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- A secluded house for a large merchant family
- Designed with intelligence, imagination and great taste
Video: "Lace" masterpiece mansion in Tomsk: a house with a tent, which was restored by the Germans
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
If you are in Tomsk, then you should definitely see the fabulous beauty of the mansion, which is also called the "House with a tent". It is abundantly covered with incredible "lace", and it was owned by a local merchant at the beginning of the last century. After the revolution, the fabulous "teremok" was nationalized, but, fortunately, its fate turned out to be quite favorable, and now it can delight both locals and tourists with its elegant appearance. And the Germans helped to restore the mansion …
A secluded house for a large merchant family
This amazing house was built by order of the merchant of the 2nd guild, the owner of the trading house "Golovanov and Sons" Yegor (Georgy) Golovanov. A wealthy merchant was engaged in trade in Tomsk and Krasnoyarsk, and in the broadest sense of the word - he sold precious stones, furniture, hats, shoes and even bicycles.
The merchant had four sons, so the construction of such a large and luxurious house was quite a natural step. The construction of Golovanov's house was completed in 1904 - in total, the estate occupied a third of a block.
The project was led by the famous local architect Stanislav Khomich, who built more than one unique building in Tomsk.
After the revolution, the luxurious "lace" house, like other merchant estates throughout Russia, was nationalized. At first, a sanatorium was opened in the mansion, where they treated and taught the everyday skills of neurotic children. In the Great Patriotic War, the building was given to the regional Children's Home, in which children who lost their parents in the war and were evacuated from other cities were brought up. By 1961, the building was already in need of renovation. Together with the renovation, which lasted more than one year, a two-storey annex was erected on the western side.
After repairs, a medical school was opened in the former merchant's house, and in 1993 the building was closed for restoration. It lasted for two years and the progress of the work was personally supervised by the regional governor. Now the luxurious mansion houses the Russian-German House (formerly the Center of German Culture). By the way, the German authorities also took part in financing the restoration work.
The Russian-German House stands up for the preservation and study of the native language among local Germans; children's linguistic camps are regularly organized on its basis.
Since 1974, this house has been an architectural monument of federal significance.
Designed with intelligence, imagination and great taste
Khomich deliberately placed the house in the back of the garden - this is done in order to protect it from the noise of the street and create a sense of privacy.
In order to get more light into the house, its facade faces the south side, and so that the house is less blown by the wind (here they often blow from the southwest), a large garden is laid out in front of the facade, on the south side. The northern wall was designed from bricks, moreover, it is deaf (there is only a small window).
The house was nicknamed lacy due to the abundance of decorative elements, the number of which increases as you approach the roof from the bottom of the building. The building is decorated with a patch cut technique.
Interestingly, the building originally had a different color: the house was white and its roof was red, which gave the building a European look. And already in the process of restoration, the mansion was repainted.
By the way, the interior layout of the mansion has not undergone any significant changes. On the east side, the premises on the ground floor are combined into a suite, and on the west, they are concentrated around the main corridor. The area of the main premises of the mansion - the large hall - originally was 63 square meters, but later a partition was installed here. The hall can be accessed from almost any corner of the house - from here there is an exit to the balcony, stairs, and the front door.
The mansion's interiors also retain many of the elements that originally existed here. - for example, doors, cornices, molded ceiling rosettes and balusters.
Architects sometimes tried to decorate houses with "lace" even in Soviet times. An example of this is Openwork house on Leningradka.
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