View of the Yauz bridge and the house of Shapkin in Moscow

The artist is Delabart

Depicts Moskvoretskaya embankment from the educational house. Behind the bridge across the Yauza River, a high hill is rising, called a slob (or lush) hill, on which a magnificent classicist palace with Belvedere rises. Built in the late 1780s for the merchant in. AT. Surovshchikova, in the mid-1790s went into the property of Andrei Shapkin, the Moscow merchant of the 1st Guild. In 1802, General Anthef T was sold. And. Tutolmin, who in 1806 sold the estate and. AND. Bezborodko. There is an assumption that l. N. Tolstoy portrayed the estate in the “War and the World” as the house of Count Bezukhov.

At the end of the XVIII – beginning of the 19th century, the house was one of the sights of Moscow, preserved during the fire of 1812. Was surrounded by a garden descending to the very river. In 1930 it was built in two floors, the historical core was preserved.

In front of Shapkin’s house is the Church of Nikita Martyr, which is behind Yauza (1595).