The Leonidov House ( rus, Дом Леонидова, r=Dom Leonidova) is a building in the of

Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don ( rus, Ростов-на-Дону, r=Rostov-na-Donu, p=rɐˈstof nə dɐˈnu) is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East ...

, Russia. The house is located at 30 Bolshaya Sadovaya street, at its intersection with . Originally built as a

revenue house A revenue house is a type of multi-family residential house with specific architecture which evolved in Europe during 18th–19th centuries and became a precursor of what is now known as a rental apartment house and a tenement. In various Europe ...

, the Leonidov House has the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.

History

The Leonidov House was built in the early 20th century. The upper floors contained living accommodation, while various organizations occupied the ground floor. Writer and journalist worked in the Leonidov House, during his family's occupation of a flat on the third floor between 1950 and 1974. His literary subjects included the life and fate of people in

kolkhoz A kolkhoz ( rus, колхо́з, a=ru-kolkhoz.ogg, p=kɐlˈxos) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union. Kolkhozes existed along with state farms or sovkhoz., a contraction of советское хозяйство, soviet ownership o ...

es, the legacy of Russian biologist and breeder

Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (russian: Иван Владимирович Мичурин) ( – June 7, 1935) was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of crop plants, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and acad ...

, and sketches about the

Volga–Don Canal Lenin Volga–Don Shipping Canal ( Russian:Волго-Донской судоходный канал имени, ''В. И. Ленина, Volga-Donskoy soudokhodniy kanal imeni V. I. Lenina'', abbreviated ВДСК, ''VDSK'') is a ship canal in Ru ...

. Bakharev headed the administration of the

Rostov Oblast Rostov Oblast ( rus, Росто́вская о́бласть, r=Rostovskaya oblast, p=rɐˈstofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Southern Federal District. The oblast has an area of and a populat ...

writers' organization. He was awarded the

Order of the Badge of Honour The Order of the Badge of Honour (russian: орден «Знак Почёта», orden "Znak Pochyota") was a civilian award of the Soviet Union. It was established on 25 November 1935, and was conferred on citizens of the USSR for outstanding ...

, the

Order of the Red Banner The Order of the Red Banner (russian: Орден Красного Знамени, Orden Krasnogo Znameni) was the first Soviet military decoration. The Order was established on 16 September 1918, during the Russian Civil War by decree of th ...

and several medals. Writer lived on the fourth floor of the building with his family. He wrote the novels ''Zhenya and Valentina'' and ''"OST" badge'', and the stories ''Asya Alexandrovna'', ''Our Old Women'', ''Visiting Aunts'', ''Owner'', ''In 1942'', ''On the River'', ''Down-River'', among others. The Leonidov House was nationalized after the establishment of Soviet rule in 1920. Two memorial tablets commemorating Syomin and Bakharev were installed on the building's facade in 1983.

Description

The building was designed in the Beaux-Arts style. The architecture employs baroque and classical elements of decoration. These include moldings, small corbels and architraves. The first floor is decorated with banded rustications with smooth-faced "V" joints and vermiculated square blocks. Windows of the second floor are crowned with triangular cornices. The fourth floor is decorated with labels. The nook-windows at the second and third floor have small balconies with delicate iron-cast railing.

References

Tourist attractions in Rostov-on-Don Buildings and structures in Rostov-on-Don Cultural heritage monuments in Rostov-on-Don Beaux-Arts architecture in Russia {{Russia-struct-stub