Office building 18AD

View from Kukui Tower to the northern part of the Kremlin. The building of the Government Offices by architect Polivanov design of 1783-86 is clearly visible. As they say, the building of the Prikaznaya Izba of 1572 was organically integrated into the construction of Catherine II times. In tsarist times, the entire administration of Novgorod and the region was located here. In this building in the 1840s, notorious A.I. Herzen, served as the provincial clerk. Right there, during lunch breaks, he wrote the novel 'Who's to blame?'. A historical place, in a word...