Derviz's house on the Promenade des Anglais. The estates of the von derviz Sokha and Starozhilovo in the Ryazan region. step: pay for tickets

And now more about this beautiful mansion...

Yes, this is really von Derviz’s mansion on Sadovo-Chernogryazskaya...

Last summer I already wrote a little about it (http://community.livejournal.com/moya_moskva/528696.html) and even posted photographs that I took in a hurry... Now I managed to visit it longer and try to capture the most beautiful parts of the interior... Unfortunately, I don’t yet have a wide-angle lens that would allow me to show general views of the rooms and halls, so due to limited space I had to be content with what I got... Let’s add to this the difficult shooting conditions and twilight. ..

I'll start with history...

I won’t go into the history of the “von derWies” family; I’ll start right away with the most famous - Pavel Grigorievich von DerWies (1826-1881). He was one of the first major figures in the field of railway construction.

Acting State Councilor. In 1847-57 he served in the Senate and the War Ministry in the Provisions Department. After retiring, he moved to Moscow, where he became secretary and member of the board of the Moscow-Saratov Railway Society. In 1863 he headed the board of the Moscow-Ryazan Railway Company and received a state concession for its construction on favorable terms. He lived in Moscow in the management house of the Ryazan-Kozlovskaya Railway on Kalanchevskaya Street. In 1868, having earned a multimillion-dollar fortune, he retired from business, went abroad, lived in Nice and Lugano. In 1874-76 he founded and built in Moscow at his own expense the St. Vladimir Children's Hospital (in 1922 it was renamed Children's Clinical Hospital No. 2 named after I.V. Rusakov, since 1991 it has had the same name; Rubtsovsko-Dvortsovaya Street, 1/3).

sign in front of Iosifyan's offices. There's no one in it now

His son Sergei Pavlovich von Derviz (years of birth and death are unknown), actual state councilor, landowner, owner of the Inzer mine in the Urals. Leader of the nobility of the Spassky district of the Ryazan province. Since 1903, honorary trustee of the women's gymnasium named after V.P. von Derviz (together with his brother Pavel Pavlovich). Honorary member of the Moscow branch of the Russian Musical Society. Purchased an organ for the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. From 1886 he lived in a mansion on Sadovaya-Chernogryazskaya Street (6).

Here is what is written about this house in the Encyclopedia of Moscow: Derviz House, Sadovaya-Chernogryazskaya, 6. Built for S.P. von Derviz in 1886 on the territory of the 18th century estate. The palace-type mansion stands at a significant distance from the street, in the front yard. Relatively small, the house is very impressive, which is achieved by using in its architecture compositional techniques and decorative details in the spirit of Italian Renaissance architecture, characteristic of one of the eclecticism trends, rare in Moscow. The central part of the building is highlighted by a projection with a large porch, on the sides of which there are ramps for entry. Lamps in the shape of female figures are placed on them. The facades are faced with granite and covered with large rustication with lion masks on the second floor. Above the heavy cornice are stands with flowerpots. The interior decoration (one of the earliest works by F.O. Shekhtel) is extremely representative - gilded stucco on the walls and ceilings is combined with picturesque panels. In 1888-89, the building was enlarged with an extension (Shekhtel); in 1911-12, a high stone fence was installed along the street line (architect N.N. Chernetsov).

In 1904 S.P. von Derviz sells this mansion to the hereditary nobleman L.K. Zubalova, the son of a millionaire oil industrialist, owner of oil fields in Baku. And in 1911, on his instructions, a massive high fence was erected. According to one version, in order to hide from the curious glances of passers-by and street noise, according to another, frightened by the events of 1905, Zubalov left Moscow and, returning in 1909, asked the city government for permission to build a wall that would fence off his property from the street.

A very interesting "keyless" safe. Somehow it opens in a clever way

However, already in 1918, Zubalov’s wife, Olga Ivanovna, transferred this mansion to the Rumyantsev Museum and the house officially became a branch of the Rumyantsev Museum.

It should be noted that Iosifyan chose, perhaps, the best room for his office. Such an abundance of naked women can only be found in his office

In 1920, the building housed a special technical bureau of the Supreme Council of National Economy (VSNKh), and later NII-20. At the same time, the artistic beauty was not damaged. NII-20 was evacuated from Moscow in September 1941. And the building was transferred to VNIIEM, which was headed by A.G. Iosifyan from 1941 to 1993. The management of VNIIEM is still located in the house, the beauty of which is protected by the state.

