In about 40 photographs, here are some sights in a small town of Taldom located somewhere to the north of Moscow which I passed through last month.
In the above photo is a house built by the merchant Volkov in the modernist style of the beginning
of the 20th century; now it is the Taldom Regional Historical and Literary Museum.
The
residential house of the merchant Kiselev, N. F., built in 1907, now houses a central district inter-settlement library.
Monument to the writer S. A. Klychkov next to the library building.
The shopping arcade on Karl Marx Square, the building was built in 1908 and is an architectural landmark.
In this day and age, the building houses a branch of Sberbank, as well as various small
shops selling food and some cheap Chinese and other low-quality industrial goods.
This
building was a fire station with a bell tower, built in 1900, and is a
monument of architecture, now renovated and housing Taldom's Civil Registry Office.
This
sprawling building is the seat of the Administration of the Taldom district, but 100+ years ago it was a residential house of the merchant Mashatin, M. D. with shops,
built in 1900, and is a listed building.
Another view at the shopping arcade or "merchant rows".
And this one is the former house of A. F. Vorontsov, a merchant, and now the Tsvetkov School of the Arts.
Monument to writer Saltykov-Shchedrin.
