Esders and Scheefhals building

The Esders and Scheefhals building (Russian: Здание торгового дома “Эсдерс и Схейфальс”, Zdaniye torgovogo doma “Esders i Skheyfal's”) is a monumental building, originally a department store, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

[2] Until 1919 it functioned as the "S. Esders and K. Scheyfals Trading House", also known as У красного моста (U krasnova mosta, "By the Red Bridge").

It was an undertaking of Stefan Esders (see the article in German Wikipedia), who had a factory in Brussels and department stores in Berlin, Paris, Rotterdam, Breslau (now Wrocław) and Vienna in addition to St. Petersburg.

[2] In 1922 it was given the name Volodarsky Sewing Factory in honor of the Marxist revolutionary and early Soviet politician Moisei Goldstein, who went by the name of V.

The building reopened in 2016 housing the Au Pont Rouge luxury department store, with architectural designs by London-based Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands[2] and interiors by Rafael de Cárdenas/Architecture at Large.