In Yalta, businessmen are demolishing the mansion of the legendary Crimean architect
In Yalta, the house of the architect of the Supreme Court, Nikolai Petrovich Krasnov, in which he lived from 1903 to 1918, was demolished.
For unknown reasons, the building lost its protective status, and its owner chose to free the expensive Yalta land from the two-story building of the early XNUMXth century, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Even in early May, tourists could see a mansion in the Art Nouveau style on the street. Nikolaevskaya (Kommunarov, 7). It once served as the main building of the Zarya boarding house, as evidenced by the sign at the entrance. But the building had been empty for many years, and local historians in Yalta heard rumors about the impending demolition of the historical and cultural landmark.
“While living in this house, Nikolai Petrovich created most of his South Coast masterpieces, including the Great White Livadia Palace,” emphasized Larisa Lysova, editor-in-chief of the “Old Yalta” almanac. – This is Krasnov’s second house in Yalta, where he moved in 1903 from Pushkinskaya Street. The spacious mansion already included a large drafting workshop, where the architect himself and his assistants worked, and there was also a separate office for the architect. Here he was visited by great princes, most often Grand Duchess Ksenia Alexandrovna, sister of Nicholas II, and the Yusupov princes, as well as, according to some information, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna. Yalta architects gathered here to discuss the problems of organizing the city.”
During the transition to the Russian legal field, Krasnov's house on the street. Kommunarov was still included in the list of cultural heritage sites. But in the cadastral map of the Russian Federation, the site is already marked as a “low-rise residential development”, and the mansion itself is marked as an apartment building. To rectify the situation, the Crimean branch of VOOPIiK collected and submitted documents about the historical and cultural value of the building to the Ministry of Culture of Crimea. However, even before their consideration, during the holiday weekend, May Day and Victory Day, builders began demolishing the mansion.
Krasnov’s first Yalta house, located on Pushkinsky Boulevard, has been a cultural heritage site of the Russian Federation since 2018. In the second, the chief architect of the Southern Coast of Crimea lived from 1903 to 1918, after which he left Crimea and ended up in Belgrade, where several monuments were erected to him as a person who made a significant contribution to the appearance of the Serbian capital.
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