The next move for Mephistopheles

From the facade of the income house of Number, which is on 24 Lakhtinskaya, the bas -relief of Mephistopheles is shot down

Dmitry Bratykin wrote about this on the Web: “On the Petrograd side there was such a local attraction - the apartment building of Number, in colloquial, a house with Mephistopheles. Naturally, a monument under protection. Was. Because 15 minutes ago Mephistopheles were shot down from the facade. A couple of days ago they put a cross on the church under construction opposite, some peppy people went yesterday and photographed a facade with Mephistopheles, and today at 15 o’clock a worker was hanging from the roof-and a bale-tie-tedon. Hello ISIS. "

The press service of the KGIOP, where the correspondent of Novaya called, did not know about this, but promised to find out. Concerned townspeople immediately went to the house on Lakhtinskaya, photographed. Near the entrance, the remains of the tape, which usually enclose the places of incidents or falls of the “icicles”. The rain blows out the crumbling plaster and the dust into which the demon has turned.

"Before" and "after" attack

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Photos of Roman Vesenin

We climb into the apartment, over which there was a bas -relief to this day. The owner of the apartment Kirill Alekseev says: “The workers came at ten in the morning, did not introduce themselves, refused to say who sent them, but asked to move the cars to stand the facade of the building, check how the plaster holds.” Cyril left, and when he returned home after dinner, it was already over.

“I say: why did you do it, this monument is protected by the state,” continues Alekseev. - They answered: they say, do not worry, he is dilapidated and emergency, he will be restored from gypsum. From how they said this, I can conclude that what happened is a planned action. ”

It should be recalled that exactly opposite the house with Mephistopheles that a church has been being built in honor of Ksenia Blessed for a year. Residents of the surrounding houses protested: they were deprived of a fire and playground.

Residents do not deny that the plaster on the facades is dilapidated, but so barbarously come and bring down the sculpture, without informing the city -defenders, nor the Monument Protection Committee, which included it in the list of newly identified objects representing artistic value - this is a challenge. Deputy Alexander Kobrinsky, who visited the site of vandalism, filed an application to the police to initiate the case under Art. 243 of the Criminal Code.

Elena Turkovskaya, the great -great -grandson of the architect, wrote bitterly on Facebook: “I am a great -grandson of the architect Near Alexander Lvovich, and is extremely outraged by vandalism! I have a feeling that my close relative was wounded! Alexander Lvovich said that his children are his children! ”

"New" will monitor the development of events.

House with Mephistopheles

Tatyana May, writer, blogger :

- Among the creators of St. Petersburg, himself, according to Dostoevsky, a deliberate city, the name of Alexander Lvovich Zlonevsky is in a special row. If you have met a house on the facade of which unprecedented, strange, bizarre creatures comfortably are located, this almost certainly turns out to be extra.

Trinning trolls and sad ginkles, monkeys, angry cats, bears, shyly hiding behind the shield, cheerful babies on the satires - the fantasy of the Near -Minnish borders did not know. Before his creations, you can always find a pedestrian who accidentally raised his eyes - and dumbfounded.

But the most probably famous house - Lakhtinskaya, 24. From above, from a spitz on the facade, looks thoughtfully at the city of Mephistopheles, dropping a sharp chin on folded hands. He appeared here more than a hundred years ago, during the stormy development of the then Petersburg side, and looked at him, Anna Akhmatova, who received her last apartment exactly opposite this house. They ran past to Gatchinskaya, in the salon of Ksana Puni, futurists, from Mayakovsky to Khlebnikov, reigned there "the cheerful and free spirit of Montmartre." Five steps from Mephistopheles in the 20s settled the Oerius, and probably Zabolotsky, Harms, Oleinikov threw themselves with jokes inspired by such a neighbor.

Alexander Lvovich Zlonevsky, a storyteller and a dreamer, himself died in a blockade, in 1942. He was taken out, extremely exhausted, to Yaroslavl, there he died in the hospital.

The creations of his war were experienced, but our time, as it turns out, is more destructive than the Second World War.

Photos of Elena Lukyanova