The estate of A.V. Kokorev (an industrialist, wine merchant, patron of art)

Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/Monuments of history and culture
An example of a rich merchant modernist style estate, the base of which was made up the early constructions of two town places Nos. 154 and 153. One of them belonged to Privy Councillor F.A. Durasov, from who it passed to Prince Dondukov-Korsakov. In 1859 the architect A.M. Bolotov developed for him a project of a stone house, features of which are apparent in the appearance of the modern façade. At the end of the 19th century A.V. Kokorev, a St. Petersburg merchant, became the house owner and joined one more adjoining property, which belonged to the State Councilor V.E. Kupfer. Until 1847 the architect V.I. Geste and his heirs became the first owners of this plot. During 1901-1904 the architect S.A. Danini rebuilt the being house for Kokorev, connected it with a detached wing (53, 55 Moskovskaya Street) by a fence. A vast garden with a figured pond consolidated gardens of both owners. In the house there was a winter garden, its one-storied wing, covered by the skylight in the form of a semicircular vault and decorated by the fancy band with details made of forge iron, was added by S.A. Danini to the house from the side of the garden. The limpid crystal pavilion with a stuffed elephant in the garden, on which footpaths and the house terrace chairs with mannequins were placed in summer, was regarded to the owner’s caprice. The appearance of the estate main mansion attends the attention by its rich decoration made of decorative facing brick (figured and polychromatic with the predominance of white colour) and forge iron elaborate ornamental pattern compositions of grilles, figured lintels, canopies and the balcony over the main entrance. The high stone fence with a forged tracery grille on the top, adjoining the house from the both sides, was built in the same style as the house façade, however it is tumbledown, the grille and gate are partially lost. Inside the main vestibule, marble stairs, planning are survived but the rich decoration of interiors in different historical styles is lost. Semenova Galina Victorovna
Bolotov Andrey Mikhailovich
Danini Silvio Amvrosievich
Hastie Vasily Ivanovich (William)
Kokorev A. V.
Kokorev A. V.
Kokorev A. V.
Kokorev A. V.
Moskovskaya Street/Pushkin, town