petersburg style... built in 1876 by the architect freudenberg. on foot. from the collector, which was built in 1818, goes back to the wall of the white city, which passed here, there were no gates, and an arch was cut through for the river, covered with a grating, this opening was called the pipe, the wall of the white city was dismantled in 1770, the name remains, a czech who lived nearby left a story about the bird market that traded here, he writes, that the pipe is a small piece of moscow, where they love animals so tenderly and torture them so much, lives its own little life, makes noise, worries, only business-minded people passing along the boulevards do not understand why this crowd, this motley mixture of hats has gathered. what are they talking about here, what are they trading? at pipe square in 1864, a merchant. yakov pegov and restaurateur lucien olivier bought afonkin kabak and opened the hermitage restaurant in it with a hotel and baths. the building we see was built already in 1902 by the architect bani. it was called the building entrance

architect freudenberg added sea horses and fountains to the façade.me the new owner of sandunov. her husband, gonetsky , proposed turning the outdated and dilapidated bathhouse complex into the best bathhouses in moscow. to do this, gonetsky went to european resorts, did not study methods of massage and supply of steam, looked at how the baths were technically arranged, and here in sanduny he built a modern power plant, the third. largest in moscow, when the coronation took place in 1996, the baths were not working, all the electricity was given to the city illumination. by the end of the 19th century. then he drank in the locker room, so that some visitors came on tuesdays for chaliapin. the poet mayakovsky, as you know, was painfully clean. in a noisy company he put his a glass somewhere on the cabinet so that someone else wouldn’t use it, carry a small soap dish with you, wash your hands after shaking hands. well, in the bathhouse he asked the bathhouse attendant to sit near his bench so that no one else could sit down. when mayakovsky died, the ba