Boris Pilnyak's House". The series "Wooden architecture of Noginsk

In the center of Noginsk, on Rogozhskaya Street, there is an old wooden house where the famous Soviet writer Boris Andreevich Pilnyak lived with his parents and sister for several years. His fate was tragic: in 1938, the writer was shot on charges of espionage, and for several decades his works were not published. The five years Pilnyak spent in Bogorodsk, as can be seen from the writers letters, left a significant mark on his life.
His father, Andrei Ivanovich Vogau, came from a colony of Volga Germans, graduated from the veterinary institute of the University of Dorpat and worked all his life as a veterinarian in small county towns. Mother Olga Ivanovna Savinova was from a Russian merchant family that originated from Saratov. Boris Andreevich changed his birth name Vogau to a pseudonym, which he formed from the word "pilnyak" – that was the name of the inhabitants of the logging camps in the Kharkov province, at one of which he was staying with his uncle.
The period of Pilnyaks life in Bogorodsk (Noginsk) preceded the familys move to Kolomna. On a memorial plaque installed on a house in Noginsk in the 1970s, it says: "Boris Andreevich Pilnyak, the first chairman of the Writers Union of the RSFSR, lived and worked in this house from 1904 to 1912."