Ligovsky 62 history of the house. My beloved Peter. Infrastructure and transport accessibility

When you walk along the even side of Ligovsky Prospekt, houses 60 and 62 invariably attract attention. House 62 - the San Galli mansion is very beautiful and is in more or less decent condition. But house 60 is the former building of the F.K. iron foundry and mechanical plant. San Galli is, alas, not in its best shape. Previously, the facade of the building, facing Ligovsky Prospekt, was covered with a rag pseudo-facade. But now the disguise has disappeared, and the rather dilapidated original walls again flaunt here. Against the general background, the only thing that has been well preserved is the massive iron gate with sculptures of two boys (these are the ancient gods Hermes and Hephaestus in childhood). There is an information banner on the gate announcing the construction of a multifunctional complex here with a completion date of 2018, but the material is completely tattered and the text is hard to read in places. We visited the site in early August and were able to verify (as far as can be seen through the gate) that the area intended for construction gave the impression of being abandoned, and no work was being done there.

In general, there is nothing surprising about this. For several years now, this site next to the Sangalsky Garden has been among the most promising, but construction has never come to fruition. To begin with, the Austrian company Raiffeisen Evolution was going to build a multifunctional complex here (which is still announced by the street information banner we have already mentioned). However, the project became unprofitable after the city government adopted a number of changes to urban planning legislation, as well as due to a decrease in rental rates in the office market. Last December, the territory where the failed San Galli Park complex was supposed to be located was bought by another Austrian company, STRABAG Real Estate GmbH (SRE). However, she did not start construction either. The developer "SRE" decided to leave the Russian market and put its assets in Russia up for sale. Thus, the plot at Ligovsky, 60-62 was once again resold. In June 2017, the Finnish concern became its owner "EKE Group". The developer is reputable, reliable, in St. Petersburg he is already known for his rather original residential complex “Two Epochs” on Vasilyevsky Island. One can hope that on Ligovsky Prospekt the company will build a facility worthy of this place. According to the company's official website, its management is considering two options: either to build an office and retail complex on this site for a specific customer (fortunately, a construction permit had already been received), or to build a residential complex here.

In August 2017, having visited the site and made sure that there was still a calm there, we made inquiries to the EKE Group. A company representative told us that currently the future construction area is fenced off, and there is really no work being done at the construction site. As for the prospects, the company’s management still intends to implement a housing project here. Proposals from a number of architects are currently being considered. According to the plan, a mid-rise residential complex will be built here. There are no plans for a large number of apartments; the developer does not intend to create an “anthill” here. This will be a nice spacious business class residential complex. While work on the project is underway. A building permit has not yet been obtained at this time. The company suggests that construction could begin in about a year, and the complex will most likely go on sale at the end of 2018.

Photo - Mary, 2011.

Mansion of F.C. San Galli

Pam. arch. (region.)

1869-1870 - architect. Rachau Karl Karlovich

In 1869-1872. for the owner of the Iron Foundry and Mechanical Plant F.C. San Galli and his family, Arch. K.K. Rachau was built in stylized Renaissance forms, a two-story mansion on high basements next to the main office building, from which it was separated only by the entrance gate to the “small” courtyard of the plant. The gates are quite simple, only their cast-iron pillars are decorated with large cones.

Rachau used motifs from Florentine architecture in the decoration of the San Galli mansion. Interior architectural decoration, luxury items, comfort items and all furniture were made in St. Petersburg, with the exception of the zinc dragons above the drainpipes, made in Berlin.

All metal decor in the building: balconies, roof, canopies over the entrances (front and courtyard), stairs, metal structure of the winter garden, etc., as well as heating, water supply, sewerage, bathroom, kitchen, toilets, ironing room, laundry , stables and other support services were completed by the owner of the mansion in his own factory.

The main entrance to the mansion is decorated with a small two-column portico. The pediment is supported by two fluted cast iron columns and a capital of the Corinthian order. Previously, it was adjacent to a gable canopy that covered the entire sidewalk, so that in bad weather you could get out of the carriage directly from the pavement into its shelter. On the floor of the vestibule, the date of completion of construction is laid out in stone - 1872.

