On the work of firefighters Kotilevsky speaks in such terms, which play a whole does not allow the format of our publication. Judging by the description of their actions, they did everything to make a small center of meter-square flared, and the fire destroyed the entire house. Idem told another tenant house, the keeper set up its own museum of old Caricyno Nikolai Boldyrev. "Smoke came out of the window of one apartment. But we did not pick up any items or money, because it was confident that it is now flooded and extinguish. But no, they went into the house and for some reason he broke all the windows," - he told.
In his blog Kotilevsky confidently asserts that the house burned down - a view which all of its tenants. "Everything was done so skillfully that I was not able to identify the focus, I am from the moment of ignition was there, and he could not identify the hearth, the fire came out from under the wall, he walked inside the wall, where there is no wiring and no furnace Communications . He was just trying to escape from the place where almost nothing to burn, "- he writes.
Firefighters distinguished not only by professional part. Boldyrev said that, still put out the order of a blazing fire, they took with them part of the museum exhibits, including the pre-revolutionary rocking chair, coveted one of firemen, and the old Austrian microscope. "It would be a shame if he will deposit it in the Non-Ferrous: there brass few pounds" - Boldyrev complained about the microscope. Residents are not without difficulty, but in the Moscow police have filed a statement of looting.
Despite such serious accusations against the fire from the mouth of the residents - not just expressed, but replicated several large newspapers - no official reaction to them yet. According to the correspondent of "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" Catherine Dobrynin, left, fire hydrant left care with which the son of Nikita Boldyrev Cyril the morning of January 3 when emerging from the ashes of extinguished foci.
It is noteworthy that the fire in the house did not happen someday, but in the early days of New Year holidays, when the activity of media and scale of their audiences are far below normal. Largely thanks to the participation of bloggers who took on the role of information providers, giving Muromtseva has not yet been demolished, although the promise to tenants to make it back on January 11. Friends of the residents were brought to the house shed, which are equipped with temporary housing, and people who learned about the incident from blogs and Internet media, brought food and warm clothes.
In a strange way interfere with the voluntary assistance to the police: January 5, at the site of the fire came a bus of riot police, soldiers that keep trying to help the house. When brought shed, police prevented a long time to unload and deliver it, does not explain why their actions. The situation was resolved only when the place of the film crew came to Vesta and director of the Institute of Human Rights Valentin Gefter. After their appearance the police to retreat.
Damage caused by fire museum, is difficult to assess because many exhibits vmerzli in the ice. Trying to save them, the tenants melt the ice using the heat gun. While unable to extract intact autographs Benedict Erofeev, who in his later years he could not speak and communicate with friends through the notes. Also survived icon-Skladen, survived the fire of 1812, a telephone Sergei Muromtseva and his typewriter. The museum preserves and autograph drafts the first constitution of Russia, but it has not yet been found.
According to the tenants on the ground giving Muromtseva Moscow authorities want to arrange parking for harvesting road construction equipment - a permit has been issued the Prefect of the Southern District of Moscow, Yuri Bulanov in October 2007. Deputy Director of the Museum Tsaritsino Irina Markina, however, information about plans for the construction of parking is not confirmed. Moreover, according to her cottage Muromtseva included in the list of buildings that are proposed to the list of objects of cultural heritage and are under state protection. After a fire in the Moscow City Duma deputies, headed by Andrew Klychkov and historians also asked the authorities to carry out restoration of the burned building.
Re-build a house tenants are ready and on their own. Regrettable only that the history of giving Muromtseva symptomatic of the city, which with the unenviable periodically burn even at home, the cultural significance of which no one disputes. Fire in the house Bykov, built by Lev Kekusheva, and burnt in the chamber Guryev Potapov Lane - fresh in the memory of episodes and additions to the cemetery list of architectural history in Moscow. No matter how struggling with this "Arhnadzor", MAPS and similar organizations, the situation has not changed. Although in 2009 the house still trying to extinguish.
Unlike most of the lost in recent years, Moscow houses, villa Muromtseva was not an architectural monument - it was a monument to the people, the human spirit and freedom, forever consigned to the past, which had been artificially erased from the maps and removed from inventory records. Cleaning machines, not reaching the place, to fulfill its mission: Inspire Bunin linden alley, the memory of his meetings with Vera Muromtseva, Venichka Erofeev, from the windows of the house binoculars, look around the queue in the nearby shops - all of this was completely unnecessary and useless attribute of time which never existed.
Alex Kadaner
http://www.lenta.ru/articles/2010/01/12/heritage/