Before the Russian Revolution, studio 38 was rented by the prominent philanthropist and publisher of the “Golden Fleece” magazine Nikolai Ryabushinsky, then Pyotr Konchalovsky used it as a workshop for several years, and after that the dancer Inna Chernetskaya opened her studio there.

In May 1920, Georgy Bogdanovich Yakulov moved into apartment No. 38. He was an artist and set designer of productions at the Kamerny Theater. It was headed by the then famous director Alexander Tairov.

The artist worked on the design of the cafe “Pittoresque” on Kuznetsky Most and “Pegasus Stall” on Tverskaya. Mikhail Bulgakov and his wife Tatiana Lappa visited the literary cafe “Pegasus Stall”. Later, she said that it was in that café that she first saw Sergei Yesenin. Bulgakov’s first wife also recalled that she met Georgy Yakulov in the mid-1920s, after her divorce from Bulgakov. It is unknown whether the writer himself was acquainted with Yakulov.

Georgy Yakulov’s art studio 38 was well known to Moscow literary and theatrical elites of those years. There, in 1921, the writer Sergei Yesenin and dancer Isadora Duncan first met. Among Yakulov’s guests were directors Vsevolod Meyerhold and Alexander Tairov, the writer Anatoly Marienhof, People’s Commissar for Education of the RSFSR Anatoly Lunacharsky and many others. The French senator de Monzie called Yakulov’s workshop “a caravanserai of the Montparnasse type.”

If one clicks on the button to the left of the sign “Studio 38”, the light in the window of the scale model will light up and a collage of photos of studio guests will appear there: Vladimir Mayakovsky (standing on the left), Isadora Duncan and Sergei Yesenin (on the couch). It also shows sketches made by artists who worked in the studio. For example, in the background on the right is a fragment of a sketch by the scenic designer Semyon Ivanovich Aladzhalov, a student of Yakulov. Aladzhalov began working in the studio after Georgy Yakulov’s death in 1929.