Yushkov house, Federal cultural heritage site in Krasnoselsky District, Moscow, Russia.
The Yushkov House is a three-story building with classical architecture in Moscow's Krasnoselsky District. Its facade displays columns and pilasters with symmetrically arranged windows following classical proportions.
Commissioned by General-Lieutenant Ivan Yushkov in the 1780s, the house was still unfinished when he died and was completed in rough form by 1805. In 1844 Yushkov's son sold it for 35,000 silver rubles to the School of Painting and Sculpture, which added architecture in 1865 and hosted Peredvizhniki exhibitions from 1872. After 1918 it housed the Free Art Workshops, reorganised as VKhUTEMAS in 1920.
The building's name comes from General-Lieutenant Ivan Yushkov, who commissioned it in the 1780s; his son Pyotr held lavish balls and Masonic meetings here. Since 1844 it has housed an art school, now the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Memorial plaques honour teacher Alexei Savrasov (1857–1882) and Lenin's 1921 visit to VKhUTEMAS.
The building is located at Miasnitskaya Street 21 in central Moscow and is easily accessible. The nearest metro station is Chistye Prudy, from which you can walk there in just a few minutes.
The corner rotunda was meant to be crowned by a dome on a light drum, left unbuilt after Ivan Yushkov died. Its ground floor is covered by a ring vault resting on a single white-stone column, a construction also found in the Pashkov House and the Krikgomissariat's corner towers.
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