M. I. Wawelberg Apartment Building

The apartment building of M. I. Wawelberg at the intersection of Nevsky Prospekt and Malaya Morskaya Street is a monument of federal architectural significance. The building is constructed in the form of a heavy Italian palazzo of gigantic scale and occupies an entire block, its exterior cladding is made of gray granite. The design of the new bank building, commissioned to architect M. M. Peretyatkovich in 1901, led to the creation of a structure in the Art Nouveau and Neo-Renaissance styles, where the walls, cornices, and columns are decorated with sculptures and bas-reliefs. The arcade of the second floor of this apartment building is compared to the Doge's Palace in Venice.