The house is unusual because it is composed of two houses (hence its double name - the V. K. Hauger House - the A. S. Zalshupin Income House).
This is easy to notice - the floors are at different heights - the windows on the right side are higher than those on the left, and the apartment numbers are divided between the two houses - odd numbers in one, even numbers in the other.
In 1909, the owner of the house became Alexander (Abram) Semyonovich Zalshupin. According to a design by M. I. Segal, the house was extended by two floors and became six stories tall. Above the facades, in the spirit of "pure" eclecticism, an extension was made in the forms of "pure" Art Nouveau. Honestly, such a project is striking in its incoherence and causes bewilderment. However, Segal later revised the project, and now the facades represent a cohesive work of Art Nouveau style.
If you look closely at the exterior decoration of the house, you will surely notice the bas-relief above the bay window. At the center of the composition is a demon-tempter embracing a girl, with large membranous wings, surrounded by an owl and satyrs.
The owl supports a vessel on its head, around which a small gathering has formed. Two nymphs and one pan are conspiring together. The owl is depicted as a stand for a tripod with a dish.
Mayakovsky lived here from 1915 to 1918. Living here in a spacious room on the 5th floor, it had the appearance of a temporary refuge. Essential furniture, a sofa, and in the wall space between the windows - a writing desk. His room was a kind of club where the poet’s friends held late-night discussions about contemporary art, its role, and purpose. Here Mayakovsky wrote the poems "Flute-Spine," "War and Peace," "Man," as well as "Mystery-Buff."
Mayakovsky lived in Moscow, and visited Petersburg-Petrograd occasionally, performing his poems before audiences. He first came to Petersburg in the autumn of 1912. Most often, he performed at the "Stray Dog" on Italian Street and at the Trinity Theater on Trinity Street (now Rubinstein Street). The only permanent place where the futurist poet lived was an apartment on Nadezhdinskaya Street, where he rented a room from the stenographer M. V. Maslennikova.
This house is unusual because it is composed of two houses. This is easy to notice by looking at the photo of the house. The floors are at different heights - the windows on the right side are higher than those on the left, and the apartment numbers are divided between the two houses - odd numbers in one, even numbers in the other.
It had the appearance of a temporary refuge. Essential furniture, a sofa, and in the wall space between the windows - a writing desk. His room was a kind of club where the poet’s friends held late-night discussions about contemporary art, its role, and purpose. Here Mayakovsky wrote the poems "Flute-Spine," "War and Peace," "Man," as well as "Mystery-Buff."
