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History of the BuildingIn 2021, the Leontief Centre’s Building on 7th Krasnoarmeyskaya Street is celebrating 115 years
The first landholders of the building located on 7th Krasnoarmeyskaya Street (former 7th Rota), 25, were Tikhonovs merchants. They purchased a large piece of land after the Supreme Decree from 24 June 1803, when the state lands, formerly owned by the Izmailovsky regiment, became "unused" and allowed to sell at public auction. The proceeds from the sale were transferred to the state land acquisition. By 1825 there were already several different buildings – on the plan of the yard of 15 April, 1825, which has been preserved in the Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg, it is pointed where Tikhonov exactly "wants to build a new stone two-storey building".
In 1883, after the death of Alexandra Tikhonova, the property was inherited by her sons: Alexander, Nikolai, and Jacob Tikhonovs, and after their death (from 1896 to 1899) – by one of the heirs, bourgeois M.A. Tikhonov. At the beginning of the XX century there were situated: 31 flats, leather, meat, vegetables and candle shops, a storage shed and a tanning manufactory.
In December 1899, Nikolai Sinyagin - hereditary Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg, merchant of the 1st guild, state councilor, became the owner of the site and buildings. Nikolai Sinyagin was known as a collector of books and the owner of one of the largest private libraries, as well as for his charity work: in 1904-1905 he had built a clinic of skin diseases at his own expense on the bank of the Bolshaya Neva that became the Second Practical Clinical Department of the Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine.
In 1912, after the early death of Nikolai Sinyagin, the property went to his brother - hereditary Honorary Citizen Ivan Sinyagin, who owned it until 1917. Given the proximity of the Warsaw station, many residents worked for the railroad. Some residents were working in the Institute of Civil Engineers located nearby. At that time the house was occupied by merchants, bank employees, Office of the State Duma officials, teachers. There also was a lighting materials’ store of “I.A. Semenov” Trade House and the office of Strelninsky district of the Imperial Russian Society Rescue on Waters.
In 1928, at the request of the Moskovsko-Narvsky district council the reconstruction was carried out under the leadership of architect Vladimir Ovchinnikov for the needs of official institution. Comparing the drawings of facades and floor plans of Sergei Barankeev with a modern appearance of the building, you can see the changes of the facade facing Izmailovsky Prospect and a major reconstruction of the interior.
In subsequent years there were the state party and public institutions - first Moskovsko-Narvsky, then Moskovsky (since 1930), Leninsky (since 1936) districts of Leningrad.
The Building on 7th Krasnoarmeyskaya Street, 25 // The book describes the story of the building that has survived several reconstructions through its almost 200-year history; the threshold of which was crossed by the people, who have left a noticeable mark on public life, architecture and history of Russia. Collected material allows us to trace the history of the building and its owners since 1822 to the present day.
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