🖼 Kshesinskaya Mansion

ул. Куйбышева, 2–4

Museum of Political History of Russia

The mansion was built in 1904–1906 for the ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska to a design by Alexander von Hohen.
The facades combine red and grey granite, brick and majolica — a textbook example of Northern Art Nouveau.
In spring 1917 the Bolsheviks settled here: Lenin worked in the mansion from 3 (16) April to 4 (17) July.
Kschessinska filed an eviction suit, naming among the defendants the “candidate of law V. I. Ulyanov”; the judge ordered the party organisations evicted.
In 1920 the ballerina emigrated to France.
In 1957 the mansion was joined to the neighbouring Brandt mansion for the Museum of the Revolution.
Since 1991 it has housed the Museum of Political History of Russia.

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