Talk:Kikin Hall

It is not clear how this could happen:

"It was Irina Benois, from the famous Benois family, who restored the building to its presumed Petrine Baroque appearance in a campaign lasting from 1952 and 1956," since the USSR was a Communist state at the time where people could not own a regular house, let alone a palace. Could somebody be make explicit on what the sentence means? Smallbones_(smalltalk) 01:38, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

• As an architect she did for the Kikin House roughly the same that Eugène Viollet-le-Duc did for the Cité de Carcassonne. --Ghirla^-трёп- 06:13, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

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Kikin Hall, commissioned by Alexander Kikin in 1714, is one of the oldest buildings in Saint Petersburg. Incomplete at the time of Kikin's execution, the building was seized by the Russian crown and used for a variety of purposes. In the 1950s, Irina Benois arranged for the restoration of the dilapidated building. It is now home to a music school.Photograph: Florstein