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πŸ‘‰ Fyodor Schechtel in the context of Morozova Mansion

The Morozova Mansion or Zinaida Morozova's Mansion (Russian: Особняк Π—ΠΈΠ½Π°ΠΈΠ΄Ρ‹ ΠœΠΎΡ€ΠΎΠ·ΠΎΠ²ΠΎΠΉ), also known as the Morozova Palace or the Spiridonovka Palace, is a neo-Gothic building in the Presnensky District of Moscow, which belonged to Zinaida Grigoryevna MorozovaΒ [ru], who was married to industrialist Savva Morozov. Built to the design of the architect Fyodor Schechtel, it has been the Reception House of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia since 1938.

The Morozovs bought the land on Spiridonovka Street in 1893; the mansion was completed by 1898, and Mikhail Vrubel was invited to decorate the interiors. After the death of Savva Morozov, Zinaida Morozova sold the estate to industrialist and philanthropist Mikhail RyabushinskyΒ [ru], who was forced to emigrate in 1918. After the 1917 October Revolution, the state took over ownership of the mansion, and the building was transferred to the department of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, and later converted into the Reception House of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. During the Second World War, the mansion hosted meetings of the foreign ministers of the United States, United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. In 1995, the mansion was seriously damaged by a major fire, but was restored using surviving drawings and photographs.

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Fyodor Schechtel in the context of Moscow Art Theatre

The Moscow Art Theatre (or MAT; Russian: Московский Π₯удоТСствСнный акадСмичСский Ρ‚Π΅Π°Ρ‚Ρ€ (МΠ₯АВ), Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr (МHАВ) was a theatre company in Moscow. It was founded in 1898 (127Β years ago)Β (1898) by the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas that were Russia's dominant form of theatre at the time. The theatre, the first to regularly put on shows implementing Stanislavski's system, proved hugely influential in the acting world and in the development of modern American theatre and drama.

It was officially renamed the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre in 1932. In 1987, the theatre split into two troupes, the Moscow Gorky Academic Art Theatre and the Moscow Chekhov Art Theatre.

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Fyodor Schechtel in the context of Gorki Leninskiye

Gorki Leninskiye (Russian: Π“ΠΎΡ€ΠΊΠΈ ЛСнинскиС, lit. 'Lenin's Gorki') is an urban locality (a work settlement) in Leninsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located 10 kilometers (6.2Β mi) south of Moscow city limits and the Moscow Ring Road. Its population is: 3,586 (2010 census); 1,729 (2002 census); 1,711 (1989 Soviet census).

The estate of Gorki belonged to various Muscovite noblemen from the 18th century. Zinaida Morozova, the widow of Savva Morozov, purchased it in 1909, the year before she married General Anatoly Reinbot (later Anatoly Rezvoy), the chief of Moscow police. She engaged the most fashionable Russian architect, Fyodor Schechtel, to remodel the mansion in the then-current Neoclassical style, complete with a six-column Ionic portico.

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