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- Krasnogo Flota Embankment, 4
- 1800s. Architect Thomas de Thomon
- Now the Russian State Historical Archives
-
- The house that was put up in the 1720s and
- belonged to A.Menshikov changed its owners
- and was rebuilt several times. In the early 1800s
- the fasade and part of the rooms in the house
- were changed on the order of the new owner,
- Countess A.La Valle.In the early 19th century
- this building was occupied by S.Trubetskoi, the
- Decembrist, whose wife, nee Yekaterina La
- Valle, was the first of the Decembrists' wives to
- follow her husband into exile to Siberia. It was
- here that the Decembrists' gatherings took
- place, including that on the eve of the uprising.
-