Kaznacheyskaya Street

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KAZNACHEYSKAYA STREET, running from Griboedova Canal Embankment and opening onto a different section of the same embankment after crossing Stolyarny Lane. The street was laid in the first half of the 18th century. In the 1730s, it was known as Fifth Perevedenskaya Street, to be renamed Malaya Meshchanskaya Street (or Third Meshchanskaya Street) in 1739. It received its present-day name in 1882, after a provincial treasury ("kaznacheystvo" meaning treasury in Russian), formerly located at house No. 13. The majority of the street's buildings originate from the late 18th century - early 20th century, hence the classical look retained in house No. 7/14 (the former Olonkin Residence, 1835, architect A.Z. Kuzmin, rebuilt in 1876) and house No. 9/11 (late 18th century - early 19th century; rebuilt in 1825, 1843 and 1862). In 1896-97, house No. 13, the site of the Ministry of Finance in the 1840s, was occupied by the building of the Exchequer's Chamber, and the aforementioned Provincial Treasury was erected (civil engineer P.K. Bergstresser, architect N.M. Proskurin). Kaznacheyskaya Street is a part of Dostoevsky's St. Petersburg. The writer lived in house No. 1 from 1861 to 1863, moved to house No. 9 in April 1864, then to house No. 7, where he lived until 1867 and where he composed his novels Crime and Punishment and The Gambler. The house was also where he met his wife-to-be, A.G. Snitkina.

References: Антонов П. А. Казначейская улица // БА. 1984. № 13. С. 47-56.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Bergstresser Pavel Karlovich
Dostoevskaya Anna Grigorievna (nee Snitkina)
Kuzmin A.Z.
Proskurnin Nikolay Mikhailovich
Griboedova Canal Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Kaznacheiskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 7/14
Kaznacheiskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Kaznacheiskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 9/11
Kaznacheiskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 9
Kaznacheiskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 7
Kaznacheiskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 1
Kaznacheiskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 13
Stolyarny Lane/Saint Petersburg, city
Антонов П. А. Казначейская улица // Блокнот агитатора, 1984 Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Finance