Rimsky-Korsakov Avenue, Building No. 43: A house built by the merchant Bragin. It is unattractive and even awkward: smooth, unadorned walls of four floors, small balconies with iron bars, low arches at the entrance to a narrow staircase that goes around powerful abutments. The waters of the Kryukov Canal move slowly under the windows of the house. Since 1818, V. A. Zhukovsky and his friend, poet A. A. Pleshchev, a member of the literary society "Arzamas", lived in this house. It is known that N. M. Karamzin, I. A. Krylov, N. I. Gnedich, K. N. Batyushkov, and A. I. Turgenev gathered in this house.