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hidden Monuments of history and culture | Cherfolio, S.I. hidden The House of F. Kanobbio. | |
A splendid sample of a wooden house with a mezzanine and three-part Italian window in the Classicism style was erected to the design of V.I. Geste which was approved by Alexander I in 1814 ... | | A splendid sample of a wooden house with a mezzanine and three-part Italian window in the Classicism style was erected to the design of V.I. Geste which was approved by Alexander I in 1814. It was built in 1815 by the engineer – lieutenant Francis Kanobbio, an inspector of the Taitsi water system. However he died a short time later and in 1819 the house was inherited by A.N. Kanobbio, the widow of his brother, a court conductor. Later on the house was owned by her daughters , S. Kanobbio, M. Kwadri, E. Korsini (from 1824 until 1832), and then the Austria national S.I. Cherfolio and his heirs (from 1832 until 1851). In 1851 I. Monighetti and N.S. Nikitin rebuilt partly the house for the next owner Ye.I. Kuzminskaya, nee Voyevodskaya, the wife of a full state councillor. Then during 1859-1874 the house was owned by Full State Councilor I.G. Kuzminsky, from 1874 until 1915 by the Doctor of Medicine I.M. Ost and his son A.I. Ost. From 1905 to 1917 L.Z. Lansere, the Chairman of the Board of the Russian Insurance Company, lived here. In 1954-1955 the major repairs of the house was done. According to the local legends the house is known as the House of Geste and the House of Akhmatova.
Persons Alexander I, Emperor Cherfolio, S.I. Hastie Vasily Ivanovich (William) Kanobbio, A.N. Kanobbio, Francisc Kanobbio, S. Korsini, E. Kuzminskaya, Ye.I. Kuzminsky, I.G. Lanceray, L.Z. Monighetti Ippolito Antonovich Nikitin, N.S. Ost, A.I. Ost, I.M.
Addresses Leontievskaya Street/Pushkin, town
| | | | hidden The Mansion of V.P. Kochubey. | |
In 1911 the Master of Ceremonies V.P. Kochubey bought an old estate in Tsarskoye Selo, with a ramshackle wooden house built by S.I. Cherfolio in 1835 for the first estate owner A. Polovtsev, a collegiate assessor ... | | In 1911 the Master of Ceremonies V.P. Kochubey bought an old estate in Tsarskoye Selo, with a ramshackle wooden house built by S.I. Cherfolio in 1835 for the first estate owner A. Polovtsev, a collegiate assessor. On the place of the old house in 1911-1913 according to the design of A.I. Tamanov (Tamanyan) was built a new stone house with Doric six-column portico, Neoclassicism style facades and luxurious interiors of palace layout. Architects V.I. Yakovlev, N.E. Lansere and V.I. Romanov took part in constructing. Kochubey’s collections of furniture, paintings, manuscripts, books were kept in the Collection Room and in the especial armour-plating room-safe. In 1918 the unique collections were passed to the museum repository of Paley’s Palace. Nationalized palace of Kochubey was firstly occupied by an orphan-asylum, in 1927 the House of the 1905 Revolution veterans was placed in the palace. During the years of World War II and occupation the building was damaged with an air bomb and plundered. In 1947-1948 it was restored and passed to a training school for kolkhoz specialists. From the early 1950s the rest home “Pushkino” for 100 people , the Communist Party workers of the oblast committee of the Communist Party of the USSR, had been placed here.
Persons Cherfolio, S.I. Kochubey Viktor Sergeevich, Duke Lansere Nikolay Evgenievich Polovtsev, A. Romanov, V.I. Yakovlev, V.I.
Addresses Radischeva Street/Pushkin, town, house 4
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