Furshtatskaya Street

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FURSHTATSKAYA STREET, from Liteiny Avenue to Potemkinskaya Street. The street was laid in the 18th century next to Liteiny Court and named Third Artilleryskaya Street, to adopt the name Furshtatskaya (Furshtadtskaya) Street in 1806 only, after so-called furshtat (a military transport unit), the transport of the Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment, located on the site of house No. 21. From 1923 to 1991, it was called Petra Lavrova Street, in commemoration of P.L. Lavrov, who lived here in houses Nos. 62 and 50 at various times. The only remnant of the buildings of the first half of the 19th century is house No. 26, formerly the Circuit Court of Liteinaya Police-Station. At the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries Furshtatskaya Street was built over with apartment houses and mansions of nobility. In 1896-99, house No. 52 was built (architect A.I. von Gogen), the former K.A. Vargunin"s mansion (see the Vargunin Family) and now a Wedding Palace. House No. 24, formerly Prince V.S. Kochubey"s mansion, was built in 1908-10 (1908-10, architect R.F. Meltzer); the building is a striking example of the Art Nouveau style. House No. 27 (once belonged to merchant A.G. Eliseev) was occupied by A.F. Koni in 1878-85, while I.L. Goremykin, the chairman of the Council of Ministers, lived in house No. 14.

References: Воложенинов И. Улица Петра Лаврова // БА. 1967. № 18. С. 38-45; Дубин А. С., Кириков Б. М. Особняк Варгунина. СПб., 1997; Дубин А. С. Фурштатская улица. М., 2005.

O. A. Chekanova. Eliseev Alexander Grigorievich
Gogen Alexander Ivanovich von
Goremykin Ivan Logginovich
Kochubey Lev Viktorovich, Duke
Koni Anatoly Fedorovich
Lavrov Peter Lavrovich
Meltzer Roman (Robert-Friedrich) Fedorovich
the Vargunins
Vargunin Konstantin Alexandrovich
Furshtatskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 52
Furshtatskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 14
Furshtatskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 26
Furshtatskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 21
Furshtatskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 24
Furshtatskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 27
Furshtatskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Liteiny Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Potemkinskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Воложенинов И. Улица Петра Лаврова // Блокнот агитатора, 1967
Дубин А. С., Кириков Б. М. Особняк Варгунина. СПб., 1997 Foundry Yard
Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment