In the period between 1897 and the October Revolution, the house became the property of the Nabokov family. They got it as a dowry of Helena Rukavishnikova. Vladimir Vladimirovich lived in the house until November 1917. House is described in detail in his autobiography and other shore Speak, Memory. Nabokov wrote about this place as “the world’s only home». In the future, even when the writer became wealthy, he never acquired another house and preferred to live in hotels. Basis...
The museum was founded September 11, 1872 as a telegraph museum In the years 1884-1919 the institution worked as a postal and telegraph museum, 1924 -. Folk Museum of Communication, 1945 – Central Museum of Communications AS Popov in 1974, the museum is closed due to avariynoysti building and the need for its overhaul. In 2000, it adopted the program of development of the museum, which includes his discovery to visit in 2003. After the reconstruction of the first phase of the new...
In 1727, King Peter II brought a gift of the German Lutheran community wasteland close to Nevsky Prospect, is located between the Big and Small Konyushennaya Street. Construction of the church on the site was launched June 29, 1728, the day of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. In 1730 the church was solemnly consecrated. The building was made of brick, included wooden cupola and can accommodate 1,500 people. In 1737, near the church built the two houses, which served as apartments for church...
House Basin is an example of disregard for the classical style prevailed then. This apartment house was built in 1878 by architect. The five-storey building with two facades and carved cockerels immediately catches the eye. The author of this project tried to mix the European experience with the Russian identity, stuck to the house designs based on wood carving and embroidery. Just then, the future Emperor Alexander III of, who lived in the Anichkov Palace and saw the construction of this work...
Kamenoostrovsky theater originally was only years actors out of the back of the wall opening to the nearby garden. Theatre, it was decided to open in late 1826, when the Grand Theatre went to rekonstruktsiyu.Tak it was located between the two park areas, and Yelagin Kamenoostrovsky, then there was no lack of vegetation, and it provided high sales. The building was erected in just 40 days, and his prime minister came to the Emperor Nicholas I. But because of the proximity of groundwater and...
Petersburg avant-garde museum fits in a modest two-story wooden building in the historic center of our city. also often called home Mikhnevich or Matyushina. Mihnevich was the first owner of the building, well-known journalist actively communicate with the public in need of writers and even donated a large sum of his base, and after his death the house was transferred to the obschestva.Zdes are living people of creative professions, who had enough money to pay for their own rent. This found...