Zagorodny Prospekt, 45, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191180
Right opposite the Vitebsky Station owl, on house number 45 on Zagorodny Prospect, there are also owls. This house was built by architect Moshinsky in 1907 at the request of the widow of Lieutenant General Shtalman, and three years later it was bought by Musin-Pushkin. The owls hide here in the openings. Besides the owls, the facade is decorated with “sad ladies with grassy hairstyles,” noted by the poet Shefner in the poem “Petersburg Modern.” The building used to be crowned with an elegant turret, but in the 1980s there was a fire here, and it was dismantled.
You can learn more about this house here: https://reveal.world/story/dohodnyj-dom-a-n-shtal-man-musinyh-pushkinyh
