Mansion of Eva Spielrein

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]

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]

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]