Spaso House

Spaso House, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador in Moscow
The Chandelier Room of Spaso House
The Oval Dining Room of Spaso House
The library of Spaso House
The stairway of Spaso House inspired a memorable scene in the 1935 Mikhail Bulgakov novel Master and Margarita
For Veterans Day 2009, Ambassador John Beyrle (left) honored Russian World War II veterans with a reception at Spaso House, which featured a real 1943 Lend-Lease jeep parked in the Ballroom
TV cameras crowd the Chandelier Room of Spaso House as Ambassador Beyrle announces the return of a medallion belonging to the Czar's family stolen from the Hermitage and recovered by a joint operation of Russian and American law enforcement
Fourth of July celebration in the garden of Spaso House (2010)

Spaso House is a listed Neoclassical Revival building at No. 10 Spasopeskovskaya Square in Moscow. It was originally built in 1913 as the mansion of the textile industrialist Nikolay Vtorov. Since 1933, it has been the residence of the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, and since 1991, to the Russian Federation.[1] The building belonged to the USSR and later Russia and, under the 1985 lease contract, the U.S. was supposed to pay 72,500 Soviet roubles per year, which by 2001 was the equivalent of about $3, which the U.S. had failed to pay in 1993.[2] In 2004, the two sides concluded a new 49-year lease that was said to be based on a joint assessment of the property's value; the rent rate was not disclosed.[3][4]

  1. ^ Spaso House; 75 Years: A Short History. P. 8.
  2. ^ Row over Moscow embassy rent BBC, 26 March 2001.
  3. ^ Spaso House Not Low-Rent Anymore The Moscow Times, 13 October 2004.
  4. ^ How much would fictional houses cost in real life? CNN, 28 April 2017.