The history of St. Petersburg: Opening of an exhibition “A few words about the old house”

A mini-exhibition "A few words about the old house" timed to the Year of Literature in Russia opened in the exhibition hall of the Museum "Petersburg of raznochintsy."

The exhibition is dedicated to the historic houses of the old district of St. Petersburg, once called “Sementsy." This is the former St. Petersburg suburb located between the Moscow Prospect and Zvenigorodskaya Street, the Fontanka River embankment and Obvodny Channel. Inhabited since the 1740s, this area was built up with stone houses only in the 19^th century. There are few mansions in the style of classicism, but most of all there are Art Nouveau revenue houses.

It was raznochintsky - petty officials, students, doctors, teachers, as well writers, poets, artists, who rented flats in these houses. Among them, there was a sister of Alexander Pushkin – O. Pavlishcheva, F. Dostoevsky, V. Belinsky, O. Mandelstam, V. Rozanov, A. Remizov and others. Not all of these houses have survived to our time; some of the memorable places have become ghosts. Not only the famous inhabitants of “Sementsy” but the buildings themselves, which sometimes became almost the protagonists of literary works, are part of the Russian literature.

The mini-exhibition is open for visitors until November 12, 2015