Ceremonial registration of a newborn - Malyutka Palace, our experience

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Ceremonial registration of a newborn - Malyutka Palace, our experience

Last modified 04/24/2017

Residents of the northern capital have a unique opportunity to register their long-awaited child not within the walls of the regional registry office, but in a luxurious Palace! And even with ceremonial registration.

No other city in Russia conducts such registrations or even heard of them.

In order to solemnly register the birth of a child in the Malyutka house, you will need:

If you have not yet received a birth certificate

1. Select “Ceremonial registration in the Malyutka house” when selecting a civil registry office on the government services website (Read more “how to get a birth certificate quickly and without queues”)
2. Choose a convenient date and time

If you have already received a birth certificate at your regional registry office, but want a holiday, then you have a whole YEAR to implement your plans

That's how much time they give

for parents to have the opportunity to solemnly register the birth of their child. This is very convenient, since, for example, we didn’t want to take the baby right away to birth. But when the first 3 most important and difficult months had passed, we calmly prepared for this holiday.

You will need:

1. If you have already received a birth certificate, you can sign up for the official registration by calling the Malyutki Palace. Telephone:
   272-90-64, 272-83-78
2. Ceremonial registration is absolutely free
3. You will be asked to bring a card and medal, which are given with your birth certificate.

That's all! Agree that it turns out to be not so difficult, but you will remember it for a lifetime!

I’ll tell you a little about the interior and our feelings from the registration itself.

In the Malyutka Palace (Spiridonov’s mansion) it is very beautiful, as befits the name of the Palace, but for kids, of course, everything is so strict, cold and, as our photographer said: “the gray-greenish tint makes your doll pale.”

However, the Palace has a greenhouse where you can take beautiful photographs of your family in the new composition

Overall, I'm very pleased with everything. We were greeted cordially, no one bothered us - we saw strangers only in the cloakroom, and in all the halls we were only with our own staff. The toilets have a changing table and a special room for feeding babies.

I advise everyone to take advantage of this free offer if your baby was born in such a wonderful city as St. Petersburg

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Heritage

The parents of many Leningraders born in the late 1960s are well acquainted with this building on Furshtatskaya Street. It was then that there was a boom in the ceremonial registration of newborns: the ceremony in the luxurious interiors of the palace was intended to replace the church tradition of baptism. The old family house, which has seen a lot in its time, began to be called the palace for the ceremonial registration of the birth of “Baby”. This is how he remains to this day.

The mansion, which turned 125 years old this year, was built according to the design of the architect Alexander Pomerantsev for the actual state councilor Nikolai Spiridonov. Pomerantsev is called the master of the last stage of eclecticism in Moscow architecture; he graduated from the architectural department of the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg with a gold medal of the 1st degree. But perhaps his most famous project, which is still familiar to many today, was carried out by the architect in Moscow: the Upper Trading Rows (today GUM), built in 1889–1893. The project won an open competition and complemented the ensemble of buildings in the “Russian” style that frame Red Square. The famous Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, the largest cathedral in the Balkans, was also built according to Pomerantsev’s design. By 1895, when the master received an order to build a palace-type mansion on Furshtatskaya, he was already a professor of architecture and a member of the Moscow Architectural Society.

The symmetrical facade of Spiridonov's mansion looks very elegant; its eclectic style combines architectural details inherent in the Renaissance, Baroque and Classicism. The wide balcony on the central projection (the part of the building protruding beyond the line of the facade to its full height) is supported by the figures of Atlanteans. The interior spaces with the winter garden greenhouse have a distinct palace layout. A grand staircase made of white marble leads to the second floor. Living rooms - Fireplace, Moorish, Golden with a Dance Hall in the center - are located on the second floor around the main staircase. On the ground floor there were bedrooms, children's rooms, bathrooms, and dressing rooms. The interiors really were (and remained - thanks to serious restoration back in Soviet times) luxurious: inlaid parquet floors, tiles, gilded moldings, paintings and mirrors in magnificent frames... Here decorative elements of Rococo, Renaissance, Classicism, and Moorish style coexist in harmony. Hieronymus Kitner and Vasily Svinin worked on the creation of the interiors. Both were already well-known masters by that time. Kitner is an academician, later a professor at the Institute of Civil Engineers and the Institute of Railway Engineers, one of the founders and editor of the magazine "Architect". Svinin at that time was already engaged in the restoration of the building of the Academy of Arts, built a battle workshop in the academic garden, which has survived to this day, and carried out other planning and restoration work. By the way, he is the author of the program for the reconstruction of the Mikhailovsky Palace to turn it into the Russian Museum.

After the death of the owner of the house, Nikolai Spiridonov, in 1914, his widow sold the mansion. After the revolution, it was empty; in the 1920s, an orphanage operated in the building, later the Dental Institute, which in 1935 was transformed into the Leningrad Medical Dental Institute.

The first incendiary bomb fell on the building in September 1941. During the siege, the mansion was badly damaged and by the end of the war it was a sad sight. The central heating system and water supply were damaged, and the sewage system did not work. In 1944–1946, the restoration of the mansion was carried out with money allocated by the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council. The decor, gilding, and painting of the ceilings were restored. In the 1950s, the building housed the Society for Friendship with the Peoples of Foreign Countries.

From the bulletin of the Leningrad Executive Committee, No. 22, 1965 (cited from www.citywalls.ru): “Taking into account the wishes of the working people of Leningrad and in order to improve the work of introducing new Soviet rituals into everyday life, the Executive Committee opened on November 5, 1965 in Leningrad, in the house No. 58 on the street. Petra Lavrova (then that was the name of Furshtatskaya Street. - G

), Palace of ceremonial registration of births with the assignment of the name “Baby”. The Department of Landscape Management and Green Construction was asked to organize uninterrupted flower trade in the palace, and the Department of Trade of Industrial Goods was asked to organize the sale of souvenirs and gift items for parents and newborns. The Department of Consumer Services has been instructed to ensure the permanent operation of a station in the palace for engraving commemorative medals for newborns and the work of a photographer at the request of visitors to the palace.”

Having already become “Malyutka”, the house was shown in the Soviet spy film “The Fate of a Resident” in 1970: it “played the role” of the mansion of Count Tulyev. The palace for the ceremonial registration of newborns still operates today. It remains one of a kind - there are similar institutions in Russia, but none can compare with a truly St. Petersburg mansion, a witness to changing eras and global upheavals.

Elena Fedotova

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