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The Polovtsov Mansion — the late-19th-century central-Petersburg residence of the state councillor Alexander Polovtsov — is one of the few remaining private aristocratic interiors of the imperial period whose state halls approach the palace-level decorative programme. The house is currently the seat of the Petersburg House of Architects (Dom Arkhitektora), which has preserved the surviving 19th-century interiors. This tour access one of the most beautiful private palaces in Petersburg. Not a museum but a preserved 19th-century residence where the imperial elite gathered for state business and closed events. Ownership by the Union of Architects has preserved the state halls in close-to-original condition. The tour price includes admission tickets. In Russian; the material is dense.