Adami House

The Adamini House at 7, Mars Field, built in 1823–1827 for the merchant Antonov in the Late Empire style, was designed by architect D. F. Adamini. Many cultural figures lived and worked in this building: scientist P. L. Schilling, writers Yu. P. German, V. F. Panova, L. N. Rakhmanov, artist E. K. Lipgart, and in 1914 the second floor was occupied by the "Dobytschina Art Bureau." In 1916, in the former wood cellar, Vsevolod Meyerhold and his colleagues opened the "Artists' Halt" cabaret, whose murals were destroyed during the flood of 1924. The trapezoidal plot of the house is bounded by the Mars Field, the Moika Embankment, and Aptekarsky Lane.