Tverskaya Street

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TVERSKAYA STREET, called Ofitserskaya Street from the 1770s to 1859, from Tavricheskaya Street to Proletarskoy Diktatury Square. It was renamed in honour of one of the cities of central Russia, Tver, as a number of other streets in this district. Most of the buildings pertain to the late 19th century - early 20th century: house No.1/35 (1903-05, architect M.N. Kondratyev); house No. 5 (1904, architect A.S. Khrenov); house No. 8, the Church of the Holy Sign which related to the Old Believers community of Pomorian Heirarchy (1906-07, architect D.A. Kryzhanovsky). Among the residents of Tverskaya Street were: poet Vyach.I. Ivanov, who was visited by many cultural figures (house No. 1/35, 1905-12); lawyer and political figure V.A. Maklakov (house No. 12/15, the 1910s); P.B. Struve (house No. 23, 1908). House No. 11 used to accommodate the correctional boarding-school for children from 1937 to 1942. House No. 5 is employed for the consulate of Czechia, while house No. 22 is the Smolninskaya Hotel.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Ivanov Vyacheslav Ivanovich
Khrenov Alexander Sergeevich
Kondrayev Mikhail Nikolaevich
Kryzhanovsky Dmitry Andreevich
Maklakov Vasily Alexeevich
Struve Peter Berngardovich
Proletarskoy Diktatury Square/Saint Petersburg, city
Tavricheskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Tverskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 1/35
Tverskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 5
Tverskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 23
Tverskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 12/15
Tverskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Tverskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 22
Tverskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
Исаченко В. Г. По Тверской улице // Веч. Петербург, 1992 Smolninskaya Hotel