Rasstrel’nyy Dom, Moskva, Russia
In the historical part of Moscow – China-city – on Nikolskaya street at number 23 there is a house known for its tragic history of massacre of so-called “enemies of the Soviet regime”. The name of the shooting house was given to the people entirely deserved, given that it was here that the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR located, sent more than 31,000 people to be shot.
The process took place without the right to petition, without any advocacy and without witnesses. Many scientists, writers, military men, artists, directors of leading enterprises were shot, among them the director VE Meyerhold, the writers BA Pilnyak, II Kataev, the parents of M. Plisetskaya and many others. The sentence was carried out within a day and often right in the basement of the house.
The shooting houseIt’s hard to believe that until the Stalinist repressions of the 1930s, in the building of the Moscow Craft Council (as the official name of the XVIII-XIX centuries sounds), they were engaged in ordinary affairs-an almshouse, an apartment house, a shop were located. Here lived a well-known philanthropist Count Nikolai Sheremetev, and earlier, in the XVII century, there were chambers of princes Khovansky. In this house in 1835 rented an apartment writer Nikolai Stankevich, who organized a literary and philosophical circle and influenced many prominent writers, scholars and politicians.
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