Chocolate House (Kiev)
| Scholadenhaus Villa Mohylowzewa |
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 The school shop in Kiev |
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| Data | |
| place |
Kiev , Ukraine
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| architect | Vladimir Nikolaev |
| Architectural style | historicism |
| Construction year | 1899 |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 26 '35 .7 " N , 30 ° 31' 53.7" E |
| particularities | |
| Architectural monument, museum | |
The Chocolate House ( Ukrainian Шоколадний будиночок ), officially Villa Mohylowzewa ( Особня́к Могильо́вцева / Ossobnjak Mohylowzewa) is a manor house built in the Ukrainian capital Kiev .
The villa on Schowkowytschna Street ( Шовковична вулиця ) 17/2 at the corner of Pylypa-Orlyka Street ( Вулиця Пилипа Орлика ) was given its name because of its brown and coarse rusting that resembles chocolate bars . Each room in the mansion had its own individual style, Moorish , Baroque , Art Nouveau , Renaissance and Japanese. The outbuilding is the Iskul-Hildenbrand-Haus , built in the pseudo-Gothic style .
history
The building was constructed between 1899 and 1901 by the famous Russian architect Vladimir Nikolayev , who designed numerous other buildings in Kiev, for the entrepreneur and art patron Semen Mohylevzew. From 1934 to 1948 the building housed a branch of the State Security Service of the NKVD and since 1952 it was the seat of the Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign States . Between 1960 and 1980 it was a registry office. A children's picture gallery is currently housed in the building as a branch of the Kiev National Art Gallery .
Web links
- Official website of the chocolate house (Ukrainian and Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schoko-Haus on oldkyiv.org.ua ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; last accessed on May 30, 2014 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b Description of the house on gorodkiev.com ; last accessed on May 30, 2014 (Russian)
- ^ 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. 197 ([ limited preview in Google Book search]).
