When Sergei Bobovnikov, a St. Petersburg antiques dealer, decided to renovate his stately old top-floor apartment in one of the city’s fashionable neighborhoods, a modern comfortable style was his plan. But the building had been home to a number of influential Stalinist-era officials. “I decided I wanted to design the apartment in the style of a senior bureaucrat of the early Stalin period,” said Mr. Bobovnikov, shown here.
