🏛 Lidval House

Каменноостровский пр., 1–3

An apartment building with a ceremonial courtyard where every window and facade detail is different — a model of Northern Art Nouveau.

The house was built in 1899–1904 — Fyodor Lidval's first independent work, commissioned by his mother Ida Lidval.
The north wing served as the Lidval family's own mansion.
Four buildings of different heights surround a cour d'honneur, separated from the avenue by a fence on posts of red Finnish granite.
The facades carry reliefs of birds, animals and plants, and the year the building was finished is carved above the central portal.
The plot is trapezoid, yet Lidval managed without rooms with acute and obtuse angles.
In 1909 the painter Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin lived in the house, and in 1904 the family of General Kuropatkin.

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