Trade House of the Guards' Economic Society

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TRADE HOUSE OF THE GUARDS' ECONOMIC SOCIETY (21-23 Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street) is the monument of architecture of the early 20th century, combining features of the Art Nouveau style and the retrospective style (see Neoclassicism). It was built of monolithic ferrous concrete on the land which belonged to A. P. Volynsky in the 1730s (in the 19th century, the area was referred to as Volynkin Dvor). The first part of the building was completed in 1908-09 (architects E. F. Wirrich, I. V. Padlevsky, S. S. Krichinsky, N. V. Vasilyev, and B. Y. Botkin, engineers N. A. Belelyubsky, N. A. Zhitkevich, V. P. Statsenko, and V. A. Shevalev). The works were carried by Weiss and Freitag, a German company. An enormous light hall with a 13 meter bay is covered with several light ferrous concrete arches carrying the light vault. Decorative metal (made at San Galli Plant), enbronzed ceramics (made at the workshop of P. K. Vaulin) are used in the decoration of the facades, and the spire is decorated with mosaic tiles (made at the workshop of V. A. Frolov). The second part of the building (the small hall) and the apartment house of the Guards' Economic Society from the side of the Moika River were built in 1912-13 by military engineer I. L. Balbashevsky. In 1927, the building housed Leningrad Cooperation House Supermarket. In the 1930s, it housed the central shop of Torgsin; in 1945-46 — the Central Commercial Commodity Shop, and from 1946 - House of Leningrad Trade Supermarket, known as DLT. During the siege the building suffered considerably from artillery shelling, and was restored in 1944-47. In 2000-01, a many-storied garage-station designed in St. Petersburg Art Nouveau style was erected in the section along Volynsky Lane (architect M. A. Mamoshin).

References: Кириков Б. М. Улица Желябова (Большая Конюшенная). Л., 1990. С. 51-58.

M. N. Mikishatiev. Balbashevsky Ivan Leonardovich
Belelyubsky Nikolay Apollonovich
Botkin Boris Yakovlevich
Frolov Vladimir Alexandrovich
Krichinsky Stepan Samoilovich
Mamoshin Mikhail A.
Padlevsky (Podlevsky) Iosif Vladimirovich
Shevalev Vladimir Alexandrovich
Statsenko Vadim Platonovich
Vasilyev Nikolay Vasilievich
Vaulin Peter Kuzmich
Volynsky Artemy Petrovich
Wirrich Ernest-Friedrich Franzevich
Zhitkevich N.A.
Bolshaya Konyushennaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 21
Bolshaya Konyushennaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 23
Volynsky Lane/Saint Petersburg, city
Кириков Б. М. Улица Желябова (Большая Конюшенная). Л., 1990 Trade House of the Guards' Economic Society
Siege of 1941-44
1909