Khokhlovsky Lane 7-9, Bld 3  

55.75634, 37.643358 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Inner yard of the house. Make a team selfie in front of the graffiti with a border guard and a dog on it
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Историческая справка

Art Quarter Khokhlovka can be considered the first Moscow art cluster, which has existed long before Winzavod and Art-Play. It is situated in an ancient palace of the 17th century which once belonged to a prominent Russian diplomat and statesman, Yemelyan Ukraintsev. Since 1770, the building housed the Archive of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs. Here was the place where the evidence of Romanovs' rights to the Russian throne was found. In the 1870s, there was the famous Jurgenson's music publishing firm. Peter Jurgenson published Tchaikovsky's first composition, and henceforth, nearly all of his other works. By 1880, Jurgenson secured exclusive rights to publish Tchaikovsky's works worldwide. After the revolution, the company was nationalized and occupied this house till the late 1990s.

In the 2000s, there was an unofficial cultural centre "DK Original" (you can still find this name on the gate at the entrance). It was founded by the media-artists Rodion Drozdov and Masha Kozlova. At that time, a lot of different informal events were held there - from art shows to musical parties. It was also a squat in which quite a lot of people were just living.

The name "Art Ghetto Khokhlovka" was invented later by one of its residents, the artist Sergey Prokofiev. This name quite accurately reflected the essence of this place. "Ghetto" because it was quite abandoned and not run by anyone, and "art" because there was a lot of arty people around.

Now, the place is more often called Art Quarter Khokhlovka. But, unfortunately, it has begun to lose the spirit of the 2000s and the early 2010s. A lot of informal clubs, cafes and shops that used to be here have been closed or moved to other places. Almost all the graffiti works, existed here since the Street Art Festival of 2007, were painted over in 2020.

But some unique places can still be found. One of them is Hyperion Book Shop which exists here since 2012. There you can find rare books of independent publishing houses or have a cup of tea with jam in its café while listening to a concert or a lecture. The owner of the shop, Igor Bely, also wrote a book about the history of the house at Khokhlovsky Lane 7.

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