Velikanova House

Velikanova House is a mansion and an architectural monument in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia. It was built in 1884–1890 on the project of architects Nikolay Doroshenko and Nikolay Sokolov. Today the building is occupied by.

Description

In 1884–1890 Rostov-on-Don merchant Semyon Ivanovich Velikanov had a mansion built for his daughter Pelageya on Kazanskaya Street. There she lived with her husband, Matvei Kirillovich Kozlov, who was a speaker of Rostov-on-Don City Duma and a mining engineer. The mansion had 28 rooms, several cellars and a fountain in the courtyard. The facades of the building were decorated in Neoclassical style.
In 1921 the mansion was nationalized and Karl Marx Rostov-on-Don State Library was opened there.
In 1994 the library was moved to another building on Pushkinskaya Street, and since then Velikanova Mansion houses Rostov [Art College named after M.B. Grekov].