Nicholas was the only legal owner of John Lennon's autographed album on the territory of the former USSR. He received this CD in response to his letter. This was a sign: since then, Vasin began to fight with the city authorities for the right to live on Lennon Street. At first, he tried to do this in a legal way, speaking at a meeting of the toponymic commission of St. Petersburg with a proposal to rename Marata Street into Lennon Street. But the officials were unshakable: the streets can only be named after those people who were directly related to the city on the Neva (like the French revolutionary Marat). Then Nikolai gave a historical fact: John Lennon lived in a city on the Neva, though not a musician, but a diplomat, and not in the 20th century, but in the 18th century, but he lived (unlike Marat, for example)!

But even here officials found a reason for refusal: streets don't rename, only sometimes return the former name, if not Marata, so let it be Nikolaevskaya.

And then Nikolai rebelled. I found a John Reed Street sign, scraped it, tinted it, and hung it in my backyard: John Lennon Street. And so that no one has any complaints, he put a sign in the sky, saying that this street does not pass on the ground and does not fall under the jurisdiction of officials. And a portal to Lennon Street appeared on Pushkinskaya Street. And on October 9, the day John Winston Lennon was born, sculptor Stepan Mokrousov decorated the portal arch with four plaster bas-reliefs of the Beatles.

Then one of the veterans of the hippie movement painted a yellow submarine on the wall of the house in memory of the first hippie commune, which called itself after the famous album “The Beatles”. After that, the court became the Beatlemanian mecca, the Temple of Love, where not only services and religious rituals are held, but also concerts. Thus, the famous Russian art center was born from the tainted well yard by the power of the intention of Nikolai Vasin, led by the guiding star John Lennon.