourteen meters to widen Tverskaya Ulitsa. Today it is the office of the Mayor of Moscow.
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