Sanduny

Coordinates: 55°45′51″N 37°37′17″E / 55.76417°N 37.62139°E / 55.76417; 37.62139

Sandunóvskie Baths (Сандуно́вские бани) or Sanduný (Сандуны́) is a cultural and architectural landmark in downtown Moscow, located at 14 Neglinnaya street adjacent to the Central Bank of Russia. First opened in 1808, the baths were founded by and named after the Georgian businessman Sila Sandunov (Zandukeli) (1756—1820), who was once an actor at the court of Catherine II during the 1790s. He bought a land plot on the Neglinnaya River in 1800 to construct baths there.

History of ownership

In 1869, owned by merchant and landlord Ivan Grigorievich Firsanov, the baths were willed to Ivan Firsanov's only daughter, Vera Ivanovna, after his death in 1881.

After Vera divorced her first husband, she married again to the officer Alexey Nikolayevich Ganetskiy, who was a son of General Nikolai Stepanovich Ganetskiy, participant of the Crimean War. Alexey proposed the idea of building new baths of the like Moscow had never before seen on the place of the decaying building.