On the banks of the Moscow River, facing the Kremlin, there is a long squat grey-faced apartment block known as the House on the Embankment. It has a special place in Russia's history.
It was built by the early Bolsheviks when they moved the Russian capital back to Moscow from St Petersburg.
It housed the families - more than 500 of them - of high-ranking Kremlin officials. They were the bureaucratic elite of the world's first attempt at a socialist state. It was, in its day, the only house in all Russia to have hot running water.
A decade ago, when I lived here as the BBC's Moscow correspondent, I went to visit one of its residents. She'd lived there since 1931. More than anything she remembered the Red Terror of 1937.
From This article we learn about some of the injustices of Russia's past. We also get an account of Stalin's secret police rampages. The House on the Embankment has played an important part in Russia's history and has witnessed alot.
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