This apartment house, built in 1901-03 years now houses the hotel "National". After the revolution, there lived Lenin with Krupskaya and his sister. And during  the years of perestroika the famous French restaurant Maxim was located here. Among its visitors there were representatives of  so- called  the cream of society in crimson jackets with thick gold chains on their necks.

In this building ( the second address: Okhotny  Ryad 1 )  the State Duma of the Russian Federation is located now. The plates that are lining the building, erected in 1935, were made from the walls of the temple of Christ the Savior shortly after it  was demolished to the ground. It was built specially for the  state institutions of  the Council of Labor and  Defense among which, the Council of People's Commissars, the Council of Ministers of the USSR,  Gosplan. The State Duma holds its sessions  here since 1994.

 Until 2002 there existed a 22-storey building of the hotel "Intourist". It appeared here in the Soviet 70s and received guests of the capital. The hotel was proud of their... coffee room. But  later it was decided that such a high building spoils the historic view of the city. "Intourist" was  demolished  and a very steep and expensive Moscow hotel "Ritz-Carlton" was constructed instead of it.

If you bypass this residential building from the left,  you will get into Kamergersky lane – one of the walking  streets of Moscow, where the guests of the city and the Muscovites enjoy  walking, There is the Chekhov Moscow art theatre, one of the most popular theatres of the capital, headed by Oleg Tabakov, which is located here.  Konstantin Khabensky, Michael Porechenkov and other famous Russian actors are the stars of the theatre.

The office building of the Central Telegraph  was constructed as a concrete frame, which is partly covered with stone veneer. Earlier a kind of a hostel was located in this place,  where the students and  the teachers of Moscow University lived. But later while reconstructing  the street in 1925-27 a house with a 10 meter tower and the globe was built.

It seems absolutely an ordinary for  Tverskaya street house. But, if you go through the arch, you will see the yard where a fabulous building of Savvinskoye farmstead is located. It was built in 1907 by a famous Moscow architect Ivan Kuznetsov. A wonderful mixture of styles – the  interiors in the art Nouveau style  and  the courtyards in the Baroque  style. In the building, facing Tverskaya street  there lived five Stalin prizes winner actor Boris Livanov, the father of the main Sherlock Holmes of the  Soviet Union Vasily Livanov.

The building where lived the Minister of culture of the USSR  Ekaterina  Furtseva. They say that  allegedly more than once she was bathed in  a bathtub of champagne. The building is lined with granite which has an incredible history. These stones were prepared  by the Nazis for constructing   in the future a monument in honor of their victory over the Soviet Union.

This house was traditionally the residence of the head of the city: its historic name is   the House of Moscow governors-generals. And it was built in 1782 by the architect Mikhail Kazakov  for count  Zacharias Chernyshev  who was the Moscow head at that time  During the reconstruction of Tverskaya  street in 1939 the building was moved  for 14 m into the back yard.

In this house for 12 years (from 1940 to 1952) there  lived the  legendary tenor of the Bolshoi theatre Sergei Lemeshev.  All the years, the building was besieged by his numerous fans, who were dreaming of  seeing  their favorit. The locals are so used to see the crowds of beauties, that when the singer moved  to some other place they were suffering  for a long time.

Immediately behind the house No. 6, opposite the City Hall you'll  find Tverskaya (former  Sovetskaya) square with the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky, the founder of Moscow. They say that while approving the project of the monument  Stalin was outraged: why was the Prince  sitting on the mare, the stallion would emphasize his masculinity. The project of the monument had to be modified  by adding  the "masculine" details to the  horse.

Behind the monument to Dolgoruky there is the building of the archive established in 1999. It stores a lot of documents of both Russian and Western history. Perhaps, in its depth the secrets of Marx, Engels,  Surge and even Napoleon are being  stored.

From  Tverskaya square Stoleshnikov lane – the first walking street of Moscow  starts. Here one can find  the coolest  branded shops of the capital.  And on the corner of Stoleshnikov  lane, 5) during the Soviet  time and perestroika years there was the fur Commission store where the wives of the soviet ministers left  their already  worn  fur clothing  for sale,  and in this very shop  the young actresses –  mistresses of the same ministers bought them out.

Perhaps it is  the most  "star" house in  Tverskaya. Here at different times there lived revolutionary poet Demyan Bedny, son in law of Nikita Khrushchev, journalist   Aleksei Adzhubei, the poet Fyodor Tyutchev, critic Vissarion Belinsky ,the legendary author of  "Notes of the Fatherland" and coming back from the  Siberian exile decembrist Valerian  Golitsyn . Now  in addition to the apartments there is a huge bookstore "Moscow " working in this building.

