![Muruzi Apartment House in St. Petersburg](https://superhostel.ru/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/lori-0040999526-bigwww-e1706702464910-833x350.jpg)
Famous writers Dmitry Merezhkovskiy and Zinaida Gippius lived there for nearly 25 years and had many illustrious Russian silver age poets and philosophers among their guests.
A bit later, one large room, or “room-and-a-half” of a communal apartment on the 3rd floor was the family home of the Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky.