Album 173
(Translated by
Marianna Serebrennikova)
Today I suggest you to look at stairs of a random house on
95, Nevsky Prospect (95, Staro-Nevsky Prospect).
| This is a profitable
house of G.G. Gessel; it was built in 1912 according to architect L.M.
Kharlamov project. |
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| Gates leaf with a grating, decorated
with an emblem. (May be not an emblem). |
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Certainly, much was reconstructed inside. |
… but some things are kept.
For instance, railing. |
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A window view is a typical St.
Petersburg's center yard. |
| Stained-glasses are in some stairs
windows. |
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Nowadays the building, like many others,
is leased for offices of various companies. |
A very lonely flag is on the floor; it's
not understandable, why it is kept.
Probably, for history specially.
METTLACH is a mettlach ceramic flag. A type of ceramic (dye added and
fired loam) floor flag.
The name originated from German city of Mettlach, where production
was organized for the first time. |
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An opposite house corner (Nevsky and
Suvorovsky crossing) was "decorated" with a glass turret, which looks
inappropriately at all.
There is a bank there, to my mind. |
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