Yura T.
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This a must have destination for people with interest in Russian history and literature, and architecture. The house was built by successful Russian entrepreneur Ryabushinsky. The guy invited Shekhtel, who was a legend architect without an architect diploma) Shekhtel was given pretty much full freedom, so he splurged on all kinds of art deco things. Then after Bolsheviks took power, Ryabushinsky ran overseas.Eventually Maxim Gorky lived there, and he was a legend too, precursor of the revolution, a bum, who after revolution became a writer superstar, very rich, friend of Lenin and so on...