Furshtatskaya 58 baby house. Address, opening hours, registration. - a kind of seraglio in miniature, turning into the hanging gardens of Babylon. Again in miniature.

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House of the merchant Spiridonov.

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On the way back from the Taurida Palace, we turned into some street. A boulevard was made in its center. I really liked the street. And what a name - Furshtatskaya! Immediately before my eyes, the scenario of the emergence of this name arose: Peter I ordered the establishment of Furshtat here, and later the street that had formed here began to be called by this name. Well, it turned out to be a little different. The place where this street arose was one of the first regularly built up in St. Petersburg. But under Peter I, it bore a numbered name - "4th line from the Neva River" (almost like on Vasilyevsky Island). Later, Pushkarskaya Sloboda arose here and the street became "3rd Artillery". In 1806, it was renamed Furshtadskaya - the word "Furshtadt" meant a regimental convoy. He, the regimental convoy of the Life Guards of the Preobrazhensky Regiment, is located approximately where house No. 19 is now. The name before the revolution was written through "d" - "Furshtadtskaya" - so closer to the German original of the word. Most of the buildings on the street are expensive apartment buildings, but there are also mansions. About one of them, which, thanks to the courtesy of the workers, managed to get inside, and there will be my story.

The main facade of the house. The building was made in the eclectic style that prevailed in those years, and it was made very magnificently - rustication, atlantes, columns, angels, rich friezes, a large balcony. and at the same time the main house - the one in the photo - is strictly symmetrical.

In the descriptions of the house, the combination "curious Atlantes" is often found - they are really funny. But in order not to spoil the picture from the mansion, I will not show them in close-up.

At the end of the 18th century, a section of house No. 58 on Furshtatskaya Street was owned by a silversmith with such a good Swedish surname Carlson.
In the 1830s, the plot was acquired Vera Petrovna Vasilkova, probably merchant rank. She ordered the architect F reybergu project of the house and in 1838 he built a one-story wooden house here. Those. as we understand, our madam Vasilkova was not too rich. However, things were not going badly, and in 1852 another architect, N. A. Sychev, built for her in the yard outbuildings - a stable, warehouses. There was a small garden between the manor house and outbuildings. In 1894, the heirs of Vera Petrovna Vasilkova, who had died by that time, sold the house to a collegiate adviser Nikolai Vladimirovich Spiridonov. The new owner rather acquired a plot of land for development, since the dilapidated one-story wooden house located on this site did not correspond either to the status of the new owner, or to the houses surrounding it by that time. A new mansion in 1895-1897 was built by a professor of architecture Alexander Nikanorovich Pomerantsev. The architect Pomerantsev is primarily known as the author of the Trade Rows on Red Square (GUM) in Moscow. The interiors of the magnificent mansion designed Vasily Fedorovich Svinin- all, except for one - the winter garden, which was arranged by I.S. Kitner. But first things first.

Part of a Corinthian column and window decoration, clearly symbolizing abundance.

Beautiful metal gates are located on the right hand of the main building of the mansion and, fortunately, have been completely preserved. For a long time, only the "NS" monogram on top was missing, but it has now been returned to its place. V

On the left hand - no less beautiful lattice with a gate enclose a small inner garden.

Here is the patio.

As I said, the doors of the mansion were unexpectedly opened and no one bothered to enjoy its interior decoration. And it's worth it. Here is what the wikipedia site writes about the interiors of the palace: "Spiridonov's mansion has a masterfully thought out layout of the palace type. The front living rooms with the Dance Hall in the center are located around the volume of the main staircase. Thanks to two special nodal transitions adjacent to the corners of the stair volume, the entire mansion is visible through and through." I don't remember these nodal transitions. I just walked and looked at the beauty

First you enter a wide vestibule with three high arched doors separating it from the main staircase.

The same lobby in 1970.

The room in front of the stairs is decorated with mirrors

Until we got to the second floor, a few more words about the first. There were residential, non-ceremonial premises - bedrooms, children's rooms, dressing rooms, bathrooms. There was also a basement floor used for household needs.

