Luxury and poverty of St. Petersburg communal apartments
The Instagram of a St. Petersburg photographer is gaining popularity in social networks, who takes pre-revolutionary apartments from the "old fund": with high ceilings, large windows, stucco on the ceiling and fireplaces. Most of them were converted into communal apartments in Soviet times,which still have tenants.
Photo posted by Maxim (@maax_sf) Jun 14, 2016 at 1: 03AM PDT
Communal apartment on the 5th Sovetskaya street.
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Resettled communal apartment on Kirochnaya street.
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Grandfather clock in the apartment on Petrovskaya Embankment.
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A wall safe in a resettled communal apartment on Bolshoy Prospekt of the Petrogradskaya side from the American firm Lowrie S&L.
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A room with a stained glass window and a stove in a communal apartment on Ruzovskaya Street.
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Apartment on Shpalernaya street.
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"These doors are strange because they have glass on one side, and blind panels on the back. On the right is a statue made of Italian marble. The author is unknown, since the signature is chipped. It is expensive. Very much."
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Pre-revolutionary brass mixer. "The two levers were originally connected by a jumper with the words "shower" and "bath" on different sides. And a thermometer was inserted into the mixer from above (now there is a plug)."
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A balcony with a fence in the Art Nouveau style.
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The hostel is located in the house of 1902 on Suvorovsky Prospekt.
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Painted ceiling moldings. "It is difficult to say whether these are original colors or experiments of previous residents. In general, before the revolution, stucco decor was often painted in similar shades."
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Fireplace in the Art Nouveau style in the house on Galernaya, 67. " Made, most likely, somewhere in Poland or Livonia. The condition is so-so, clearly shifted, and quite crooked. Perfectionists will not approve."
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"Do you think this is a staircase in some mansion? Or, perhaps, the grand staircase of a rich apartment building? And here it is not. This is a staircase inside one of the apartments in the Dernov apartment building on Tavricheskaya Street. The apartment now houses a kindergarten, and the house is not famous for these interiors at all. In another apartment, at the very top of the house, there was the " Ivanov Tower — - an informal epicenter of the cultural life of the Silver Age era."
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"Despite the fact that the house was built in the heyday of Art Nouveau (1904), its exterior and interiors are eclectic. However, sometimes Art Nouveau still seeps through."
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"A kitchen in a settled communal apartment in the very center of St. Petersburg. And don't ask what is in the bank on the right."
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"This is a kindergarten in a former apartment on the Fontanka Embankment, 24. Of course, before the revolution it was not just an apartment, but one of the richest apartments in the city, which occupied an entire floor. Now one half of it is still residential, and the second has been a kindergarten for many years. By the way, if you want to spoil the historical interior, paint the walls in pastel green and lay a resounding laminate."
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"Communal Putti (boys with wings in Renaissance and Baroque art. - Ed.)".
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"This is where the servants lived before the revolution. A typical human room is a small room near the kitchen, with windows to the courtyard. This room has preserved its historical dimensions."
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1902.
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The photographer does not name the addresses of abandoned places.
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"They say that a certain pharmacist, the owner of the whole house, lived in this apartment before the revolution. His pharmacy was located on the first floor. The pharmacist fled the country in 1917, and the pharmacy existed in the same place for almost the entire XX century."
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No longer a communal apartment, rented out.
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"This stove, by the way, pretended to be a fireplace,but was brought to light. Both doors are historical. External elements supposedly improve the aesthetic perception of the furnace."
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Fireplace stove on Chernyakhovsky Street.
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"Under the layers of wallpaper in Rasputin's apartment, of course, there are pre-revolutionary newspapers. When planning repairs in the old fund, it is necessary to take into account the hours that will be spent reading the centennial press."
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"The former owner's apartment on Konnaya Street, in the house No. 8. The apartment has never been communal, and in the late 1990s, a gentle restoration was carried out here. In addition to stucco and stoves, doors with fittings, windows, parquet were preserved and put in order. The house was built by the architect Lev Natkin in 1912."
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"The Gothic living room in the kindergarten-the former apartment of the Poklevskys-Kozells on the Fontanka embankment. In place of the cabinet, there used to be a fireplace with a portal. And once the Masonic lodge meetings were held in the house."
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Fireplace. "Its tiles were originally made of terracotta, that is, not glazed. Such fireplaces were painted after installation in any color at the request of the customer. And on the left there are traces of an arch leading to the next room. The wall and the door appeared here in the process of sealing."
Keywords: St. Petersburg | Russian Federation | Housing | Design and architecture | Apartments | Pre-revolutionary era | Social networks