Velikanova House

Velikanova House

Особняк Великановой
Established	1890
Location	Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia.
Type	Mansion

Velikanova House (Russian: Особняк Великановой) is a mansion and an architectural monument in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia. It was built in 1884—1890 on the project of architects Nikolay Doroshenko and Nikolay Sokolov.[1] Today the building is occupied by Rostov Art College named after M.B. Grekov.

Description

In 1884—1890, Rostov-on-Don merchant Semyon Ivanovich Velikanov had a mansion built for his daughter Pelageya on Kazanskaya Street (now Serafimovich Street).[1] There she lived with her husband, Matvei Kirillovich Kozlov, who was a speaker of Rostov-on-Don City Duma and a mining engineer. The mansion had 28 rooms, several cellars and a fountain in the courtyard.[2] The facades of the building were decorated in Neoclassical style.[1]

In 1921, the mansion was nationalized and Karl Marx Rostov-on-Don State Library (now Don State Public Library) was opened there.[2]

In 1994, the library was moved to another building on Pushkinskaya Street, and since then Velikanova Mansion houses Rostov Art College named after M.B. Grekov.[1]

References

1. Есаулов Г. В., Черницына В. А. (2002). Архитектурная летопись Ростова-на-Дону (2-е изд. ed.). Ростов-на-Дону. p. 123. ISBN 5-8456-0489-3.
2. Швецов С. Д. (1982). На высоком донском берегу: Очерки из прошлого Ростова. Ростов. pp. 65–66.

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