The Feodor Chaliapin Estate Museum is an example of an 18th-century urban manor. There are few city mansions of this kind that have survived to our time. On the territory of the estate is a memorial house of Feodor Chaliapin and an annex where he lived from 1910 to 1922.
The house on Novinsky Boulevard was purchased by the great Russian singer Feodor Chaliapin in 1910. It was the first house that he ever owned. Chaliapin’s wife, Italian ballerina Iola Tornaghi, oversaw the renovations. The former house of the merchant Kapitolina Bazhenova, built in the late 18th century, was remodeled in a new European way: gas pipes, plumbing, bathrooms, and a telephone were installed. Moreover, Tornaghi added an extensive garden with a linden alley, cozy benches, jasmine bushes, lilacs, and beautiful flowerbeds with colorful flowers, as well as a gazebo with a view of the Moskva River.
For the Chaliapins, it was a real family home in which both adults and children lived happily. The mansion turned into one of the brightest art centers in Moscow, where prominent Russian artists, writers, actors and musicians often gathered.
The house on Novinsky Boulevard is officially recognized as an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
The house on Novinsky Boulevard was purchased by the great Russian singer Feodor Chaliapin in 1910. It was the first house that he ever owned. Chaliapin’s wife, Italian ballerina Iola Tornaghi, oversaw the renovations. The former house of the merchant Kapitolina Bazhenova, built in the late 18th century, was remodeled in a new European way: gas pipes, plumbing, bathrooms, and a telephone were installed. Moreover, Tornaghi added an extensive garden with a linden alley, cozy benches, jasmine bushes, lilacs, and beautiful flowerbeds with colorful flowers, as well as a gazebo with a view of the Moskva River.
For the Chaliapins, it was a real family home in which both adults and children lived happily. The mansion turned into one of the brightest art centers in Moscow, where prominent Russian artists, writers, actors and musicians often gathered.
The house on Novinsky Boulevard is officially recognized as an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
