 In 1716-1720, the area between the Moika River and Bolshaya Morskaya Street was the site used to build Mytnyi Dvor (), a project by Georg Johann Mattarnovy and Nicolaus Friedrich Harbel.This building had a two-story gallery and a tower overlooking the Moyka, and it was commonly called "Gostiny Dvor" () (not to be confused with the modern Gostiny Dvor in Saint Petersburg that was built later, in 1757).It was destroyed in a fire in 1736.