House 104 on the Moika Embankment

The first known owner of the site was a prominent government figure, Anna Ioannovna, Senate Chief Prosecutor, Acting State Councilor Anisim Semenovich Maslov . Since 1735, Franz Volodimerovich Gardner, a merchant and owner of the cable factory on the Vyborg side, owned the site ^[1] . In September 1755, the house with the plot was acquired by a large metal manufacturer, owner of the Nizhne-Tagil factories, philanthropist Nikita Akinfievich Demidov, from the widow of Gardner, who owned the yard for almost 30 years until 1782 ^{[2] [3]} . In 1782, Demidov sold the house to G. A. Potemkin , which he immediately mortgaged to Alexei Ivanovich Musin-Pushkin ^[4] . In 1784, “on an expired mortgage from His Grace, General Field Marshal Prince. Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin, the courtyard was acquired by A. I. Musin-Pushkin ^[5] , who was the owner of the estate until 1798 ^[6] .

The next owner of the plot with all the buildings and the garden was the merchant M. A. Kusovnikov. According to the report card of 1804, this site was listed in the 4th Admiralty part of the 1st quarter under No. 46 and was estimated at 50,000 rubles ^[7] . According to the table of 1822, the estate is owned by E. V. Kusovnikova, and it is estimated at 65,000 rubles ^[8] . On the plan of Schubert in 1828, the former house is visible on the site, having slightly changed its shape due to extensions, an outbuilding on the Moika and a building along the left edge of the site (if you look from the Moika), which stretches almost to the end, adjacent to the buildings of the Lithuanian castle . Two buildings parallel to each other go along Officer Street , on the site of the modern building 31. By 1828, this part of the estate was relocated to the Providence Department of the War Ministry, which owned it until 1842. In 1834, on the basis of a spiritual testament after the deceased E. V Kusovnikova was taken over by her granddaughter Elena Petrovna Varentsova ^{[9] [10]} . This year, street numbering was introduced, and the site received No. 95 on the Moika.

In 1842, E.P. Varentsova (Truveller) sold part of the land to the St. Petersburg Duma "under the street, supposed to separate the prison building from the philistine buildings." In 1850, E.P. Truveller requested the name of the St. Petersburg Military Governor-General that the lane between her house and the Lithuanian castle be called Zamkov. But by the highest command, he was called Prison ^[11] .

In 1852, the house was sold to the court adviser Baron Alexander Borisovich Fitingof (1799-1875), the grandson of the famous Princess Leven, Charlotte Karlovna von Gaugreben (1743-1828), the teacher of the children of Emperor Paul I , who called her “grandmother”. In 1870, Fitingof gave the estate to his daughters Elizabeth and Catherine. In 1882, after a series of family transactions, the entire plot (now it had No. 102 in the Moika) was left to Baron Richard Pavlovich Fitingof (1822–1894), married to his cousin Catherine Charlotte (1829-1890), daughter of A. B. Fitingoff with 1853

In the late 1880s. in connection with the settlement of the streets (their names and numbering of houses), the plot received a new No. 104 at Moika. In 1894, after the death of his father, the house with the plot went to the three daughters of R. P. Fitingof, and since 1897 “transferred to sole possession” one of the daughters of R.P. Fitting, Alexandra-Elizabeth Rikhardovna von Einsidel (1860-1940), the wife of the Royal-Saxon Service Major Konrad Detlef von Einsidel (1843-1921). In 1913, she sold the whole house with a plot to the Council of schools of the Reformed churches. In 1918, houses on the Moika were confiscated "in favor of the Commissariat of Urban Enterprises for non-payment by the owners of their city taxes for 1917 and 1918." ^[12] .

