Pyankov House

43, Svetlanskaya Street

Pyankov House

The Pyankov House, built in 1901 by an unknown architect, today houses several large bookstores, as it did in the Soviet period, while in the years before the Revolution it was the Pyankov family’s living quarters. At that time, it also held shops, a movie theater, and a small cellar restaurant with an oriental cuisine.

In the 1880s, V. Pyankov was convicted of having participated in the radical movement Narodnaya Volya (People’s Will), whose goal was to overthrow the existing government and to establish democratic reforms, such as giving the land to the peasants. The members of the movement made eight attempts on the life of Tsar Alexander II, the last of which ended in his assassination in 1881. Having settled in Vladivostok, Pyankov, a highly educated entrepreneur, participated in many important development projects in the city. He owned the glass factory in Kiparisovo north of Vladivostok, timber warehouses, and stores.

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