This week, architects from ACM Group inspected the historic and later buildings of Vladimirsky Passage and the shopping center and Dostoevsky Hotel located there.
The historic building was designed by renowned Finnish architect Carl Allar Schulman, provincial architect of Vyborg, for Baron Ivan Viktorovich von Besser. Von Besser was an actual state councilor, a hereditary nobleman, an employee of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery, and a member of the Labor Assistance Board. Before the revolution, the building housed the reception room of the imperial chancellery, a house of labor for educated women, and residential premises on the upper floors.
Ahead lies a comprehensive reconstruction and restoration of the entire building. We will tell you more about this ambitious project later.