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.
Read more about Spaso House: Early History, The Residence of U.S. Ambassadors, The Spring Festival of 1935, Late 1930s and World War II, The Cold War, Detente and The End of The Cold War, Post-Soviet Era, U.S. Ambassadors Who Lived in Spaso House, Bibliography
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