Save ordinary Richard

As the Moskomnature, the Nirnzee House on Presnya on a quiet street of Klimashkin was unchanged now for the week now does not take place without a scandal and noise. Defenders of the old house conduct the last, decisive and unequal battle against the United Forces of the authorities, investors and the construction complex. Jumping hammers are knocking: builders destroy a centenary masonry. Rallings are noisy: residents of the districts and social activists protest. Flags clap in the wind: they are hung on balconies as a sign of solidarity. And the house of Nirnzee doomedly looks at the world of empty eye sockets of windows.

Scientific disassembly of saved facades

A five-story building in the Modern style on the corner of Kurbatovsky and Novopresnensky Lane (the current address-Klimashkin Street, 7/11) built in 1905-1912 the architect Ernst Richard Nirnzee with the participation of engineer Viktor Gashinsky. Nirnzee is known for the famous house near Pushkinskaya Square in Bolshoi Gnezdikovsky Lane, which in Moscow is called it by the name. And before its construction, the Nirnzee house was called the building in Kurbatovsky.

A stylish house could still serve as a decoration of an old district. However, the Moscow government in the 2000s first recognized it emergency, and then issued a decision on its reconstruction. As an investor, they attracted Fobos LLC in the mid-2000s (now financing comes from the target budget investment fund), and the Architectural workshop of Gromov and Fingers worked on the project.

The routine preservation of the creation of Nirnzee and Gashinsky to the new co -authors, like investors, were few. The project from Gromov and Paltsev already in the title had the words “new construction”. It was supposed to preserve only the outer walls of the Nirnzee house - with the "scientific disassembly of the preserved facades." And behind them, a residential “House of the first category of comfort” is designed - for 90 people with a total area of apartments of almost 4.5 thousand square meters. With two built -up new floors that distort the historical appearance of the house, and an underground garage.

These proposals were coordinated in 2007 by the Moskomnoye. It is noteworthy that architect Vladimir Gromov, once one of the founders of LLC there “Gromov and Fingers”, at that time worked already in the Muscovite. He now leads one of the departments there (control over urban development in historical territories, in the zones of protection of cultural heritage objects and the organization of the examination of design documentation). But this, of course, is just a coincidence.

However, initially the Nirnzee house was generally offered to completely demolish, but this proposal was rejected.

The roof is against the foundation

By the spring of 2008, the house was already resettled, and "the investor went to the construction site." Residents of neighboring houses who do not agree with the preservation of the only beautiful old building with their street by the “scientific disassembly” method, in May 2008, they sent an application for the production of the house on the state guard in the Moskomnate. But the Committee did not endow the house with the status of the identified object of cultural heritage: on August 28, section No. 1 of the historical and cultural expert council under the Moskoyannoye recognized the building with a historically valuable city-forming object.

As you can read in the official documents of the Moscow Government, these objects are also subject to state protection, and “ensuring the invariability of the appearance” is prescribed a prerequisite for their use.

On the other hand, the Moscow prosecutor’s office, involved in the defenders of the house in the trial regarding fate, said that "the current legislation of any features on work at such facilities has not been established." Autumn and winter of 2008 were held in a stormy correspondence between interested departments. The Moskomnature demanded that the builders suspend work at the facility, the Mosgosstroynadzor and the association of administrative and technical inspections (OITs) were suspended, then resumed permits for work.

The builders, meanwhile, dismantled the roof and part of the ceiling of the Nirnzee house. The defenders of the house retroactively officially explained that this was necessary for emergency work to strengthen the walls and foundation.

Social activists, however, were not thought about why the foundations were repaired from the roof. On November 20, a fire occurred in the Nirnzee house, in which they suspected a deliberate fabor. In Moscow, after fires, reconstruction is generally very accelerating. Then, one day, November 24, two letters came. Mosgosstroynadzor reported that emergency work is allowed at the facility. From OATI, on the contrary, they wrote that all work was stopped and the order of the order was stopped.

Just a city object

What is there to believe? I wanted to believe in the best and, it would seem, logical. As soon as the house is recognized as a valuable object requiring the “invariability of the appearance”, it would be logical to expect that the city authorities, so willingly telling about their tireless works to save the Moscow cultural heritage, will take measures to ensure this very invariability: to relieve the house from new floors, pits, restoration of the roof, etc.

Moreover, Mosgosstroynadzor, having received clarifications of the legal department of the Moscow Government, suspended from December 1, 2008, the permit on the reconstruction of the house, “stopped the implementation of state construction supervision at this facility” and said that it is monitored by work at this facility.

When this year at the end of March the builders again began to destroy the wall of the house of Nirnzee, the social activists rushed to call the committee: how so, with jamming hammers - by valuable and city -forming? Is it possible?

It turned out here that on January 23, 2009, section No. 1 of the Historical and Cultural Expert Council under the Moskoyannoye, having repeatedly considered the issue of the value of the Nirnzee house, now recognized it only by the “object of the historical and urban planning environment”. The minutes of the meeting, as they say, have not yet been approved, but the fact itself is indicative.

Bulletin of self -disclosure

What made the Committee five months later to return to the already resolved issue? Are the views on the value of the creations of the architect Nirnzeee really revised? Or, perhaps, experts saw: not so “city -forming”? It has not yet been able to get any clarifications in the Moskomnoye, from the deputy chairman of the committee Alexander Filyaev, they transferred the Council to contact the press service by phone, and for some reason the press service was not in the know.

It is clear, however, without the explanation that the Moskomnatka is now working under the indelible impression of the March speech of Yuri Luzhkov, in which he called on the department to show “special loyalty to the city” and not to demand additional approvals under previously agreed projects.

The Nirnzeee house, meanwhile, is not up to titles. He would have remained any object: wintering without a roof and junk hammers lead the case to the fact that the building will quickly fulfill a long -standing decree of the Moscow government on its accident rate. “Self -income” contributes to Moscow reconstruction no worse than “spontaneous combustion”.

The city authorities have still time to “save the ordinary Ernst Richard”, unclenched from valuable objects. Is there a desire?

04/05/2009 / Konstantin Mikhailov, the material was published in the "newspaper" No. 59 dated 06.04.2009.