Private income house of Bubyr and owl on stained glass

On Stremyannaya Street, there is a house of original architecture that attracts the gaze of passersby and is known to all architecture connoisseurs. This house is recognized as the best example of Northern Art Nouveau. Northern Art Nouveau inspires admiration because it is a lively, plastic, and asymmetrical design in architecture. It features elements of decorative and applied arts, borrowing from natural and national motifs.

The house was designed and built by architect Alexey Fedorovich Bubyr in 1906-1907. The main facade of the house on Stremyannaya Street was designed by architect Nikolay Vasilyevich Vasilyev, the future architect of the Cathedral Mosque of St. Petersburg.

The sculptural decoration of the building is unique. The house abounds with a large number of fairy-tale and folk images, depictions of the Sun, ravens, mushrooms, and fir trees. On the walls of the lower floors are fish and snakes. The strange creatures at the entrance have become a kind of symbol of Art Nouveau. In the original project, the authors wanted to place images here executed in a naturalistic manner. Possibly, sculptor Sudbinin, who often worked in Bubyr’s workshop, participated in the works. Above the passage to the courtyard, two masks are carved from stone.

Inside the house is an interesting stained glass window called "The Guardians" featuring an owl and ravens – the author is N. M. Goncharova.

More information about the house can be found here: https://reveal.world/story/sobstvennyj-dohodnyj-dom-a-f-bubyrya

Sources:

https://peterburg.center/story/dohodnyy-dom-f-bubyrya-izyskannyy-severnyy-modern-v-sankt-peterburge.html

https://www.citywalls.ru/house617.html?s=rm87c017tlbic59me5ba8f2o7m