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# Let more diverse tastes be joined together
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/pust-sovokupitsia-bolee-razlichnykh-vkusov/
- Published: 2025-08-08T19:05:18.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:29:10.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Architecture, Books, Saint Petersburg

> Let more diverse tastes be joined together. Let the same street see rising side by side the gloomily Gothic, the Eastern laden with lavish ornament, the colossal Egyptian, and the Greek, imbued with harmonious proportion... Let houses as seldom as possible merge into one even, monotonous wall...

Gogol on eclecticism, 1831.

In the photo: the smallest house in Saint Petersburg, at 3 Gagarinskaya Street, building D