Chambers of Crickets

The name of merchant Sverchkov is associated with a donation to the Church of the Assumption on Pokrovka. The merchant himself and his sons lived not far from the temple in a huge estate, which had its own garden and pond. The red brick building with white ornate windows and a green roof, which has survived to our time, is the Sverchkov chamber – a vivid example of pre-Petrine architecture. The house was built in the late XVI — early XVII centuries. In 1680, the chambers were rebuilt and expanded, and it was then that the Moscow Baroque decoration that has come down to us appeared - teardrop-shaped architraves, fly flaps, paired half-columns on the facade. Part of the interior has also been preserved, for example, a 19th-century tiled stove, a ceiling decorated with stucco, doors decorated with wide architraves with front panels on top.