One of the buildings of a large residential complex erected by Fyodor Lidval. The five-story building was constructed in 1904. Its owner was engineer-technologist Adolf Kazimirovich Lemmerich.

In the 1896 Yablonsky Address Book, the plot is shown as belonging to technologist Lemmerich, and his factory was a machine-building one. This factory is mentioned twice in the section "Machine-building production and engines...": in the subsections "Various machines" and "Gas, steam, and kerosene engines."

In the same years, F. I. Lidval built a large residential complex near his mother's house on Malaya Posadskaya Street. The construction was carried out in three stages. In 1902, house number 17 was built. In 1904, the five-story house number 19 with a less ordinary appearance was erected. Its owner was engineer-technologist A. K. Lemmerich. The main means of the building’s plastic and decorative character are the risalit on the left and the bay window on the right, as well as the finishing brown brick of good quality covering the first-floor wall. The architect uses decorative elements very sparingly—for example, shallow textured niches in the first-floor wall piers, inserts of red brick evenly distributed across the facade plane. The upper floors are covered with textured plaster. Much later, in 1908-1910, the four-story house number 15 was constructed. In the layout of the buildings, the architect aimed for rational solutions and the creation of comfortable, cozy apartments with good interconnection of rooms. Especially impressive is the spacious vestibule with a wide staircase in house 19. The courtyard wings, quite expressively designed (almost not inferior to the main facades), form a single large and cozy courtyard. Even the accidental configuration of house 19 was very skillfully used by Lidval to create lively, expressive fragments.

The walls of the first floor are covered with finishing brown brick. The upper floors are covered with textured plaster. The few decorative elements include shallow niches in the first-floor wall piers and inserts of red brick.

House No. 19, built in 1904, belonged to Lemmerich, chairman of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Society.

In apartment 9 of house No. 19, from 1906 to 1938, lived the full member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the RSFSR, honored scientist, and chemistry professor Verkhovsky. In 1911, he published his "Elementary Course of Chemistry," and in 1934 and 1947, textbooks on inorganic chemistry. In 1937, he wrote a chemistry textbook for secondary schools. Verkhovsky’s works have been translated into many languages worldwide, including Japanese and Chinese. He was among the first full members elected to the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. Verkhovsky passed away in 1947.

Verkhovsky’s apartment was for a long time a meeting place for writers, artists, and painters... In the 1910s, visitors included Blok, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Pyast, Bely, Sasha Cherny, and Vrubel. Fyodor Chaliapin visited several times. From the late 1920s, they were succeeded by Voloshin, Ivan Novikov, Kaverin, Marshak, Tynyanov, Academician Lebedev, and his wife, the artist Ostroumova-Lebedeva...

Apartment 15 of this house was occupied in the 1920s by Antsiferov, a literary scholar known for his research on the history of Leningrad and Moscow and their suburbs. He authored such remarkable books as "The Soul of Petersburg" and "Dostoevsky’s Petersburg." Antsiferov was one of the founders of Soviet local history studies and a mentor to numerous museum workers.

Apartment 20 was home to regimental commissar Mukhin, the military commissar of the battleship "October Revolution." He was falsely accused, arrested on February 16, 1937, sentenced to the highest penalty, and executed on September 1, 1937.

From 1906 to 1917, apartment 31 of house No. 19 was occupied by the Russian revolutionary-populist Sazhin, who had been involved in the revolutionary movement since the 1860s. While abroad, he became close to Bakunin, participated in the Paris Commune, and in 1873, during the "193" trial, was sentenced to five years of hard labor for revolutionary propaganda. From 1906 to 1916, he worked at the magazine "Russian Wealth." He was a member of the All-Union Society of Political Prisoners.

From 1917 to 1919, Vera Figner lived in this apartment, having returned from emigration in 1915.

Sources:

https://www.citywalls.ru/house1060.html

Privalov V. Streets of the Petrograd Side. Houses and People. Moscow: Tsentrpoligraf, 2013. pp. 540-543,

V. G. Isachenko, G. A. Ol Fyodor Lidval. Lenizdat, 1987, series Architects of Our City