Vega Georgi Ivanovich mansion: history, description. Interesting places in Saint-Petersburg

Interesting places in St. Petersburg attract tourists to the Northern Capital all year round. A huge army of travelers comes here from all corners of the world to see with their own eyes the many sights of this city and to touch the past of our country.

Interesting places in Saint-Petersburg

The first place that comes to mind for those who want to get acquainted with the museums of the Northern capital is the Hermitage. Impressions of his visit for a long time remain in the memory of foreigners. No less popular among tourists is the Russian Museum.
The sights of St. Petersburg are amazing in their diversity. For more than three centuries, this city has been a crossroads of cultures - European and Slavic.

On official excursions visitors of the city expect to visit the palaces, museums, monumental sculptures and a huge amount of historical information. Here on every street you can see unusual buildings and monuments. A variety of cultural trends has found its reflection in the exhibits of more than two hundred museums of St. Petersburg. Among which there are such unusual and interesting places as the Freud Museum of Dreams and many others.

Having seen the most famous places of the Northern capital and having visited many of them, most tourists are eager to see those sights of St. Petersburg, the existence of which is not always known even by local residents. In the city on the Neva there are many preserved the former greatness of the abandoned mansions that keep the secrets of the old era and live their very mysterious life. Many legends and stories are connected with them. This is the estate of the Demidovs, the mansions of Stieglitz, the Brusnicini, the Gromov's dacha and many others. Each building is a masterpiece of architecture. Is not an exception and the mansion Vega.

How to get

Many of the abandoned old houses of the northern capital look very deplorable and unattractive. But it's worth to be inside, how sensations completely change. This is exactly the mansion GI. Vega - the founder of the local ultramarine plant. It is located on Oktyabrskaya Embankment, building 38, on the right bank of the Neva. It is quite difficult to see it at once, since the Vega mansion is hidden behind a dense fence of the territory of the scientific and production company Pigment. You can find it with the help of a navigator or accompanied by a professional guide, as this main attraction of St. Petersburg is not included in the main sightseeing routes. Unfortunately, the abandoned mansions of the Northern capital are not provided for a mass visit. And this is understandable. Many of them are in an emergency condition, and it is sometimes very dangerous to enter them.

Description

The Vega mansion was built in the late nineteenth century - around 1890. Historians have not yet managed to determine the exact name of the architect. It should be noted that the exterior of the Vega mansion is not particularly noteworthy. And only its rich interior allows us to understand how beautiful and rich this house looked more than a century ago.

The structure refers to such a direction in architecture as eclecticism. In Russia, it had two stages of development - "Nicholas" and "Alexandrovsky." The Vega mansion belongs to the second.

The architectural style of eclecticism, dominant in tsarist Russia from the thirties to the nineties of the nineteenth century, is distinguished by its rich stucco molding. The mansion of the industrialist Vega, built according to its basic principles, is no exception.

Interior decoration

On the ground floor, right before the stairs on the ceiling, there is a beautiful stucco molding. Fragmentary on it guessed past gilding. Stucco is also on the stairs. It is also supplemented with caryatids. Climbing up the stairs, fenced with cast iron cast rails, involuntarily draw attention to the faceted complex shape of the mirror. Once in the mansion owned by the industrialist Georgii Ivanovich Vega, one can imagine the conditions under which the bourgeois stratum lived before the revolution.

Along the stairs there are two long windows. They once had chic stained-glass windows. Their fragments can be found in scattered boxes in one of the halls. Paired stained-glass windows were images of male and female figures looking at each other. Dressed in Renaissance clothing, they are holding glasses. Above, the figures are surrounded by flower bouquets and birds. The quality of roasting, painting and glass is so high that even now, after a century, you can see on them a beautiful composition and ornament. The latter is made the same for both stained glass windows.

Walls on the second floor still have wall paintings. They are based on floral motifs. Organically complemented by an ornament of roses on a green background are molded rosettes adorning the ceiling. Unfortunately, today the painting inside the main plafond has not been preserved. It is partially cleared on the walls, but closed with tracing paper. On the main facade of the building there is a balcony with a metal grill.

Information about the owner

Kinovievsky ultramarine factory was built in 1876 by industrialist Georgy Ivanovich Vega. Prior to this, this material was imported exclusively from Europe. It was in Russia the first factory producing ultramarine. George Ivanovich Vega, being a German by nationality, bought a factory in St. Petersburg Utkin and established production. Ultramarine, which produced his plant, went around the quality even the dyes of the French - the founders of this direction. Their factory "Brothers Deshans" could not stand the competition and stopped the production of its products.

Contemporaries believed that Vega created the best conditions for his workers. After his death in 1912, the plant inherited his son, Robert Georgievich, the colonel.

A bit of history

The plant, on whose territory the Vega mansion is located, received its name thanks to the nearby Cinemas of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. This suburban bishopric with the monastery existed since 1820. Here were placed the sick and elderly monks, who are fully provided by the monastery.

Today the complex, considered an object of cultural heritage, is in an emergency condition. It is possible that very soon the mansion Vega will disappear from the face of the earth. The territory of the Kinovievsky plant was bought out for construction by the scientific and production company Pigment. In 2014, some buildings were demolished.

Current state

In the past, it was in the Vega mansion that the stunningly beautiful stained-glass windows were famous all over Petersburg. But today they are stolen: they are torn right out of the frames. From the fireplaces, which were two in the mansion, tiles were torn off, and only fragments remained of the stucco.

Unfortunately, today the mansion "dies" in silence. Internal dampness kills its magnificent stucco molding. But what is most sad: the city authorities believe that it is impossible to restore it.