“On the twenty-second day of December one thousand eight hundred and ten, Privy Councilor Prince Sergei Ivanov son Gagarin and collegiate adviser... chamberlain and cavalier Prince Grigory Ivanov son Gagarin, we sold collegiate assessor Ivan Nikolaev son Tyutchev to his wife Katerina Lvova, daughter and heirs her serf yard on Belaya Zemlya, located in the Myasnitskaya part of the third quarter at number two hundred and ten in the parish of the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, in Pillars, in Armenian Street with all the yard and mansion stone and wooden buildings in that yard... And we took, Sergei and Grigory, she has Katerina for that yard with land and all the above-described money in state banknotes fifty-five thousand rubles...” In the house built by the architect M. F. Kazakov at the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th century, the childhood and youth of the outstanding Russian poet Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev. Here he wrote the first lyric poems, which were included in the treasury of world literature. Decembrists I. D. Yakushkin, A. N. Muravyov, D. I. Zavalishin visited this ancient mansion. The Tyutchev family was visited by the poet V. A. Zhukovsky, historian M. P. Pogodin, Moscow University professor A. F. Merzlyakov and others. The book is intended for the general reader.