A house that grants wishes: what secrets are hidden in an old St. Petersburg building

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

The apartment building at 27 Grazhdanskaya Street is one of the few buildings in St. Petersburg that is shrouded in light, not gloomy legends. There are no horror stories associated with this place. On the contrary: the house is considered very positive and, as mysticism lovers say, it brings good luck and even fulfills specific desires. Often near it you can see people who either touch the wall with their hand, or just look at the house and whisper something inaudibly. Make a wish …

The house appeared on the street of shopkeepers, artisans and minor officials in 1875. It was built by the talented architect Vasily Rozinsky in the eclectic style. In addition to the tenants (most of whom were middle-class), before the revolution there were all sorts of shops.

A bakery was also opened in the house, and even then this building earned the reputation of a "wishmaker". It was believed that any dish prepared by the local baker Sophia brings good luck and can cure ailments and blues. And the old-timers also recalled that the poor family, who had settled in an apartment located above a bakery, very soon found great prosperity - they say, only through a happy neighborhood.

In the 1880s, the merchant Vyacheslavov opened a large restaurant in the building. The drinking establishment occupied three floors.

With the advent of Soviet power, the building on Grazhdanskaya Street was nationalized. They say that after the revolution, the widowed mistress of this house was exiled to Solovki, and her children were sent to an orphanage. Returning from exile in the 1950s, she settled in the same building and lived here until her death.

In the Soviet years, up to the 1990s, there were communal apartments (some have not been settled to this day), in which sometimes twenty people or more lived. Now in the building, as in tsarist times, mostly people of average income live.

The house is considered happy to this day. There are stories among the local residents about the bartender of a local cafe, who met his betrothed among visitors, and about the fact that the children from the nearby creative studio constantly win in competitions, and even about people who recovered from diseases after visiting this "magic" house.

Someone says that in order to fulfill a desire, it is enough to just stand near this building in complete silence, concentrating and saying to yourself what you would like to ask at home. Others believe that you need to sit for at least half an hour in a local cafe in order to feed on the internal energy of the house (by the way, they even installed a drawer in a drinking establishment where you can put notes with desires). Still others are sure that in order to fulfill the plan, it is necessary to touch or even stroke the wall of the building.

But there is one condition: making a wish, as mystic lovers assure, must be done with good intentions and bright thoughts. The house "does not like" evil and gloomy people.

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