🏛 Tolstoy House

ул. Рубинштейна, 15–17

Walk-through courtyards and arches all the way to the Fontanka

The house was built in 1910–1912 to a design by Fyodor Lidval for Count Mikhail Tolstoy, a hero of the defence of Shipka.
Because of the plot's irregular shape, the axis of the courtyards is bent, and the arches open to the eye one after another rather than as a single perspective.
Flat numbers here have three digits: the first digit is the floor.
From 1913 the writer Arkady Averchenko lived in flat No. 203.
The courtyards were used for the “London” scenes of Sherlock Holmes with Vasily Livanov, and for “Winter Cherry”.
In 1987 about 3,000 people lived in the building's 327 flats.

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