The view of the Volga Emb. from Vladimirsky Lane to Skorbyaschenskaya St.

Unknown photographer, 1900s. The Collection of TSUM.

The most fully preserved part of the Volga Embankment are six stone houses united in one architectural block in the XVIII century (Stepana Razina Emb., 11-16). They are situated between Studenchesky (former Vladimirsky) Lane and Volodarskogo St. (former Skorbyaschenskaya). In contradistinction to other parts of Stepana Razina Emb., where one-storeyed houses of the XVIII century were still existed in the middle of the XIX and even in the beginning of the XX centuries, in that block all the basic dwelling houses were erected as two-storeyed in the XVIII century already. We have all the reasons to suppose that very part of the embankment to be erected as a model of building in «the single facade» after the fire of 1763. The base of the block consisted of six standard two-storeyed houses with mezzanines and a passage in the centre. The variations were admitted only in decorations of facades. Fate preserved them till our days and their outlook has changed only a little. Probably in XIX-XX centuries it was close to modern.
In 1910s six houses in the embankment occured to be shared among nine and on the eve of the Revolution even among ten owners. Documents preserved the names of most of them, pointing the owners of every of those houses. Numeration of house ownerships started from Vladimirsky Lane. Alexander Mikhailovich Guryev lived in the corner house, Elizaveta Andreevna Baranova lived in the house next to it, then respectively Boleslav Ivanovich Matskevich, Michail Ivanovich Kresteshnickov, Anna Fyedorovna Ustinova, Elisaveta Egorovna Kresteshnikova, Matvey Vasilyevich Petrov, Serafima Vladimirovna Bylinkina and Boris-Berngard Davydovich Veydeman lived.