Dacha of P. S. Petrova

At the end of the 18th century, the plot belonged to the court midwife "porutchitsa" Gibler. The embankment passage divided it into northern and southern (coastal) parts. By 1811, the property passed to the clavichord master Fevrier, who built a summer house on the northern half of the plot. The next owner in the 1820s was the court banker Baron Ral, and then Prince Gagarin. In 1862, the territory with the so-called "small Kamennoostrovskaya dacha" was acquired by the wife of merchant Gladyshev. The wooden summer house in the coastal part of the property was built in the 1880s for the wife of hereditary honorary citizen Petrova. The project was presumably designed by architect Preis. The house had a complex floor plan configuration, which corresponded to a picturesque volumetric-spatial composition. The dacha was crowned with a tall tower and steep slopes of a tented roof. In the decorative design of the facades, motifs of Russian folk and Gothic architecture were used. The layout of the rooms applied the principle of functional zoning. The house was distinguished by the dynamics of an asymmetrical composition, sharp silhouette, expressive carved decoration, characteristic of wooden construction of the late 19th century in a landscape environment. In 1902, the dacha passed to engineer Petrovsky, and in 1908 to his heirs.

During the Soviet era, there were communal apartments here. In 1990, a fire occurred, and in 1994-1995, the building was restored and reconstructed for a recreation base. During the Soviet period, it was part of a sanatorium. The rooms were replanned, with only the large hall with a stucco ceiling well preserved.

In 2002, the dacha was dismantled down to the foundation. The former dacha was recreated in 2002-2004 with brick walls and wooden cladding and adapted into a hotel. The historic layout of the plot was not preserved.

Originally, the house of merchant’s wife Petrova did not have a basement; it was added in modern times during reconstruction. This is a purely contemporary space, with a swimming pool, billiard room, and sauna. The original building also did not have an attic, which was also added. Here are located additional bedrooms, a kitchen-living room, a dressing room, and auxiliary rooms. As a result, the living area of the house almost doubled.

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