Bilibin House (House Shamil)
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IG Home Bilibin or Shamil house is located in Kaluga, on Pushkin Street, 4. The three-storey mansion was built in the late 18th - early 19th centuries Galaktionovich Ivan Bilibin project provincial architect ID Yasnygina. The building looked out on the street corner Odigitrievsky that began the church of the same name. Later, the house became the property of his son IG Bilibin, big businessman from St. Petersburg, Vasily Ivanovich Bilibin.

House in 1848 bought the Kaluga Judge AM Sukhotin. The house had thirteen rooms with luxurious interiors, located in the corridor-based system. In the mid-19th century the house was renovated and leased to accommodate Shamil prisoner here with his family. April 1, 1859 Russian troops took the last stronghold of Shamil Imam of Chechnya and Dagestan, a mountain village of Vedeno. October 10, 1859 Shamil prisoner brought to Kaluga permit. It was an event of exceptional importance. Lithography portraits of famous prisoner bought up like hot cakes. Shamil met the provincial administration and the commandant of the city. The prisoner was temporarily lodged in Nikitskaya Street in hotel "Pendant". Filmed town house Sukhotina immediately began repairing the family Shamil.

Imam moved here in November 1859, in January 1860, and his family came to the servants. Shamil could appear in any public places: hospitals, schools, theaters. Shamil was simple in life, moderate in food, in the winter to get up at six o'clock in summer - four, and prayed.

In 1866, at the Noble Assembly Shamil solemnly swore allegiance to the Russian tsar in the autumn attended the wedding of Alexander III in St. Petersburg. In November 1868, Shamil moved to Kiev, then went to Mecca, where he died in 1871.

The house on Pushkin Street residents Kaluga forever linked with the name of Shamil, despite the fact that the building was located before the revolution three-class city school named brothers Malyutin.

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