House Zimin merchants located opposite the Church of St. John the Baptist and the Resurrection Monastery. Having merchants Zimin is a large classic ensemble.

Ziminy were one of the richest merchants of Uglich. Their history is a kind of 17th century. Their property is leather, linen factories, they were trading with foreign countries, to carry out deliveries to the Russian army. Tanning studios and linen mills and Zimin were at Janov field - the area of ​​the current Krasnoarmeysky boulevard and street Zina Zolotova. It is known that Ziminy traded with foreign merchants and engaged in the supply of Russian army. It is therefore no coincidence that their house is quite the scale for Uglich. It was built in 1804-06 years. after the approval of the regular urban planning.

House Zimin was located on the red line of the former Pjatnitskoj area (area name from the name of the church in honor of the church of St. Paraskeva-Friday, standing nearby). Until the late 19th century. Zimin yard (so-called homestead has Zimin) remained the largest building in Uglich.

The building is a two-storey house with eleven windows on the main facade. Above the central part rises the mezzanine. The facade is quite impressive - a portico on two levels of the twin towers and secondary side single. Currently, the lower tier of the column which bare a massive balcony railing, lost. Facade mezzanine - free, he seems to be a wide open "head". Rusticated corners of buildings, windows are quite high. On the rear facade of the house has a small courtyard. On the left and right sides of the house are symmetrically built two one-storey wings with triangular gables. Between the wings and the house settled gates with columns.

Rather, on the ground floor of the main building housed offices and warehouses. The wings also serve as auxiliary business premises. On the second floor of the main building offers spacious rooms.

This large urban Manor is a sample of the "merchant's palace." That is why during high-level visits and reigning persons in the town house Zimin took them at home. For example, May 9, 1841 in the estate had dinner and spent the night Nicholas I. In the house on Pyatnitskaya area there were also other members of the royal family. In 1837 there was the Grand Duke Alexander, the future Emperor Alexander II, who abolished at the time of serfdom. In Zimin in 1850 he visited the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich and Mikhail.

In 1876 Ziminy moved to St. Petersburg, and his estate sold the city treasury. This building housed the district school. In 1897, the government passed the northern wing of Uglich Uglich is free-fire society. In Soviet times, in the former home was located Zimin basic school Uglich pedagogical school. In 2000. it ceased to exist.

Since then, the estate of the merchant began to gradually deteriorate, sometimes there are shooting historical films. House Zimin can be seen in the film "Morphine" Alexei Balabanov According to the director's intention Zimin house plays the role of the county hospital (still a sign with the word "Hospital" hangs in the left wing of the building). In 2010, the building was used by director Nikolai Viktorov for the filming of "Mologa - Russian Atlantis".

Periodically there are different ideas about how to save this historic and architectural monuments, including the transfer of the building to the museum. This building could be open an exhibition hall and place it in a historical exposition. After all, due to the shortage of exhibition space, many valuable museum exhibits related to the history of Uglich is in the reserves. But this requires a lot of money for the restoration of this monument.