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Foreign Ministry mansion is situated in Spiridonovka street, 17 and is used as a reception house for bigwigs and top brass (e.g. the G8 Summit in Moscow was held there).
Th mansion was built by a talented architect Fyodor Shekhtel in the 1890s and bears the traits of neogothic style.

The construction was ordered and sponsored by a famous industrialist and patron of the arts Savva Morozov. The mansion was built primarily for his wife Zinaida Morozova who liked luxury and had money to burn (all the interiors were carefully designed by Shekhtel and his friend, Mikhail Vrubel, a famous painter). Later after the mysterious death of Savva (officially suicide) the mansion was sold the Ryabushinkys family. Varvara allegedly said that Savva’s ghost cannot leave thу house and she was not willing to live there any longer.

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