Residential building of the early nineteenth century.

In front of you, facing the embankment, stands the so-called Bolkonsky house. Presumably, it was in this house that one of the hospitals for wounded Russian officers was located during the First Patriotic War of 1812. As you know, in Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy's novel War and Peace, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky died of wounds in Yaroslavl after the Battle of Borodino.

Presumably here, in the last days of his life, Natasha Rostova took care of him and here was his last meeting with his sister Princess Mary and farewell to his son Nikolushka, who was described in the novel.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy himself has never been to Yaroslavl. The writer could recognize and describe this house from the memoirs of Natalia Naryshkina, who was evacuated to Yaroslavl during the Patriotic War.

The building was built at the turn of the XVIII–XIX centuries according to the type of Moscow mansions of that time. By the nature of the architectural design of the facades, it should be attributed to the period of mature classicism. Pay attention to the four-pitched roof with elegantly curved lines of the attic. This roof shape gives the building a more archaic look.