Muruzi House

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Muruzi House
Дом Мурузи
View of the Muruzi House from the corner of Korolenko Street (left) and Pestel Street, the left side under older paint.
General information
Architectural style	neo-Moorish architecture (Neo-Mudéjar)
Location	Saint Petersburg, Liteyny Avenue, 24
Completed	1874-1877
Design and construction
Architect(s)	A. C. Serebryakov, P. I. Shestov

Muruzi House is a notable apartment building – a former revenue house in central Saint Petersburg, Russia, constructed in 1874-1877 by architects Aleksey Serebryakov and Pyotr Shestov [ru] for count Alexander Dmitrievich Mourouzis (Muruzi) on the land that once belonged to Nikolai Rezanov.^[1] The interiors were designed by Nikolai Sultanov [ru].^[2]

From 1890 until the Revolution the house was owned by Lieutenant General Oskar Rein.^[3]

It is noteworthy for its neo-Moorish architecture and as a place of residence or work of a number of Russian-language literary persons:^[4] for example, in 1955–1972 Russian poet Joseph Brodsky resided in the Muruzi house, nowadays his memorial museum is opened at his former apartment.^[5] Before him residents included the early 20 century family of authors Zinaida Gippius and Dmitry Merezhkovskiy and later a Soviet and modern Russia prose writer Daniil Granin;^[6] Poets' House opened here in 1920 under Nikolay Gumilyov, and Korney Chukovskiy opened a studio for teaching young literary translators under the post-revolutionary publishing project Vsemirnaya literatura [ru] ("World Literature").^[7]