The Annenkov house in the center of Moscow.

This building was built in 1776 for the Governor-General of Siberia Prince Jacobi. 

Decembrist Ivan Annenkov spent his childhood and adolescence in this house. This building became very profitable in 19th century because of the hotels, restaurants, and cafes placed in it.

These places was liked to visit by the famous Moscow writers, poets, musicians and artists in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Here was the famous cafe Tramble (Tremble) which liked to visit Ivan Alekseevich Bunin the outstanding Russian writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1933, revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and many other poets, musicians and artists. 

Famous Tramble cafe (1901). 

The history of relations between Ivan Annenkov and French ballerine P. Gebl formed the basis of the famous novel of the great French writer Alexander. Dumas 'Fencing Master'.

Vadim Shershenevich

Shershenevich was a secret owner of "Snuff-boxes," because the cafe was the realy owned by K. Korotkov. 

Vladimir Mayakovsky 

Jeanne Mammen In the Café. 1920-е гг.

Vadim Shershenevich wrote: "Some people in the cafe under the counter sold brilliants and cocaine. They then walked home through the dark streets and gave the money to gangsters. Bandits did not touch the poets. Owners were paid accurately speaking for twenty kerenkoy and a glass of coffee and cake." 

"Young people are with signs of the shoulder straps on the coats, which transmit to each other the news of Kornilov. One of them is bald, covered in a coat, quietly boasting of what he adjutant of the Grand Duke. pouring the tea vodka from a bottle brought, he chuckles and poshuchivaet with neighbors: - Shooting will begin soon. or they me or I them. in the meantime, listen to poetry. " 

Ivan Aleksejevich Bunin (1901).

In the "Accursed Days" Bunin wrote indignantly: 

A new literary infamy, below which the fall seems to have nowhere to go: to open a tavern in the most heinous kind of "musical snuff box" - sit speculators, tricksters, public girls and eats cakes for a hundred rubles a piece, drink a hypocrite of the kettles, and poets and novelists (Alexei Tolstoy, Bruce, and so on) are reading their own and others' work, choosing the most obscene. Bruce is said to read "Gavriliadu", saying all that is replaced by dots, completely. Alyosha had dared to propose to read and me - a big fee, says give. 

1920-1930

The cafe "Musical snuff box" was opened after the revolution in the premises of the former bakery. Well known poets Mayakovsky, Esenin, Shershenevich, Burliuk and Vertinsky have read their poems there.