The building in all its parts, all internal architectural and artistic decoration, all special economic devices, luxury items, comfort and all furniture were made here in St. Petersburg, excluding the zinc dragons above the drainpipes, made according to a drawing in Berlin, and painting on glass in dining room - the work of the artist Sverchkov in Munich. All metal parts included in the building, balconies, roof, entrance, stairs, iron structure of the winter garden, as well as heating, ventilation, water supply and drainage systems, water closets, bathroom, kitchen, ironing room, laundry room, stables, etc. made in our own mechanical plant. Of these, the most notable are: a) Heating and ventilation devices. The heating of the building and the winter garden is low-pressure water, produced by one central hot-water boiler, through heating cast-iron and iron pipes with battery devices leading from it through separate rooms. Ventilation is carried out with artificial heating and humidification, in 2 chambers, supplied with fresh air from the garden. Fresh, heated air enters all master's rooms through the air vents of the ducts leading from the ventilation chambers. On ordinary days, the extraction of spoiled air occurs during the day through the exhaust ducts in the kitchen, water closets, bathroom, ironing room, laundry room and living rooms, and at night - from the bedrooms. For emergencies during balls or numerous meetings, there are special strong hoods from the hall above the chandelier, in the dining room, in the office, etc., which are usually closed due to excess. Heating is achieved very uniformly, and the air is everywhere clean and sufficiently humid. b) The winter garden is remarkable for its iron glass roof structure; the top, i.e. the roof itself, is made of double frames to prevent snow from freezing to the glass, and the sides are made of single frames. Despite the large cooling surface, the temperature is sufficiently maintained by heating from the same boiler; The temperature in severe frosts does not drop below 18° even at night. c) Kitchen with a large cast-iron stove, which is equipped with a bakery oven, cutlet oven, water heater, ovens, etc.; There is also a mechanical spit. Next to the kitchen is an ironing room with an ironing stove. d) Laundry room with strong ventilation. It contains a fireplace with bottles, a centrifugal squeezing machine, an American roller, a drying cabinet with retractable hangers, water supply for all tubs and apparatus, water supply with a drain, etc. e) A stable with a cast-iron manger, a feeding trough and a watering hole with water supply to them; Dirty water from the stable is removed by cast-iron gutters with a ladder, and for ventilation, an influx of fresh air and extraction of spoiled air are arranged. The cost of the building is not determined exactly, since the building was built without an estimate. Insured: the building itself for 186,000 rubles, movable property for 84,000 rubles. The approximate cost of the building, including movable property, is 300 thousand rubles.

(“Architect”, 1877, Issue 8, pp. 74-75, added by miraru1)

Until 2006, the mansion housed the plant management of OJSC St. Petersburg Paper Machine Building Plant (OJSC Bummash SPb). At the end of 2005, the plant management of a non-existent enterprise, which turned into a company for leasing offices, moved to the outbuilding of house No. 58 on Ligovsky Prospekt, to the premises where Soviet time was the party committee of the NPO Lenbummash.

F.C. San Galli in the 1850s purchased an apartment building at 8 Nevsky Prospekt, in which he kept his store in an outbuilding. The second store was on Nevsky, 60.

In 1875-1876 on the other side of the Main Office, the architect K. K. Rachau erected an apartment building in the eclectic style for employees of the San Galli plant.

In 1880-1881 arch. D. D. Zaitsev built a large house (Ligovsky Prospekt, 64) for the manufacturer’s relatives and factory employees.

In 1879-1880s. At the San Galli plant, a colony of residential buildings for workers was built, the design of which was developed by the architect. D. D. Zaitsev. The colony consisted of 22 buildings: eighteen two-story wooden houses, a school, a service building with a store, a cellar and a gazebo. All residential buildings were located symmetrically along a wide street - an alley running along the main axis of the complex of buildings, which closed with a gazebo located in a small park. Residential buildings were of two types: 16 houses with 8 two-room apartments and two houses with 12 one-room apartments, equipped with running water

The colony school building has been preserved in its rebuilt form. During Soviet times, a third floor was added to the two-story building. The two main entrances, located at its edges, were turned into windows; the entrance remained only from the courtyard. After the revolution it was located here kindergarten, then a dormitory for workers, then engineering services of the Bummash plant. At the turn of the 1960s-1970s. it was connected to the two-story building of the colony's store and services by a building of the same height.(1*)

In 1918, the property of the San Galli family was nationalized. As before, the plant supplied food organizations in Petrograd and the provinces with scales; it manufactured kitchen equipment and disinfection chambers. The plant was universal, which is why in July 1921 it was named “Universal”, and in October 1922 it began to be called “Cooperator”. The plant made a great contribution to the implementation metric system scales in the Soviet Union. After some controversy, in October 1930 the Economic Council of the RSFSR decided to repurpose the Kooperator plant for the production of paper-making equipment. By the beginning of the 2nd Five-Year Plan new profile The plant was finally determined, and it was renamed the “Paper Machine Building Plant named after the 2nd Five-Year Plan”. Before the Great Patriotic War a number of machines were produced for production various types paper.

