… I opened my umbrella and went for the two ladies. Left for Gorokhovaya turned into middle-class, then to carpentry, finally to Kokushkin bridge and stopped in front of a large house. «This house, I know — I said to myself. — This house Zverkova." What a machine! What it does not live the people: how many cooks, how many visitors! and take our government officials — like dogs, one at another sitting. There is and I have a friend who plays the trumpet. The ladies went up to the fifth floor. «Well, — I thought — now I will not go, but I note the place and when the first case did not fail to take…

Question: Have you found this product? Name the author? Call the main character. Where is the house Zverkova? What he is known in the history of the construction of St. Petersburg?

Answer: N.v. Gogol, «Diary of a Madman», the protagonist — Poprishchin Aksentii Ivanovich, titular councilor, a gentleman. The house is at Zverkova Kokushkina bridge on the canal under Griboedova number 69 (previously — Ekaterininsky Canal). Another up the facade facing the street Prezhivalskogo d.18 (Stolyarniy per.). The house was built in the 20th years of 19 century in the means of a rich merchant, commerce adviser I. D. Zverkova. One of the bureaucratic brethren, «The office of the plankton» in those days was, and Gogol himself, who had served in one of the departments of St. Petersburg and from 1829 th to 1831 regularly returning home is here, at home to Zverkova Kokushkin bridge on the canal Griboyedov. 69.Home Zverkova is two steps away from the place where Dostoyevsky and rented an apartment where he wrote «Crime and Punishment», and across the street rented a little room under the roof of Rodion Raskolnikov.

Twenty years later Dostoevsky (1881–87) in Stolyarny street, house number 6, he lived another great son of Russia Nikolai Mikhailovich Przewalski. Researcher-orientalist, a tireless traveler, he lived in St. Petersburg for several years, working on a report on its fourth expedition and preparing for the fifth and, alas, the last one. Let us examine the current house Zverkova.

The massive building, red, like a huge brick, placed on the side near the channel Griboyedov. And indeed unhealthy some in his appearance. On either side of a brick sign: «Workshop». «Plumbing». «Fabric» … as usual. In one of the windows, however, hangs the very same quote from the «crazy», which we have already quoted above. Residents seem to be proud of their housing, the renowned writer and the pen of the great delusions daffy clerk.

On the other side, which goes on the facade of The Wood Lane is a restaurant-pub «The Golden Lion». «THE GOLDEN LION»- reads a sign in English.

Okay. Looked in Tenek into the yard. Here we see a three-storey house, which stands in the heart of the court. It — Center for Contemporary Art, no more, no less.

A little to the left in the wing where it was previously located stables completely new mini-hotel «Golden Lion». If you want to see with my own eyes Petersburg of Dostoevsky, feel the energy of his idol, Gogol, then you should definitely stay with us.