The Wedding Palace is a public building in the central part of the city of Cherkasy in the Cherkasy region , a monument of architecture of the 19th century.
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History
The mansion of businessman A. Shcherbina was built in the county center of the Kiev province of the Russian Empire in 1892.
From 1907 to 1912, the zemstvo government of Cherkasy district was located in the building.
In 1919 - the county revolutionary committee and the headquarters of the fight against the Grigoriev bandits.
Since 1920, the mansion was occupied for some time by the Council of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers' Deputies. G.I. Petrovsky and P.P. Postyshev visited this building.
In the early 1930s, the house was transferred to the Palace of Pioneers .
During the Great Patriotic War from August 22, 1941 to December 14, 1943 the city was under German occupation , during which there was a gendarmerie in the building.
After the war, the building was restored, in it were the Cherkasy city committee of the Communist Party (b) U and the city committee of the Komsomol.
Since 1970, the building has housed the City Wedding Palace.
Description
The building is in the Art Nouveau style, with many openwork arches that complete the decorative colonnade. It had two entrances - one from the Dnieper, the second from the opposite.
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Literature
- O.V. Tkanko, S.P. Found. Cherkasy. Cherkasy, 1958. (Ukrainian)
- S.K. Kilesso . Cherkasy: historical and architectural sketch. Kiev, "Budivelnik", 1966. (Ukrainian)
- P.M. Zhuk, M.M. Karpenko. Cherkasy. Dnipropetrovsk, Promin, 1979. (Ukrainian)