рус
укр
engVladislav Gorodetskiy
|
Famoust architect, creator of St. Nikolas Cathedral, House with Chimeras, Karaim kenassa and State Museum of Antiquities and Arts. |
|
House with Chimeras
|
This remarkable building decorated with the fabulous figures of animals and chimeras like as they were took from peaked roofs of Notre Dame de Paris can be easily called the most unusual Kiev building. On the roof of the building are sitting good-natured toads with nereids, heads of rhinos and antelope are built into walls, drain pipes look like snakes and elephant trunks. Constructed on a steep slope house astonishes by one more details - from the front side it has only 3 floors and from back side whole 6! |
|
Karaim kenesa
|
This building is constructed in Mauritian-Arabic style about 100 years ago. Before now it was a property of karaim community — Jewish religious community which esteems Old Testament instead of Talmud. |
|
St. Nicholas roman-catholic cathedral
|
St. Nicholas Cathedral is one of the most beautiful buildings of Kiev of the XX beginning of XX century deigned in formalized gothic style with high arrow-shaped spires. |
|
Vladislav Gorodetskiy, the architect
|
The famous architect of XIX and early XX centuries is sitting at the table in the street cafe with the coffee cup in his hand. It is the same cafe he had visited so often while living in Kiev. |
|
