The house was built by G. Gellrich in 1911 on the corner of Prechistenka Street and Lopukhinsky Lane. According to some experts on Bulgakov, the writer came to this house to socialise with the artists of the Jack of Diamonds (‘Bubnovy Valet') group — I. Zakharov, A. Muat, B. Takke and others.
The house was owned by Jakob Reck, a native entrepreneur who rented out the flats. Some of the most famous of people lived here, amongst whom, Aleksandr Fabergé (son of the celebrated jeweler Carl Fabergé and a lawyer in his company) occupied flats 11 and 12 on the upper floor. In 1920, A. Fabergé emigrated and artists of the Jack of Diamonds group moved into the flats. The writer’s biographers believe that the house’s exterior and interior later served as a model for the appearance (but not the location) of the Kalabukhovsky house from Heart of a Dog, and in The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov gave the vanished host of the ‘unpleasant flat’, Anna Frantsevna, the an altered version of the surname Fabergé — Fuzheré.
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Around Prichestenka
- Stop 3
- 5 km
- 1 h
In November 1924, Bulgakov moved away from Bolshaya Sadovaya, and, moving a number of times, lived on Obukhovy (Chisty) Lane, and Maly Levshinsky, until he finally moved to Bolshoy Pirogovskaya Street in 1927. He lived here until 1934 and then moved with his third wife to the first flat he occupied without neighbors, which was also his last, on Nashchokinsky Lane. The writer spent the late 1920s on Prichestenka and the little roads leading onto it – his Muscovite friends N. Lyamin, S. Zayaitsky, S. Shervinsky and others lived here. It was a circle of highly educated, old Muscovite intellectuals, who did not accept the provincial Bulgakov immediately. N. Lyamin, the writer’s close friend, lived on Pozharsky Street. Nearby was the State Academy of Arts, where many of the writer’s friends worked, and Mansurovsky Lane, where S. Topleninov lived, whose house served as inspiration for the Master’s basement.\t \tThe events of the short novel Heart of a Dog (1925) take place around Prechistenka. Bulgakov’s uncle, N.M. Pokrovsky’s, house was on the corner of Prechistenka and Obukhov (Chisty) Lane – it was he who inspired the almost omnipotent Professor Preobrazhensky with his seven-roomed apartment. With this route guide in your hands, you can go into the smallest details and bring this ‘monstrous story’ to life: find the backstreet where Sharik was picked up, discover the shop in which Preobrazhensky bought the Krakow sausage, and much more. The route finishes at Novodevichy Cemetery, where M. Bulgakov is buried.
