Melnikov's house (hotel ”Kazanskoe Podvorie”) description and photos - Russia - Volga region: Kazan (Topic)

Melnikov's House (Kazanskoe Podvorie hotel) description and photos - Russia - Volga region: Kazan. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The Kazan Podvorie Hotel (Melnikov House), or the Kazan Hotel in the Soviet period of history, is located in the very center of the city, on the pedestrian Bauman Street. A large-scale building is undergoing reconstruction.

This building is considered to be an architectural masterpiece. The hotel project by architect Thomas Petondi was one of his last and most spectacular projects.

Melnikov bought a nearby building owned by Colonel Vasily Strakhov. He commissioned the architect Foma Petondi to create the project. It was necessary to build a house not for a family, but for a hotel and for shops. Petondi restored Melnikov's house, which was damaged in the fire, and included a neighboring building in the complex. He united the whole complex with a common luxurious decorative facade decoration.

In 1850, the "house with numbers" was owned by the merchant I.Ya. Tikhonov. He expanded the hotel and updated the interior decoration and furnishings. In 1902 the merchant and philanthropist P. Shchetinkin bought another corner building standing next to it. According to the project of the architect Khrshchonovich, the facade of the building was decorated in a new way, the fourth floor was added on and the buildings were redeveloped. The building has become even larger.

The element of the facade with a half-rotunda belongs to the late 19th century, the rest of the facade with a frieze and columns belongs to a later period. All three sections of the facade are decorated with stucco garlands. Above the entrance is a balcony supported by the Atlanteans (the Atlanteans decorating the hotel are the only ones in Kazan).

Many famous people stayed at the hotel, including the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1927, lived for several days in one of the hotel rooms.

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