The building was built in 1902 in the neo-Gothic style according to the design of engineer Nikolai Vishnevsky. Belonged to the family of barons Uexküll-Gildenband (an ancient German family originating from the Archbishopric of Bremen). The house is three-story. The front façade is symmetrical and richly covered with various decorative elements, reminiscent of a fairy-tale … Read more
Doctor’s House No. 1 The Doctor’s House is one of the first multi-apartment residential buildings built during Soviet times in Kyiv. Created in the style of constructivism according to the design of the architect Pavel Aleshin (also designed Kovalevsky’s mansion) in 1930. A monument of history, architecture, and urban planning of local importance. The house … Read more
The place where the market is now located was only improved in 1869. Before this, Bessarabka was a wasteland. It was constantly flooded with water running from all the surrounding hills and was strewn with household waste. The place was famous for the fact that tramps and people who traded in robbery and robbery gathered … Read more
In 1899, the Kiev Literacy Society approached the City Duma with an initiative to build a people’s house (a publicly accessible cultural and educational institution). The mayor took up the proposal and by the end of the year a resolution was issued on the free allocation of land next to the Trinity Church. Provincial architect … Read more
In 1910, a nobleman of Polish origin, Nikolai Kovalevsky, got tired of living in hotels and bought a plot on Lipki from the Kiev sugar factory Brodsky for 70,000 rubles (now the mansion stands surrounded by equally famous buildings like Tereshchenko mansion, chocolate house, Ikskyul-Gildenbanda house). The house designed by Pavel Aleshin (also designed doctor’s … Read more
Bogdan Ivanovich Khanenko (Russian industrialist, collector and philanthropist) graduated from Moscow University with a degree in law and was assigned to St. Petersburg in 1871. There, Yuri Druzhinin, the brother of the famous writer, and Dmitry Grigorovich, secretary of the St. Petersburg Society for the Encouragement of Artists, became his acquaintances. In St. Petersburg, Khanenko … Read more