Historical Homes
Fairytale House in Skhodnya. Even nowadays near Moscow, you can still find lovely wooden houses which are like from a fairytale. One of them is located in Skhodnya, a town near Moscow. The original house was built in the second half of the 19th century by the Moscow industrialist Ivan Nikolaevich Proskuryakov. It was his countryside house located in a picturesque forest. The house was conceived in a pseudo-Russian style with graceful turrets, all richly decorated with wooden carvings. In 1921 Ivan Pavlovich Zhukov and his family lived in the house. Once, after hunting with Zhukov not far from Skhodnya, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin himself visited the house. The house was returned to the Proskuryakov family in the early 30s, but they did not own it for long. In 1979, the Khimki Society for the Preservation of Monuments obtained permission and funding for the restoration of Proskuryakov’s house, as a monument of wooden architecture, and the place where Lenin visited. Apparently, the restoration work was not brought to an end, since at the beginning of the 21st century the house was in poor condition. By 2010, the territory in which the house was located was bought. Fortunately, the owner decided to reconstruct the building and rebuild it again exactly as it was in old photos.
