Delvig House, Regional cultural heritage site in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Delvig House is a building featuring classical architecture with large arched windows and stone detailing on its main facade in Saint Petersburg. The structure displays typical 19th century design elements with prominent window rows and ornamental facade details.
The house was home to Anton Delvig, a Russian poet and close friend of Alexander Pushkin, during the early 1800s. The residence played a role in the literary history of this era through its connection to the intellectual circles of that time.
Delvig founded and edited Literaturnaya Gazeta in this house, and his salon drew Pushkin, Zhukovsky, Odoevsky and Pletnyov. The building now houses a business centre, and a memorial plaque again marks the site after the 2014 renovation.
The building stands at the corner of Zagorodny Prospekt and Shcherbakov Lane, facing Vladimirskaya Square. It now houses a business centre, so the interior is not open to tourists; the facade and the memorial plaque can be seen from the street at any time.
In 1986 the house was slated for demolition to build the Dostoevskaya metro station. A month-long campaign by the group Spasenie, with articles in Smena, a letter signed by Pushkin House staff in Literaturnaya Gazeta and a rally on Vladimir Square on 19 October, saved it; the metro was built without destroying the building.
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