Dom Kapustina

The farther the Fontanka flows away from the center, the more unpretentious the building is on its embankment, which makes the appearance of a monolith house built by architect Alexei Bubyr even more spectacular. The massive structure embodies reliability, protecting a person from any vicissitudes of the elements. To comprehend this idea is the easiest way to look at the house in bad weather, this returns to the idea that bad weather and northern modern are very suitable for each other. The building was erected in 1912 by order of a former classmate of the architect at the Institute of Civil Engineers Konstantin Ivanovich Kapustin, who left the specialty for the sake of his passion for cars, he became one of the pioneers and popularizer of motorsport in Russia - he participated in 1901 in one of the first Luga auto racing - St. Petersburg, in 1902 became the founder and treasurer of the St. Petersburg Automobile Club. In 1905, he established a cup of his own name for participants in car racing. He traveled a lot by car in Russia and Western Europe, in 1908 he made the grand rally at that time of the rally St. Petersburg - Kiev - Yalta - Sevastopol. Thanks to this passion of Kapustin, a garage appeared in the project of the house, for the beginning of the 20th century it is a rarity. But the emphasis, of course, is not on him, here Bubyr develops his favorite theme of the corner, reaching the heights of creativity, his magnum opus, if you like. He created a complex composition, embodying the ideas of Suprematism in architecture. The house is solved in large forms, without small details, the verticals are emphasized with contrasting plaster, the corners and bay windows are lighter. So if you are going to the nearest hurricane or blizzard, at worst a thunderstorm, to admire the building, then it is better to do this from the opposite side of the Fontanka in order to appreciate and understand all the architect's plans.

Beautiful former apartment building in red-brick and ocher tones in the "Northern Art Nouveau" style. In addition to interesting architecture, he is also famous for having "starred" in the film "Peter FM", appeared in the frame several times together with the Egyptian bridge, which was nearby, was the subject of discussion by the characters, the plot of the picture. Nearby, on the corner of Lublin and Spinning Lanes, there is still a beautiful house in the style of "Northern Art Nouveau", less tall, in bright colors.

He climbed onto the roof of a neighboring house. Once even with Ksyusha Yusha, who administers the vanderduk. I did not like that the roof was closed after a couple of weeks. And Kapustin’s house is so pretty.

Cool house, I live in it

Previously profitable home. Currently, the usual residential with not very polite people!