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The high relief “Mephistopheles, knocked down from the Lishnevsky apartment building in 2015, was transferred to the St. Petersburg branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments (VOOPIiK). Elena Turkovskaya, the great-great-granddaughter of Alexander Lishnevsky, the architect of the house project at 24 Lakhtinskaya Street, told the Rosbalt correspondent about this.
It was possible to rescue “Mephistopheles” from the chamber of material evidence at the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Petrogradsky district after the petition of Smolny. Now the high relief will be exhibited at the Academician B.B. Piotrovsky at VOOPIIK.
“It is clear that this will not happen soon, guests will not be invited tomorrow, this is a long process. Still, Mephistopheles lay for seven years in an unknown place, it is not clear how it was stored. We need to investigate, understand the state of the material,” said Turkovskaya.
The great-great-granddaughter of the architect offered to create a 3D model of the high relief to recreate a modern copy, which will be installed on the facade in the future.
“For a long time it was not possible to find out in what condition the Mephistopheles was, neither to me nor to the journalists. We had doubts as to whether he was in the police at all. When the Piotrovsky Center opened, I made one last attempt. It was a cry of despair. They did not dismiss us, they were not afraid of difficulties, because the coordination was complex and long. This is a big victory, ”summed up Turkovskaya.
Recall that the high relief depicting a demon was knocked down in August 2015 from the facade of Lishnevsky’s apartment building at 24 Lakhtinskaya Street, located opposite the church of Blessed Xenia of Petersburg. The police opened a criminal case on vandalism. The case file mentioned an Orthodox activist, Vasily Shchedrin, who compensated for the damage. The investigation was closed due to active remorse.
Source: Rosbalt
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