2025
Hideout residences are set to open.

2024
The first 10 residences became available for booking, coinciding with the completion of the second phase of the buildings' restoration, which included the oldest surviving building — the late 18th-century house of State Councilor Gascoigne.

2023
In the summer of 2023, a fully restored section of the buildings, home to officers' apartments and the Imperial Crew's bakery, returned to the city map.

2000
The unified development along Rimsky-Korsakov Avenue, expanded from three to four stories in the mid-20th century, was recognized as a monument of regional historical and cultural significance.

1939
Ekateringofsky Avenue was renamed Rimsky-Korsakov Avenue.


1917
After the revolution, the buildings remained under naval control, and until the early 1990s they housed the headquarters of the Leningrad Naval Base.

1915
The last commander of the Imperial Crew was Nicholas II’s cousin, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich.

1910
The 200th anniversary of the Imperial Guards Crew was celebrated with a grand ceremony. The history of the Crew dates back to 1710, when Peter I "assigned his boats a special flag". During the celebrations, Nicholas II arrived at the Crew’s headquarters — today’s Hideout buildings — in his new Delaunay-Belleville 70HP limousine.

1904
The newborn heir, Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, was formally enrolled in the Imperial Crew.

1896
In Denmark, the new large imperial yacht Standart was launched. On it, the young imperial couple sailed with their first child, one-and-a-half-year-old Grand Duchess Olga, to Scotland, where they visited Queen Victoria.

1894
Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich, aboard the newly built imperial yacht Polar Star from the Baltic Shipyard and accompanied by the Imperial Crew, traveled to England, where he proposed to Queen Victoria’s beloved granddaughter, Princess Alix, who later that year became Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

1893
The Imperial Guards Crew took part in the parade of the international squadron in New York, held on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America.

с 1873 по 1881
The Imperial Crew was commanded by Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich, son of Alexander II.

1868
The year was marked by the enrollment of the newborn imperial grandson, the future Emperor Nicholas II, into the rolls of the Imperial Guards Crew.


1820
From 1820 to 1917, the entire block between the Catherine Canal and Ekateringofsky Avenue (now the Griboyedov Canal and Rimsky-Korsakov Avenue) was occupied by the headquarters of the Imperial Crew, where the crews of the imperial yachts were stationed.

1810-е
In the Naval Printing House, located in the former Gascoigne residence, numerous maps and descriptions of geographical discoveries were published. This is where the rarest and most valuable Russian-language atlas was created — Atlas of Captain Kruzenshtern's Circumnavigation of the Globe. The most recent auction sale of an original 1810s edition amounted to 8,000,000 rubles in 2022.

1809
From 1809 to 1820, the construction of the barracks adjoining Gascoigne's residence was directed by architect Pavel Lukin of the Admiralty Department.

1808
On August 19, 1808, Alexander I personally decreed the purchase of State Councillor Gascoigne's Residence from his heiress for 110,000 rubles, to house the Naval Department Printing House. Gascoigne's stone orangeries were converted into housing for the printers and artists of the Naval Printing House. Many of the fruit trees from Gascoigne's garden were relocated to the Pavlovsk Palace gardens, where citrus trees were particularly prized.

1806
Chief architect of the Admiralty Andreyan Zakharov was commissioned to design three-story barracks for the Naval Department staff on the site of the old regimental yard. To increase the building’s footprint, he suggested annexing the adjacent plots.The Hideout residences are now located here.

1795
Catherine II granted the plot to the Scottish engineer and State Councillor Karl Karlovich Gascoigne. He built "a grand stone house with fifteen windows on the façade, featuring columns, a mezzanine, two wings, and greenhouses". The opening of the Hideout Hotel in Gascoigne's residence will mark the completion of the buildings' restoration, whose history spans four centuries.


1742
The site featured the expertly constructed chambers of the Naval Regimental Yard. The site also accommodated the Admiralty’s provision yards.

1738
The first development and construction plan for the Admiralty Department’s plot was approved by Empress Anna Ioannovna on April 20, 1738.