House with cats (Kiev)

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House with cats
Jahymowskoho house
The house with cats

The house with cats

Data
place Kiev , UkraineUkraineUkraine 
architect Volodymyr Bessmertnyj
Architectural style Art Nouveau
Construction year 1909
Coordinates 50 ° 27 '5.5 "  N , 30 ° 29' 41.8"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '5.5 "  N , 30 ° 29' 41.8"  E
particularities
Architectural monument

The House with Cats ( Ukrainian Будинок з котами ) or Jahymowskoho House ( Буди́нок Ягимо́вського ) is a listed mansion in the Ukrainian capital Kiev .

The house with cats was built in 1909 by the Kiev architect Volodymyr Bessmertnyj (Ukrainian: Володимир Адріанович Безсмертний ; 1861-1940) in Art Nouveau style with neo-Gothic influence for Colonel Fedir Jahymowskyj ( Федів ). From 1917 to 1920 the engineer Stepan Tymoshenko lived in the house.

The architectural monument got its name from the cat motifs attached to the building. In addition to these motifs, there are also owl and chimeric motifs on the house. The building is located in Kiev's city ​​of Shevchenko on Hoholiwska Street ( Hoholiwska wulyzja ) 23 on the outskirts of downtown Kiev.

  • Cat motif on the house

  • Neo-Gothic balcony

  • Chimera on the gable

  • Owl motif

  • Memorial plaque for Stepan Tymoshenko

Web links

Commons : House with Cats  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of Cultural Heritage Shevchenko District from January 1, 2015 page 43, No. 252 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on August 13, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.guoks.gov.ua
  2. ↑ Description on Ukraina Incognita , accessed on August 13, 2015
  3. ↑ brothers Tymoshenko - the builders of modern civilization on radiosvoboda.mobi November 15, 2006, accessed on August 13, 2015
  4. ^ Houses with Secrets - House with Cats on Architectural History; accessed on August 13, 2015
  5. ^ Günther Schäfer: Kiev: Tours through the metropolis on the Dnepr . In: City guide (=  Trescher series of trips ). 3. Edition. Trescher Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89794-181-6 , pp. 136 ([ limited preview in Google Book search]).

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Ukrainian language Wikipedia has an article on Volodymyr Bessmertnyj under Безсмертний Володимир Адріанович