The apartment building of the First Russian Insurance Company on the corner of Kronverkskaya and Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Streets in St. Petersburg has been granted the status of a monument of regional significance.

The building was constructed in 1913-1914 according to a design by architects Yuli Benois, Leonty Benois, and Alexander Gunst.

The residential complex, which includes the front buildings on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt, Kronverkskaya Street, and Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Street, was the largest in the capital at the beginning of the 20th century. It was equipped with all the latest communications for that time.

Dmitri Shostakovich lived in this building from 1937 to 1941. It was here that he wrote his Seventh Symphony, “Leningrad,” in 1941.

Based on materials from the Committee for State Control, Use, and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments of St. Petersburg.