Apartment building Sirotkina

The plot where the modern house is located in the middle of the XIX century belonged to the wife of the court adviser Elena Popova. According to archival data for 1864, there was a one-story stone house, covered with iron. The archives of 1871 describe in more detail the estate, which was quite typical of what was then Kyiv: a one-story house with thirteen rooms, a wooden outbuilding , a courtyard with a stable, a horse carriage and a barn, two front gardens, a wooden bathhouse and an orchard with a gazebo. In December 1878, the estate was sold to the landowner Andrei Petrovich Tarnovsky, a representative of a family of patrons and collectors of Ukrainian antiquities Tarnovsky ^[3] .

At the end of 1899, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Grigorovich-Barsky, the great-grandson of the architect Ivan Grigorovich-Barsky and the owner of the neighboring house No. 17 on Proreznaya Street, acquired the estate for 125 thousand rubles, and in February of the following year, 1900, presented it to his son Pavel ^[3] . The latter wanted to build on this site the tallest and most luxurious apartment building in Kiev ^[6] . To carry out construction work that began the same year, they invited the architect Karl Schimann and civil engineer Alexander Gilevich, the first of which developed the design of the building, and the second was to supervise the construction ^[7] . However, Pavel Grigoryevich-Barsky’s architectural ambitions were contrary to his financial capabilities: he didn’t have enough funds for construction, so he took several loans against the future home: in a credit union, from merchant Alexander Sirotkin and from general Viktor Saranchovyh ^[8] .

The construction of this house, which was supposed to be the tallest in Kiev at that time, aroused keen interest in the local press, which closely monitored the progress of construction. So, the newspaper "Kievlyanin" in August 1900 reported that the construction of the box of the house is already being completed, and the estimated cost of work is about 300,000 rubles. P. Grigorovich-Barsky even began negotiations with a number of entrepreneurs on the lease of commercial premises on the ground floor of the house ^[7] .

However, external factors influenced the construction process: at the end of 1900 and the beginning of 1901, the “construction boom”, which began in 1898, reached its maximum, as a result of which prices for construction materials and labor increased. The funds taken on credit for construction ended, and while the owner was negotiating for re-lending, a regular decline began in the middle of 1901 after the “peak” of the “construction boom”, the real estate market was oversaturated, real estate prices and, accordingly, the profitability of construction fell ^{[ 9]} . The erection of the house of Grigorovich-Barsky stopped, the owner himself, in order to pay off bills, was forced at the end of 1901 to put up an estate with an unfinished house for auction ^[10] . The winner of the auction was Alexander Sirotkin, who, owning one of the three promissory notes issued by Grigorovich-Barsky, resolutely raised the price ^[11] . Sirotkin was a merchant of the 2nd guild and the owner of a candle factory on Podil. Having enough money, in 1902-1903 he completed the construction, exterior and interior decoration of the house, carried out electric lighting in it and installed an elevator ^[8] .

A very loud scandal is connected with the house of Sirotkin. It began with the fact that in 1902 V. Sirotkin decided to build an additional three-story wing in the courtyard, entrusting Karl with the work of Shiman, the architect who built the main house ^[2] . During the construction process, due to the subsidence of the old fire wall - the firewall, significant cracks appeared in the new building, this was accidentally noticed by the inspection commission consisting of provincial engineer Vladimir Bessmertny , city architect Alexander Krivosheev and junior engineer of the provincial construction department Konstantin Srokovsky . In July 1902, the commission conducted a study of construction work and found that it was actually the architect Karl Shiman who did not have the right to do all the construction work on the outbuilding and the apartment building because he did not have the necessary construction certificate for this ^{[ 12]} . But the engineer Alexander Gilevich, who officially had the necessary qualifications and had to directly control the construction process, did not appear at the construction site, as evidenced by the corresponding inspection certificate signed. Immortals and A. Krivosheev ^[10] .

It turned out that this was not the first time that Shiman, hiding behind the name of Gilevich (and before him, the name of the architect Stefan Rykachov ), illegally supervised the construction ^[11] . However, no one was punished for this, only Konstantin Srokovsky was appointed overseer of construction work. Interestingly, Srokovsky was surprisingly responsible for his new responsibilities, controlling every step of construction, and this aroused the indignation of the owner, A. Sirotkin, who, unable to argue with an official, took revenge on Srokovsky by writing his last name in the memorandum on eliminating the shortcomings (supposedly wrong) as Srakovsky ^[13] . And Karl Szymany subsequently founded a private architectural bureau, on the letterhead of which, in the “hat” -briefcopf, he placed the image of Sirotkin’s house as an advertisement ^{[14] [15] [16]} .

