🏛 Pertsov House

Лиговский пр., 44

The biggest apartment building on Ligovka (1910–1912): Art Nouveau with chestnut leaves, satyrs and boys on the facade and courtyards deep into the block.

It was built “in the American manner”: 400 apartments, 18 lifts, telephones and a reading room for residents.
The design is by Sigizmund Galenzovsky with the participation of Ippolit Pretro.
The first hotel of 200 rooms went bust: guests could not sleep because of the carters from the Nikolaevsky Station.
In 1918 the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries had their headquarters here — it was stormed by cadets.
Ligovsky Prospekt was laid on the site of the filled-in Ligovsky Canal.

Part of these routes

Ligovka: Pushkin, the Pertsov House and the cast-iron king