Mansion of K. F. Shtemberg

1898 — Arch. Wirrikh E. F.

Mansion of S. Yu. Witte

1904 — superstructure, courtyard wings

The scale of the two-story mansion on high basements was quite consistent with the development of the avenue at the end of the 19th century. The composition is solved in the forms of late classical eclecticism.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the plot belonged to the retired commissar P. Apraksin, then to the privy councilor H. Beck, and later to the noblewoman Zelinskaya.

In the 1870s, the plot was divided. Part went to the widow of Colonel E. R. Blum. Until the end of the 19th century, there were wooden buildings here, the owner was N. A. Akimov.

In 1898, the next owner of the plot, K. F. Shtemberg, built a stone three-story house here. The design of the building was completed by Arch. Ernest Franzevich Virrikh.

In the summer of 1898, the land was bought by M. I. Witte, the wife of one of the most famous political figures of Tsarist Russia, Sergei Yulievich Witte. He moved here in 1903 from an apartment on the Moika Embankment 45 after resigning from the post of Minister of Finance and being appointed Chairman of the Committee of Ministers. In 1904, work on the mansion was completed for the official's family, the mansion was built on by one floor, courtyard wings were added, architect E. F. Virrikh.

Since 1907, attempts on the life of S. Yu. Witte began by the Black Hundred organization "Union of the Russian People". In January 1907, two bombs were dropped into the chimneys of the mansion. But the shells did not work. Four months later, the assassination attempt was repeated, again unsuccessfully. In 1915, S. Yu. Witte died in his home due to illness.

In the 1920s, the No. 4 Children's Health Care Center operated here - an outpatient clinic.

Since 1927, the Research Institute for the Protection of Children's and Adolescents' Health has been located here.

Since 1935, the No. 2 Children's Music School was transferred here. It was this school that the famous violinist and conductor V. T. Spivakov graduated from.