Buturlina Mansion
St. Petersburg, Tchaikovsky St. 10
Description:
The mansion of state lady Elizaveta Buturlina was built in the period from 1857 to 1860 at 10 Tchaikovsky Street and is one of the most remarkable examples of the architectural style of Neo-Baroque.
In earlier times, the mansion was popular among tenants, since it looks more like a palace than an ordinary residential building. The architect of the building is G.A. Bosse, and, in the opinion of the architectural society, the mansion is one of the best works of Bosse - for the study of the smallest details, the implementation of the facade, the fine drawing of the risolite and pediment. During the work on the building, the architect widely used the methods of building palace-type buildings in St. Petersburg in the 18th century.
The building has three floors, at the level of the second floor there is a wide terrace fenced with openwork metal grille.
The mansion is also notable for its famous “guests”: in the period from 1860 to 1917, the Embassy of Austria-Hungary was located here, and in 1868 the Kovalevsky family rented housing here.