Sivtsev Vrazhek lane of Moscow
Sivtsev Vrazhek lane of Moscow was named after the small river Sivka = gray, the water of the river was of gray color. The creek used to run along the small ravine. It was enclosed in a tube about 200 years ago but is still in place. No traces of the ravine left anyway. You can see the tall building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia in the background. This 27-storied building was built in 1953 and it it's total height is 172 m (564 ft). Well, the small old house to the right by all means deserves you attention and maybe to a greater degree than other buildings in the vicinity. Leo Tolstoy lived in this house back in 1850-1851. The building is mentioned in the War and Peace novel. Impoverished Nicholas Rostov lived here after the war. "He could not rejoin the army where he would have been made colonel at the next vacancy, for his mother now clung to him as her one hold on life; and so despite his reluctance to remain in Moscow among people who had known him before, and despite his abhorrence of the civil service, he accepted a post in Moscow in that service, doffed the uniform of which he was so fond, and moved with his mother and Sonya to a small house on the Sivtsev Vrazhek." (W&P, , ) Here you see that very "small house" which hosts some office now.
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Location: Sivtsev Vrazhek lane, Moscow, Russia, Europe
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