14-15th line of Vasilyevsky Island

Like the rest of the lines on Vasilyevsky Island , the 14th-15th lines were supposed to be the embankments of one of the canals that were going to cut through Vasilyevsky Island according to the plan of Peter the Great . The name of the 14-15th lines has existed since 1718. In the 15th line, the artist Chartkov from Gogol's “ Portrait ” lodged.

The 15th line of V.O. from October 1918 to January 13, 1944 bore the name of Vera Slutskaya Street . From January 13, 1944 - again the 15th line.

14th line

• house 25-27 - a shelter for women of Roman Catholic faith - plot number 25: 1780s - there was a wooden mansion on the plot, there was a garden at the bottom of the plot, in the 1830s a two-story stone house was built on the plot, in 1856 they founded a shelter for women of the Roman Catholic faith, in the 1860-1890s the architect Nikolai Benoit made minor alterations, in 1896 the architect Joseph Dietrich built the house on the third floor, in 1900 the architect Frans Chebotarevich attached a two-story wing to the house, to the right, from the border with No. 23, symmetrical to the home 27. Plot number 27: in 1891, a military engineer Henry Wynn erected a two-storey building and extension to the house number 25;
• house 29 - a shelter for elderly women and young orphans - a branch of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of St. Petersburg State University , built in 1890-1891 - architect A. P. Soskov;
• house 31 - apartment building E. M. Semenova-Tian-Shanskoy, built in 1875; 1895 (?) - architect Karl Ziegler von Schaffhausen - a house in the middle of the plot, 1899 - architect Andrei Iossa - left side, 1911-1912 - architect Konstantin Makovsky - right side;

• house 31-33 - apartment building E. M. Semenova-Tian-Shansky (left side), 1899 - architect Andrei Iossa;
• house 33 - residential building, built in 1899-1900 - architect Andrei Iossa;
• house 35 - apartment building, built in 1911 according to the project of architect Fedor Pavlov ;
• house 37 - apartment building, built in 1903 by architect Leon Bogussky ;
• house 39 - in 1910, Karl May Gymnasium moved here to a new building built in 1909-1910 according to the project of German Grimm (a graduate of the gymnasium of 1883). At the entrance to the school took its place the symbol of the gymnasium - the May bug . Currently, this house houses the St. Petersburg Institute of Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences .
• house 45 - apartment building of M. D. Kornilov, built in 1901-1902 - architect Alexander Krasovsky ;
• Maly Prospect of Vasilievsky Island , house 38-40 - 14th line , house 73 - house of furnished rooms F. F. Theodoridi. Architect Ivan Volodikhin , 1903-1905;
• house 65 - apartment building; architect Nikita Ivanov .

15th line

• 2nd Lieutenant Schmidt embankment , line 27/15 , in 1895 - 1900 a courtyard of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra was built here (architect - V. A. Kosyakov with the participation of B. K. Pravdzik ).
• d. 8/40 - The last years of his life were spent in this house with his young wife Valentina Semenovna Bergman (1846–1924), a talented pianist, Alexander Nikolaevich Serov (1820–1871) - composer, musicologist, and music critic. In 1865, a son, Valentin , the future great Russian artist, was born into the family.
• d. 16 - apartment building of the Lutheran Church of St. Catherine, arch. G. D. Grimm , 1914 - 1915
• d. 22 - apartment building. Architect N.N. Nagel , 1914 .
• 44 - a tenement house, built in 1911 - 1912 by the architect L.V. Bogussky .
• 70 - a tenement house, built according to the project of M.F. Yeremeyev on the site of a wooden mansion demolished in 1910, as well as wooden and stone wings. In 1917, revolutionary Vera Slutskaya lived in the house.
• d. 72 - apartment building. In 1901 expanded according to the project of L. M. Kharlamov
• d. 74 - apartment building. Architect S. A. Barankeev , 1905 - 1907 .
• 86 - apartment building. Architect G.E. Gints , 1913 .

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  The building of the gymnasium of Karl May on the 14th line, d. 39
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  May bug - bas-relief over the entrance to the gymnasium of Karl May
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  Compound of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra
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  Apartment building 8 along the 15th line (corner of Bolshoi pr., 40)
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  Memorial plaque to Alexander Serov (15th line, d. 8)
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  Buildings 16, 18, 20 on line 15
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  Buildings 20 and 22 on line 15
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  Building number 70 on line 15

The 14th-15th lines cross or border the following avenues, streets and alleys:

• Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment
• Foreign lane
• Big Avenue
• Middle Avenue
• Neman Lane
• Small Avenue
• Kama street
• Embankment of Smolenka

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• Overview of street buildings on Citywalls

• Overview of street buildings on Citywalls