These are Instagram accounts of six famous houses

In 2021, the inhabitants of the Buck House were divided: one of the organizers of the community, as its neighbors say , began to use the VKontakte group for personal benefit. Now the public on VKontakte is led by Archil Sarajishvili, and other residents of the house concentrated on Instagram and Facebook.

At the house of Bak, the house with dragons and other famous buildings of St. Petersburg has blogs on Instagram. There, residents publish archival photos, talk about finds during the repair and interesting facts.

The telegram channel “Coffee and Tickets (in St. Petersburg)” collected a list of accounts of historical houses in St. Petersburg. "Paper" talks about these buildings.

Back house

Back's house on Kirochny Street was built in 1905 by architect Boris Girshovich. The first owner of the house - Julian Bak - was an engineer of the route, the founder and publisher of the newspaper Schu.

In 2013, residents of the Baku House created a public “ Kirochny, 24 ” with archival photographs, stories of famous residents and memories of contemporaries. The group was aimed at the unification of residents, the struggle to improve the state of the house, study its history. By 2021, accounts on Instagram and Facebook are active, where they talk about interesting facts from the history of the house and events, as well as publish images of the building.

More details about how the residents of the Baku House laundered marble stairs and stained -glass windows, produce their own souvenirs and look for the doors of the building on Avito, read here .

Bazhanov’s house on Marat, 72

The building was built in 1909 for the trade and industrial partnership "F. G. Bazhanov and A.P. Chuvaldin. " During the blockade of Leningrad, the Chekhov library was in the house, at the same time, until the 1960s, the family of Khimik professor Nikolai Volynkin lived here. This is a monument to the St. Petersburg Art Nouveau.

Residents have been leading Instagram at home since 2020. The account publishes historical reports about people who participated in the construction of the building, and also talk about interesting architectural elements. In addition, the book “Bazhanov’s House” recently appeared .

By the way, do not confuse Bazhanov’s house on Marat Street with Bazhanov’s profitable house on Kolomenskaya Street - these are two different buildings .

Kolyshko House on Chkalovsky, 16

The apartment building of V.O. Kolyshko was built in 1908. Before that, Nemetti Nevsky was in its place. In Soviet times, the Belaya Horse beer restaurant worked here.

Instagram at home Kolyshko appeared at the end of 2019. It talks about the construction and history of the building, as well as about the surroundings.

House of the basic partnership on Nekrasov, 58–60

The residential complex, built in 1914, occupies almost the entire territory between Nekrasov Street, Greek Avenue, Vilensky Lane and Fountain Street.

Instagram of the basic partnership appeared in September 2019. Residents talk about historical doors, balconies, landing of trees and other activities, and also show interesting architectural elements.

House with dragons on Boli, 17b

The house with dragons, aka Astashev’s apartment building, was built in 1900 in the eclectic style by architect Vladimir Kurzanov. The building is so called because its corner is decorated with the figures of dragons.

Instagram at home with dragons was created in 2019. Residents want to get rid of the pink “spots” on the wall with vicenshide (part of the house painted the local studio), as well as restore the facade and figures of dragons. The account also publishes photos of cats.

Timofeev’s house on Lakhtinskaya, 3

Timofeev’s apartment building on Lakhtinskaya Street was built in 1906. Alexander Blok lived here, the house is described in the poems of the poet “Cold Day”, “In October”, “In the attic”, “Windows to the courtyard”.

Instagram at home on Lakhtinskaya, 3 appeared in April 2021. In the account, residents illuminate the problems of the building, and also talk about the restoration of pre -revolutionary painting in the front door (these are stencil water lilies at the beginning of the 20th century).

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Read also the story about the blogger Maxim Kosmin. He helped to find the doors of the Buck house, a moneta clip platform and wrote a book about pre -revolutionary houses.