Shibayev Estate
The Shibayev Estate () is a manor house (usadba) in Moscow, located at , 23a, building 1. It is a regionally significant cultural heritage site.
History
The manor house dates to the 1770s. The three-story building originally featured vaulted ceilings on the first floor, a facade decorated with a portico of pilasters, and a rusticated first floor. There is a version that the building was constructed by order of Prince Ivan Alekseyevich Beloselsky, who owned an estate in this part of the street. From the late 18th to early 19th century, the owner was the widow of a collegiate assessor, Marfa Yakovlevna Krotkova, who also owned the estate near Moscow and was known for her charitable work.
In the 1870s, the estate was purchased by the merchant of the first guild and oil industrialist . Under the new owner, the house was rebuilt according to a design by the architect Aleksandr Kaminsky. The main facade was redecorated using details in the Russian style. The second-floor windows received architraves with pediments, the pilasters were replaced by paired half-columns, which also adorned the corners of the house. The facade was crowned with a figured attic and two corner towers. The new facade details were made of terracotta and painted in different colors.
After the death of Shibayev's widow in 1899, the property was acquired by the state, and the former manor became a branch of the nearby (No. 26). During the Soviet era, the building was used for administrative purposes. At some point, the facades lost their multicolored paint, but it was restored following a renovation in 2016. During the restoration, the interior's color scheme was recreated, and the fireplace, parquet patterns, and historical door opening shapes were restored.
