Demetra
Hotel
The history
of the hotel
Surprisingly, the Demetra Hotel is not just a modern hotel, but also a significant example of the history of St. Petersburg. The completely renovated hotel building is on the list of the country's historical heritage.
The house was build in 1913 as a profitable, that is, residential. Its architect, Wilhelm Van Der Gucht, is one of the brightest representatives of late eclecticism and modernism in architecture of the early 20th century.
In St. Petersburg, for the most part, he built apartment buildings, but he built them in such a way that many of them are recognized as architectural masterpieces. Among them is the house number 44 on Vosstaniya Street.
By the way, in the time of Wilhelm Ivanovich, the street named after the 1917 revolution was called Znamenskaya - after the Znamenskaya Church, which was erected at the end of the XVIII century at the behest of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna.
The church itself has not survived to our time – its place was taken by the lobby of the Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station, but almost all the historical buildings along the way from Nevsky to Kirochnaya have been preserved, so the road to the hotel is a small but exciting walk.
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