Lost Grand Hotel4 photos

In the 19th century, a first-class hotel appeared in a number of Kharkiv hotels & ndash; “Grand Hotel”. The three-story building, in which the upper floors were given to hotel rooms, was built in the 1830s by the sons of the well-known merchant Akim Isaevich Pavlov in those years.

In the future, the area where the house of Pavlov was built, became known as Pavlovskaya. Like all first-class hotels in Kharkiv before the revolution, & laquo; Grand Hotel & raquo; worked closely with the posh restaurant located on the first floor. Expensive rooms were decorated with silk and satin, elegant furniture in the spirit of the time and a full range of services then accompanying hotels. The decoration of the spacious rooms was comfortable and cozy.

In 1919, the Grand Hotel & raquo; stands out among Kharkov hotels, providing premises for quartering there officials and accommodating the headquarters of the Volunteer Army, which occupied Kharkov for the period from June to December 1919. After the revolution in peacetime, the hotel is renamed in accordance with the principles of the post-revolutionary time. Unfortunately, the building was destroyed during the Great Patriotic War.