For the first time, the view of the estate with the house reflected the St. Hilaire plan: “... in the depths of the plot there is a wooden house on a stone foundation with two risalits on the garden side. On the right side of the plot, a single-story stone outbuilding overlooking the embankment of the river is connected to the main house by a passage. Sinks. Behind the house is a garden with a gazebo, pavilions and a pond ... " ^[13] . In the center of the main facade you can see a strongly protruding risalit with a torn pediment. In the center of the rear facade is a symmetrical four-flight staircase with a balustrade. In front of the house is a front yard, separated from the Moika embankment by a lush beautiful fence. The scientist and memoirist Jacob Shtelin describes in his Notes on Fine Arts in Russia an unusual cast iron portico that Nikita Akinfievich, who owned ironworks, “arranged at his house on the Moika” between both entrances to the courtyard from the street ^[14] .

In 1773, Demidov rented the house to His Majesty’s King’s Extraordinary Envoy, signing a contract containing a description of the house: “... consisting on the Admiralty part along the River Moika against forest stone shops, in which there are wooden mansions with all the furniture in the courtyard, and in the courtyard a kitchen and for my people’s outbuilding on the left side of the house to the Moika, two cellars - one glacier, and another winter, a stable of ten stalls and a carriage shed ... this house has a garden with various fruitful fruits ... ” ^[15] .

The plan of 1798 shows that Musin-Pushkin almost did not engage in perestroika. The shape of one of the corners of the main house slightly changed, and the transition to the outbuilding facing the Moika and the outbuilding itself remained unchanged ^[16] .

Using the drawings from the fund of the City Council, one can trace the further history of the reorganization of the estate. The main house was preserved until 1913, when in its place was the right part of the new School Building and the Council of Reformed Churches (architect A. A. Gimpel). Now it houses the St. Petersburg College of Music named after Rimsky-Korsakov (1 Matveev lane). The garden and farm buildings are not preserved.

The first major changes in the appearance of the estate are connected with the names of Elena Petrovna Truveller, her husband, engineer-captain Robert Ivanovich, and his brother, retired engineer-major Vasily Ivanovich ^[17] (known for building in Peterhof: two stone houses and a bathhouse, later a bathhouse on the banks of the Olga Pond, and then the wooden building of the Samson Hotel, the gateways of the Paper Mill, the camp of military schools, made maps of the city, cut new streets, participated in the construction of the Nikolsky house). In 1842, on the corner of Moika Embankment and the newly laid alley, a new stone house was built on three floors, 9 axes along the Moika and 7 along the alley in the style of classicism. At the same time, another house is being built in 8 axes of more modest decoration, adjacent to the three-story house from the side of the lane ^[18] .

In 1847, the Truvelers decided to build on the L-shaped outbuilding of the old house, facing two floors on the Moika red line. In 1847, Professor of the Academy of Arts, architect R. A. Zhelyazevich (1810 - 1874), author of the projects of the Passage, Pavlovsky Women's Orphan Institute, participant in the construction of the Nikolaev (now Moscow) station, etc. successively creates two construction projects on the opposite side of the Moika site of a new stone house with three floors from the front facade and four floors from the courtyard. The second project is created with the participation of two other architects - Professor of the Academy of Arts N.E. Efimov , author of the projects of the City Council building, Znamenskaya Square, the Resurrection Cathedral of the Novodevichy Convent, construction manager of the New Hermitage, etc., and recently embarked on the architectural the practice of N. P. Grebenki ^[19] . At the same time, the stone L-shaped one-story wing of the XVIII century by N. A. Demidov - A. I. Musin-Pushkin, which faced the front on the Moika Embankment, is included in the new house as part of its first floor. At the same time, a new part of the building is attached to the outbuilding on the left side, repeating its structure symmetrically. Thus, the outbuilding is completely incorporated into the new house, only changing the style of window decor from baroque to neo-Renaissance. The courtyard of the outbuilding is also built on two floors, without losing touch with the old wooden house on the stone basements. The baroque decoration of the windows of the rear facade of the outbuilding has not undergone changes and has been preserved at present. A two-story stone laundry built in the 18th century connects to the old house on one side and the front wing on the other (the laundry building is also preserved) ^{[20] [21] [22]} .

