The House for Noble deputies Assembly was built by the famous Petersburg architect – A. I. Stackenschneider in 1851. Affected during the great Patriotic war (1941 – 1945) the building was reconstructed in the 1950 s.
It was built on the third floor, destroyed the facade decoration, added massive columned portico. Inside the building are partially preserved the original layout. The building of the Noble Assembly in Soviet times was sovpartshkol, College of electronic industry, Polytechnic Institute, and other organizations.
In 2001, in the Noble Assembly building is a Museum of fine arts, where the exhibition “Russian art of XVIII – XX centuries”. Exposure allows you to explore a rich collection of Russian art of XVIII – XX centuries, drawings and sculptures, a collection of portrait miniatures presents all genre and stylistic diversity.
The main part of the museum collection was formed in the 1920 – 1930 s from the closed landed estates, the State Russian Museum and the Russian Museum Fund. The art collection are included paintings by D. Levitsky, V. Borovikovsky, F. Rokotov, K. Bryullov, V. Tropinin, I. Repin, I. Aivazovsky, and Among other wonderful pieces of sculpture Museum – the works of M. Antokolsky, F. Shubin, M. Vrubel, P. Trubetskoy.
Visitors are greeted by a canvas B. Villevalde “The Opening of the monument “Millennium of Russia”. The collection lets in enough to fully represent the main ways of development of Russian fine art. In the building of the Noble Assembly held a solemn ceremony and winter balls.