 Following fashionable then modernism, it was abbreviated as "DISK" (from Russian "Dom Iskustv" - House of Arts).At times of Russian Civil War and post war devastation, apartments were provided artists, writers, poets and composers such as Viktor Shklovsky, Osip Mandelstam, Alexander Grin (who wrote the novel "Scarlet Sails" here), Olga Forsh (who wrote the novel "Palace and Prison" here).Korney Chukovsky, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin worked here.