Laval House was built on the site of the former mansion of Menshikov, the first stone of the building of St. Petersburg. It was erected by the architect Eropkin, also known as the creator of the three main (at the time) highways of the city, directed to the Admiralty. The building several times changed their owners, while Prince Voronikhin not rebuilt it, adding another floor, increasing the overall length and adding a portico with columns. Finally, it falls into the hands of Laban, who...
House of Alexander Dmitrievich Muruzi was at that time one of the most expensive cost of construction, 800 thousand rubles. In its place until the middle of the 19th century there was a wooden house, surrounded by a garden in which the novel Dostoevsky’s ” The Idiot ” lived General Yepanchin . The building was built for the prince in the Moorish style, but also conceived as an apartment house, so it consisted of 57 apartments and 7 shops. The owner lived in the same house,...
The museum is open to the centenary of the famous scientist, but the exposure is maintained so well that it seems, the landlord is still alive. It is located in the building, laid on the orders of Peter I for employees of the Academy of Sciences. Many famous scientists lived here, but only Ivan Pavlovich was awarded the honor of the museum-apartment, which occupies three of the six rooms, living room, study, bedroom, dining room, keeping all the collection of books, letters, insects collected...
Central Museum of the Oktyabrskaya Railway founded in 1978. Initially, he was in the Center of Scientific and Technical Information of the building at the Foundry Avenue, 62. In autumn 2001, the museum was replaced by the address on the Bypass channel, 114. Museum tells the story of railway factories in Russia, and the former Nikolaev railway. The museum’s exhibits display the development of rail transport since the end of the XIX century. Especially for young visitors of the museum...
Theatre for Young People of St. Petersburg is one of the oldest children’s theaters in Russia. Theater was founded in 1922 by the famous director and teacher Bryantsev, who later ruled them for forty years. With TYuZom associated with the names of famous writers, playwrights, actors, directors. It took its origin and the way his stage works by S. Marshak, V.Kataev, E. Schwartz, M. Roshchin, Okudzhava, R. Pogodin, V.Tendryakova, L.Razumovskoy, G. Oster. Workers Theatre were such...
The space between the Fontanka and Sadovaya Street was brought as a gift to Prince Peter I Grigory Yusupov at the beginning of the XVIII century. Prince built a house from a tree and broke a picturesque garden with two ponds and flower garden. Then, in the 1790s, the architect Giacomo Quarenghi changed and reschedule part of the palace garden. In 1810 the estate was purchased by the state and the park opened greenhouses and fountains built along Sadovaya Street established an array of cast...