Despite the fact that during the reconstruction of the Senate and Synod buildings, builders and restorers sought to preserve the surviving interiors as much as possible, the new buildings of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, according to Malyushin, "represent the office of the twenty-first century with all the necessary attributes." It was possible to combine the preservation of historical monuments and similar transformations only thanks to the use of the most modern construction technologies - first of all, special small-panel formwork, which allows concreting directly in the historical center without prejudice to historical objects. In addition, during the restoration, dry construction technologies, modern Finnish laminated plywood, insulation technologies and the best finishing mixes presented on the Russian market stood out. The work on the site was carried out by the St. Petersburg construction company Logos, accompanied by the Moscow Engineering Corporation Transstroy, which built a new complex of the State Historical Archive. Supplies of construction materials and formwork technologies were provided by PromStroySever.
Recall that the Synod building was laid on August 26, 1830. By the beginning of October 1832, the construction of the Senate and Synod buildings was completed, then the interior decoration of the buildings began. In February 1833, the object was inspected by the emperor. The Senate building was built in November 1835, and a year later - the Synod building. These objects were the last major project of Karl Rossi. In 1929 and 1936, the facades and sculptural decoration were restored. During the Leningrad blockade, both buildings, the Senate and the Synod, were severely damaged by artillery shelling. In 1941-1942, eight heavy shells hit it. In 1952, the first major restoration was carried out. In Soviet times, the central state historical archive was located here, where the most valuable documents on the history of Russia were stored. In 2006, the archive moved to a new building. This made it possible to begin the first large and comprehensive restoration of the Senate and Synod. In 2008, the Constitutional Court was located in the Senate building, in the restoration of which the Pskov Civil Code took a special part. And the building of the Synod in 2009 was occupied by the library named after B. N. Yeltsin.
According to Malyushin, the main meeting room of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation is located in a building specially built inside the courtyard. It was, at the request of the judges, made in the same style as the current courtroom of the Constitutional Court in Moscow. The house church, the temple of Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky, was also recreated, which, according to Malyushin, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia promised to consecrate.
According to the agency, not only the head of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, Valery Zorkin, will have a completely renovated office, in which the interiors of 1835 are preserved: for each judge /there are 19 of them in the Constitutional Court/ there is a whole block with an area of about 250 square meters, which includes the offices of the judge and his assistants, a reception room and a rest room. According to the chief restorer Vladimir Ivakha, one of the main tasks was to preserve the ancient appearance of the buildings, for which the restorers restored fragments of painting, modeling, parquet. Thus, the so-called "Masonic Hall" in the Laval Palace was recreated in its original appearance. "Each historical object is unique, but the particular complexity of the reconstruction and restoration of the Senate and Synod buildings was due to the tight deadlines," Viktor Smirnov, president of the Intarsia Group of Companies involved in the restoration, said on this occasion. — Design and restoration work were carried out in parallel. As a result, we managed to meet the deadlines. Our company's specialists have carried out the necessary amount of restoration work over the year, while observing all the established high quality standards."
"St. Petersburg restorers have coped with the task assigned to them on a national scale," says Nina Shangina, chairman of the Union of Restorers of St. Petersburg, "The best restoration masters from 60 companies promptly and efficiently restored the exterior and interiors of the Senate and Synod. Now the historic building has been prepared for the start of the work of the Constitutional Court of Russia." "This restoration will be enough for 100 years," I. Malyushin promised. Note that the suppliers of formwork systems for restoration, in turn, are ready to subscribe to this promise.