House with four colonnades

Home Expeditions government revenue (the house “with four colonnades”), built in 1750 – 1760, presumably by architect AF Kokorinov – a monument of architecture in the style of classicism. The ground floor of the building is designed as an arcade, the building is decorated with four-columned portico of the Ionic order. The facades are decorated with decorative panels on mythological subjects. during the second half of the 19th century produced inside and outside the adjustment. The building is steeped in history originally built for II Shuvalov, statesman, Adjutant General (1760), a favorite of the Empress Elizabeth I Petrovna, philanthropist, patron of MV Lomonosov, the founder of the Moscow State University and St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, member of the Russian Academy (1783), one of the founders of the Academic dictionary. At various times, the Secret Chancellery housed in the building of the Legislative Commission, department of the Ministry of Finance and other well-known private and public institutions.