Manufactured Mineral Water House

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MANUFACTURED MINERAL WATER HOUSE, founded in 1834 in Novaya Derevnya (Primorsky Avenue, former Novoderevenskaya Embankment) as a medical institution containing mineral waters from 30 springs (house physician Y.F. Arnzte). There was a concourse for summer entertainment attached to the house (owned by I.I. Izler). In 1835-36 there were occasional balls held which Alexander Pushkin sometimes visited with his wife. The Ukrainian singer P. Karpenko, French actresses Lasseni, Valotte, buffo O. Lami from the French Eldorado theatre and many others appeared on the stage of the theatre constructed in 1836. By 1867, the theatre had become one of principal comic opera and cancan theatres in St. Petersburg. Among those giving concerts were J. Hermann, Count M.Y. Vielgorsky, and I. Gungl. I. Vasiliev’s Gypsy Choir also performed in the Manufactured Mineral Water House. Since the late 1850s an open-air theatre has been working there (where “live pictures” were staged, acrobats appeared etc.). In 1873 a new theatre under the name of Alhambra was built and decorated in the Moorish style. On 7 August 1876 all the buildings were destroyed by fire and were never reconstructed.

References: Данилов С. С. Постоянные публичные театры в Петербурге в XIX веке // О театре: Сб. ст. Л., 1929. С. 153-182; Стеклова И. А. Феномен увеселительных садов в культуре Петербурга - Петрограда // Архитектура и культура: Сб. науч. тр. М., 1991. C. 165-177; Конечный А. М. Петербургские общедоступные увеселительные сады в XIX веке // Europa Orientalis. 1996. Vol. 15, N 1. p. 37-50.

I. A. Bogdanov. Arnzte Yu.F.
Gungl Joseph
Herman Jozeph
Izler Ivan Ivanovich
Karpenko P.
Lami O.
Lasseni
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Valott
Vasilyev Ivan Nikolaevich
Vielgorsky Mikhail Yurievich
Primorsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Данилов С. С. Постоянные публичные театры в Петербурге в XIX веке // О театре: Сб. ст. Л., 1929
Стеклова И.А. Феномен увеселительных садов в культуре Петербурга - Петрограда // Архитектура и культура: Сб. науч. тр. М., 1991
Конечный А. М. Петербургские общедоступные увеселительные сады в XIX веке // Europa Orientalis, 1996 1834