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Embassy of Tunisia ("The House of Beria") (Moscow)

Russia / Moscow / Moscow / Malaya Nikitskaya ulitsa, 28/1
 embassy, listed building / architectural heritage

Tel. (495) 691-28-58
E-mail : tunisia@orc.ru

Former home of AI Bakakin (Also known as "The House of Beria).

Built at the beginning of XX century for AI Bakakin (husband of Olga Ivanovna Mindovskaya) by the architect Adolf Erikhson in 1910


Mindovskys were a dynasty of Russian businessmen who made their money as textile manufacturers inthe city of Vichuga in the area which is now the Ivanovo region. The founder of the dynasty - Ivan Mindovsky (1781-1853) in 1817, while still a serf, established a paper-warping and dyeing factory in Old Golchikha (in 1858, the factory provided jobs for 200 workers and 470 homeworkers). In 1820, he bought his freedome from serfdom: "summer of eighteen hundred twentieth, the first day of December, a retired artillery captain, and gentleman's son Sergei Nazarov Glushkov released in forever at the will of their serfs, taken from the peasants in the courtyard of the people"

During the period from late 1930 to 1953 in this house lived the Soviet statesman, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, the curator of "nuclear program" Laurentius Pavlovich Beria.

The house is also listed under number 1 / 28 to Vspolny lane.
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Coordinates:   55°45'34"N   37°35'10"E
This article was last modified 13 years ago