Autogarage of N. Sokolov and Z. Ivanova description and photo - Russia - Volga region: Saratov (Topic)

N. Sokolov and Z. Ivanov's car garage description and photo - Russia - Volga region: Saratov. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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Are there any architectural monuments that make you smile? Saratov is one of the few cities that can boast of such an asset. Saratov pride is located on Moskovskaya Street opposite the Main Post Office.

In 1887, in the central part of the city, the owners of the mirror factory P.P.Borisov-Morozov and N.I.Sedov built a factory building. But in 1913, the factory of mirrors and facets, releasing in a huge selection (as they said in their advertising) mirrors of all sizes, & nbsp; unexpectedly for everyone, declares its insolvency. In a strange way, bankrupt merchants went abroad after the sale of their property.

In 1914, a car garage was located in the factory building, the owner of which was S.I. Sokolov and his friend, a motorist, possessing commercial abilities ZI Ivanov. In 1915, during the First World War, automobile conscription was declared and, following his own transport, Sokolov himself was mobilized to the front. The capital accumulated in a short period of time was donated to the reconstruction of the garage and the sculptural decoration of the facade of the building.

The idea of technical progress was brought to life by the students of the Bogolyubov art school N. Khlestov and S. Reztsova. The work of young artists was so witty and original that only one place can serve as the source of the idea - Tsarskoe Selo, the facade of the imperial garage. The triangular top of the facade, beaten like a pavement slope, a car rushing at speed, one wheel escaping from the plane of the wall, clouds of exhaust gases and dust, blinding beams of headlights, - all this could be thought up only by a big fan of fast driving ZI Ivanov. The sculptors did not forget the god of trade - Mercury, hovering over the car, and the cheerful angels on the ledges of the facade.

The upper part of the facade of the house has remained untouched by time, the front part (the exit of cars) can be traced in the windows of the building closed with a horizontal rail.

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