Stained glass... As far as I know, some of them are currently being restored

Closet door

Women's busts made of wood along the edges of the sofa

Actually, the bust of Iosifyan himself...

A Pirsi carpet over 200 years old. Some Arab delegation, having seen the carpet, offered a lot of money for it...

Chandelier in the hall... Different everywhere...

And on the wall...

The most beautiful stained glass window with the family coat of arms of the von Derviz family on the flight of the main staircase

And this is a safe room. It is located in the right extension of the house. It is called a safe because of the powerful and heavy entrance doors and the same windows. Apparently, no one could get in.
And in the photo the only one left current black marble fireplace

Figures on the edges of the fireplace...

The von Derviz coat of arms can be found almost everywhere... In this case, on the mantelpiece

The main staircase is made of white marble. Leads to the second floor

Fireplace on the second floor. Plug with coat of arms

Ceiling

And this is the ceiling

Beautiful tapestries on the walls

Coat of arms on the staircase railing

Chandelier in the meeting room. Made from Bohemian crystal. During reconstructions, painters tried to steal the crystal pieces. Some are irretrievably lost

This is generally one of the most beautiful halls. Decorated walls and ceilings

Fireplace edge

Fireplace plug. There are no flat surfaces here

The most beautiful fireplace. Made from red marble

This was probably the ideal of a woman at that time.

And this is a tea room with an atrium. It’s true that there is snow now and all the beauty is not visible

This is the sofa in front of the tea table

Marble table

Sofa with some Japanese motifs

Lanterns at the entrance. They can also be seen in the Soviet film "The Feast of St. Jorgen" of 1930

Griffons on the walls

Vases on the roof. The external decoration is much poorer

The house on Galernaya in the center of St. Petersburg has a very ancient history.

Address: Galernaya, 33

The first owner of the mansion is A.P. Volynsky, a cabinet minister under Tsarina Anna Ioannovna (he was executed in 1740 for participating in a conspiracy against Biron). Then his daughter, who married Count Vorontsov, owned the house on Galernaya. The fate of an ordinary apartment building changed dramatically in 1883, when a young baron, a descendant of the old German family Wiese, Chamberlain Sergei Pavlovich von Derviz (1863–1918), decided to remodel it. Under him, the house was rebuilt in the Art Nouveau style; this task was entrusted to the architect Schreiber.

Schreiber paid great attention to the interiors: in them, the Art Nouveau era is replaced by the Empire style, the Elizabethan Baroque by classicism, unexpectedly getting lost in the bliss of the lush Moorish style. In 1902, the house on the side of the Neva embankment was built on two floors. The building, facing Galernaya, acquired its modern appearance under another owner, the chairman of the charity society for poor children in St. Petersburg, N.N. Shebeko. He bought the mansion in 1909, and according to the design of the architect Maksimov, he slightly modified it.

In 1910, V. Meyerhold created the House of Interludes in this building. On two floors of the mansion, Meyerhold creates and at the same time breaks all traditions: theatrical traditionalism in the spirit of the old masters of Alexandrinka is combined here with the ideas of Meyerhold's Theater of the Future. The house on Galernaya becomes one of the city's main testing theater venues.

After the revolution of 1917, the mansion was plundered: first, the district committee of the RCP (b), then the Union of Metalworkers and the Estonian House of Education were opened here. Then the front part on the Neva side was adapted for a tuberculosis dispensary, and a sobering-up station was located in the courtyard wing. Finally, in 1998, the building was transferred to the use of the St. Petersburg Opera chamber theater. Many years of renovation followed, during which it was possible to recreate the interiors of the late 19th century. We are talking about the Moorish living room, covered with gilded ornaments, the Maple living room, decorated with picturesque panels, the Winter Garden, made in the form of a fancy grotto, and the Red living room (an example of the Italian Renaissance).

On the last day of our trip to Ryazan, the weather turned bad again, and instead of the planned farewell walk around the city, we decided to see the von Derviz estates in Kiritsy and Starozhilovo, 40 km from Ryazan.

These estates are quite unusual, and their history is closely intertwined with the fates of their founders. Therefore, I will begin my story with the von Derviz themselves.

Ryazan entrepreneur Pavel Grigorievich von Derviz (1826-1881) made a huge fortune in the construction of railways. In the 19th century, this business turned out to be incredibly profitable, especially if you doubled the cost of work, carried out fraud with capital and securities, and had influential patrons. Having become one of the richest people in Russia, he owned real estate in Moscow and St. Petersburg, in France and Switzerland.

