Not really sightseeing

We haven't had much time for sightseeing, what with figuring out where are grocery stores, how to get to church on the metro, and S having meetings at work.  Not much work going on, just formalities like getting visas registered and a LOT of paperwork.  But on the way to open up a bank account (all salaries are paid directly to an ATM card, sort of like direct deposit, only not...) S did go by this old building in a central part of Moscow.  It's a pre-revolutionary building (ie 19th century), not really sure what, but it is not maintained very well.

And of course, like other buildings of its epoch, it has an official "Pushkin slept here" sign: