Chicherin House
| Chicherin House | |
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| Дом Чичерина (Russian) | |
Lithograph of Chicherin House, 1830
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| Former names | Elisseeff House, Kosikovsky House, Barrikada cinema theater |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Neoclassicism |
| Location | Nevsky Prospekt 15, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Coordinates | 59°56′10″N 30°19′06″E / 59.93611°N 30.31833°E |
| Construction started | 1768 |
| Completed | 1771 |
| Demolished | 2007 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | possibly Vallin de la Mothe or Yury Felten |
Chichrerin House (Russian: Дом Чичерина) was a historical landmark building located at Nevsky Prospekt 15 (between Bolshaya Morskaya Street and Moika River embankment) in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is also known as Kosikovsky House, Elisseeff House and Barrikada cinema theater.
In 1716-1720, the area between the Moika River and Bolshaya Morskaya Street was the site used to build Mytnyi Dvor (Russian: Мытный Двор), a project by Georg Johann Mattarnovy and Nicolaus Friedrich Harbel. This building had a two-story gallery and a tower overlooking the Moyka, and it was commonly called Gostiny Dvor (Russian: Гостиный Двор) (not to be confused with the modern Gostiny Dvor in Saint Petersburg that was built later, in 1757). It was destroyed in a fire in 1736.
After the fire, the site remained empty until 1755, when architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli constructed a single-story wooden temporary Winter Palace to be a residence for Empress Elizabeth Petrovna while the new permanent Winter Palace was being built. The palace spanned the entire space from the Moyka River to Malaya and Morskaya streets, occupied today by Chicherin House at Nevsky 15 and Chaplin's House at Nevsky 13.
The history of the palace is linked to the history of the first Russian theater. When famous actor Fyodor Volkov was invited to come from Yaroslavl to Saint Petersburg in 1757, he became the director of the Imperial Theater. Performances were held in the palace, in a specially prepared hall. Empress Elizabeth lived in this palace until her death there on December 25, 1761.
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