🏛 Fabergé Dacha

Песочное ш., 14, Осиновая Роща

The dacha of Agathon Fabergé, called the "Little Hermitage": the main house is under scaffolding, and the grounds are private. Sold at auction in 2026, so you can't get inside.

Carl Fabergé bought the plot on Dibunskaya Road from Count Levashov in 1883 (other sources say 1882).
Karl Schmidt built the first wooden house in 1901–1902, and in 1908–1910 Ivan Halnbeck turned it into a stone Art Nouveau mansion.
The dacha got the nickname "Little Hermitage" for Agathon Fabergé's collection: tapestries, porcelain, Japanese swords, netsuke and 300 Buddha figurines.
In 1919 the dacha was looted by Red Army soldiers: a monument-protection report said all the paintings had been pierced with bayonets.
In the First World War the Fabergés gave the dacha over as a sanatorium for the wounded, and during the Siege a hospital worked here.