The main staircase is incredibly beautiful.

Having risen, we find ourselves on the second floor, where all the architectural riches of the Spiridonov mansion are enclosed. But for now, let's stop to find out who our hero was.

Nikolai Vladimirovich Spiridonov was born in 1851 in a military family. In 1877 he graduated from the Military Law School, after which he was seconded to the Main Military Loan Administration. Then he was transferred to serve in the Office of the Secretary of State, where he served in accepting petitions for the Highest Name. Then he moved to the Ministry of Agriculture and State Property, and in the second half of the 1880s, by the Highest Order, he was appointed Trustee of an orphanage at the St. Methodius Church in St. Petersburg, which was located on Suvorovsky Prospekt. At this time he had the rank of collegiate adviser.
For his service, N. V. Spiridonov was awarded many orders - St. Vladimir IV degree, St. Vladimir III degree (1906), St. Anna III (1897) and II degree, St. Stanislav II th degree and St. Stanislaus of the 1st degree (1909). In addition, he was awarded a commemorative medal in memory of the reign of Alexander III. For 24 years, Nikolai Vladimirovich has gone through a career path from a collegiate secretary to a general's position as a real state adviser. This rank gave him the right to hereditary nobility and it was granted to him in 1906, with the inclusion in the third part of the genealogical book. At the same time, the family coat of arms was also granted. Spiridonov composed the family coat of arms himself - it depicts a lion with a torch in his paw on a black field and a shield topped with a noble crown and a knight with a sword in his hand. “The lion symbolizes strength and energy,” wrote Spiridonov in “Explanation of my coat of arms,” “the light (torch) depicts enlightenment. The knight in the crest depicts valor and testifies that my ancestors were military. I choose these emblems as corresponding to my motto - "Strength in light and valor" - and my main activity aimed at enlightenment. Indeed, his main business was precisely the guardianship of various educational structures. In addition to St. Petersburg, Nikolai Vladimirovich was engaged in educational activities in the provinces. So, in two of his estates in the Pskov province, he established agricultural schools - in the estate of Vyazye in 1900 and in the estate of Maryin Dubrava - in April 1903. In Vyazye, Nikolai Vladimirovich himself organized a school - from him she received 68 acres of land, which housed a one acre training garden with berry bushes, a fruit nursery and a botanical garden. The school was provided with horses and implements, nine-field agriculture was organized for practical work. Since October 1901, the Vyazyevskaya Agricultural School was named after A. S. Pushkin. By 1904, the school already had 100 acres. The students of the school produced bricks, drainage pipes (all school acres were equipped with a drainage system), Marseille tiles, barnyard and floor tiles. For this, American and German cars were purchased. The students were trained to work on advanced agricultural implements at that time - a steam mill, a threshing machine and a grain dryer. The school provided education within the framework of elementary folk schools. Wishing to expand the business of education, Spiridonov gave his other estate - Maryina Dubrava - for the needs of the school, which was opened by the Provincial Zemstvo. The school was named Spiridonovskaya. Officially, it was called the Government Agricultural School of the 1st category with one preparatory class and three special ones. The main goal of the school is to disseminate among the people the basic knowledge of agriculture, home economics and the crafts necessary for it, mainly through practical exercises. It is interesting that girls studied at this school.

Let's walk through the open halls ...

"On the second floor there is a suite of ceremonial rooms, traditional for a rich house. In their design, decorative elements of the main historical styles are used: luxurious Renaissance, high classicism, elegant rococo and even picturesque Moorish style. Marble interior decoration, typesetting parquets, painting make the house attractive and cozy , mirrors, tiles, rich molding. It was built for family life with modest home holidays - name days and children's trees, just with quiet evenings by the fireplace and this is felt at the entrance "*.

*en.wikipedia

This hall is called the Damask Hall.

Damask hall in the last century.

It has a luxurious fireplace.

