- Admiralteysky pr., 6
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59.936703, 30.311209 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)
- Entrance from the avenue. Sign with information about the museum in English
- Second line from the bottom
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Historical background
In 1788, a plot of land located near the Admiralty was bought by the Privy Counsellor Ivan Vietinghoff, then the President of the Medical College. Giacomo Quarenghi was commissioned to build Vietinghoff’s house. Ten years prior to that, Quarenghi was appointed to the post of Catherine II’s court architect, and had already proven himself. Several dozens of buildings designed by him have survived until our time. They include the Smolny Institute, the Yusupov Palace, and the Academy of Sciences.
After Vietinghoff the house was bought by Count Samoilov, the nephew of Prince Potyomkin, and shortly after that the building was taken over by the state. Until 1876, the building housed the Chambers of the Criminal and Civil Court, the District Police and County Court, the Court Council, the Provincial Government, the Treasury Chamber, the Archives of the Provincial Government, the Treasury Chamber and the Court Chambers, the Welfare Board, the Provincial Surveyor and his drawing room, the Provincial Printing House, the County Treasury and the money store rooms. In 1877, after the reconstruction of the interior design, the building was handed over to the Town Council.
The house survived the October Revolution and was taken over by the All-Russian Special Commission for Combating Counter-revolution, Sabotage, and Speculation headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky. In 1918, the government moved from to Moscow, and in 1930’s the building became residential. In 1970–1980’s, the building came under the jurisdiction of Glavleningradstroy. The Department of the Automated System for Planning, Control and Regulation of Construction was located in its premises.
Present in routes of categories Lion & Unicorn