This is one of Lidval’s first significant works in St. Petersburg. The overall classical appearance of the building is adorned with two corner bay windows with domes facing Kadetskaya Line and Tuchkov Lane.

In the 19th–20th centuries, the house was home to the scientist Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev, linguist Ivan Alexandrovich Boduen de Kurtene, and architect Boris Konstantinovich Roerich.

During the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, one-story wooden buildings were located on this site. In early 1840, the large plot bounded by Kadetskaya Line and Tuchkov Lane was divided into two. At that time, the territory in the first block of the Vasilievsky Island belonged to the “Friedrichgam” merchant and collegiate counselor Fyodor Ivanovich (Friedrich Burgard) Klementz, for whom a stone four-story residential building was constructed according to the design of the architect of Swiss origin Yegor Timofeyevich (Georg Ruprecht) Zollikofer.

The house occupied the entire rectangular plot and consisted of three four-story front buildings in a U-shape and a one-story wing along the boundary with the neighboring property.

In 1848, according to the drawings of architect and academician of architecture Nikolay Pavlovich Grebenka, the courtyard service wing of Klementz’s house was extended by a second floor; the eastern part of the front building along Tuchkov Lane was also raised.

In 1865, according to the project of architect and academician of architecture Nikolay Vasilyevich Trusov, a third floor was added to the courtyard wing of Klementz’s house.

In 1873, further renovations were carried out: according to the design of architect Vasily Vasilyevich Vindelbandt, the building along Tuchkov Lane was raised; staircases were installed in the southeast corner of the front building and in the central building of the courtyard wing; new walls were built, and decorative facade finishes were applied.

In the 1880s, the house at No. 9 Kadetskaya Line became the residence of the retired renowned mineralogist and crystallographer, director of the Mining Institute, academician Nikolay Ivanovich Koksharov.

In 1888, a stone one-story laundry annex was added to the courtyard wing of Klementz’s house, also designed by Vindelbandt.

From 1891 to 1897, the famous Russian scientist, author of fundamental research in chemistry, physics, metrology, and other sciences, professor of the Imperial St. Petersburg University Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev lived here.

In 1899, the plot became the property of Alvina Ivanovna Winter, owner of the watch shop “Trading House Fr. Winter.”

In February 1900, architect and academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts Fyodor Ivanovich Lidval developed a project to reconstruct two stone staircases of the four-story house of Mrs. Winter.

Additionally, Lidval’s project provided for the construction of bay windows on the northeast and northwest corners at the height of the 3rd–4th floors, which were topped with towers with domes crowned by pedestals decorated with acanthus leaves and pine cones. An attic wall with a semicircular central part and stucco decoration in the tympanum was created; the decoration was enriched with panels at the first-floor level instead of rustication.

From 1902 to 1913, the metallurgist scientist, professor at the Mining Institute, and first chairman of the Russian Metallurgical Society Nikolay Alexandrovich Iossa lived here.

One of the apartments was rented from 1910 to 1917 by the corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, linguist Ivan Alexandrovich Boduen de Kurtene.

In 1912, the house passed into the ownership of the Insurance Society “Russia.”

From 1912 to 1917, the famous architect Boris Konstantinovich Roerich, brother of the outstanding Russian painter Nikolay Konstantinovich Roerich, lived here.

Until 1918, apartment No. 17 was inhabited by the painter and academician of painting Viktor Alekseevich Bobrov.

In the second half of the 20th century, the building housed store No. 44 of the Vasileostrovsky District Food Trade, a restaurant, and the shashlik place “Mishen.”

To this day, the building has preserved its historic appearance and volumetric-planning solution. It possesses unique architectural and stylistic features that combine nearly two centuries, revealing the skill of its authors and the relevant architectural trends of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The facade is executed in the techniques of late eclecticism with elements of early Art Nouveau. In the late 20th century, the courtyard wing was lost.

The building retains its historic function, remaining a multi-apartment residential house.

Sources:

https://www.citywalls.ru/house49.html

https://sanktpeterburg.bezformata.com/listnews/dom-kuptca-fyodora-klementca/117813687/

Materials from the state historical and cultural examination of the identified cultural heritage object “House of F.I. Klementz (A.I. Winter)” (state expert – M.I. Filipovich), carried out by order of the St. Petersburg State Government Institution “Directorate of the Customer for Repair and Restoration Works on Historical and Cultural Monuments.”