In 1848, with the participation of architect R. B. Bernhard , an existing classicist-style house was built, built by the Truvellers in 1836, in a single facade with two houses of Zhelyazevich-Efimov-Grebenka (3 floors from the front and 4 floors from the courtyard facades). Thus, the final appearance of the house is formed, unchanged today ^[23] .

For several years, Franz Yakovlevich Gardner , the future founder of the Verbilki porcelain factory, lived in his uncle’s house on the Moika. In the census of the courtyards of the Admiralty Island in 1737, the yard “of the merchant of an alien, an Franchian Franz Gardner, an Englishman, lives 40 years ... he has a nephew, Franz Gardner, 27 years,” is mentioned. ^[one]

From 1782 to 1798 A.I. Musin-Pushkin (17 years old) lived in the house on the Moika. ^[24] Almost all of his children were born here and his main brainchild was created - the famous collection of Russian antiquities. The members of the “Circle of lovers of Russian history”, formed by Musin-Pushkin, based on the theoretical views of V. N. Tatishchev, were sitting here: I. N. Boltin and I. P. Elagin , historian-archivists N. N. Bantysh-Kamensky and A. F. Malinovsky and many others. They gathered to discuss historical and linguistic issues, and the owner willingly allowed him to use his materials. N.M. Karamzin was also associated with the circle. The main goal of the circle was the preservation and introduction into social and scientific circulation of a wide range of ancient sources on the history and culture of the Russian state. Thanks to Musin-Pushkin, “joy” about the monuments of the past for the first time in Russia has acquired unprecedented proportions, organization and focus on finding a diverse range of sources, including materials on the history of the 18th century. Here were prepared for the publication “Pravda Russkaya” by Yaroslav the Wise , “The Instruction” by Vladimir Monomakh , the work of Musin-Pushkin himself on the location of the Tmutarakan reign, the Lavrentievsky Chronicle and, finally, it was here that the pearl of his collection was stored and prepared for printing - the famous “Word about the shelf” Igor’s " , which in the first edition of 1800 was called" The Iroic Song of the Campaign of the Polovtsian prince of Novgorod-Severskago Igor Svyatoslavich, written in ancient Russian at the end of the XII century, with an arrangement in use my adverb is now ... ” ^[25]

During the years of residence of A.I. Musin-Pushkin in St. Petersburg in the house on the Moika, the period of the highest flowering of his state, public and collecting activities fell. He is a member of the Russian Academy (since 1789), president of the Academy of Arts (1794-1797), chief prosecutor of the Holy Synod (1791-1797), full state councilor (1784), real privy councilor (1793), manager of the corps of foreign co-religionists ( 1789). He is patronized by Catherine II . The presidency of the Academy of Arts and the collection of works of art attracted his colleagues from the Academy to the house of Musin-Pushkin. It is known that the committee of the Russian Academy for the award of gold medals, chaired by Musin-Pushkin, usually met in his house. ^[26] According to E. I. Krasnova, winner of the Antsifer Prize, author of many scientific historical discoveries, the cabinet and the richest collection of A. I. Musin-Pushkin were located in a stone wing. ^[27] This point of view is also supported by the doctor of historical sciences V. S. Sobolev, the director of the Russian State Archives of Mathematical Sciences and the doctor of historical sciences E. V. Anisimov , a leading researcher at the St. Petersburg Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences: "... it’s in the outbuilding overlooking the Moika River Embankment , there was his collection, including “The Word about Igor’s Regiment.” ^[28] . The outbuilding was set aside for the Musin-Pushkin workspace, while the main house housed a large family. By 1793, Musin-Pushkin had more than 1,700 manuscripts , a rich collection of book rarities.

In the 1840s in the house on the Moika contained a dance class ^{[29] the} famous cavalier girl, the owner of the "Red Zucchini" Louise Kessenich . Member of the war with Napoleon 1812-1815 in the rank of the Prussian Uhlan warlord, the mother of two children, hiding her gender, Louise Kessenich, during one of the campaigns captured an officer and six enemy soldiers. For this feat, she was awarded the Iron Cross. Since 1817, Louise lived in St. Petersburg and was engaged in private entrepreneurial activity.

