The Embassy of Vietnam in

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is the

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of the

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to the

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. The

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is located at 13 Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street () in the

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of Moscow. The embassy occupies a former Mazurin orphanage building, privately funded by the

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of the late French-born Marie Charbonneau (d. 1890) who was a long-term unmarried partner of Nikolay Mazurin. Charbonneau bequested 200,000 roubles in cash and 80,000 in

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to establish an orphanage to be named after Mazurin. History of Moscow state medical universit

The City Hall provided land on the north-western corner of then emerging

Devichye Pole Devichye Pole () is a historical medical campus, built between 1887 and 1897 in Khamovniki District of Moscow, Russia, to the master plan of Konstantin Bykovski. It is located between the Garden Ring and Novodevichy Convent. Originally the medica ...

medical campus; the building, completed in 1895, became the first solo project by a 30-year-old architect

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. As it was built, the orphanage provided shelter for up to 50 boys and 50 girls. Admittance was open to children aged 5 to 9 years, regardless of their creed or social standing; the city, however, required at least two years of Moscow residence. Orphans who reached junior school age studied in nearby public schools together with ordinary children; they could stay in the orphanage until the age of 12. In the 1930s, the nationalized building housed a public school.

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Residential buildings completed in 1895 Khamovniki District Soviet Union–Vietnam relations Cultural heritage monuments in Moscow {{vietnam-stub

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