Office-receprion room of the manager at a textile mill, 1900-s The typological reconstruction is based on the furniture from the office and the mansion of Nikolay Prokhorov (1860–1915). On the table is an open album with fabric samples of the Trekhgornaya mill, the quality of witch was considered excellent, and the ornamentation was elegant and had a subtile selection of colors. To a large extent, the credit for this goes to Sergey Prokhorov who headed the chemical laboratory of the enterprise.
Living room of the worker of textile manufacture, 1900-s
In the 1900s the Presnya region in Moscow was at the center of Moscow’s industrial developmant. A worker of one of the Prokhorov factories, could live in such a room. It is characteristic thet the new towns’people, like all the newly arrived from the village to work.
As one of the main types of urban housing in the newly-formed Soviet country, the communal apartment had the following features; the housing was free of charge (and therefore unattended, which quicky led to ”devastation”), the housing was owned by the state and was distributed by it basd on orders, apartment hosted several families from different social strata. Soviet regtime try to solve residential problems by rellocation of low-class residents from barracs and basements to apartments of middle-class people.
