The P. F. Remler Apartment Building is a historic pre-revolutionary structure located in Nizhny Novgorod at 88 Ilyinskaya Street. It is among the buildings that form the Historic Buildings streets in Nizhny Novgorod, on which 32 landmark buildings have been preserved and listed among cultural heritage sites.[1]
Ilyinskaya Street and Its Buildings
Ilyinskaya Street developed historically as a trade-and-craft corridor: merchants, craftsmen, and coachmen lived here, and the road to Vladimir and Moscow passed through it. The historian Nikolai Khramtsovsky described it as quiet and respectable — "like a merchant's wife paying a visit or out for a stroll."[1] Most of the buildings on Ilyinskaya are stone; the street was also home to the Institute for Noble Maidens and the first children's shelter.[1]
Among the 32 landmark buildings on the street, structures in the spirit of provincial eclecticism predominate, though examples of Classicism, Art Nouveau, and retrospectivism can also be found.[1] Many of the most notable stone houses were built in the first half of the 19th century to designs by Nizhny Novgorod architect Georg Kizevetter.[1] Directly neighboring the Remler apartment building are the M. E. Karpov apartment building, the Vereninov house, the house of merchant F. P. Kuznetsov, and other historic structures in the area.[1]
The Street's History in the Soviet Period
In 1918, virtually all private houses on Ilyinka were nationalized; they were assigned to Soviet institutions, primarily those serving the Volga Flotilla.[1] In the early years of Soviet power, Bolshaya Yamskaya into a single street measuring 2,382 metres in length.[1] In 1924, the street was renamed Krasnoflotskaya — in honour of the river sailors who had taken part in the Civil War; the historic name Ilyinskaya was not restored until the late 20th century.[1]
Sources
- Nizhegorodskaya Pravda — 2,382 metres of history and contrasts: a walk along Ilyinskaya, Nizhny Novgorod's merchant street