But now we are not interested in Pavel Grigorievich himself, but in his children: Sergei, Pavel, Varvara, Andrei and Vladimir.

The eldest son of Pavel Grigorievich, Sergei Pavlovich von Derviz, was born in 1865. After his father's death, he received a rich inheritance, but his father's entrepreneurial spirit was not passed on to him. Occupying mainly representative positions, Sergei led an active social life, spending his father’s untold wealth.

Having acquired the Kiritsa estate, Sergei demolished the mirror factory, which was eking out a miserable existence, and built a luxurious estate in its place. For this purpose, a young architect Fyodor Osipovich Shekhtel was hired. And by the end of the 19th century, a fairy-tale castle grew on the banks of the Kiritsa River.

The estate was surrounded by a fence. On the vast territory there was a church and a horse yard, hanging bridges and grottoes.

Two majestic staircases descended from the palace to the lawn in a semicircle, next to which gazebos topped with tritons were located symmetrically.

There was a bizarre grotto built under the stairs, and a fountain flowed on the terrace in front of it. Then you could go down to the ponds and garden.

The main building of the estate was decorated with turrets with spiers and weather vanes. Glazed passages were built between the wings. The graceful balcony of one of the wings was supported by the mighty wings of an eagle.

The Bridge of Love was built across the ravine next to the mansion. According to legend, a girl, unrequitedly in love with Sergei, threw herself down from this bridge.

Sergei Pavlovich loved his estate very much and gladly came here every year for the whole summer. But, having gone bankrupt, after the death of his mother in 1908, he sold all his real estate and left Russia forever. He died in Cannes in 1943.

The estate stood abandoned until the Soviet authorities placed a school here, and then a rest home.

Sergei's younger brothers and sister - Vladimir, Andrey and Varvara - did not live very long, they were struck by a serious illness - bone tuberculosis. Vladimir and Andrey died as infants, Varvara died at 16 years old. The father could not survive the loss of his children; he died immediately after the death of his beloved daughter.

And here’s the irony of fate: in the Kiritsy estate, from 1938 to this day, there is a children’s sanatorium where children with bone tuberculosis are treated.

Now let's move on to another brother of Sergei - Pavel Pavlovich von Derviz.

At the time of his father’s death, Pavel was 11 years old, and he inherited an estate in the village of Starozhilovo. Like his older brother, Pavel was a very wealthy man. He became interested in breeding elite horses and founded a stud farm in Starozhilovo, and, on the advice of his brother, he hired the same F.O. as an architect. Shekhtel.

Beginning in 1893, over six years, 12 buildings were built here, including an estate, a stud farm itself, a blacksmith shop, houses for workers and a church.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, several thousand horses were kept in the stables. Elite horses were bought abroad, trotters won races. At the Starozhilovsky plant, horses of the most prestigious breeds were bred for the Guards cavalry regiments.

In addition to horse breeding, Pavel had another hobby - mathematics. He passed the university exams for the entire mathematics course as an external student and began teaching at the gymnasium he founded.

During the First World War, Pavel patriotically changed his German surname, and, translating the word “Wiese” into Russian, became Pavel Pavlovich Lugovoi.

After the revolution, Pavel was arrested and released only thanks to the petition of former students of the von Derviz gymnasium. Lugovoy got a job as a teacher at the Ryazan cavalry command courses, which opened on the basis of the Starozhilovsky stud farm. One of his students was the future Marshal of Victory G.K. Zhukov.

But soon the courses were transferred to another place, Pavel Pavlovich and his family wandered from place to place and eventually settled in the Tver region. He worked as a mathematics teacher in a rural school; Pavel died in 1943.

And the stud farm founded by Pavel Pavlovich von Derviz still exists.

We had another interesting meeting in Starozhilovo. A small flock of turkeys with turkeys was grazing right on the asphalt. We are no longer surprised by chickens and geese, but we saw turkeys for the first time.

When we wanted to take a closer picture of the birds, a turkey moved out from the flock, puffed up, became twice as wide across itself and, hissing, headed towards us. He was so belligerent that we decided to go home :)

This concludes the story about the autumn trip. It was interesting for us, a little unusual - we didn’t go to many places, but we did a lot of fishing (though without much of a catch), rested and even got a little tan. The memories will last a long time :)

Thank you for your attention! And see you on new journeys! :)

Who would have thought that it was the collection of film locations that would once again immerse me in the topic of Derviz up to my ears. With great pleasure I look, leaf through, and re-read the messages of the once active section (with fairly moth-eaten photo illustrations). I remember that crazy march to the city of Petrov at the end of October 2010 (a gloomy day with fresh snow - very suitable weather for cultural walks) with one single purpose - an excursion to the von Derviz mansion on Galernaya, 33, where the chamber musical theater "St. ‒Petersburg Opera" directed by Yuri Alexandrov. A huge thank you to the director. that before moving into the building, he achieved a large-scale restoration in it.

