A house with a tower: an almost mystical story5 photos

Sumy, 3 - every Kharkiv citizen passed by and passed through this small house at least once. The cozy two-story building is a muffled reddish white trim that is clamped by two huge gray monsters - the former North Bank and, again, the former cinema "Empire".

Indigenous Kharkiv people will tell you that there has long been a hairdresser with a fabulous name & quot; Ivan da Marya & quot ;; that the glowing neon sign of the restaurant & quot; Theatrical & quot; attracted spectators who left after the performance at the Shevchenko Theater, who wished to continue the evening with pleasure; that a photo with the commonplace name & quot; Youth & quot; whose windows, windows were entirely hung with photo portraits, was considered the best in Kharkov, and it was considered a matter of prestige to order a portrait here. However, this is only the outer layer of the life of the house; in fact this building has its ownNaya, quite unusual story.

An elegant turret, a small bay window jutting out onto the Sumy, flower garlands on the facade, graceful & quot; castles & quot; above the windows, the decorated frieze - in the whole appearance of this building the refinement and effeminacy of the French Renaissance. The creator of this house, the Danish Johanna-Emilia-Otto Ginsha, in Kharkov was called in Russian: Ivan Petrovich. He came to our city after graduating from the Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1865; He worked as a university architect and designed houses in eclectic style, fashionable in the second half of the 19th century and involving the borrowing of elements and details of various architecturalstyles and their harmonious connection. He is the author of the building of the 3rd male gymnasium on Gogol, a residential building on Moskalevka, which will later be used as the first eye clinic of Professor Hirschman.

He built a mansion in Sorochinsky Lane to Girshman himself,
later & ndash; designed a mansion for the co-owner of the plant & laquo; Helferich-Sade & raquo; Maximilian Helferich on Pushkinskaya Street, 70.

In 1875, Ivan Petrovich Ginsh designed the house at the very beginning of Sumy for the second guild of merchant PI Muravyov.

It was supposed to be a residential building with shops on the ground floor; Kharkov merchants ordered such houses often. For them it was a double convenience: there were warehouses in the basement, trade was on the first floor, and trade was on the second floor. lived family. Whether the merchant Muravyov turned out to be a capricious customer, or Ginsha himself slightly oppressed responsibility (the house had to stand at the very beginning of the main street of the city), but he found the right image of the house only on the second attempt & ndash; although, judging by the remaining project, even the last option was different from what exists today.

For a couple of decades the house existed in the form in which Guinsch created it, but in 1897 he had a new owner - and very famous.

Alfred Konstantinovich Fedetsky entered his name not only in the history of Kharkov, but also of the country in capital letters. An innovating photographer who brought in from Kharkiv and introduced all the latest innovations in the field of rapidly developing photography, he was not just a fashion photographer who created a gallery of portraits, among which & ndash; actress Kadmina and composer Tchaikovsky; artist Aivazovsky and priest John of Kronstadt & hellip; A Polish nobleman by birth, Alfred Fedetsky received a unique education & ndash; graduated from the Vienna Institute of Photography; For six years he worked in Kiev, whereand gained the necessary experience. In 1886, he moved with his wife and little daughter to Kharkov, rented the empty studio of photographer Dosekin at Yekaterinoslavskaya 6 (now Poltava street) and opens his own business. Two years later, he received a gold medal at the international exhibition in Brussels and the highest thanks to Alexander III for shooting the crash of the royal train in Borki. His popularity is growing rapidly, and he rents a more spacious workshop on the same street, only at number 18 (now - the Youth Theater building). By the mid-90s, Fedetsky, without leaving a photo, was experimenting withusing a sound recorder, trying to photograph objects in X-rays, paint large art canvases in oil and in 1896 makes the first documentary in Ukraine. Approximately by this time the purchase by Fedeksky of the house of Muravyov on Sumskaya. The amount of the transaction is known & ndash; 11 thousand 700 rubles. After the proposed restructuring, this house would completely satisfy Fedetsky: the city was dynamically developing in that direction, and the business center shifted from Ekaterinoslavskaya to this place; his family could have been located on the second floor (by that time, Fedetskiy’s widow’s wifeEarl at the birth of the third daughter, and his mother lived with him), and on the first floor he planned to equip a new luxurious atelier with the latest technology. Apparently, it was during this major restructuring that the house acquired the look that it has to this day.

However, Fedetsky did not succeed in seeing the house in finished form: at the end of the 90s he fell seriously ill and in 1902 died of heart failure. At this point, only a photo workshop was located in the house; work on the second floor did not have time to finish. Who reorganized it & ndash; unknown: Ivan Ginsh left Russia in 1890, transferring the business management of his clients to a young but promising architect Alexei Beketov. Until 1910, the Fedetsky family owned the whole house, except for the photo studio: his guardian, along with all the equipment, sold the photographer Shabelsky, who representedin Kharkov, the famous Petersburg firm "A. Skassi & raquo ;. Later, Fedetsky's mother died; the eldest daughter married and went abroad; the average married and moved to live with her husband; the youngest, Maria, moved to Minsk with relatives.

And then begins an almost mystical story connected with the house. First, in 1911, Skassi's photograph burned down, and Shabelsky was forced to move to another city. The room on the first floor was occupied by a restaurant, and a year later its owner, the German citizen K. Klekker, purchased the house of the Fedetsky heirs. After another year in the Kharkov Hotel & laquo; Metropol & raquo; The dead younger daughter of Fedetsky Maria, who came from Minsk, was found. The circumstances of her arrival in Kharkov are foggy; when it was found only 1 p. 50 kopecks & ndash; This is despite the fact that not so long ago she received part of the inheritance pAfter selling a house. Doctors ascertained death from heart failure. In 1915, the owner of the house and restaurant, Klekker, who managed to attach a six-storey outbuilding to a two-story building, was administratively sent to one of the remote provinces & ndash; By that time, there was a war with Germany. The house itself was transferred to the management of agriculture and state property of the Kharkov and Poltava province. In the same 1915, there was a serious fire that destroyed the roof, internal partitions and floors. After the repair, the Kharkov branch of the Russian for foreign trade opened there.can & raquo ;.

In 2007, the 150th anniversary of the birth of Alfred Fedetsky. During the preparation of the anniversary, the idea was expressed about installing on a house on ul. Sumy, 3 memorial plaques. And already in 2013, the Fadetsky board was installed.

(The materials used are “Complex surveys for the project of restoration of an architectural monument on Sumskaya Street, 3”, carried out by M. and J. Khoroshenko under the guidance of VM Lopatko).