Silver Rows
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Silver Rows — a monument of architecture. Located in Saint Petersburg, the modern address is Nevsky Prospekt, 31.
Since the mid-18th century, wooden shops selling silver were located on the site; they burned down in 1783. In 1783–1784 (according to other sources, in 1787,[1] or in 1784–1787,[2] 1784–1786[3]), a stone building was erected in their place by Giacomo Quarenghi.[4]
The construction was initially funded by merchants, and later the building belonged to the Society of Shopkeepers of the Silver Rows.[2]
After the Great Patriotic War, a sports goods store opened in the building.[2]
In 1955, the internal walls of the building were dismantled, and a long-standing sports store “Dynamo” was placed in the resulting hall.[2]
From the 1980s, the building housed the Saint Petersburg Culture Fund (initially the Leningrad branch of the Soviet Culture Fund).[3]
After reconstruction in 1982, the “Isoproduktsiya” store opened in the building.[2]
In the 1990s, the jewelry salon “Ananov” opened on the ground floor.[2][5]
In December 2023, the restoration project for the facades of the “Silver Rows” was estimated at 2.7 million.[6]