OTHER NOTABLE BUILDINGS
1840-1917 (Translated by
Andrei Frizyuk)
The development of Russian capitalism in the pre-revolutionary years was
accompanied by the spread of Revivalist styles and Art Nouveau. The newest
trends in architecture were primarily expressed in apartment houses whose
owners required more profuse decoration (to attract lodgers) and more
living space (to get more profits). The most demanded apartments were
situated in close vicinity of celebrated architectural complexes upon
which account the unity of some complexes was disrupted by newly built
structures. Representative examples of this disruption are the Neva front
of the Admiralty and the plot between the Tauride Palace and the Neva. The
same trends have been observed in the post-perestroika period as well.
The New Hermitage
The building
was constructed in 1839-52 expressly for housing art collections of the
imperial Hermitage museum. It is one of the best preserved masterpieces
by Leo von Klenze. The portico with atlas figures (in the photo) is
particularly notable..
The building was erected in 1885-95 to house the applied arts
museum, currently affiliated with the V.I. Mukhina Art School
("Mukha").
Architect: Maximilian Messmacher
Style: Renaissance Revival
Address: Solyanoi passage, 15
Nearest metro stations: Gostinyi dvor, Tchernyshevskaya
Location:
The Suvorov Museum
The edifice was built in 1901-04 for the purpose of allocating the
Suvorov Museum of Military History.
Architect: Alexander von Hohen
Style: Russian Revival
Address: Kirochnaya St., 43
Nearest metro station: Tchernyshevskaya
Location:
The mansion of Emir of Bokhara
This house dates back to 1913.
The architect is Stepan S. Krichinsky.
Style: Neoclassical Revival
Address: Kamennoostrovsky Avenue, 44
Nearest metro station: Petrogradskaya
The mansion of Mathilde
Kschessinska
The building, constructed in 1904-06, has been functioning
successively as the house of the prima ballerina assoluta of the
Russian Imperial Ballet, the head-quarters of the Bolshevik party, the
V.I.Lenin Museum, and (since the perestroika) the Russian Political
History Museum.
Architect: Alexander von Hohen
Style: Art Nouveau.
Address: Kronverksky Avenue, 11/12
Nearest metro station: Gorkovskaya
Location:
The Polezhaev apartment house
The house was built in 1913-15 to a design by Ivan I. Yakovlev
Style: Art Nouveau
Address: Starorusskaya St., 5
Nearest metro station: Ploschad Vosstaniya
Location:
The Eliseev emporium
The gourmet food store was commissioned by the Brothers Eliseev & Co
from the architect Gavriil Baranovsky. It was constructed in 1903-07.
Lately the building has been shared by the Comedy Theatre and the store
(still known as the Eliseevsky).
Style: "Merchant" Art Nouveau
Address: Nevsky Avenue, 56
Nearest metro station: Gostinyi dvor
Location:
The Stanovoy apartment house
It was built in 1908-09 in an eclectic design by Dmitri Kryzanowski
Style: Art Nouveau
Address: Mytninskaya St., 5
Nearest metro station: Ploschad Vosstaniya
Location::
"The Turreted House"
Another apartment house, built in 1913 by Constantine Rozenstein
and Andrei Belogrud
Style: Revivalist
Address: Lev Tolstoy St., 2
Nearest metro station: Petrogradskaya
