This building is a pinkish-red shades have long gained fame thanks to the mystical ” area doubles’ It was here, according to tradition Empress Anna Ivanovna before his death saw his double, as Prince Vyazemsky saw himself sitting at the table and something writing. At the end of the 18th century princess Beloselsky acquired a small stone house on the corner of Nevsky and the Fontanka, but then decided to demolish it and build a three-story mansion in the Baroque style. His long name can be considered a formality, since the customer-building general Beloselsky-Belozersky died when only began digging the foundation, but that has not stopped the widow to marry the Prince Kochubei and turn the palace into the most fashionable parts of the capital. After 1917 there was located district party committee of the Central District, and later he was transferred to the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg.