The mansion was built in the 1910s by the project of the architect V.M. Vladimirov.
For many years, the mansion on Pushkinskaya Street 62 is a center of culture and art, whose employees now work in the room of the writer and director Alexander Dovzhenko.
In the 1920s, young Dovzhenko worked as an artist in the newspaper Vesti and shared a huge room on the third floor with a colleague. According to the memoirs, their apartments were very poorly furnished, despite this, there were always a lot of guests who sat on wooden boxes. A few decades later, when the information and publishing center moved into the room, the staff discovered a secret door leading to the cupboard, which served as a refrigerator in Dovzhenko’s time.
P.S. Only now I noticed on the wall of a neighboring house the inscription: “You can be better. Hamlet” (Hamlet is our local street artist).