But somehow it didn’t work out for me to immediately write and talk about that trip, and over time the topic completely faded into the margins of current interests. I've been scrolling through some vague costume series for days "Fate Called Farman" (2011) about the romance that began on the eve of the First World War between a young officer-pilot and a ballerina of the Imperial Theater and what I see. The main character is rehearsing her steps and fouettés in the hall of the Derviz Grotto! Yes, I can be distracted from topics as much as I want, I can not turn to them for years, but you can’t turn off my memory! Especially when it comes to a unique interior, once seen with your own eyes.

Further more. Here you have the front door from a certain angle, so that the modern name of the theater does not get into the frame, they put a poster cabinet for the surroundings. At least double-glazed windows don’t poison the eyes with the dazzling whiteness of plastic, where would we be without them now?

Fleetingly, part of the interior of the Maple Living Room even lit up. And behind the ladies, who are greeted by our gallant hero-pilot, there is a view of the gilded Moorish Hall, which is not shown in the series itself.

But in the series "His Majesty's Secret Service" (2006) The Moorish room is presented in all its splendor. But of course! After all, it plays the role of apartments in the palace of the Emir of Bukhara. Once upon a time, while watching, I automatically screenshotted some pictures, not realizing that they might be useful (it’s good to be a thrifty squirrel))

And suddenly the other day, in the wake of re-watching Chekhov’s film adaptations, the obvious—the incredible—happens. And the second one is in the literal sense - "An Incredible Bet, or a True Incident That Successfully Ended One Hundred Years Ago" (1984). Again, the interiors of the Derviz mansion on Galernaya serve as the apartments of the hero Alexei Petrenko, a banker who made that same incredible bet with a poor student. Going to his office, the banker passes through the Moorish room, the raspberry room and the maple living room, although in real life this cannot be done, the arrangement of the rooms is completely different.

Here I could talk a little about the history of the mansion, but I won’t talk about the Derviz family (as much as possible!). About a unique winter garden in the form of a grotto, the materials for the creation of which were brought from Nice (the place where Dervis's Chateau de Valrose was located, now the University of Nice is located there); At the time of its creation, the grotto had no analogues in the world; a little later they would become a fashionable phenomenon. About the Maritan room, which, on the contrary, was in great demand in decorating the interiors of high-status houses, but since it was made purely for decorative reasons, they made many mistakes with quoting the Koran and the location of these quotes. About the Maple living room in the Louis XVI style with elegant wood carvings and paintings on the finest leather. About the Raspberry Hall, which was supposed to become an art gallery, but that never happened. You can also talk about the White Theater Hall, full of golden Elizabethan baroque, which is not discussed in this message due to its absence in films. There is a lot that can be written, but I know how everyone gets tired of many letters. Therefore, just pictures of the halls through my eyes. And for those who are not lazy and curious, at the end of the message there is a video tour of the mansion with a lot of interesting details.

Theater "St. Petersburg Opera" was created by director Yuri Alexandrov in 1987.
In 1998, the theater acquired its own stage area, which became Baron von Derviz's mansion(Galernaya, 33), the history of which is closely connected with the musical and theatrical history of St. Petersburg.

History of the mansion includes several eras. From the home theater of the von Derviz family to the theater stage of Vsevolod Meyerhold, from the Soviet House of Culture to the Yuri Alexandrov Theater.
The first owner of the mansion was the famous statesman of the first half of the 18th century, cabinet minister under Anna Ioannovna A.P. Volynsky, who was executed in 1740 for participating in a conspiracy against Duke Biron. Then the house was owned by his daughter, who married Count I.I. Vorontsov. At one time the house belonged to the merchants Schneider, Balabin, then Prince Repin. In 1870, architect F.L. Miller remodeled the facade and added another building.
In 1883, this territory, together with a neighboring plot, was acquired by Pavel Grigorievich von Derviz. After the death of Pavel Grigorievich, his youngest son Sergei (1863–1918) settled in the mansions on the embankment side.
In 1884, upon reaching adulthood, he began to manage significant funds left over from his father. For the 25th anniversary of the Russian Musical Society, he donated 200 thousand rubles. However, his reckless extravagance led to the renewal of guardianship over him by his father's brother, D. G. Derviz.
Influential statesmen S. Witte and K. Pobedonostsev intervened in the consideration of the circumstances of von Derviz's case: guardianship was removed, and the baron's good name was saved.
In 1885, Sergei Pavlovich reconstructed the buildings located on the site, for which he invited the architect Pyotr Pavlovich Schreiber. The architect designed not only the owner's mansion, but also the building on the Galernaya Street side, which was provided for holding musical concerts and performances.
After the events of 1905, S.P. von Derviz decided to leave Russia and began to sell off his real estate. In 1908, his wife and son left for France; Sergei Pavlovich, having sold his estates and mansions, left behind.

