Foreman has found a treasure in the St. Petersburg mansion Naryshkin

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In St. Petersburg, in a mansion on Tchaikovsky Street Naryshkin, 29 construction workers discovered a Family crest silverware. Cache, which is located in one of the wings of the building being restored, he found the foreman during the work specified in the RBC's press service of the Civil Code "Intarsia".

In one of the rooms in the reconstruction of floor slabs worker stumbled upon the cavity, where they were found eating utensils. According to preliminary information, all found 40 bags, which, in addition to silverware, found the decor items, jewelry, decorations and medals of the Russian Empire. Many items are wrapped in newspaper in 1917.

Currently the facility employs specialists of the Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Historical and Cultural Research Affairs of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region, which is carried out an inventory and an inventory of the finds.

"In the near future, found the collection will be moved to one of the museums of the city, and then, after the restoration work at this facility, we would like to place this collection in the mansion P.N.Trubetskogo for all to see," - said Alexander Novikov, director of Communications Group of Companies "Intarsia".

Reconstruction of two-storey mansion Naryshkin is from September 2011. After completion of rehabilitation works in the building will house the St. Petersburg International Center for the preservation of cultural heritage. On the ground floor of a restaurant built in the halls on the second floor will be a variety of cultural activities, and in the courtyard wings organize office and technical facilities.

House Naryshkin, Trubetskoy also called home, built in the mid-18th century. At various times he owned Abram Petrovich Hannibal (grandfather of Alexander Pushkin), Senator Ivan Neplyuev, Count Trubetskoy. In 1874. Prince Vasili bought the building Naryshkin, who rebuilt it to its present appearance.

After 1917. Naryshkins left Russia, the building is a long time wandered out of the hands of one tenant to another. Values, preserved in the mansion in 1920. were transferred to the Hermitage and Russian Museum.
Tags: St. Petersburg, a treasure
March 29, 2012

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