"Writing Skyscraper" is a house in St. Petersburg , where many representatives of the Soviet literary elite lived. Currently, the building is a museum of M. M. Zoshchenko .
| Building | |
| "Writing Skyscraper" | |
|---|---|
 View from the Griboedov Canal | |
| A country |  Russia |
| Location | St. Petersburg |
| Architectural style | classicism |
| First mention | 1930s |
| Status |  Identified object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation ( normative act ). (Wikigid database) |
The building has a triple address: 9 Griboedov Canal Embankment , 4/2 Malaya Konyushennaya Street , 2 Cheboksarsky Lane .
History
The plot of the house from the 1720s belonged to the Court Stables Office . Various residential and farm buildings were located here. At the beginning of the XIX century, presumably the architect Luigi Ruska erected storage facilities on the promenade. The building acquired a modern look when it was significantly rebuilt in 1838-1851 by the architect of the Konushennaya firm A. I. Bourgeois . Initially, the three-story building was included in a single complex of buildings of the Stables Department, made in the style of classicism . The house housed a stable infirmary. In 1882, the building was transferred to the Court Music Choir , part of which were the musical teams of the Cavalier Guard and the Life Guards of the Horse Regiments. Here lived the leaders of the choir composers K. K. Stackelberg and G. K. Flige . In the rehearsal hall of the house, concerts took place periodically. Already at that time the choir did not have enough living quarters and a project for a superstructure of 2 floors was developed, but it was not implemented.
After the October Revolution of 1917, the Court Orchestra was reorganized into the State Orchestra, which became the first Soviet state symphony ensemble. In the early 1930s, the building was completely renovated and the two-story superstructure project was nevertheless implemented for the needs of a writer's housing cooperative. Due to technical limitations, the height of two new floors was equal to one old. Apart from low ceilings, housing was distinguished by long hotel-type corridors with nooks, where the doors of cramped apartments went. The house received the nickname "Writing Skyscraper" due to the panoramic view from the windows, but because of its limited size, the nickname was ironically re-named as "Writing Skyscraper." At different times, representatives of the Soviet writers ’elite lived in this building: O. D. Forsh , M. M. Zoshchenko , V. A. Kaverin , I. S. Sokolov-Mikitov , Yu. P. German , V. K. Ketlinskaya , M. E. Kozakov , M. M. Kozakov , L. I. Borisov , L. I. Rakovsky , B. S. Zhitkov , M. L. Slonimsky , V. M. Sayanov , V. Ya. Shishkov , E. L. Schwartz , poets V. A. Rozhdestvensky , B. M. Likharev , E. A. Vechtomova , I. K. Avramenko , N. L. Brown , M. I. Komissarova , literary scholars B. V. Tomashevsky , B. M. Eichenbaum , I.A. Gruzdev , etc.
During the siege of Leningrad, E. L. Schwartz wrote here the anti-fascist plays “Under the Linden of Berlin” (together with M. M. Zoshchenko) and “ Dragon ”.
In memory of the famous tenants on the external facade of the house, memorial plaques to V. A. Rozhdestvensky, M. M. Zoshchenko, V. Ya. Shishkov, V. M. Sayanov, and also a common plaque to other writers were installed over the years.
The history of the house is also associated with the political persecution of writers. On November 22, 2015, at the three front doors in the courtyard of the house, seven “ Last Address ” plates were installed dedicated to the writers who became victims of political repression during the Great Terror : N. M. Oleinikov , V. I. Stenich , B. P. Kornilov , Yu S. Berzin , G. D. Venus , P. N. Medvedev , J. A. Kalnyn [1] . Preparing the installation of a plate to N. G. Svirin . Here also the repressed writers B. D. Chetverikov , N. A. Zabolotsky , E. M. Tager , G. O. Kuklin lived in the future. A major role in perpetuating the memory of victims of repression was played by the son of the writer A.N. Oleinikov .
From 1934 until the end of his life, M. M. Zoshchenko lived in this house. Anna Akhmatova hid here during the siege of Leningrad . Both of them became victims of repression after the famous Resolution of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks “On the magazines Zvezda and Leningrad in 1946. In 1988, it was decided to open in the house of the museum-apartment of M. M. Zoshchenko as a branch of the Literary and Memorial Museum of F. M. Dostoevsky . The opening of the museum took place in 1992. In the courtyard of the house, as part of the museum exposition, stands are dedicated to the history of the house, as well as its famous residents.
In 2001, the house was included by KGIOP in the "List of newly identified objects of historical, scientific, artistic or other cultural value."
Notes
- ↑ St. Petersburg, Griboedov Canal Embankment, 9 (4/2 Malaya Konyushennaya) // Last address . - 2015. - November 22.
Literature
- Axelrod V.I., Mankova A. A. .. Konyushennaya Square and Malaya Konyushennaya Street .. - M .: Tsentrpoligraf, 2011. - P. 94-99, 163-211. - 349 p. - (St. Petersburg - 300 years). - ISBN 978-5-227-02697-2 .
- Kuchinova A. R .. History of the house No. 9 but the embankment of the Griboedov Canal . - SPb. : RPO "Institute of Petersburg", 2003. - 8 p.
- ““ A House Under a Starry Roof ... ”Griboedov Channel 9” / State Literary Museum “XX Century”. - M., St. Petersburg: Islander, 2017.
- Tatyana Voltskaya. The history of the country from one window: a book about the "writer's house" // Radio Liberty: Radio. - 2018 .-- February 17.