The building of the legendary Filippov bakery. The interiors of the most famous bread shop and  coffee shop in the capital  were  decorated by Peter Konchalovsky, the legendary painter whose works are the gems of the Tretyakov gallery. He was a grandfather of the modern most famous filmmakers  Nikita Mikhalkov and Andron Konchalovsky. The Bakery continued to operate here, even in the Soviet era.

Yeliseyevsky  store. The building was constructed  in 1790.  It was the project of  Moscow architect Mikhail Kazakov. He was one of the most talented, but unhappy architects  as  for the realization of his creative ideas .  Unfortunately, "Kazakov " look  was almost lost  due to the numerous reconstructions. Still  the interior of the store is amazing.

 In the USSR there was a deli  № 1 located here. In the 80's its director Sokolov was accused of the embezzlement  and shot.  His employees went  to prison.

House under the skirt.  It got such a strange name because of the sculpture of  ballerina on the top of the building . Until  1958 there was a statue of ballerina installed  on  the top of the corner turret of the building.  Under her skirt  the house was located. And besides  there was a very popular among   the muscovites  cafe "Sever " here,  where  the incredible ice cream was served. A well- known  "Armenia" shop with  the assortment of  famous Armenian brandy on sale was also situated  in this building.

The most famous sculpture of the poet, created for the people's money. For many years the monument   was located on the opposite side of Tverskaya  street– and on this even-numbered side of the street there was situated the Strastnoy  monastery.  Later it was destroyed, and Pushkin moved to the place where we can see him now.

Behind the monument to the great poet, in five- minute walk along the Boulevard, you  will see  the "Rossia" theatre. This is the main site of the Moscow international film festival.  It is the place where from year  to year we can  see  all our movie elite headed by Nikita Mikhalkov,  rising  on the velvet  inexplicably  green carpet. The building was constructed on the former  territory of  Strastnoy monastery.

The house was built in 1925-27  for the "Izvestia" newspaper. There was one more building  No. 18-b located in front of  it.  Not to block the monumental facade of  "Izvestia" it was transported on rails  to a few tens of meters along  Tverskaya street .

From 1904 to 1928  a  famous books  and newspapers publisher Ivan Sytin lived here. The editorial board of his most successful newspaper "Russian word" was also located in this building. In spite of the fact that  his education was  limited by only 3 classes of school, it did not prevent him from  getting rich due to his publishing activities.

This house strikes by the names of the celebrities, who used to live in it. For instance, Dmitry Nalbandian, a painter famous for his portraits of the Soviet leaders, or Semen Lavochkin, a creator of airplanes and missiles. Alexey Maresiev, а heroic pilot also lived in that very house - during the World War II he had lost his legs, but later managed to get back to the air force.

In 1976 a residential area was located here. Houses had been destroyed, and a beautiful park was laid out in their place. Now it serves as a traditional point of different festivities in the capital.

Right in the arch of the house N 19 starts Small Palashevsky lane. The name was given for «palash» broadswords - ancient swords, which were made by craftsmen, who inhabited this lane and the surrounding areas.

Здание построено архитектором Михаилом Казаковым в 1770-х годах как дом для проживания Московского губернатора. Через почти сто лет здание было перестроено и существенно расширено, а в 1935 для нового владельца – Наркомлеса – чьи сотрудники жили напротив, был создан новый очень тогда модный неоклассический фасад.

This house was built in 1946-1950. In its right wing apartments were distributed among celebrities of the Bolshoi Theatre. Thick walls and ceilings, of course, somewhat reduced the noise, but the first residents of the house still remember the sounds of ballet artists’ and opera singers’ rehearsals.

If you turn round the corner of the house N 25/9, you will see the building of the Eye Hospital - one of the oldest ophthalmologic clinics in the world. It has been operating without interruption for 180 years. Previously, its facade was facing Tverskaya Street, but in 1940 the building was moved and its main facade was turned to Mamonovsky lane.

This building is known as Mazurins’ mansion. The house served as headquarters of the Olympics-1980. In the years 1975- 980 best scriptwriters of that time worked in the building preparing scenario of the Olympics. The idea of the cute Olympic Bear was developed just here.

At first the address was taken by a house of Kantakuzen princes, who were descendents of a prominent aristocratic family of the Byzantine Empire. Later another house was built here and poet Nikolay Yazykov, a friend of Pushkin and Gogol, lived and died in it. And now the building of “Marriott Grand Hotel” is located here.

This corner house ends up Tverskaya Street. The building dates back to 1860s. Vasyly Perov, one of the founding members of the realist painters group «Peredvizhniki» lived in this house for many years. It was here that he created his major masterpieces: «Last Journey», «The Bird-Catcher», «Troika».

Оne of the pedestrian streets of Moscow. The Moscow Art Theatre named after A. Chekhov is located here. This extremely popular theatre is directed by the renowned actor Oleg Tabakov. Among its cast members are such stars as Konstantin Khabensky, Mikhail Porechenkov and other famous Russian actors.