[4] After the Russian Revolution of 1917 the house’s original residents—princes, counts and prosperous manufacturers were replaced by Bolshevik leaders.

The apartments on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt were taken by comrades Grigory Zinoviev, Jukka Rahja and other Vladimir Lenin’s brothers-in-arms.

In April 1926 it became home for the heads of the Party’s Committee in Leningrad, Pyotr Popkov and Sergey Kirov.

[5][6] Composer Dmitry Shostakovich was another famous resident of the Benois House—he had been living here for several years, while working on his Seventh (Leningrad) symphony.

[9] Among them: Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia, Konstantin Makovsky, Boris Fredman-Kluzel, Andrei Mylnikov, Evgeny Kibrik, Alexey Parygin, Lyudmila Sergeeva, Vladimir Kachalsky, Boris Babochkin, Georgi Vasilyev, Evgenija Zbrueva, Nikolay Cherkasov, Leonid Lyubashevsky, Vlas Doroshevich, Alexander Prokofyev, Mikhail Chekhov, Alexey Skaldin, Joseph Berlin, Iosif Langbard, Andrew Ol, Natalia Bekhtereva, Alexander Vasiliev, Prince Andrei Grigorievich Gagarin, Rudolf Samoylovich, Yuri Demkov, Mikhail Neiman, Nikita Tolstoy, Sergei Kirov, Grigory Zinoviev, Semyon Voskov, Ivan Gaza, Nikolai Glebov-Avilov, Grigory Yevdokimov, Nikolay Komarov, Alexey Kuznetsov, Otto Wille Kuusinen, Boris Pozern, Eino Rahja, Kustaa Rovio, Georgy Safarov, Pyotr Smorodin, Nikolai Shvernik, Leonid Govorov, Boris Shaposhnikov, Pavel Dybenko, Vladimir Gittis and others.