And also the House of Writers of Ukraine. All these are the names of the same legendary house at No. 2 on Bankova Street. True, I would rather call the Ikskul-Gildenband house, which is adjacent to the Chocolate House on Shelkovichnaya Street, a “gingerbread house”. This one really looks like a festive gingerbread, painted with white icing. But they say that this one, at 2 Bankovaya, is a real "gingerbread" house.
The old mansion is called the “Ignatiev House” in honor of the Governor-General, who lived here at the end of the 19th century. In fact, the mansion never belonged to him. The Kyiv governor-general Ignatiev only rented an apartment in the house for four years.
The real owner, under whom the house turned into a beautiful mansion, was Simcha Lieberman.
This is the history of this house.
When a railway bridge across the Dnieper was being built in 1870, the archimandrite of the Vydubitsky monastery turned to the mayor of St. Petersburg Fyodor Trepov for help. To which he agreed - becoming the guardian of the monastery, he collected voluntary donations in the amount of almost 1.000 rubles and transferred them to the holy monastery. In January 1878, a misfortune happened to Fyodor Trepov - the revolutionary Vera Zasulich shot at him. Having survived the most unpleasant event, the ex-manager of the capital of the Russian Empire moves to live in Kyiv. And in 1879 at the beginning of the street. A one-story mansion, designed by the famous Kyiv architect Vladimir Nikolaev, appears in Bankova.
And in 1896, a sugar factory, a merchant of the 1st guild, Simkha Itzhakovich Lieberman, settled in the house with his large family, having bought the building from the son of General Trepov, Fyodor Trepov Jr.
Simcha Lieberman decided to expand a little and ordered a new mansion project from the same architect Nikolaev - a second wing was attached to the house, giving the building a U-shape, and a second floor was erected, where the family’s private quarters and the sugar mills management office were located in the other . To give external grandeur to the facade, the main entrance was raised above the floor level of the first floor, and a ramp was equipped on both sides so that carriages could drive right up to the main entrance. A rich interior decor completed the image of a "doll's house".
Well, the further history of the mansion is banal and predictable. With the advent of Soviet power, the building was expropriated.
And despite Simkha Lieberman’s bequest of the house to his children, the military ministry of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, the counterintelligence headquarters of the Kyiv military district, and even later the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR, the city house of propaganda and agitation named after Stalin, and the Committee for Arts under Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR. For some time, the mansion even housed Okhmatdet's children's consultation, a kindergarten and a nursery for the children of the unemployed named after Nadezhda Krupskaya.
It is not surprising that after such "residents" there was little left of the luxurious interior decoration of the estate - only delightful ceilings trimmed with wood and stucco, and Dutch tiled stoves. At the time of Lieberman, pipes with water immured in the walls were laid to the stoves - it was heated in the stoves and heated the halls, which for that time was almost a “miracle”.
In 1953, the Union of Writers of Ukraine moved into the building, which lives there to this day. Once, during one of the writers' meetings, which took place in the left wing on the second floor, the ceiling suddenly collapsed. When the dust settled, it turned out that a ceiling made of bamboo was hidden under a thick layer of plaster. Later it turned out that in this room, at the request of Lieberman, the architect made the ceiling sliding - so that once a year, during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, Simcha could pray directly in the open air without leaving his house.
And in Soviet times, they decided to hide the "home chapel" by covering the unique ceiling with plaster - the religious background is incompatible with the ideals of communism. : )
Postscript… : )
I learned about Lieberman's mansion two years ago when I accidentally heard an enthusiastic story from an employee.
After monitoring the Internet, I found out that you can get into the building only with an organized tour, in particular, with the Kyiv COD company. I made a bookmark in the computer and ...as it usually happens behind the routine of daily events ...I forgot, then the possibilities did not add up, or even just the mood did not contribute. Until it turned out that the tours were no longer carried out. In desperation, I used the button "notify me when there will be a tour. " And, lo and behold, last week the “invitation” came. : )
This time, everything coincided: the desire, the opportunity, and even the weather made me happy with the “summer” days. : ) One "but" - not with my camera to take pictures there. Yes, and the fotik suddenly began to mow. : ( So I immediately apologize for the quality of the photos.
