Until 1935, this street was called Ostozhenka, in the XVII and XVIII centuries - Stozhenka, and in ancient times-Ostozhye, that is, the area with haystacks. In ancient times, there were water meadows and abundant mowing. Metrostroyevskaya received its current name in memory of the completion of construction of one of the sections of the first stage of the metro under it. The first documentary information about the area where the street is located is contained in the spiritual letter of Ivan Kalita, written around 1339, in which he bequeathed the village of Semchinskoe located here to his second son Ivan, the father of Dmitry Donskoy. Under Ivan IV, this village was included in the Oprichnina and, probably, from that time on, gradually began to turn into a Moscow street inhabited by representatives of noble families. Since the 14th century, the Alekseyevsky Convent, founded around 1360, has stood in the center of the village. After the fire, it was moved to Chertolye (where the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was later built) at the end of the 16th century. In 1584, in its place, Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich and his wife Irina Fyodorovna, hoping to have an heir, laid a new convent - Zachatyevsky. Facing Metrostroyevskaya Street, Kropotkinskaya Square and Kropotkinskaya Street, the two-story, simple-looking building at the end of the XVIII century belonged to S. L. Lvov, the first Russian balloonist, who made a balloon flight in St. Petersburg on July 18, 1803. After his death, the house was purchased by P. V. Lopukhin. He was "an accidental gentleman of Pavlov's time: during his time and because of the tsar's passion for his daughter (Anna Petrovna-N. B.), he became a first-class and richest nobleman from ordinary nobles." 1In 1799, he received the title of His Serene Highness and great wealth. After Lopukhin, the property passed into the hands of the merchant Obukhov, who built the existing house. In June 1877, the famous Russian artist V. I. Surikov (1848-1916) settled he ... Читать далее