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Muruzi House

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Muruzi House
Дом Мурузи
View of the Muruzi House from the corner of Korolenko Street (left) and Pestel Street, the left side under older paint.
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General information
Architectural styleneo-Moorish architecture (Neo-Mudéjar)
LocationSaint Petersburg, Liteyny Avenue, 24
Completed1874-1877
Design and construction
Architect(s)A. C. Serebryakov, P. I. Shestov

Muruzi House is a notable apartment building – a former revenue house in central Saint Petersburg, Russia, constructed in 1874-1877 by architects Aleksey Serebryakov and Pyotr Shestov [ru] for count Alexander Dmitrievich Mourouzis (Muruzi) on the land that once belonged to Nikolai Rezanov.[1] The interiors were designed by Nikolai Sultanov [ru].[2]

From 1890 until the Revolution the house was owned by Lieutenant General Oskar Rein.[3]

It is noteworthy for its neo-Moorish architecture and as a place of residence or work of a number of Russian-language literary persons:[4] for example, in 1955–1972 Russian poet Joseph Brodsky resided in the Muruzi house, nowadays his memorial museum is opened at his former apartment.[5] Before him residents included the early 20 century family of authors Zinaida Gippius and Dmitry Merezhkovskiy and later a Soviet and modern Russia prose writer Daniil Granin;[6] Poets' House opened here in 1920 under Nikolay Gumilyov, and Korney Chukovskiy opened a studio for teaching young literary translators under the post-revolutionary publishing project Vsemirnaya literatura [ru] ("World Literature").[7]

References

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  1. ^ Isaeva, K., Aminova, D. (2019-09-11). "10 key places from St. Petersburg's literary map". Russia Beyond. Retrieved 2020-02-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Хромова, Ева (2022-10-05). "Фасады исторических зданий радуют петербуржцев в День архитектуры". Neva.Today (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-11-29.
  3. ^ Ковынева, Маргарита. "История одного здания: дом Мурузи в Санкт-Петербурге". culture.ru. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
  4. ^ "Дом Мурузи едва не пострадал из-за перепланировки". Градозащитный Петербург (in Russian). 2020-04-07. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  5. ^ Manaev, G. (2014-07-18). "Two Joseph Brodsky house museums set to open in Russia". Russia Beyond. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  6. ^ "Даниил Гранин в Доме Мурузи – фигура утраченного времени". brodsky.online (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  7. ^ "Литературные истории дома Мурузи". www.spbmuseum.ru. Retrieved 2022-01-17.