Kazanskaya Street

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KAZANSKAYA STREET known as First Perevedenskaya Street in the 1740s, Bolshaya Meshchanskaya Street from the 1750s to 1873, and Plekhanova Street in memory of G. V. Plekhanov from 1923 to 1998. The street runs between Nevsky Prospect and Fonarny Lane. It was named after Kazan Cathedral. It appeared in the early-to-mid 18th century in the location of Perevedenskaya Settlement (hence the first name). The building of the Board of Trustees was erected by architect G. Quarenghi at number 7 in 1808-10. Today, it belongs to Zarya Works. An office of the Forster House was built at number 7 in 1817. It now accommodates the Academy of Liberal Education. Building 18 of the 1810s is a monument of Classicism completing the view of Kazanskaya Street. Building 12/27 accommodated a provincial gymnasium in the early 19th century and was transformed into a High School, the Second Boys" Gymnasium from the early 1830s, then school No. 232, and now again the Second Gymnasium. Among students of the gymnasium were Alexander Pushkin"s sons, as well as A. F. Koni, N. N. Miklukho-Maclay, et al. Polish poet A. Mickiewicz lived in house 39 in 1828-29, composer A. K. Glazunov in house 8-10 in 1865-1928. Building 1/2 accommodated the House of Printing in the 1920s. A. A. Akhmatova lived in house 4/2 in 1922-23 and in house 3 from the late 1923 until the early 1924.

Reference: Вяземский С. М. Улица Плеханова // БА. 1970. № 17. С. 33-41.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Akhmatova Anna Andreevna
Glazunov Alexander Konstantinovich
Koni Anatoly Fedorovich
Mickiewicz Adam
Miklukho-Maclay Nikolay Nikolaevich
Plekhanov Georgy Valentinovich
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Quarenghi Giacomo
Fonarny Lane/Saint Petersburg, city
Kazanskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 27/12
Kazanskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 2/1
Kazanskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 3
Kazanskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 10
Kazanskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 7
Kazanskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city
Kazanskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
Kazanskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 39
Kazanskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 18
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city
Вяземский С. М. Улица Плеханова // Блокнот агитатора, 1970 Kazan Cathedral
Boarding House of Education