пятница, 20 июля 2012 г.

The Annenkov house in the center of Moscow.

This  building was built in 1776 for the Governor-General of Siberia Prince Jacobi. 
Decembrist  Ivan Annenkov  spent his childhood and adolescence   in this house. This building became very profitable in 19th century  because of  the  hotels, restaurants, and cafes placed in it.
These places was  liked to visit by  the famous Moscow writers, poets, musicians and artists  in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Here was  the famous cafe Tramble (Tremble) which  liked to visit  Ivan Alekseevich Bunin  the outstanding Russian writer and  Nobel Prize winner  for literature in 1933, revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and many other  poets, musicians and artists.
See the posts in this blog:
The Tramble cafe in the center of Moscow  which was famous among artists, writers, painters and musicians.
Attempt of stealing of 320,000 rubles (800,000.00 US dollars) from the  Moscow branch of the Siberian Trade Bank  in January 1917.
Famous Tramble cafe (1901).



The history of relations between  Ivan  Annenkov and French ballerina P. Gebl formed the basis of the famous novel of the great French writer Alexander. Dumas 'Fencing Master'.



Vadim Shershenevich
Shershenevich was a secret owner of "Snuff-boxes," because the cafe was the realy owned by K. Korotkov.
Vladimir  Mayakovsky 
Jeanne Mammen In the Café. 1920-е гг.
Vadim Shershenevich wrote: "Some people in the cafe under the counter sold brilliants and cocaine. They then walked home through the dark streets and gave the money to gangsters. Bandits did not touch the poets. Owners were paid accurately speaking for twenty kerenkoy and a glass of coffee and cake."

According to the cafe came S.Spasskogo former officers (they are then also play a role): "Young people are with signs of the shoulder straps on the coats, which transmit to each other the news of Kornilov. One of them is bald, covered in a coat, quietly boasting of what he adjutant of the Grand Duke. pouring the tea vodka from a bottle brought, he chuckles and poshuchivaet with neighbors: - Shooting will begin soon. or they me or I them. in the meantime, listen to poetry. "
Ivan Aleksejevich  Bunin (1901).
In the "Accursed Days" Bunin wrote indignantly:
A new literary infamy, below which the fall seems to have nowhere to go: to open a tavern in the most heinous kind of "musical snuff box" - sit speculators, tricksters, public girls and eats cakes for a hundred rubles a piece, drink a hypocrite of the kettles, and poets and novelists (Alexei Tolstoy, Bruce, and so on) are reading their own and others' work, choosing the most obscene. Bruce is said to read "Gavriliadu", saying all that is replaced by dots, completely. Alyosha had dared to propose to read and me - a big fee, says give.
1920-1930
After the revolution in the premises of the former bakery cafes opened poets "Musical snuff box" where the reading of his works, Mayakovsky, Esenin, Shershenevich, Burliuk, Vertinsky.

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This information is taken from the diary of Adrian Fedorovich Timofeev (1882-1954) – the mathematician, socialist, revolutionary, financier and banker.
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