The famous Neidgart mansion in St. Petersburg attracts attention with its unusual and austere beauty among all the buildings of the Military University and just residential buildings on Zakharyevskaya Street. House No. 31 even looks a little stern, since the architectural forms themselves are quite heavy, and its dark gray color does not help to change the first impression. But if you come closer, you can spend hours looking at the Neidgart mansion, its decor on the facade is extremely interesting. And if you go inside … This is what this article will discuss.
Holiday building
The fact is that the Neidgart mansion is currently a banquet complex and serves as an ideal venue for business and holiday events. The ceremonial halls will be a wonderful decoration for the event for any visitor. It hosts the most elegant weddings, the most fun birthday parties, and the organization of all kinds of conferences and seminars is beyond praise. Employees whose workplace is the Neidgart mansion organize anniversaries, banquets and magical children's parties, graduations and other joyful events.
In these halls there is everything necessary to conduct a business event of any level: a round table, a conference, a seminar, a meeting with business partners, business negotiations and much, much more. The Neidgart mansion is equipped with the most modern technology that will help to achieve success and solve all the business tasks.
Hospitality
For tourists, visitors to the city on the Neva, there are a wide variety of programs for both groups and individuals. People who visited the Neidgart mansion leave reviews so often that special books for them barely manage to change. Here, the continuation of the unique experience that the tourists will certainly receive, a place with a special atmosphere is a great addition to any sightseeing tour of the magnificent St. Petersburg.
Inside, Neidgart's mansion is amazing! Guests will be impressed right from the first steps, having seen a beautiful front staircase and climbing up it. Surely many will decide that this is the most important decoration of an old mansion. But it was not there! All other rooms deserve the closest attention, and even people who are not too impressionable will take away this amazing beauty and architectural expressiveness with them for a long time.
Architecture
This mansion was built for two years - from 1911 to 1913. It turned out as if an ordinary three-story symmetrical building with a rusticated first floor and semicircular windows. Powerful bay windows above the front door give the heavy construction, composite capitals with pilasters hang over the gates and sidewalk.
Here you can look at the decor of the bay window brackets for a long time - the splendor of bows, garlands of oak leaves, acorns. Under the second floor there is a meander belt, and the windows are crowned with rich sandriks, decorated with floral ornaments in a spiral. The windows of the third floor are also not simple: castle stones hang over them, and in the center of the building there is a radiant pediment with a beautiful window, also decorated with rich decor.
Gate and front door
The wooden carved door is gorgeous: the entire front door is entwined with a floral-plant ornament, garlands, it is with a meander belt and a cartouche. A very important element of the composition is the patio gate that separates it from the street. The cast-iron grate has a unique and mysterious pattern, but this is a clear example of the Petersburg style: the fluttering ends of a wide ribbon seem to embrace the rest of the decor elements - garlands, flower vases, torches.
Interior
That stunning beauty that meets and then surrounds the visitor in every hall of the mansion, in every corner of it, was created by a wonderful architect and artist Ivan Aleksandrovich Fomin. His skill is such that interior decoration has turned into almost more art than building the house itself.
The lobby can already serve as an example, where the space is masterfully divided, where the staircases are most interestingly arranged, due to which very limited areas of the room are moved apart, the impression of wide space, diversity and compositional richness is created.
Magic
The first platform is small, it is located at the entrance. After a few steps, the second platform begins, which rises terrace-like. And here, on the right in the corner, a rather gentle staircase curves elegantly with the widest steps, which leads to an arched open doorway, where a magnificent view of a solemnly flying flight of stairs with a coffered box vault suddenly opens. The visitor just could not take his eyes off the openwork, finely traced fencing of the second platform, and suddenly there was such a feeling of flying!
The site itself on the second floor is conceived in the form of a small balcony, which is decorated with a fireplace in marble. The abundance of curved elements makes you recall the modern style, although, of course, these are only echoes of it. During the years of the revolution, some of the author's interiors perished, and in the 90s almost everything else was destroyed. It is a great joy that now the whole mansion was bought by the construction trust, which has the opportunity to at least approximately return the building to its former worthy appearance. The fireplace has already been restored, many interiors have been restored according to the documentation found.
Path to the fireplace
It is as if a side staircase flowing into the second platform leads out of the arch to the front, main, suddenly expanding the space to almost immensity. By the main staircase you can climb to the second floor, where the fireplace is located. Everything is thought out to the smallest detail, the interiors never tire of surprising. Even a beautiful large mirror above the fireplace, reflecting both the opposite wall and the arch, pushes the boundaries, and this illusory nature does not immediately return to sight the reality.
Here is one of the warmest and most comfortable rooms of the mansion - the fireplace room. The interior is luxurious - magnificent typesetting parquet, antique wooden furniture, amazing decor of huge windows: heavy dark green and gold curtains, tulle, lambrequins. On the walls are hunting trophies. Each element breathes a special attitude and impeccable taste. The hall area is 68 square meters, capacity - up to 50 people.
Big hall
This is the most spacious, the most solemn, truly royal - with gold and purple - the room of the mansion, where magnificent banquets are held. A large hall with an area of 95 square meters seats 120 people.
Here, too, typeset parquet, the interior is magnificent: ceilings with rich stucco molding, huge doors decorated with ornaments at the top, huge mirrors, carefully selected antique furniture. It is very cozy here, despite the purely solemn atmosphere.
VIP
The VIP-hall is a whole ensemble, which includes a beautiful light room with unusual delicate shades of walls, elaborate stucco molding, comfortable furniture and a coffee and cigar room with a beautiful balcony.
This, of course, is not a banquet hall, but the room area is 50 square meters, it can accommodate more than 25 people and is ideal for business negotiations.
Bar
The bar is located on the ground floor. The atmosphere here is chamber and very disposition of visitors to rest of any plan - from relaxation to its most active types. The interior is modern, with an emphasis on simple lines and shapes, energetic, with open space, saturated with light and air.
Each element of the interior is significant, since there are no excesses in it. There are receptions, banquets, business events. Area - 80 square meters, capacity - up to 80 people.
A restaurant
This small room (50 square meters) is decorated in Italian style, where beige, gray and black seem to grow out of white - all the favorite palette of modern style. The color scheme, where the tone changes to tone, and monochrome bring lines and shapes to the fore. The banquet room of the restaurant is decorated in such a style, where, in addition to a large banquet, simple receptions or even business business lunches are quite successful. Of particular note is the gastronomic menu - it is extensive, and the cuisine is truly worthy of praise. You can invite 60 people here, and no one will leave hungry.
Library
The library hall is beautifully decorated with columns, picturesque canvases on the walls and flyingly light decor of huge windows. The room is small, only 36 square meters, can accommodate up to 25 people who will be comfortable here, without crowding.
Special equipment allows you to successfully conduct any business events, negotiations, round tables, seminars and presentations in this room, however, corporate events, banquets, and weddings are also organized here with no less success.
