Bolkonsky house, Federal cultural heritage building in Yaroslavl, Russia.

The Bolkonsky house is a two-storey late-18th-century mansion at No. 7 Volzhskaya Embankment, near the Arsenal Tower on the slope of the Medveditsky ravine. Its rusticated ground floor has fan-shaped keystones above the windows, and a T-shaped mezzanine cuts into the high hipped roof, flanked by curved buttress walls with concave tops.

Built at the end of the 18th century, the mansion served during the Patriotic War of 1812 as a hospital for wounded officers; Lieutenant General Nikolai Tuchkov is thought to have died there of his wounds. In the 1990s the monument fell into disrepair and was restored according to historical descriptions, with a team of climbers led by Vitaly Gashin taking part in the work.

The house's name comes from a legend linking it to Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, a hero of Tolstoy's War and Peace who dies in a merchant's house on the Volga embankment. Tolstoy never visited Yaroslavl, and the novel's house is fictional, but the nickname stuck to this real building.

The house stands at Volzhskaya Embankment 7, by the Arsenal Tower on the slope of the Medveditsky ravine. It is seen from the embankment; the interior is not open to visitors. The building was restored in the 1990s after decades of decay, so look at the facade from the street.

The house is linked by legend to Andrei Bolkonsky, hero of War and Peace, who dies in a merchant's house on the Volga embankment; Leo Tolstoy never visited Yaroslavl. During the 1990s restoration, a team of climbers led by Vitaly Gashin took part in the work.