On both sides of the fireplace are portraits of the owners of the mansion - Nikolai Vladimirovich Spiridonov and his wife, Maria Afanasyevna.

The next hall is in the Baroque style, with magnificent stucco and magnificent ceiling paintings.

The photograph is signed as a banquet hall, but I think this is already a Soviet name.
photo from www.pwh.ru

Well, this is the main attraction - the Dance Hall, the largest in the mansion. And the most luxurious.

These three windows overlook the balcony overlooking Furshtatskaya, which we saw in the photo of the facade. The one that is supported by the "curious Atlanteans").

As I said, part of the interiors of the mansion was probably designed by Pomerantsev himself, and the main ones by the architect Svinin. But one of the most interesting interiors was made Jerome Sevastyanovich Kitner(1839-1929). Around the same time that Spiridonov's mansion was being built, Kitner completed the construction of the Palm Greenhouse in the Botanical Garden, on Aptekarsky Island. Well, perhaps with this greenhouse idea, he appeared in the Spiridonov mansion, having come up with the idea of ​​​​building a hanging winter garden between the house and the outbuilding. Nikolai Vladimirovich liked the idea. And so this winter garden appeared here, with an area of ​​​​about 80 sq.m.

But before you get into it, you get into the Turkish room

- a kind of seraglio in miniature, turning into the hanging gardens of Babylon. Again in miniature.

photo from www.citywalls.ru

Architectural sketch of the greenhouse in the Spiridonov mansion.
photo from sakura.spb.ru

Greenhouse in Spiridonov's house. It can be seen that it is really located above the passage to the courtyard and serves as a junction of two wings - the main and right wings.

The right wing is decorated with a niche in which there is a vase with a lion's muzzle.
photo from www.citywalls.ru

In addition to the Spiridonov family itself, servants also lived in the outbuildings, including probably the manager of Nikolai Vladimirovich, Alexander Grigorievich Ryabinin.
Nikolai Vladimirovich Spiridonov lived here until his death in 1914.
Then his widow owned the house, Maria Afanasievna (née Vilinbakhova) together with her daughter Maria Nikolaevna Spiridonova. Daughter married Kirill Vladimirovich Kushelev in 1909 he was a lieutenant of the II Cavalry Brigade of the Life Guards Horse Regiment, and then a staff captain, who was at the disposal of the Minister of War. Son of N. V. Spiridonov, Vladimir Nikolaevich Spiridonov, served in the Life Guards Cuirassier Regiment.

Maria Afanasievna Spiridonova, ur. Vilenbakhov
photo from sakura.spb.ru

The Spiridonov family owned the house until 1916. Then he was sold to the merchant of the first guild Ivan Andreevich Melikov. Melikov was a very large businessman and was a member of the board of many firms well-known at that time - for example, the Aramazd oil trading company, the Molot Association of Mechanical and Iron Foundries, the Biochrome society and others. All this brought a lot of money, of course. But I’m much more interested in another company in which Ivan Andreevich Melikov was a co-owner and manager - it was called "Trading House in the form of a partnership on faith" S.M. Prokudin-Gorsky and Co. , the pioneer of color photography, who traveled all over the Empire and left us beautiful color photographs of that life ...

Ivan Andreevich Melikov

After the October Revolution, the house was nationalized, but for a long time it was empty. In 1924, an orphanage was placed here. In 1927-1928, the Dental Institute began to work in the mansion, which in 1935 was transformed into the Leningrad Medical Dental Institute. The mansion housed his rector's office, departments, library, classrooms. During the siege of Leningrad, a bomb hit the building. In 1944-1946, its restoration took place. In 1954 the Institute was transferred to Tver. From 1956 to 1965 - the Leningrad branch of the All-Russian Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. In 1965, the Palace of the solemn registration of newborns Malyutka "was opened here, which is still located here. The mansion was restored several more times - in 1965, 1983-1984 and 2004-2005.
The fate of the children of N. V. Spiridonov after the events of 1917 is unknown. According to some reports, Maria Afanasyevna was shot in 1917 or in 1919.
In conclusion, a few words about the neighboring house - Furshtatskaya 60. In the late 1890s, Nikolai Vladimirovich Spiridonov bought a plot adjacent to his mansion and built an apartment building on it. The architect was Vasily Shenet, who built a house with a white marble staircase and huge apartments, each of which occupied an entire floor. Perhaps the house was sold along with the mansion.

