The Shleifer mansion is an architectural and historical monument, located on the corner of Institutskaya and Sadovaya streets. Initially, the mansion was two-story, in Art Nouveau style, adjacent to a five-story apartment building. The houses had separate front entrances. The original drawings of both buildings have been preserved. The mansion was built in 1909 by … Read more
The synagogue was opened on August 24, 1898 on the 50th anniversary of the birth of Lazar Brodsky, a Ukrainian sugar industrialist, philanthropist and philanthropist with whose funds it was built. He also financed the construction of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Kyiv operetta, Bessarabian market, Evgeniy Paton Institute. The synagogue was built according to the … Read more
The house is located on the territory of the former Meringa estate (at one time it was called “Kiev Paris”, since after the construction of the estate such famous buildings appeared here as: house with chimeras, Ivan Franko Theater, as well as theaters, circuses, hotels and apartment buildings that were destroyed during the Great Patriotic … Read more
The Kiev Conservatory was founded in November 1913 on the basis of the music school of the Kyiv branch of the Russian musical society. Outstanding musicians contributed to the organization of the institution: Sergei Rachmaninov, Alexander Glazunov, Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The Conservatory House was built in the 1890s (former Continental Hotel, architects Eduard Bradtman (Franco Theater, … Read more
The House of the “Weeping Widow” is an architectural monument of local importance, which was built in 1908 according to the design of the architect Eduard Bradtman (was also built according to his design Ivan Franko Theater, Kiev Conservatory, house of Baron Gesselbein) in the early modern style for the Poltava merchant of the 2nd … Read more
The National Museum of the History of Ukraine began its work in August 1899. The official founding date of the museum is December 1904, when it was consecrated and officially opened to the public. Its founders were famous Ukrainian scientists: archaeologist, ethnographer and art critic academician Nikolai Belyashevsky (the first director of the museum), archaeologist … Read more