Project
Restoration of the facade of the Buturlina House
Category
Best Implemented Restoration Project
About the project (provided by the applicant)
The project exemplifies scholarly work in the traditions of the Leningrad restoration school.
The former residence of Countess Buturlina (1860) is one of the most striking examples of Neo-Baroque in Saint Petersburg. The original color scheme of the façade and rich stucco decoration were restored, based on Harald Bosse’s 1857 watercolor drawing and samples taken during laboratory examination of plaster fragments.
The beige-ochre coloring existed for most of the building’s history, changing hands several times before the Revolution and painted in a standard manner during the post-war Soviet period.
Based on iconographic materials, the individual pattern of the terrace and balcony wrought-iron railings was also restored. The monogram of Stat-Dame Elizaveta Mikhailovna Buturlina was recreated in the central section of the terrace railing, based on a 1906 photograph and analogs of heraldic representations of a count’s crown.
Location
10 Chaikovskogo Street, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Project implementation year
2024
Applicant
KGIOP, Customer Directorate
Committee for State Control, Use, and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments of the Government of Saint Petersburg, SPb SBU “Customer Directorate for Restoration and Repair Works on Historical and Cultural Monuments”
Author of the project
LLC «AZHIO»
Photo
KGIOP
Customer
SPb SBU “Customer Directorate for Restoration and Repair Works on Historical and Cultural Monuments”
Other participants
Work performer – JSC «REMFASAD»
Architectural lighting implemented under the agreement between the Government of Saint Petersburg and PJSC «Gazprom» with the participation of the Association “Nevsky Svet.” Lighting equipment is under the operational management of SPb SBU «Lensvet».
Status of the project
Implemented
