Muruzi House

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Muruzi House is a striking neo-Moorish apartment building erected in Saint Petersburg between 1874 and 1877 by architects Aleksey Serebryakov and Pyotr Shestov for Count Alexander Dmitrievich Mourouzis, with interiors designed by Nikolai Sultanov. Built on land once belonging to Nikolai Rezanov, the house passed to Lieutenant General Oskar Rein's ownership from 1890 until the Russian Revolution. Beyond its architectural distinction, Muruzi House holds significant literary importance: the Poets' House operated here from 1920 under Nikolay Gumilyov, and Korney Chukovskiy established a studio for young literary translators as part of the post-revolutionary Vsemirnaya literatura project. The building later housed prominent Russian writers including Zinaida Gippius and Dmitry Merezhkovskiy, Daniil Granin, and the poet Joseph Brodsky, who lived there from 1955 to 1972; his former apartment now functions as a memorial museum. Today the house is recognized as a regional cultural heritage site in Russia.