Spaso House is a listed Neoclassical Revival building at No. 10 Spasopeskovskaya Square in Moscow. It was originally built in 1913 as the mansion of the textile industrialist Nikolay Vtorov. Since 1933 it has been the residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and (since 1991) to the Russian Federation.
Read more about Spaso House: Early History, The Residence of U.S. Ambassadors, The Spring Festival of 1935, Late 1930s and World War II, The Cold War, Detente and The End of The Cold War, Post-Soviet Era, U.S. Ambassadors Who Lived in Spaso House, Bibliography
Famous quotes containing the word house:
“I sometimes left a good fire when I went to take a walk in a winter afternoon; and when I returned, three or four hours afterward, it would be still alive and glowing. My house was not empty though I was gone. It was as if I had left a cheerful housekeeper behind. It was I and Fire that lived there; and commonly my housekeeper proved trustworthy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)