8. The combat between the professor and the poet

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Stravinsky's hospital Stravinsky's hospital

It was probably the Khimki City Hospital No. 1 on which Bulgakov based the clinic where Ivan meets the Master for the first time. It was built in 1907, originally as a dacha for business man and benefactor Sergei Pavolvich Patrikeev (1867-1914). Patrikeev was member of the Moscow City council an honorary curator of the Tsar Aleksei school. The house was designed by the famous architect Frantz Schechtel, pseudonym of Fyodor Osipovich Shechtel (1859-1926), who had also conceived the Moscow Art Theatre MKHAT in 1902, and who designed much more remarkable houses in Moscow.

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Looky there! Just like the Metropol! Hotel Metropol

The Metropol hotel was built between 1899-1903 by William Walcott (1874-1943). This posh art-nouveau hotel has 400 rooms and suites and it is decorated with mosaics by the artist Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910). The Metropol has been the site of many historic events, including speeches by Lenin and the 1918-1919 meetings of the Central Committee of the Russian Republic. It became one of the hotels specially designated for foreigners. It is still one of the most luxurious hotels in Moscow.

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