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This mansion is one of the most beautiful and old buildings in Taganrog. Built in the 1860's, it is included in the list of objects of cultural heritage of the Russian Federation. To this day, the beautifully decorated building gives inspiration to the artists

After the construction the house belonged to the merchant Karaspasov and then to the Turkish citizen Konstantinidi . After 20 years the building was purchased by the Rafailovich family . Immediately after the revolution, when Denikin's rate was located in Taganrog , the head of the French military mission was stationed in the house of Rafailovich, and in the 1920s . there was a political department, the newspaper office and the headquarters of special purpose units . And since 1925 . the building became an ordinary residential house . He was divided on the commune and the building began to decline gradually . Today it is still beautiful, but obviously needs to be repaired .

This high-rise building is added to this one-story structure with a high base and a beautiful roof design: large vases are installed along the facade on the parapet .

The eclectic building combined elements of different architectural currents: here you can find signs of classicism, baroque and neobaroque . This one-story structure is heightened by a high basement and a beautiful roof design: along the facade on the parapet, The big vases are located . In general the facade is decorated very beautifully, here you can see a lot of bas-reliefs, ornaments, cornucopia, medallions with faces of satyrs and other figurative ornaments . There are niches in the parapet, in which there are also decorative vases, metal gratings made of metal .

Very beautifully decorated porch of the building. Before the door you can see the portico with a canopy of elegant cast iron on two supports. In the center of the canopy is a metal monogram with two letters "H" and "P", the initials of the previous owner. Under the pediment, you can see two graceful statues that depict women with bodies of leaves. Sculptures on the facade were created by a local sculptor.

Around, on the street. Frunze, in general there are many historical and interesting houses. For example, the house number 24, the former house of Rabinovich, built in the Neo-Greek style. It is distinguished by clay mascarons in the form of lion's heads, which almost exactly copy the style of guttering in the temples of Ancient Greece.

There are no less (even more) old but less decorative buildings on both sides of Rafailovich's house . @ House number 18 is a mansion built in the 1820s . This is the former house of Karapasov . The building itself today does not seem particularly noteworthy, but in its courtyard is a small cute little house, the so-called Chekhov wing . In it in the 1870's . lived a married sister A . P . Chekhova, and she wrote often visited her on a visit . On the other side of the house of Rafailovich there is a house No. 22, the former Drossi house built in the 1850s . This house is also among the memorable places A . P . Chekhov, and on it there is a memorial plaque . The inscription on it says that the building often hosted amateur performances, one of the actors in which was Antosh Chekhov . Both buildings are among the objects of the cultural heritage of the Russian Federation .

Practical information

Address: st. Frunze, 20.

The house is located in the very center of the city. You can walk here along Frunze street from Oktyabrskaya square in less than 5 minutes.