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# Safe unopened since 1917 in the Loan Treasury building in Nastasyinsky Lane, Moscow
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/arkhitektor-dmitrii-lure-rasskazyvaet-chto-v-zdanii-ssudnoi-kazny-1913-15-gg-postroiki-chto-v-nastasinskom-pereulke-v-moskve-sokhranilsia-seif-dveri-kotorogo-ostalis-ne-vskrytymi-s-1917/
- Published: 2021-04-26T15:48:40.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:59:34.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Architecture, Moscow, Humour

The architect Dmitry Lurie relates that the Loan Treasury building of 1913-15 in Nastasyinsky Lane in Moscow has preserved a safe whose doors have stood unopened since 1917, so that, purely in theory, what lies inside is pre-revolutionary air. In Dmitry's photograph the marks left by attempts to break into the safe are plainly visible. Even if it is only a legend, it is a very amusing one

![](https://theparnassian.com/content/images/2026/09/photo_4230@26-04-2021_18-48-40.jpg)