Today I’m gonna show you where would you stop if you were an English king or queen in Moscow in XVI-XVII century or where you would live if you were English embassador in that time.
Typical state or rich gentlefolks building, it was built in XV for Russian czar court worker who didn’t have an inheritor and house became state. In 1553 Richard Chancellor discovered a sea way to Russia and started trading relations between England and Russia. For about a century here was the first embassy in russian history and English trading company.
Later company byes another building - The New English Court (doesn’t exist now), later there were different historical episodes, there lived and worked lots of people… but in the second half of XX it was restored. In Oct 1994 the museum was opened and Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II participate in opening ceremony.
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