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The House of Books, the Book Shop
The House of Books, the Book Shop
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Literature. Book Publishing/Book Selling
THE HOUSE OF BOOKS (28 Nevsky Prospect) is the biggest book department store in St. Petersburg. It was housed in the former building of the Zinger company: the seven-storied building with a high corner tower crowned with a glass sphere is a shining example of art nouveau architecture (1902-04, architect P. Y. Suzor, sculptors A. G. Adamson, A. L. Ober). The Consulate of the USA was housed here in the 1910s. The building was given to the book storehouse of the Petrograd State Publishing House in 1919. Soon the House of Books became the main book store of Leningrad, at the beginning of the 1930s it passed to the jurisdiction of LenKOGIZ. In the years of the siege it continued to work intermittently up to the end of November 1942. It was opened anew, after the repairs, in November 1948. The trade in the House of Books is carried on the ground floor and on the first floor; approximately 20,000 books of various spheres of knowledge were in assortment in 2003. Departments of inquiry and bibliography and the department Book by Correspondence operate. There are subsidiaries on 30, Liteiny Avenue, 4, Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island, 9, Shevchenko Street, 20, Lenina Street etc. Editorial offices of the journals Kniga i Revolyutsiya (The Book and the Revolution), Literaturnye Shtudii (Literary Studies), Zvezda (the Star), Leningrad Departments of the publishing houses the Children's Publishing House, the Soviet Writer, the Art, the Enlightment, Fiction, the union Leningrad Book etc. were housed in the House of Books in different years. Book trade was transferred stage-by-stage to 62 Nevsky Prospect due to the reconstruction of the building on 28 Nevsky Prospect. References: Айзенберг Т. Д. Ленинградский Дом книги // Книга: Исслед. и материалы. М., 1972. Сб. 24. С. 198-209; Баренбаум И. Е. Книжный Петербург: Три века истории: Очерки изд. дела и кн. торговли. СПб., 2003. С. 388-391. D. N. Cherdakov.
Persons
Adamson Amandus
Auber Artemy Lavrentievich
Suzor Pavel Yulievich
Addresses
Bolshoy Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 4
Lenina St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 20
Liteiny Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 30
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 62
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 28
Shevchenko St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 9
Bibliographies
Айзенберг Т. Д. Ленинградский Дом книги // Книга: Исслед. и материалы. М., 1972
The subject Index
Singer Company
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Book Trade (entry)
BOOK TRADE. State, institutional and private book trading has been carried out in St. Petersburg since the first years of its existence. The first official bookshop belonged to the St
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Children's Literature, the Leningrad Department of the Publishing House
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, the Leningrad Department of the publishing house, was housed in the House of Books, then on 6 Kutuzova Embankment, it was opened in 1933, before 1963, it was called Detgiz (State Publishing House for Children's Literature)
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Griboyedova Canal
GRIBOYEDOVA CANAL (the Ekaterininsky Canal in 1767-1923) starts from the Moika River at the Field of Mars and flows into the Fontanka River at Malo-Kalinkin Bridge. It is 5 km long and 32 meters wide with water flow of 3.1 - 3.4 m3
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Kazanskaya Square
AZANSKAYA SQUARE, located at the intersection of Nevsky Prospect and Griboedova Canal. Known as Plekhanova Square from 1923 to 1944. The square appeared in the early 19th century
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Nevsky Prospect
NEVSKY PROSPECT known as Bolshaya Pershpektivnaya Road or Bolshaya Pershpektiva until 1738, Nevskaya Prospektivaya Street or Nevskaya Perspektiva in 1738-1780s, and 25 October Avenue in 1918-44 so named in memory of the October Revolution of 1917
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Singer Company
SINGER, American company, producer of sewing machines. It was founded in New York State in 1851; in 1865 the company was first represented in Russia by Max Fiedler, and since 1877 - by the Trading House of G. Neidlinger (Germany)
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Suzor P. Y. (1844-1919), architect
SUZOR Pavel Yulievich (1844 - 1919, Petrograd), architect, associate academy member of architecture (1892). Graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts (1866)
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