Apartment house of the insurance company Russia

This is one of the buildings of apartment buildings. It was built in the period from 1899 to 1902. The building attracted the spacious layout of apartments with high ceilings and modern (at that time) engineering equipment. The presence of electric elevators was especially unique. The building had its own telephone exchange. The rent was fabulous, so only rich people rented apartments here. At the beginning of the last century, Dr. P. A. Lezin lived here, whose portrait was painted by I. E. Repin in the interiors of this house. Before the revolution, the Football League board was located in one of the apartments. When the Communists were in power, A.V. Lunacharsky lived here on the second floor. In another apartment, there was a People's Commissariat of Education with its own literary department, LETO. In 1921, Mikhail Bulgakov worked in this department as a secretary, the writer told about this episode in his autobiographical story "Notes on Cuffs". Currently, the house is still residential, and part of the building is rented out for offices.