War Chamber

The Military Chamber in Pushkin was conceived as a pantheon of the Fatherland's military glory — a museum of military trophies and historical documents about Russia's wars from ancient times. The architect S. Yu. Sidorchuk was the author of the project and the builder of the complex, and the building was modeled after Pskov-Novgorod structures of the 14th–16th centuries. In 1914, the complex received the name "His Majesty's Military Chamber," and in 1923 it was transferred to the Petrograd Agronomic Institute for the "Military Chamber" club and an office headed by former sergeant major Ivan Stepanovich Shpekht. Until 2008, the premises were owned by the municipality of St. Petersburg and were occupied by restoration workshops.