In the second half of XIX century. Moscow was decorated with his many masterpieces of modernism and the new Russian style. One of the heroes of this grand building was Rekk Jacob A. (1867-1913), son of Samara villager. In 1886 he came to Moscow from Saratov, and settled in the ordinary employee bankers N. Wertheim, managing rising to the post of manager in 1891. In 1892, the office bought a Russian bank for trade and industry and transformed it in his Moscow office. Having dealt with the bank fishing, he became the founder of the Moscow Trade and Construction Joint Stock Company (1899), widely ensuing construction program.
In 1893 he opened Rekk brick factory in the village Hourly Zvenigorod district, Moscow province, which later became the property of the Moscow Trade and Construction Joint Stock Company. The factory produced red and white brick building. In 1901, he established the Association of the Nicholas Rekk series in Moscow, with capital of 750 thousand rubles for the possession and use (renting of commercial premises), the Nicholas series on Nikolskaya Street, built in 1900, Moscow Trade and Construction Joint Stock Company. Rekk set a goal to beautify the city “stylish homes that are having technical convenience western town buildings, at the same time not kill a national color of Moscow.” Built houses at their own discretion at the expense of society, inviting leading architects, and then sold them to new owners. Faced with weak liquidity of real estate,