During the war years, the plant was switched to the production of defense products: shells, mines, etc. In 1943, the return to peaceful labor began. In 1949, another paper-making machine was manufactured. Until the early 1960s. the plant remained the only specialized enterprise in the country for the production of paper-making equipment.

In 1966, the plant was renamed the Experimental Paper Machine Building Plant, then became part of the newly formed NPO Lenbummash named after the 2nd Five-Year Plan.

In the mid-1970s. a special section was organized at the plant for the repair of grilles and metal decor in Leningrad. In 1975-1978 restoration of the Voronikhinsky fence near the Kazan Cathedral was carried out (2*)

The Birth of Aphrodite fountain was installed in the 1870s. in front of the San Galli mansion. The author of the project is architect. Ivan Gornostaev. IN Lately there was no water in it, and at the beginning of the 21st century the sculpture was removed and the bowl was filled in in 2006.

The sculpture itself was restored in 2004 and given to the State Committee for storage. Inspectorate for the Protection of Monuments: a copy will be installed in the Sangalsky Garden.

1965: Plant named after. 2nd Five-Year Plan for Papermaking Equipment - Ligovsky Ave., 60/62 (S. 57)

1965: Institute "Bummash" Central Research Institute for equipment design. for the pulp and paper industry

State Chemical Committee and petroleum engineering under the State Planning Committee of the USSR (sic) - Palace Square, 6/8 P. 62

The building is included in the Unified State Register of Objects cultural heritage(historical and cultural monuments) of peoples Russian Federation as an object of cultural heritage of regional significance on the basis of the order of the Governor of St. Petersburg No. 109-ra dated January 29, 2003 (7802498003).

The intricate cast iron grilles, lanterns and flagpoles that decorate the outside of the mansion give away its identity. Built in the style of a Florentine palazzo, the building belonged to iron foundry magnate Franz San Galli. If you look at the house from the garden, you can see a faceted turret on the roof, from where the breeder watched over the entire territory of his enterprise.

History of the San Galli mansion

The mansion was built in 1872 for the large San Galli family. Everything in the house - down to the last detail - was made according to the architect's drawings, but the owner of the mansion supervised the construction, delving into all the processes. The tycoon explained this quite reasonably: “You yourself must know and decide how you want to live, and the architect will give advice and work out the details of the construction.”
The San Galli empire also included houses for factory engineers and technicians, a town for workers and a school for their children.
 The San Galli factory was famous for its incredible variety of cast iron products: balcony grilles, street lamps

, steam boilers, gymnastic weights, stoves, beds, toilets and even operating tables.



Franz Karlovich San Galli earned particular fame as the inventor of the heating radiator, or, more simply, the battery, which has become so familiar. It first appeared in Russia 150 years ago.

Not one more house has survived - or rather, the house that Franz Karlovich built for his wife, showing sensitivity that was surprising for such a businesslike and tenacious person. “Since I was 8 years older than my wife, I thought that I would die before her and that she would not want to live alone in such a big house, and therefore I built a small mansion for her in the park near the factory.”



A special decoration of the interior of the mansion was the stained glass windows created in the Munich workshop under the direction of the Russian artist V. D. Sverchkov. Each of them is based on the plot of one of the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm: “Seven Ravens”, “Sleeping Beauty” and “Snow White”. It is known that there were other painted windows in this mansion. There is a photograph of a cardboard stained glass window “Puss in Boots”, stored in the State Hermitage.
In 2007, in connection with the adaptation of the F.C. San Galli mansion for representational purposes, the glass paintings were restored by Evgeny Ivanov and began to shine in all their glory. Today, five turns made in the workshop of V. D. Sverchkov have been preserved in St. Petersburg, three of them in the mansion of F. C. San Galli.

Address: Ligovsky Prospekt, building 62.



Mansion F.K. San Galli. Arch. K.K. Rahau. 1869-1870

Outstanding master of eclecticism K.K. Rahau built a mansion, an office, a residential building and several production buildings of the F.C. San Galli Iron Foundry and Mechanical Plant (Ligovsky Prospekt, 60-62).

