The Patriarchal residence in Chisty Lane (Russian: Патриаршая резиденция в Чистом переулке) is the former city estate of the Ofrosimov family, located at Chisty Lane 5, in the Khamovniki District of the Central Administrative Okrug of Moscow.

After his death, the estate belonged to his wife Nastasya Ofrosimova, the prototype of Maremyana Babrovna Nabatova (“News, or the Living Murdered” by Fyodor Rostopchin),[2] Anfisa Nilovna Khlestova (“Woe from Wit” by Alexander Griboyedov) and Marya Dmitrievna Akhrosimova (“War and Peace” Leo Tolstoy).

[1] The estate, like the entire Obukhov Lane, burned out in the 1812 Great Fire of Moscow and was rebuilt according to the design of the architect Fyodor Sokolov.

The garden adjacent to the house was spacious enough to accommodate a tennis court.In June 1941 the German diplomatic mission was expelled following the start of Operation Barbarossa and NKVD task force led by the head of the counterintelligence department, Captain Vasily Ryasny, carried out a thorough search, and all the documentation discovered during it was taken away.

[1] On September 4, 1943, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin met with Metropolitans Sergius (Stagorodsky), Alexy (Simansky) and Nicholas (Yarushevich).

And besides, you will be provided with all the property located in it, and the territory adjacent to the house.After this, Stalin's assistant Alexander Poskrebyshev read out a note describing the estate:[9] The main building of the estate is a one-story wooden house on a stone foundation, with a mezzanine and mezzanines.

[1] In the right risalit of the main house of the estate, a Cross Church was built in the name of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God.

[1] On September 20 of the same year, at the Patriarchal residence in Chisty Lane, foreign guests were received for the first time - a delegation of the Church of England led by Archbishop of York, Cyril Garbett.

[1] On November 5 of the same year, Renovationist Archbishop Michael (Postnikov) brought repentance in the meeting room of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.

At 8 o'clock on the same day, Metropolitan Nicholas (Yarushevich) of Krutitsy arrived here and performed the first litany at the bed of the deceased.

[1][13] On February 2, 1945, the Local Council was meeting in the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Sokolniki, elected Metropolitan Alexy (Simansky) as the new Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'.

The editorial office of the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate moved to the premises at the Assumption Refectory Church of the Novodevichy Convent.

Exactly at 10:30 in the morning, with the striking of the large grandfather clock in the sacristy, which adjoined the cross church, the internal doors opened and, leaning lightly on a stick, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy came out, making a general half-bow, thus greeting us and leading us around.

Then we went to the dining room, through the sacristy and the Red Hall, in which I always liked the image of the Holy Great Martyr and Victorious George on a horse, slaying the serpent, executed on glass.

The ballot box was brought here from the nearest - 312th - polling station of the Voykovsky District of the Northern Administrative Okrug in Moscow.

[17] Under Patriarch Alexy II, a tradition arose of erecting a Christmas tree on the eve of the winter holidays.

The Christmas tree in Chisty Lane was considered “intimate”; was staged for the inner circle of the Patriarch and specially invited guests.

The so-called White Hall was chosen as the office of the Locum Tenens, which was usually empty, sometimes only hosting the annual meetings of Patriarch Alexy II with journalists.