From mid-1870 to 1906 the founder of Russian venereology, V. M. Tarnovsky ^{[30] [31],} lived in the house. Here was located his home dispensary. ^[32] Since 1868, lecturer at the St. Petersburg Medical and Surgical Academy , since 1872 professor, in 1894-97. Head of the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology. In 1867, he published the Atlas to a Guide for the Recognition of Sexually Transmitted Diseases of Women and Children with 15 drawings made from nature by artist V. Reingard. According to his project, in 1868 the Suvorov School for Midwives was organized at the Kalinka Hospital . In it, V. M. Tarnovsky, as an assistant professor, taught a course of syphilology for 25 years. V. M. Tarnovsky organized the world's first national venereological society, approved at the state level. October 20, 1885, in his apartment number 4 on the embankment of the Moika 104, opposite the arch of New Holland, Tarnovsky held its first meeting. ^[33] After a short period of time, the Russian Syphilidological and Dermatological Society, headed by its chairman Tarnovsky, gained high authority among doctors and civil authorities and subsequently began to bear the name of its founder (since 1932). ^[34]

The example of St. Petersburg was followed by doctors throughout Russia and around the world. The importance and necessity of Tarnovsky’s idea was proved by the International Congress of Doctors in Moscow (1897), which became the apotheosis of Russian medicine, which gathered 8,200 participants, of which 5,700 were foreign delegates. Within 8 days, more than 1300 reports were made. At the opening of the congress at the Bolshoi Theater, V. M. Tarnovsky delivered a speech by scientists from St. Petersburg. ^[35] Long-term studies and observations allowed V. M. Tarnovsky to refute the claims of a number of the largest foreign syphilologists of the second half of the XIX century about the impossibility of curing syphilis, he proved the possibility of curing syphilis with mercury and iodine preparations in any period. In 1887, V. M. Tarnovsky allocated a large amount of his own savings for the construction of a skin disease clinic of the Women's Medical Institute (St. Petersburg Medical University named after I.P. Pavlov) . In 1920, a central serological laboratory, a laboratory for the experimental study of syphilis, and later the country's largest mycological laboratory, were created on the basis of the Kalinkinsky hospital. In 1922, the Kalinka hospital was named after V. M. Tarnovsky. ^[33] V. M. Tarnovsky - author of important discoveries in the field of venereology, as well as works in the field of sexology, sexopathology, moral and legal aspects of sexuality.

V. M. Tarnovsky was an active champion of higher female medical education in Russia. Russia's first female syphilidologist Z. Ya. Yeltsin (1854-1927) was his student and assistant. From 1882, Z. Ya. Yeltsin worked as an external student at the Kalinka hospital, in 1885/86 she was enrolled as an assistant at the Department of Syphilology at the Higher Women's Courses, and from 1887 to 1906 she took patients to the V.M. home outpatient clinic. Tarnovsky on the embankment R. Moyki, 104. ^[36] Together with V. M. Tarnovsky, his wife Tarnovskaya (Kozlova) Praskovya Nikolaevna (1848–1910), one of the first female doctors, an outstanding anthropologist and neuropathologist, ^{[37] the} author of monographs lived in the house on the Moyka. “Women-thieves” (St. Petersburg, 1891) ^[38] and “Women-killers” (St. Petersburg, 1902), an anthropological study, with 163 figures and 8 anthropometric tables. The main conclusions of these works were that the majority of women who committed crimes had signs indicating their deviation from the norm “both physically and mentally”, and that the reason for such deviations was unfavorable heredity. ^{[39] The} works of P. N. Tarnovskaya were highly valued by the famous Russian lawyer, judge, statesman and public figure A. F. Koni ^[40] .

