Kaluga, Dostoevsky st., 44

Identified cultural heritage site “Residential building”, 19th century.

Description:
The existing property, according to the regular plan of Kaluga in 1778, was located in the 152nd block, allocated for mixed development: stone and wooden buildings. The original volume of the existing building in Meshkovsky Lane (now Dostoevsky Street) was built at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1832 – 1836, the estimated value of the building was high and amounted to 1,100 rubles. The address of the estate before 1838: 1st part, 1st block, No. 258. During this period, the estate belonged to Kaluga merchants Osip, Ivan and Ilya Meshkov, who also owned a spinning mill, four shops in Gostiny Dvor and two city estates with wooden houses. The developers of the estate could have been either the above-mentioned Meshkov brothers, or, more likely, their father, a 3rd guild merchant, Osip Petrovich Meshkov. In the last third of the 19th century, the estate was owned by Kaluga merchant of the 2nd guild, Vasily Osipovich Meshkov. The address of the property from 1838 to the mid-1890s: 1st part, 2nd block, No. 77. Between 1876 and 1892, the estimated value of the building increased from 1,300 to 1,500 rubles. Most likely, during this period, a brick one-story outbuilding (2.7 x 4 sazhens) was built, indicated in the House Lists of city real estate for 1900. In addition to the main house and the outbuilding, there were one-story stone service buildings (19.3 x 2.7 sazhens) on the estate grounds. At the beginning of the 20th century, the estate belonged to the son of V. O. Meshkov, Vasily Vasilyevich, a merchant and member of the City Duma. Under him, in the first half of the 1900s, the estate was again reconstructed: the estimated value increased from 1,500 rubles in 1901 to 2,235 rubles in 1909. After 1905, the property passed to the latter’s heiress, Elizaveta Ivanovna Meshkova. In the early 1920s, the estate buildings were municipalized from Elizaveta Ivanovna Meshkova and transferred to the City Housing Administration.

Completed works:
– repair of part of the interior spaces:
– dismantling works;
– cut-off waterproofing of walls;
– repair of walls, arches, slopes;
– replacement of door fillings;
– repair of ceilings;
– repair of floors;
– repair of heating system equipment; (2022)