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\n \n MURUZI HOUSE (27/24 Liteiny Avenue), an architectural monument, five-storied apartment house, constructed in 1874-1877 (architect A.K. Serebryakov with the assistance of P.I. Shestov and N.V. Sultanov) and belonging to Prince A.D. Muruzi (1807-1880). The facades are decorated in Moresque style. Muruzi House occupies the territory between Liteiny Avenue, Panteleymonovskaya (nowadays Pestelya) Street and Preobrazhenskaya Square. At the beginning of the 19th century there was a wooden house owned by the founder of Russian-American Campaign N.P. Rezanov (1764-1807). In 1848-1850, it was owned by a famous collector Prince V.V. Kochubey. In 1890-1917, the building belonged to General О.F. Rein. In 1889-1913, in the house of Muruzi D.S. Merezhkovsky, Z.N. Gippius and D.V. Filosofov (look for Salon of Merezhkovsky) lived. In apartment number 9 the poet V.A. Pyast (Pestovsky) spent his youth, in the private library of his mother in 1911 the meetings of Tsekh Poetov (poets' workshop) took place. In 1919, in Muruzi House a studio of young translators supervised by the publishing house World Literature was opened, in 1921 on the initiative of N.S. Gumilev the House of Poets was established. In 1949-72, I.A. Brodsky lived in the communal apartment number 28 (memorial plaque).

References: Кобак А. В., Лурье Л. Я. Дом Мурузи. Л., 1990; Иохвидова Л. А. Дом Мурузи // Дома рассказывают. СПб., 2001. Вып. 1. С. 182-230.

Y. M. Piryutko.\n
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