Stremyannaya ul., 18  

59.93084, 30.35325 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Plaque with historical information about the street in English next to the gates
During which activity did groom-servants accompany their Mistress?
hunting

Historical background Checkpoint picture 742

Number 20, Stremyannaya Ulitsa, was built in 1902 by architects Herman Grimm and Gustav von Goli at the expense of the Society for Religious and Moral Education.
The Society was founded soon after the assassination of Alexander II in order to prevent further incidents of this kind, or, to put it another way, ‘to counteract anarchy, socialism, atheism and Protestant teachings’. Archpriest Mikhail Sokolov, the rector of the Kazan Cathedral, headed the society. Among the members of the Society there were famous people of conservative views, including Konstantin Pobedonostsev. In 1918, the Society tried to resist the Bolsheviks’ appropriation of the Aleksandr Nevsky Lavra by holding a Cross Procession. The Lavra remained open, but a few months later the Chairman of the Society was shot, and it soon ceased to exist.
Since 1965 and up to the present day the building houses a library. Over the past years it has changed its name four times.

Present in routes of categories Lion & Unicorn