Napoleon’sdefeatinRussia.“Beginning of it was in Sloboda palace”

Presented is an excursus into history of high schools’ architectural heritage of the Capital. The author presents detailed story of the main building of one of famous high schools of Russia, i.e. N.E. Bauman’s Moscow state technical university.

                   Key words:Sloboda palace, Tsar’s manifest, Moscow handicraft school, “Baumanka”.