Petrov Mansion

Petrov Mansion

Особняк Петрова
Coordinates	47°13′33″N 39°42′57″E / 47.22576°N 39.71574°E / 47.22576; 39.71574Coordinates: 47°13′33″N 39°42′57″E / 47.22576°N 39.71574°E / 47.22576; 39.71574
Location	Rostov-on-Don, 115 Pushkinskaya Street

The Petrov Mansion (Russian: Особняк Петрова) is a building in Rostov-on-Don, at 115 Pushkinskaya Street. The house was built at the end of the 19th century, to the design of the Rostov architect N.A. Doroshenko.^[1] Since 1959 in the mansion is placed. The building has the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional value.^[2]

History and description[]

The mansion was built at the end of the 19th century. A.A. Dombrovsky who soon sold it was the first owner of the house. In 1898, the mansion belonged to the management of the Vladikavkaz railroad.^[1]

At the end of the 19th century management of the Vladikavkaz, railroad conducted the long lawsuit connected with the acquisition of the land plots under railway lines. Then the chief of the road declared that the lawyer who will carry this case will receive as a gift Dombrovsky's mansion. The Rostov lawyer Apollon Petrovich Petrov who with gloss won this process undertook to advocate the interests of the railroad. As a result, he was appointed the legal adviser of management of the Vladikavkaz Railway and received as a gift the mansion.^[1]

On Pushkinskaya Street Petrov lived in the house together with the wife and children. Since 1913 the house his wife Sofya officially owned. After the October revolution, Petrov moved to France. In 1920, the house was nationalized. In the 1920th years the Children's commune, then the House of workers of education, then the Union of Miners were placed there. In the 1930th years in the mansion settled down Rostovoblsov-promo operation, sports society Spartak and Oblmestprom. After the Great Patriotic War, the building was transferred to the regional department of affairs of construction and architecture. During this period in the mansion the penthouse was built on, the concrete ladder is built, the wooden terrace and the marble fountain in a garden are sorted. Then the fireplace and several carved doors of the mansion were lost. In 1959, the building was transferred to Rostov Regional Museum of Fine Arts.

Petrov's mansion is built in the spirit of eclecticism, in his registration motives of baroque, classicism and the Renaissance are combined. The main (southern) facade coming to Pushkinskaya Street has asymmetric composition. Piers of the main floor are decorated with columns of the composite warrant. Window openings have semi-circular end with capstones. Archivolts lean on caryatids. Over the main entrance, the heraldic sign is located. The frieze over windows is richly decorated by modeled elements: female heads, griffins, cartouches, vegetable ornament. On a balustrade, a number of rail-posts and curbstones is located.^[3]

From Pushkinskaya Street the territory of the mansion is separated by a shod fencing on the stone basis. Originally gate settled down on each side, and in the center, there was a gate. The northern facade is adjoined by economic constructions. And earlier on the site, there were stables and the coach maker.

Around a ceremonial lobby with a marble ladder in two levels the main halls were located. Walls are decorated with the Corinthian pilasters, doors are framed with archivolts, the ceiling is decorated by a stucco molding. On the first floor the kitchen, a boiler room and rooms of servants originally were located. The dishes were served upward on the special escalator.

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