including used information from the sites http://ru.wikipedia.org sakura.spb.ru, www.amira-n.ru, petersburg-history.narod.ru/

You can get to the Malyutka Palace in St. Petersburg by walking just a few meters from the Wedding Palace No. 2 or by turning right from the Chernyshevskaya metro station.

Like most nearby buildings, the Malyutka Registration House does not have its own parking lot, and there are a lot of cars driving here. Parking spaces very close to the institution are very rare, therefore, when arriving in your car or taxi for registration with a small child, you will have to spend a lot of time looking for a “window”.

Palace layout

As in any institution, the hall of the Malyutka Palace on Furshtatskaya leads to the cloakroom, office rooms and rooms: after climbing a few steps and turning right, visitors enter the cloakroom, and turning left - into the office, where they accept applications for registration.

Toilets are also here, on the ground floor.

The main staircase - one of the many attractions of the Malyutka Palace - is located right in the center of the hall. It has two passages, which is very convenient for visitors with small children. The landing is spacious enough and convenient for group shooting.

All the celebrations held in the Palace take place here.

The invited guests are waiting for the beginning of the ceremony in the Fireplace Living Room - a magnificently decorated hall, where the severity of an official institution and the luxury of an old mansion are so successfully combined.

Parents with babies - the heroes of the occasion - are invited to a special living room, where there is everything to spend time in comfort: changing tables, a sink, screens for changing a child, a lot of toys, comfortable furniture.

You can also wait for the ceremony to start and take a photo session in the Winter Garden, which at any time of the year pleases the eye with emerald green plants and bright flowers.

Before check-in, parents with children are invited to the Golden Lounge. Its interior is graceful gilded stucco of the walls and ceiling, warm pastel colors, an abundance of mirrors, luxurious furniture, carpets and draperies that perfectly complement the overall picture.

Certificates and commemorative medals are issued in the capacious registration hall, shining with gilding and luxuriously furnished with antique-style soft sofas and armchairs.

At the end of registration, you can celebrate the event in a cafe, of which there are a great many near the Malyutka.

1. You need to arrive at the ceremony at the Baby Palace in about half an hour - during this time, parents will be able to swaddle or change clothes if necessary, give the baby the opportunity to get used to the new environment and have a short photo session with him

2. To shoot a celebration, you can invite both your cameramen and employees of the Malyutka Palace studio in St. Petersburg

3. Both the solemn registration of the birth of a child and the issuance of commemorative medals are absolutely free, no state duty is required

4. Solemn marriage ceremonies are not held at the Malyutka Palace: parents of babies can formalize their relationship in the usual way

5. For registering a marriage, it is necessary to pay a standard state duty - 350 rubles

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How can I get to

Address: st. Furshtatskaya, 58

Contacts

Opening hours Mon, Wed, Fri - from 14:00 to 17:00
Tue - from 10:00 to 17:00
Thu, Sat, Sun - from 10:00 to 13:00

Break

from 14.00 to 15.00

Comments

Reviews

Iina Posted on 04/23/2018

We registered our son in August 2017, purposefully went to Svetlana Alexandrovna Cherkashina - we saw her work several times at the registration of friends' children - no one can speak more touchingly, warmer) each time tears welled up. Thank you very much for the human approach, professionalism, that you always keep a high level, starting "from the hanger", as they say. You enter the Palace - and immediately you find yourself in a fairy tale! Thank you!

