The Cavalry Houses are a series of buildings built in

Pushkin, Saint Petersburg Pushkin (russian: Пу́шкин) is a municipal town in Pushkinsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located south from the center of St. Petersburg proper, and its railway station, Tsarskoye Selo, is directl ...

between 1752 and 1753. They are listed as a cultural

heritage site A historic site or heritage site is an official location where pieces of political, military, cultural, or social history have been preserved due to their cultural heritage value. Historic sites are usually protected by law, and many have been re ...

.Постановление Правительства РФ от 10.07.2001 № 527 о Перечне объектов исторического и культурного наследия Федерального (Общероссийского) значения, находящиеся в г. Санкт-Петербурге.

History

The Cavalry Houses were constructed as part of a project to build houses that differentiated the location from the area surrounding the palace. In 1748,

Empress Elizabeth Elizabeth Petrovna (russian: Елизаве́та (Елисаве́та) Петро́вна) (), also known as Yelisaveta or Elizaveta, reigned as Empress of Russia from 1741 until her death in 1762. She remains one of the most popular Russian ...

ordered the construction of four stone houses and one wooden house for the steward and the cavaliers who came to

Tsarskoye Selo Tsarskoye Selo ( rus, Ца́рское Село́, p=ˈtsarskəɪ sʲɪˈlo, a=Ru_Tsarskoye_Selo.ogg, "Tsar's Village") was the town containing a former residence of the Russian imperial family and visiting nobility, located south from the cen ...

. The project was entrusted to the architect Savva Ivanovich Chevakinskylater. Chevakinsky constructed the houses in the

baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

style with a single story and a

mezzanine A mezzanine (; or in Italian language, Italian, a ''mezzanino'') is an intermediate floor in a building which is partly open to the double-height ceilinged floor below, or which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building, a loft ...

. In 1784, the buildings were expanded by the architect I.V. Neyolov, who built up the mezzanines to complete second floors. The houses were later rebuilt in different styles. Of the group, the houses numbered 10 and 12 have been the most accurately preserved.

Architecture

The Cavalry Houses were designed in a style that is typical of the

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

urban development houses in the mid-18th century. These houses were styled after imperial residences. One distinctive characteristic is the rustled shoulder blades, which highlight the corners and the central parts of the houses' facades. Decorative locking window frames adorn the windows on both floors, and the floors are separated by wide profiled traction.

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* * {{cite web, title=Кавалерский дом - Дом директора Лицея, url=http://www.citywalls.ru/house18481.html, work=citywalls.ru, accessdate=2018-06-30 Buildings and structures in Pushkin Houses completed in 1753 Baroque architecture in Saint Petersburg Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Saint Petersburg