ROOMS IN KADASHEVSKAYA SLOBODA

The area occupied by a monument is located on 1st Kadashevskaya alley, adjoining the site of the Church of the Resurrection in Kadashas.

Kadashevskaya sloboda is one of the richest Moscow areas. The name comes from a village that existed in these places in ancient times - Kadashevo, and explained the main occupation of its inhabitants - the manufacture of barrels, so called kadashes.

The main house of the estate was built in several stages. At the basis of the building are rooms built in the second half of the seventeenth century. The lower floor of the manor house was a service space and was used as a warehouse. Most likely the windows of the basement floor were acquired only in the middle of the eighteenth century. The southern part of the architectural structure was built in 1740. In 1752 ownership passed to the sacristan of the Cathedral of Annunciation of the Moscow Kremlin Mikhail Danilov. In 1761 the house belonged to a merchant Matvey Alekseev Ratkov. Subsequently, his widow T. Ratkov became the owner of the estate. At the end of the 18th century, an additional volume was added to the western part of the manor, where a fragment of geometric relief was discovered during the restoration. In 1804 the house was acquired at one of the Moscow auctions by Fyodor Ivanovich Mochalov, and soon the estate passed into the possession of his widow Anisya Mochalova. In March 1878 the “sausage king” entrepreneur Nikolay Grigorievich Grigoriev bought all the houses of the estate opposite the Church of Resurrection with all its residential and non-residential buildings and land.

In 1913 a building was added to the main house of the estate from the courtyard where residential apartments were located. The Red Porch was finally dismantled. On 18 September 1918 by decision of the Russian Council of National Economy, the Grigoriev sausage business was nationalised and the entrepreneur was declared as an enemy of the people. Five years later the «sausage king» died of hunger in poverty. In 2000 Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov Grigoriev was listed as a saint and became a new martyr and confessor of the Russian.

The building retained its original layout, but the facade decor was lost. We have also received fragments of the sub-clonal of the manor created in the late seventeenth century with an entrance to the internal walled staircase.

In 2024-2025 the old estate will find its brand new life. It will be transformed into a modern residential house preserving its authenticity and original purpose.