From 1904 to 1912, a Russian traveler, geographer and zoologist and lepidopterologist, researcher of Western China, the Pamirs, the Tien Shan (1884-1890), Western Mongolia, Tuva and the Far East (1903-1914), who discovered the Turfan depression Grigory Efimovich Grumm, lived in the house. -Grzhimailo (1860, St. Petersburg - 1936, Leningrad). His main works are devoted to physical, political, historical geography and ethnography of Central Asia, as well as its entomology. The pass on the Sikhote-Alin ridge, one of the glaciers discovered by him in the Pamirs and a glacier on the Bogdo-Ula massif are named after Grum-Grzhimailo.

From 1912 to 1917 In this house there lived a family of chamberlain widow Lyubov Valeryanovna Golovina, sister of Countess Hohenfelsen, Princess Olga Paley , the morganatic wife of the youngest uncle of Emperor Nicholas II , Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich Romanov . ^{[41] [42]} Her daughter, Maria Evgenievna (Munya), was a member of a circle close to Grigory Rasputin . During an inquiry into the case of his murder, she testified that G. Rasputin and Prince Felix Yusupov met 5 years ago in their apartment on Zimnaya Canal, 6 (where Golovins lived then), and in 1916 they met again in their apartment on Moika 104. After that, Yusupov, under the pretext of chest pain, made closer contact with Rasputin, preparing for his murder. ^{[43] [44]} Olga Vladimirovna Lokhtina, the wife of a real state councilor, who left the house in 1910 because of her family’s irreconcilable stance with Rasputin, lived together with the Golovins in the house on the Moika. Lokhtina has been an admirer of Rasputin since 1905, when he cured her of a dangerous disease. Lokhtina was the editor of G.E. Rasputin's book “Pious Thoughts”, published in 1912 in St. Petersburg and carried out many secretary duties for him. Due to a painful mental state, she rarely left home. ^[45]

Victor Sobolev (1915-1999), Russian and Soviet astrophysicist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1981), creator of a large scientific school known in the world as the Leningrad School of Theoretical Astrophysics, author of the famous Theoretical Astrophysics Course, Hero of Socialist Labor lived in Moika 104. (1985), holder of the Order of Lenin, two orders of the Red Banner of Labor. According to the total contribution made to the analytical theory of radiation transfer, V. V. Sobolev and his school are out of competition in world astrophysics. Sobolev not only made a fundamental contribution to each of the main sections of this theory, but also stood at the origins of five of them. VV Sobolev taught and headed the Department of Astrophysics of Leningrad State University , his monograph “Moving Star Shells” (Leningrad State University, 113 pages) ^[46] became a classic of theoretical astrophysics. At the same time, Sobolev worked as a director of the Astronomical Observatory of LSU on a voluntary basis, then as head of the Department of Astronomy of the Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty of LSU. Thanks to his efforts, Leningrad State University was transformed into an Astronomical Institute. Now the Astronomical Institute of St. Petersburg University is named after V.V. Sobolev. ^[47]

Until 2001, house 104 on emb. Moyki was registered with the Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Monuments of History and Culture of the Government of St. Petersburg on the “List of Newly Identified Objects of Historical, Scientific, Artistic or Other Cultural Value” and was located in the United Protection Zone of the Central Regions of St. Petersburg . ^[48] . In 2001, when adjusting the list of newly identified objects of historical, scientific, artistic or other cultural value, by order of the chairman of the KGIOP No. 15 of 02.20.2001, the house was removed from the list. ^[49]

In 2015, in connection with the Year of Literature in the Russian Federation, a statement was submitted to the KGIOP on the inclusion of the building on Nab. R. Sinks 104, which has the features of a cultural heritage object, in the unified state register of cultural heritage objects (historical and cultural monuments) of the peoples of the Russian Federation ^[50] and on the installation of a memorial plaque on the house. The statement on the inclusion of the object in the state register of cultural monuments was supported by the leading specialized institutions and organizations of St. Petersburg, among them the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) RAS ^[51] , the Russian National Library ^[52] , the St. Petersburg Union of Artists ^[53] , St. St. Petersburg Union of Architects ^[54] , Association of Art Critics and Art Critics of St. Petersburg ^[55] .