The new house housed various shops, a pharmacy, Palermo's furnished rooms and separate luxury apartments. In the corner part no later than 1906, the Marquise confectionery was opened, the name of which confuses researchers of history: the name was written on the signboard as “Marquise” (from the French - “marquise”), but in the reference books of the beginning of the 20th century it was indicated in masculine gender - Russian doref. “Markiz” “Markiz” ^{[17] [15]} .

After the death of O. Sirotkin in 1910, the building was inherited by his widow, Irina Petrovna Sirotkina ^[15] . After the establishment of Soviet power in Kiev, the building was nationalized. In the 1930s, the Spartak restaurant was in the corner room where the Marquise cafe was located, in the late 1940s, the first Cocktail Hall bar in Kiev ^[18] , which was transformed in the 1950s, opened here as part of the fight against cosmopolitanism , in the cafe "The Seagull" ^[4] . Later, when the movement of the twin cities began to develop, “The Seagull” was renamed “Leipzig”, in honor of the twin city of Kiev , and made it a restaurant of German cuisine ^{[19] [20]} .

The residential part of the house in the second half of the XX century was gradually destroyed and in 1985-1986 the residents were evicted to carry out major repairs of the house. But due to the difficult economic and political situation in the country, repairs did not begin for a long time, the house was uninhabited. In 1992, a fire broke out in him, which destroyed part of the interior. Finally, in 1997-1999, the facades were reconstructed, the corner tower, which was destroyed in the 1950s, and the exterior decoration and painting of the walls were restored.

In July 2004, the Kyiv City Council sold the land with the house to Grand Plaza, a subsidiary of Gelegen Inc. Corporation (USA) ^[21] . The new owners, attracting investments from the Industrial Union of Donbass Corporation , planned to create a five-star Leipzig hotel with 209 rooms in the house ^[22] , but these plans were never implemented. At the end of 2009, the company was acquired by ISTIL Real Estate, which also planned to open a hotel with 180 rooms (later their planned number was reduced to 173 ^[23] ) in the spring of 2012 ^[21] for the European Football Championship ^[24] . To this end, the new owner even entered into an agreement with the international hotel chain Marriott International to manage a new hotel called Renaissance Kiev Hotel ^{[23] [25]} . At the same time, the stardom of the hotel was reduced from five stars to four, because it was impossible to arrange a pool in the house according to urban planning standards, provided for by the standards of a five-star hotel ^[24] . However, in 2015, the owner of ISTIL Real Estate, a British businessman Mohammad Zahur, because of funding problems, froze the reconstruction of the house ^{[25] [26]} .

The house is L-shaped in plan, three-section, has four floors. On the ground floor there were commercial premises, on the other - five - and six-room apartments.

The facades have a symmetrical-axial composition and are decorated in an eclectic style with elements of the Neo-Renaissance, Baroque and early Art Nouveau . The central axes and flanks of the facades are accented by complicated endings in the form of curly attics and roof turrets. Facade clasps completed with dormer-windows in the early Art Nouveau style, completed pediments with bulbous poppies. A feature of the house is a lush, rich decor with relief details, sculptures and ornaments. The balconies partially preserved the original cast and forged grilles.

The corner part of the house was originally crowned with a renaissance-style dome with a flashlight and a spire, was lost in the 1950s, probably during the struggle with the so-called architectural excesses, and rebuilt in the 1990s. The “highlight” of the exterior is the sculptural composition of two reclining female figures under the eaves.

The original interior of the house, lost in the second half of the 20th century, was distinguished by luxurious stucco molding, stoves with embossed tiles.

In 1900-1910, a musician, soloist of the Kiev Opera Orchestra, professor of the Kiev Conservatory Alexander Khimichenko ^{[1] [4]} lived in this house.

Cafe "Marquis", which was located on the first floor of the house, is mentioned in the novel by M. Bulgakov "The White Guard" ^[4] (as a candy store "Marquise" ).

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