The old mansion is called the “Ignatiev House” in honor of the Governor-General, who lived here at the end of the 19th century. In fact, the mansion never belonged to him. The Kyiv governor-general Ignatiev only rented an apartment in the house for four years.
The real owner, under whom the house turned into a beautiful mansion, was Simcha Lieberman.
This is the history of this house.
When a railway bridge across the Dnieper was being built in 1870, the archimandrite of the Vydubitsky monastery turned to the mayor of St. Petersburg Fyodor Trepov for help. To which he agreed - becoming the guardian of the monastery, he collected voluntary donations in the amount of almost 1.000 rubles and transferred them to the holy monastery. In January 1878, a misfortune happened to Fyodor Trepov - the revolutionary Vera Zasulich shot at him. Having survived the most unpleasant event, the ex-manager of the capital of the Russian Empire moves to live in Kyiv. And in 1879 at the beginning of the street. A one-story mansion, designed by the famous Kyiv architect Vladimir Nikolaev, appears in Bankova.
And in 1896, a sugar factory, a merchant of the 1st guild, Simkha Itzhakovich Lieberman, settled in the house with his large family, having bought the building from the son of General Trepov, Fyodor Trepov Jr.
Simcha Lieberman decided to expand a little and ordered a new mansion project from the same architect Nikolaev - a second wing was attached to the house, giving the building a U-shape, and a second floor was erected, where the family’s private quarters and the sugar mills management office were located in the other . To give external grandeur to the facade, the main entrance was raised above the floor level of the first floor, and a ramp was equipped on both sides so that carriages could drive right up to the main entrance. A rich interior decor completed the image of a "doll's house".
Well, the further history of the mansion is banal and predictable. With the advent of Soviet power, the building was expropriated.
And despite Simkha Lieberman’s bequest of the house to his children, the military ministry of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, the counterintelligence headquarters of the Kyiv military district, and even later the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR, the city house of propaganda and agitation named after Stalin, and the Committee for Arts under Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR. For some time, the mansion even housed Okhmatdet's children's consultation, a kindergarten and a nursery for the children of the unemployed named after Nadezhda Krupskaya.
It is not surprising that after such "residents" there was little left of the luxurious interior decoration of the estate - only delightful ceilings trimmed with wood and stucco, and Dutch tiled stoves. At the time of Lieberman, pipes with water immured in the walls were laid to the stoves - it was heated in the stoves and heated the halls, which for that time was almost a “miracle”.
In 1953, the Union of Writers of Ukraine moved into the building, which lives there to this day. Once, during one of the writers' meetings, which took place in the left wing on the second floor, the ceiling suddenly collapsed. When the dust settled, it turned out that a ceiling made of bamboo was hidden under a thick layer of plaster. Later it turned out that in this room, at the request of Lieberman, the architect made the ceiling sliding - so that once a year, during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, Simcha could pray directly in the open air without leaving his house.
And in Soviet times, they decided to hide the "home chapel" by covering the unique ceiling with plaster - the religious background is incompatible with the ideals of communism. : )
Postscript… : )
I learned about Lieberman's mansion two years ago when I accidentally heard an enthusiastic story from an employee.
After monitoring the Internet, I found out that you can get into the building only with an organized tour, in particular, with the Kyiv COD company. I made a bookmark in the computer and ...as it usually happens behind the routine of daily events ...I forgot, then the possibilities did not add up, or even just the mood did not contribute. Until it turned out that the tours were no longer carried out. In desperation, I used the button "notify me when there will be a tour. " And, lo and behold, last week the “invitation” came. : )
This time, everything coincided: the desire, the opportunity, and even the weather made me happy with the “summer” days. : ) One "but" - not with my camera to take pictures there. Yes, and the fotik suddenly began to mow. : ( So I immediately apologize for the quality of the photos.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original
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