By order of KGIOP No. 10-348 of 08/11/2015 ^{[56], the} application was rejected because of the "lack of historical and cultural value in the object." The refusal of KGIOP to include the building in the list of identified objects of cultural heritage was appealed in court. In October 2016, a repeated application was submitted to the KGIOP for the inclusion of the building in the register of cultural monuments, which was also rejected by the KGIOP order No. 136-r dated 03/27/2017 ^{[57] The} public and the city movement associate the KGIOP’s refusal with lobbying for the illegal development of the neighboring plot elite house "Art View House" on the emb. Moika River 102 on the site of the remnants of the tower and foundations of the northern wing of the famous Lithuanian castle demolished by the developer.

The house during the tenure of A.I. Musin-Pushkin is pictured in watercolor by his colleague at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karl Friedrich Knappe . A massive fence is visible right behind the Lithuanian castle, and behind it in the depths of the plot there is a fragment of the front facade of the old house, which was acquired by Musin-Pushkin from Demidov.

Description of the life of the Golovin family in the house on the Moika (from the notes of V. A. Zhukovskaya about G. Rasputin):

  “It was in 1914, shortly after my acquaintance with R. (Rasputin), when I came to them at the invitation of Muni. An old dark house on the Moika with mezzanines, internal oak stairs, covered with thick carpets, a silent Cossack in a large cool front , a white living room with Venetian mirrors and lacquered furniture, a silk boudoir with a dog monster from the breed of bulldogs sleeping in the corner of a low quilted sofa; an old wonderful portrait of Levitsky in a carved frame, cracked porcelain and a terrible silence of forgotten chambers, occasionally  and when I met them, my father was no longer alive, three lived, Lyub. Val. with daughters, the eldest Olga Evgenyevna was a sister of mercy and rarely came home. Grandmother Olga V. Karnovich nicknamed R. “the eagle”, she lived separately and occasionally came in her two-seater silk carriage, pulled by a pair of karakas, and more often family visited her. She treated R. disapprovingly, as she told me, but hiding her affectionately, she hid her hostility and even sometimes meekly admitted that "n  we must judge, ”and asked R. to pray.  The entire warehouse in the house was almost monastic: strict hours of lunch and breakfast, humble reverence Lyub.  Shaft.  to the mother and daughters to her, quietly, almost in a whisper, given orders, soundlessly sliding servants, icon lamps and the elusive smell of greenhouse flowers, candles, old materials, exhausted perfumes and incense, which happens in abbess cells and lordly houses, where it takes a long time the same people live.  And, along with this, R.'s unbridled liberty, his rollicking words and dance, and the faith in his holiness with Muni, and his sincere devotion to him Lyub.  Shaft.  And then the wild cries of Lokhtina: “Fall on your face!  God himself came down to earth! ”- her clichéd antics and ridiculous clothes with fluttering ribbons ..." [58] 

In 1984, the director Vitaly Melnikov, based on the early stories of F. M. Dostoevsky, made a full-length color television feature film, “Alien Wife and Husband Under the Bed,” staged at the Lenfilm film studio . Filming was carried out on the Moika embankment against the background of house 104.

Images of the house are also found in the works of A.N. Benois and A.P. Ostroumova-Lebedeva .

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• A.I. Musin-Pushkin (1744-1817)
• Louise Kessenich (1786-1852)
• V.V. Sobolev (1915-1999)

• Materials on the history of house 104 along the Moika embankment
• Laurentian Chronicle
• Glezerov, S. He opened the world "The Word of Igor's Campaign" / St. Petersburg Vedomosti, 02/13/2017
• Glezerov, S. House, where the "Word" was stored / St. Petersburg Gazette, 12/18/2015
• V.V. Ivanov . In memory of V.V. Sobolev
• Sobolev V.V. Moving shells of stars
• V.A. Zhukovskaya. My memories of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin 1914-1916
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