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• Interior: Light
• Ceremony: Quality

• Parking spaces: No

The birth of a little man is an event that all future parents are looking forward to. Either way, they will remember it for the rest of their lives. In a few days, the parents will have to receive the child. And only in which only a few days old, can be awarded a medal. This is done by employees of such an institution as the Registration Palace "Malyutka". Where is it located, what is its history and when can I go there? Read - and you will know everything!

So, the Palace "Baby" is a special department of the St. Petersburg registry office. Moreover, there are no institutions of this type in Russia anywhere else. Palace address: st. Furshtatskaya, 58. This building is the former mansion of Spiridonov.

Building history

N. V. Spiridonov, a collegiate adviser, acquired a plot of land on which now stands a luxurious mansion, practically untouched by time, in 1894. Only a modest one-story building and a small garden were located here. They clearly did not correspond to this district of St. Petersburg, which was already quite prestigious in those years. And Spiridonov himself dreamed of a mansion that would be in no way inferior to neighboring houses.

Already in 1895-1896, a building was built, which now houses the Malyutka Palace. The architects who worked on it are A. N. Pomerantsev, V. F. Svinin and I. S. Kitner.

Description of the mansion

The facade of the mansion is made in an eclectic style, the details of which are intertwined with elements of baroque, renaissance and German classicism. Strict symmetry well balances the luxurious look. The central risalit is decorated with a wide balcony, which is securely held by mighty Atlanteans.

The layout of the palace type of the Spiridonov mansion was thoroughly thought out by the architects. The main staircase is surrounded by grand drawing rooms, in the center of which a dance hall is comfortably located. Special nodal transitions provide an opportunity to see through the building. On the second floor, sequentially, one after another, there are front rooms. In their interior, you can guess the details of various architectural trends. There are elements of elegant rococo, high classicism, luxurious renaissance and picturesque here. Small details, however, support its atmosphere. Type-setting parquets, mirrors, marble finishing, rich molding, painting - all this makes the mansion cozy and especially attractive.

For a little over 20 years, the Spiridonov family owned this house. In 1916, it was purchased by the merchant I. A. Malikov. But after the October Revolution, an orphanage was located here. The middle of the 1920s was marked by the opening of an institute within the walls of the mansion, which prepared and existed here before the war. Even the All-Russian Society for Cultural Relations has been working in this building since 1956. And already in 1965, a registry office branch called “Baby” was opened here - the Palace of Birth Registration.

Presentation of medals

Since the signing of a special order by the St. Petersburg Government (08.24.2006), every baby born in the northern capital of Russia, who is a citizen of the Russian Federation, can receive a commemorative medal if the fact of his birth is registered with the local registry office. No money is required for this. In addition, if the parents wish, this can happen in a special, solemn atmosphere. At the time of the presentation of the first document of the baby, the Hymn to the Great City sounds in his honor.

Such a ritual will never be erased from the memory of young parents, because it is a real holiday. You can’t say anything - this is perhaps the best start to the life of a small citizen of the Russian Federation. Now the employees of the Malyutka Palace register more than five hundred babies every month, and this figure is growing every year.

Application procedure

Who can come to the Malyutka Palace to register the birth of a child here? This is available to any resident of St. Petersburg and does not depend on the district of the northern capital in which young parents are registered. If the mother and father of the child are legal spouses, then one of them needs to submit an appropriate application to the Palace before the baby is one month old. If the parents are not officially married, then statements must be written by each of them.

In addition, you will need the following documents:

• Certificate from a medical institution, which states when and where the child was born. If the baby was born at home, then a witness is needed - a person who can confirm this.
• Parents' passports.
• Parents' marriage certificate, if any.

Once again, we note that a child is registered at the Palace and a solemn ritual is performed absolutely free of charge. At the moment, the Palace "Malyutka" in St. Petersburg allows you to apply electronically using the city portal of the state. services.

The last 3 days of the week - Friday, Saturday and Sunday - are intended for the solemn registration. You can celebrate this event with family and friends right here by renting a buffet hall.

Opening hours and contacts

The Malyutka Palace is open daily from 10 am to 6 pm, with a break only for lunch from 2 pm to 3 pm.