It is known that in 1908 this house was owned by Pavlo Zhygmont, the grandson of General Pavlo Petrov (the hero of the 1812 war, i.e. the French invasion of Russia, and the husband of Mikhail Lermontov’s cousin).
In 1915, Zakhariy Petrovych Dykyi, the city and district court bailiff, lived in the house.
In the 50s and later it was a multi-family apartment house. Today, it is still divided into several separate apartments. The house inhabitants say that before the revolution a high-ranking official used to live here. At that time, the adjacent area of the manor house was much larger and stretched deeper into the neighborhood along Storozhenkivska street (today’s Akademika Pavlova street).
Architectural peculiarities of the house are typical for residential buildings of the end of the XIX – beginning of the ХХ century. It is decorated with wooden carvings and has a forged openwork canopy over the entrance door.
The house is not included in the register of the architectural monuments, and, therefore, unfortunately, is not protected from demolition or reconstruction.
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