ul. Dostoyevskogo, 44  

59.922251, 30.344807 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Figures of bears next to one of the entrances
Take a selfie with one of the figure in the background
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Историческая справка

The bear sculptures on ulitsa Dostoyevskogo will turn 120 years old next year. The bears invite spectators into the main building of Siegel's factory.
The author, the animal sculptor Artemy Lavrentyevich Auber, designed the bears to symbolise the prosperity of the company, which was founded in 1877 by the Saxon engineer Kurt Siegel.
The sculptures are extremely elaborate: large heads, large clawed paws and thick fur look very naturalistic indeed. They are distinguished from living bears by their shiny noses - rubbed for good luck.
Artemy Lavrentyevich Auber was born in Moscow in 1843 into the family of Lavrentiy Nikolayevich Auber, a Frenchman by birth, the manager of the Imperial Theatres in Moscow. Artemy Auber began his education at the Faculty of Medicine of the Imperial Moscow University and continued at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg and the Imperial School of Drawing in Paris. Auber became friends with the Benois family and was one of the founders of the “Mir iskusstva” (World of Art) artistic movement. The sculptor became famous as an outstanding master of fine plastics, who perfectly captured in plaster and bronze the naturalistic (Greyhound with a Fox, Bull-Winner) and ethnographic (Kirghiz, smoking a Pipe, Breton (Woman with Chickens)) features of the depicted object. Auber also had a hand in more monumental works: he took part in the decoration of the Singer House in St Petersburg, and of the monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Kiev.

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