Chamberlain Lane
street in Tverskoy District, Russia
Kamergerskiy Pereulok or Chamberlain Lane (Russian: Камергерский переулок) is a short street with many historical buildings located within the Boulevard Ring in central Moscow. Almost all of the buildings on Chamberlain Lane are classified as architectural monuments.
The street runs from Tverskaya Street in the west to Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street in the east.
Artists
The lane is associated with the life and work of many Russian cultural figures. Artists who lived on Chamberlain Lane include writers Vladimir Odoyevsky, Yuri Samarin, Leo Tolstoy, Yury Olesha, Mikhail Svetlov, Eduard Bagritsky, Lev Kassil, Mikhail Sholokhov, and Venedikt Yerofeyev; poet Novella Matveyeva; actors Vera Pashennaya, Vasily Kachalov, Alla Tarasova, Mark Prudkin, Nikolai Khmelyov, Sofya Giatsintova, Lyubov Orlova; painter Vasily Tropinin; and composer Sergei Prokofiev.
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References
Sources
Lonely Planet; Mara Vorhees; Leonid Ragozin (1 February 2015). Lonely Planet Moscow. Lonely Planet Publications. ISBN 978-1-74360-504-2.
Sytin, P. V. (П. В. Сытин) (1948).
The public source identifies “Chamberlain Lane” as street in Tverskoy District, Russia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chamberlain, Lane and street.
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