From Petr to Rurik ...

According to the concept of Peter I on Vasilevsky Island was supposed to appear a network of rectilinear blocks, separated from each other by channels. Each side channel would be a street, or a line, as they were called at that time. The project was designed by architect D. Trezzini in 1716. Work on the construction of channels were slow, and then were stopped altogether. In 1766 canals were filled in, but with the island's buildings in their place, streets were formed, and the plan for the construction of the Emperor Peter the Great was preserved only in their names.

The names of 8 th and 9 th lines exist from 1730, but its present appearance 9-Line, on which the business center of St. Petersburg "Magnus", acquired in the XIX - early XX centuries. (from 1720 to the beginning of XIX century, 9-Line was built up mostly wooden houses). In the first third of the XIX Century, 8 th and 9 th line had a very original look: the 8-th line were wooden houses, and the 9-th - the stone, so that the even side of the street looked like a city, as odd - as rural.

At the beginning of the XIX Century, 8 th and 9 th Line Vasilevsky island associated with the hunger strike, but with the discovery in 1850 by Nicholas bridge connecting the island with Vasilevskij center of the capital, their important role of transport was determined definitively. In 1880 this line paved the horse railroad, and in 1914 allowed the first tram.

House number 34 on the 9-th line VO was built on wooden buildings in the years 1910-1911, he designed the famous master of Petersburg Nouveau NI Alekseev. Before the revolution, was placed here tenement house. In 1915-1917 to house number 34 lived VP Hadrian-Peretz, listener Bestuzhev courses in the future, the celebrated historian of ancient Russian literature, corresponding member of USSR Academy of Sciences.

In the IV quarter of 2006, work on the reconstruction of the building were completed by Rurik management.

Now the house number 34 on 9-th line VO is a modern business center of St. Petersburg "Magnus" by keeping the historical facade of the building.