P. A. Avenarius’s dacha in Tarkhovka: The experience of historical-architectural research

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of studying, preservation and use of cultural heritage objects, located in the Kurortnyj district of Saint Petersburg. The results of archivalbibliographic, historical-cultural and historical-architectural surveys done by the authors with a significant number of primary sources: texts, statistical and graphical archival documents are presented most of which are introduced to the research community for the first time. The preconditions and historical stages in the formation of P. A. Avenarius’s Tarkhovka dacha are defined. The regularities, specifics and tendencies of the typological transformation of the house, changes of planning composition and architectural-spatial appearance of the house and transformation of socio-functional structure and the architectural-landscape environment of the site and of the adjacent territories are set. The study was performed taking into account the historical patterns and specifics of urban development of the former state lands of the Sestroretsk arms factory (Tarkovsyj plot of Sestroretsk forestry’s forest dacha).