 Honorable members of the assembly included Pyotr Vyazemsky, Faddei Bulgarin and others.Here, the writers such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin read their works.In 1886 the Elisseeff House hosted the premiere of Modest Mussorgsky's opera "Khovanshchina".