Barracks of the Izmailovsky Life Guards Regiment

In August 1730, Empress Anna Ioannovna formed the Izmailovo Life Guards Regiment. In 1799, architect Fyodor Ivanovich Volkov developed a plan for the construction of stone barracks for the Izmailovo Life Guards Regiment. Along Izmailovsky Prospekt, opposite the wooden church of the regiment, there was an administrative building with officers' quarters. Ten company barracks were built opposite each other along the main street south of the church. Two barracks were also built across the street from the church on what is now Troitskaya Street. The regiment's parade ground was located between the 12th Company and the Bypass Canal. The construction of the stone barracks complex was completed in 1808, during the reign of Tsar Alexander I. At the beginning of the 20th century, apartments and trading houses were located here; of the 12 stone barracks of the Izmailovsky regiment, built in 1808, three were lost during the Soviet era. Today, the buildings on the site of the barracks house a military unit, the Committee for Social and Legal Protection of Military Personnel, a children's drama theater, the M.L. Rostropovich Children's Art School, the Regional Center for Metrology, as well as administrative and state institutions and public institutions.