Tiles from the cultural layer of Moscow: first finds and first collections
The article presents the history of tiles' collection found in Moscow cultural layer during the construction works of the second half of the 19 <sup>th-</sup>20 <sup>th</sup> cc. including Zayauzje where according to writing sources the pottery production was concentrated. Excerpts, referring to the works of 1938 in Goncharny Lane, from the archive of a historian of the pottery production, an engineer and an artist, A.V. Filippov, are being published. First archaeological evidences of a pottery workshop of the 17 <sup>th</sup> c. were found during the constructions. The find encouraged the systematic excavations in Goncharnaya sloboda provided drastic movement in studying Russian and Moscow tile.