About the almshouse on the Andreevskaya embankment of the capital remembered Muscovites in the Telegram channel “Moscow. It was – it became.
“The Andreevsky almshouse on the embankment of the same name in the capital was opened in 1806 in the fraternal buildings of the Andreevsky Monastery. The monastery was abolished in the 1760s. Near its building in the late 1970s, a high-rise building of the USSR Academy of Sciences appeared, which was popularly called the Golden Brains, ”the message says.
According to the channel’s administrators, Moscow homeless children and foundlings, the elderly, the disabled and the mentally ill were kept free of charge in the former monastery. There were about 500 people in total. In the Soviet years, the almshouse was closed, in its place a commune house for employees of the 1st Moscow factory Goznak appeared, but in the 60s the apartments were settled. Then the future All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of the Meteorological Service was located there, and in the 1990s a small monastery again began to function there.
Earlier, the address of the first Soviet house in Moscow was revealed. According to the channel’s administrators, the house was built on the basis of a building that began to be erected before the First World War, but stopped due to hostilities.
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