Mansion of Eva Spielrein

Mansion of Eva Spielrein is a house located at 83 Pushkinskaya Street in Rostov-on-Don. It has the status of a cultural heritage site.[1]

History

Trading house was built in 1897.[2] Spielrein spouses lived here with three their daughters. The building belonged to dentist Eva Markovna Spielrein (1863-1922), there also was a dentist’s cabinet.[3] Sabina Nikolayevna Spielrein, her daughter, who later became a famous psychoanalyst, spent her childhood and school day here.[4]

According to information known by 1914, Belgian Consulate was housed in the trading house and one of its rooms was taken on lease by a Turkish Consul. Other lessees were engineers, merchants, attorneys.

After the establishment of Soviet power the trading house was nationalized. Eva Spielrein and her children immigrated. Her husband was allowed to live in a small room underneath the front stairs where he left until his death.[2]

In wartime roof of the house was partly ruined. Immediately after the World War II had finished the mansion was reconstructed and inhabited.[3]

Architecture

The three-storey building has P-configuration. In house’s inner wings facing a backyard there were rented premises.[2]

Architect organically combined elements of Renaissance, Barocco and Classicism in decoration of façade. Central part of the front façade is accented with pilaster side with a double-deck loggia. Lesenes set on lateral sides of the façade are decorated with Eastern ornament. First floor is rusticated. There is an arch at the front door and an arch at the entry to the yard – they both are decorated with keystones with lion masks. Cartouches, on central one of which the year of building of the house – 1897 – is carved, adorn façade entablature.[2]

Plaques

Plaque made by Rostov-on-Don’s sculptor B.N. Kondakov was set on the façade of the building in 2002. The caption reads: «Famous student of K.G. Jung and S. Freud, psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein (1885-1942) lived in this house»[5]

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References
  1. "Ростов-на-Дону (объекты культурного наследия регионального значения)". Официальный портал Правительства Ростовской области. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
  2. Есаулов Г. В., Черницына В. А. (2002). Архитектурная летопись Ростова-на-Дону (2-е изд. ed.). Ростов-на-Дону. pp. 101–102. ISBN 5-8456-0489-3.
  3. Волошинова Л. Ф. (2000). Пушкинская улица. Серия "Судьбы улиц, площадей, зодчих". Ростов-на-Дону: «Донской издательский дом». pp. 40–47. ISBN 5-87688-250-X.
  4. "Галина Пилипенко: Кира Найтли станет ростовчанкой". spielrein.ru. Archived from the original on 2013-09-28. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
  5. "ПОСТАНОВЛЕНИЕ МЭРА Г.РОСТОВА Н/Д ОТ 16.10.2002 N 2163 О НАИМЕНОВАНИЯХ УЛИЦ,УСТАНОВКЕ МЕМОРИАЛЬНЫХ ДОСОК". Информационно-правовой портал BestPravo. Archived from the original on 2018-05-20. Retrieved 2002-10-16.

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