Mansions

Mansion of Alexander Morozov in Podsosensky Pereulok.

Reconstruction

In 1896 Vrubel completed the cycle of monumental painting for the Gothic parlor in the mansion of Alexander Morozov, located in Podsosensky Pereulok in Moscow. For the high-ceilinged, dichromatic, vertically elongated, two-story tall Gothic parlor built by Fyodor Shekhtel, Vrubel planned five panels on theme of the Goethe’s Faust and the eponymous opera of Charles Gounod. These include The Flight of Faust and Mephistopheles, Faust, Mephistopheles and Pupil, Marguerite, and a lost fifth panel, Faust and Marguerite in the Garden. For Morozov’s home, Vrubel also painted the panel Philosophy (1899).
At present the four panels from the Gothic parlor are on view in the Vrubel room at the State Tretyakov Gallery.

The interactive panorama reconstructs the Gothic parlor with the decorative panels.

Present view