⁴ᴷSt. Petersburg Guryev-Naryshkin mansion Art space Third place - ruined historical interior
Channel: IVAR MALDEIKIS
Date: 26/02/2024

https://third.place/ Russia, St. Petersburg - Guryev-Naryshkin mansion - Art space Third place - ruined historical interior. 

For about twenty years, the monument remained abandoned, but at the same time it retained part of the ceremonial interiors created under Naryshkin.

History of the mansion
We are located in the Guryev-Naryshkin mansion - in a historical building in the center of St. Petersburg at 62 Liteiny Prospekt.

The mansion was built in the first third of the 19th century for Prince Pyotr Vasilyevich Lopukhin, and then rebuilt by the famous architect Harald Andreevich Bosse for the chief chamberlain and benefactor Emmanuil Dmitrievich Naryshkin.
In 1871, the mansion was given to the Spiritual Department as an apartment for the Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod. Residents of the house at the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries. replaced. The mansion on Liteiny became known as the “chief prosecutor’s palace.”
Konstantin Pobedonostsev stayed here the longest: from the moment of his appointment in 1880 until his death in 1907. Before him, from 1871 to 1879, the chief prosecutor of the Holy Synod, Count D. A. Tolstoy, lived in the mansion - a no less odious personality, than Pobedonostsev, who replaced him.
During the First World War, the Synodal infirmary was organized in the mansion.
After the October Revolution of 1917, the building was nationalized. In the era of the USSR, here, replacing each other, there were the Red Railway Club, the House of Technology named after. Stalin and the school of machinists.
The last one to be located here was the Central Museum of the October Railway until the early 2000s.