In 1898, a St. Petersburg insurance company purchased and began renovation of a hotel in the centre of Moscow on Teatralnaya Ploschad, or Theatre Square. Muscovites called it "Tchelishi" after its ex-owner, the builder and Merchant of the First Guild Paul Tchelishev. The rights to refurbish the building and run the hotel were acquired by the Northern Building Society, founded by the famous entrepreneur and patron of the arts Savva Mamontov.

St.Petersburg, Square of Aleksandrinsky Theatre, 7

On the photo: Nemirovich-Danchenko V.I., Raevskaya E.M., Vishnevsky A.L., Luzhsky V.V., Artem A.R., Knipper O.L., Stanislavsky K.S., Andreev A.I., Lilina M.P., Tikhomirov I.A., Grigorieva (Nikolaeva) M.P., Roksanova M.L., Meyerkhold V.E. Moscow Public Arts Theatre. 1899

View from Bolshoi Theatre

- Actor of Moscow Chamber Theatre in the Play "King Arlekin". Photo of Sakharov M. and Orlov P.

- Ballerina of Mariinsky Theatre. Photo of Otsup A. St.Petersburg

24-th of November 1674 in Tsar Alexsei Mikhailovich Presence. From Engraving. Illustrations from the book: Sinitsin P.V. Preobrazhenskoe M., 1895.

- Actor of Moscow Chamber Theatre, in a group, the 3-rd to the left

Moscow

Autograph: "...and to dear Vladimir Ivanovich as a good souvenir". Photographer of Imperial Theatres Fisher K.A.

The May Parade of the Troops of Moscow Military District. Moscow. Theatre Square

- Actor of Moscow Chamber Theatre. Photo of S.S.Lu...bov. Tiflis

Kuznetsova-Benua Mariya Nikolaevna(1880-1966), opera singer(soprano), soloist of Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Photo with autograph.