Utinβs Profitable house (Konnogvardeisky Boulevard, 17) is the house with an attic floor was built in 1858 by architect R.I. Kuzmin for the titular adviser, merchant of the 1st guild I.O. Utin. Interestingly, this is the first residential building in St. Petersburg, supplemented by an attic floor. The main faΓ§ade overlooking Konnogvardeisky Boulevard is richly decorated in ...
New information has emerged about Vladimir Putinβs early professional life as a KGB officer. A St. Petersburg-based historian discovered a document which shows that Putin participated in investigating one of the first instances of protest art in the USSR. In 1976, at age 23, Putin helped to search the home of an artist who painted the slogan βYou may crucify freedom, but the human soul knows no shackles!β on the wall of St. Petersburgβs Peter and Paul Fortress. Two artists served time in prison for the action, but the slogan β and Putin β live on.