The unique complex, located between Ligovsky Prospekt and the railway tracks of the Oktyabrskaya Railway, is limited on the north and south by apartment buildings and a garden. The factory and office buildings overlook the red line of the avenue and form a united front with the mansion, the fence of the house and residential buildings.
The history of the enterprise begins in 1853, when Franz Karlovich San Galli, a poor but educated native of Germany, bought “empty places” along the embankment of the Ligovsky Canal and founded a blacksmith shop here. The place adjacent to the Nikolaevskaya under construction railway, and the profile of the enterprise, focused on metalworking, were chosen very successfully and in a timely manner. The development of railway construction made it possible to receive profitable orders, and the development of the territory was facilitated by the active development of the embankments of the Ligovsky Canal. Over the course of several decades, the small workshop grew into a thriving enterprise. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the plant produced a wide variety of products - steam engines, boilers, lanterns, balconies, fences, gratings, etc.
San Galli was widely known thanks to the legend about the appearance of public toilets in St. Petersburg. As a member of the City Duma, San Galli participated in the discussion of the fate of the rich inheritance left to the city by a certain famous courtesan. The Duma for a long time did not want to use this money for charitable purposes; many Duma members were allegedly personal friends of that same courtesan. The hypocrisy of the members of the Duma outraged San Galli so much that he proposed using this money to organize public toilets in the city, which before that had not existed at all in St. Petersburg. Oddly enough, the proposal was immediately accepted.

The mansion, built in 1872 for Franz San Galli and his large family by the famous St. Petersburg architect Karl Rachau, is a wonderful example of mature eclecticism. The mansion project was developed with the direct participation of the customer himself. The facades are designed in the style of a Florentine palazzo, with rusticated walls and a far-out crowning cornice. The house was filled with paintings by famous Russian artists, as well as marble and bronze sculpture. Some of the authentic interiors of the mansion have survived to this day, for example, the entrance hall with Atlanteans and caryatids, the master's office with a large fireplace, a smoking room “in oriental taste” and painted stained glass windows in the reception area. The outside of the mansion is decorated with intricate cast-iron grilles, lanterns and flagpoles manufactured locally.
If you look at the house from the garden, you can see a faceted wooden turret on the roof, from where the owner could observe the entire territory of the plant.

The splendor of interiors of varied styles, unique stained glass windows, carvings, rich metal decor, as well as an original engineering solution make this building one of the pinnacles of St. Petersburg architecture late XIX century.

On the side of Ligovsky Prospekt, the garden is fenced with an intricate lattice with a gate, cast in 1873 here at the factory, according to the design of the architect I. Gornostaev. Looking at this luxurious “Russian style” fence, you vividly imagine how good the San Galli garden once looked. The entrance to the San Galli office is decorated with two cast iron figures of boys, one of whom is dressed in work clothes. According to legend, this is the grandson of a “cast iron” magnate, who on the day of the plant’s 50th anniversary dressed up as a blacksmith and was the first to congratulate his grandfather. In memory of this event, the grandfather ordered sculptures of boys.

The international holding STRABAG SE sold the Finnish concern EKE a plot at 60-62 Ligovsky Prospekt, next to San Galli Park, in St. Petersburg. As Colliers International, which represented the interests of the seller, reported on June 6, both a residential complex (more than 30 thousand sq. m.) and an office and shopping center (more than 75 thousand sq. m.) can be built on a plot of 2.5 hectares.

According to Riitta Ekengren, President of EKE Group, the company has not yet decided which option for developing the territory to choose.

“A residential complex in the very center of business activity and public life of the city, next to a picturesque park, will definitely be in demand. At the same time, the office and retail complex project is completely ready for the start of construction and can be implemented according to the built-to-suit scheme - for a specific customer. Permission for its construction has already been received,” said the president of the Finnish holding.

Let us remind you that Fontanka previously wrote that a multifunctional hotel with hotels called San Gally Park at 60-62 Ligovsky Prospekt was supposed to be built back in 2007. The investor Raiffeisen Evolution, which belongs to the Austrian holdings Raiffeisen (banks), UNIQA (insurers) and Strabag (construction companies), intended to invest about $150 million. The investor bought the site, began demolishing the buildings in 2008, but was faced with amendments to the Land Use and Development Rules and was forced to reduce the project of an eleven-story, 42-meter complex to a seven-story, 28-meter complex. Nevertheless, by 2011, the general design was completed, a design for gas boiler houses and an external gas pipeline was developed, and environmental surveys were carried out. In 2011, the developer received a building permit and began work. However, architectural experts considered the project “alien” for the Northern capital. Construction has stalled. Appearance The dilapidated buildings of the former plant remained unchanged over the next five years. In April 2016, Raiffeisen Evolution Project Development LLC (general contractor) told our publication that construction had already begun, but did not provide any specifics.

Colliers International explained on June 5 that the project was not implemented due to changes in urban planning legislation and falling rental rates in the office real estate market. Investments in construction were estimated at 200 million euros. The site, previously owned by Raiffeisen Evolution, became the property of STRABAG Real Estate GmbH (SRE) in December 2016.

Let us note that after the sale of this site, the STRABAG SE holding no longer has a single project left in St. Petersburg. The company is also selling a class A office building at 119 Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow and thus withdrawing from the Russian market altogether.