- Dr. N.A. Semashko People’s commisar of the health. Dr. Semashko is an important figure among the circle of the reformers of the everyday. He lived for a while in the Narkomfin but in 1932 he left his first wife there and moved with the new one in a stalinian building closer to the Cremlin. Before the Revolution there […]
- A.A.Deineka Among the occupants of the Narkomfin building, during the first year there was also Alexander Aleksandrovich Deineka, painter, graphic, member of the Oktober group, author among other works of the wonderful mosaics of the Majakowskaja station of the moscow metro.
- Bulgakov-mosca anni ’20 Let’s establish, once and for all: home is the angular stone of a man’s life. Let’s consider this as an axiom: without a home, a man can’t even exist. Having said so, I have something to communicate to all those who live in Berlin, Paris, London, etcetera: in Moscow there are no apartments. So, how could […]
- N.A.Milyutin People’s Commissar for the Finance of the USSR, commissioned the Narkomfin House. It was after the revolution that Milyutin became a statesman, but architecture and painting were always the principal passion of his life. He drew all his life, even at he front during he war. In his youth, he lived in St.Petersburg and graduated […]
- novosel’e The process of moving into a new apartment, the novosel’e, exists as a distinct genre of Stalinist Socialist realist Mythology. It is endlessy retold in magazines, newspapers and movie clips. A typical move plot consists of the family of a deserving worker, usually a Stakhanovite, moving with its belongings old and new into a gleaning […]