The house of S.P. von Derviz was built on a through plot, and therefore has two addresses: English Embankment, 34, Galernaya Street, 33, 35.
English Embankment, 34, front porch




The interiors of this house have survived to this day: the White Hall, the Moorish Living Room, the Maple Living Room, the Red Hall, and the Winter Garden.
In 1902, the house on the embankment side was built on two floors, losing the appearance of a mansion. In 1909, the mansion on Galernaya and part of the house on the English Embankment were bought by the horseman of the court, the chairman of the charity society for poor children in St. Petersburg, N.N. Shebeko. His mother was the niece of Pushkin’s wife Natalya Nikolaevna.
In October 1910, Meyerhold created the House of Sideshows, where he worked under the pseudonym Doctor Dapertutto. Despite the brilliant stage experiments, the House of Sideshows was forced to cease to exist due to financial problems at the end of 1911.
Performances and concerts continued to be held in the concert hall. F. I. Chaliapin, L. V. Sobinov, Isadora Duncan performed here. In 1915, the building was taken over by Pollack's theater courses.
After the revolution of 1917, the mansion was looted and was used in different ways over the years. First, the district committee of the RCP(b) was opened here, then the Union of Metalworkers and the Estonian House of Education. Then the front part on the Neva side was adapted for a tuberculosis dispensary, and the courtyard wing was occupied by a sobering-up station. The premises facing Krasnaya (Galernaya) Street were given to the workers' club of the Admiralty Plant "Mayak" in 1946. For many years, the mansion eked out a miserable existence, miraculously preserving some of the unique interiors.

Thanks to the efforts of Yuri Alexandrov, restoration work began in 2000. The floors and electrical wiring were partially replaced, glass and doors were installed, and the ceilings were strengthened. The White Theater Hall, stage, grotto, foyer and artistic restrooms were restored. They recreated the curtain with the family coat of arms of Baron von Derviz. A truly gigantic amount of work has been done to return some areas of the building to normal condition. In the main, White Hall, made in the Baroque style, the ceiling was cleared, and under a layer of oil paint, an amazingly beautiful lampshade was revealed with an image of a blue sky, in which three swallows hover under the clouds.

Foyer and staircase in the guest part of the mansion were made by the architect A. Maksimov at the beginning of the 20th century. The bronze lions decorating the staircase on the left and right are one of the heraldic symbols of the von Derviz family.

The stairs will lead us to an amazingly beautiful grotto.

GROTTO
A unique hall that at the time of its creation had no analogues not only in Europe, but throughout the world. One of the first original examples of the emerging Art Nouveau architectural style.
The glass skylight and the wall-length window are present here not out of whim, but out of necessity: the hall was a winter garden, a greenhouse for sun-loving tropical plants.










The walls skillfully imitate the surface of real grottoes that can be found on the Cote d'Azur. The stalactites are made of papier-mâché.

WHITE HALL
The auditorium seats 173 spectators.
The hall dazzles the audience with its splendor.


The huge mirrors on the walls are authentic, from the end of the 19th century, covered with silver amalgam.










Genius of Music with a lyre in his hands.

RED LIVING ROOM
The Red Living Room was originally conceived as an art gallery.

MOORISH LIVING ROOM
The Moorish, or Golden, living room is an incredibly fashionable, by the standards of the 80s of the 19th century, interior. Every wealthy owner of a mansion or palace tried to get such a room, and Sergei Pavlovich von Derviz, thanks to the architect Peter Schreiber, became the owner of one of the most original ones.


In the Moorish drawing room there is a secret door that allowed the owner to unexpectedly enter the theater room and give his guests a surprise.


The walls are decorated with gold leaf,