Rimskogo-Korsakova Avenue

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RIMSKOGO-KORSAKOVA AVENUE, between Sadovaya Street and Repina Square. Known since 1739 as a part of the road to Ekateringof, in 1770-1923 - Ekateringofsky Avenue. It was renamed after composer N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov. The even-numbered side of the avenue ends with building 24 - St. Isidore of Yuryev Church of the Estonian Orthodox Community (1903-08, architect А.А. Poleshchuk), later - Griboedova Canal Embankment. On the lot between the avenue (building 22) and the canal are the former barracks of a guards Company. At the Sailors' Theatre, V. V. Mayakovsky read his poem Left March for the first time on 18 December 1918. In building 1 (1899-1900, architect A.I. Nosalevich), the first trade union of clerks functioned in 1905. Building 35 was owned by V.N. Vsevolozhsky (reconstructed in 1845-47, architect J.D. Corsini), building 37 belonged to the Benois. Building 87 (1912, architect G.Y. Levi) houses the factory of diagram papers. Building 25/15 at the corner of Srednaya Podyacheskaya Street is described in F.M. Dostoevsky' novel Crime and Punishment as "the house of the pawnbroker". In building 65 (1893-96, architect I.N. Iors), Lithuanian artists and composer M.K. Ciurlionis lived in 1908-09; among the tenants of building 97 there was artist K.A. Somov who lived there in 1887-1925. In 1995, the monument The Nose of Major Kovalev (the idea of director R. Gabriadze) was placed on building 11/36 (at the corner of Voznesensky Avenue).

Reference: Воложенинов И. Проспект Римского-Корсакова // БА. 1973. № 2. С. 38-48.

Y. M. Piryutko. Ciurlionis Mikolajus Konstantinas
Corsini Jeronim Domenikovich
Dostoevsky Fedor Mikhailovich
Gabriadze Revaz Levanovich
Iors Ivan Nikolaevich
Levi Grigory (Sigfried) Yakovlevich
Nosalevich Antony Ivanovich
Poleshchuk Andrey Lvovich
Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolay Andreevich
Somov Konstantin Andreevich
the Benois
Vsevolozhsky Vsevolod Andreevich
Griboedova Canal Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Repina Square/Saint Petersburg, city
Rimsky-Korsakov Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 25/15
Rimsky-Korsakov Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Rimsky-Korsakov Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 37
Rimsky-Korsakov Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 22
Rimsky-Korsakov Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 87
Rimsky-Korsakov Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 35
Rimsky-Korsakov Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 1
Rimsky-Korsakov Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 24
Rimsky-Korsakov Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 11/36
Rimsky-Korsakov Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 97
Rimsky-Korsakov Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 65
Sadovaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Srednaya Podyacheskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Voznesensky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Воложенинов И. Проспект Римского-Корсакова // Блокнот агитатора, 1973