Description of the attraction
The house, built in 1906 on Vvedenskaya Street (now Grigorieva Street) in the style of neoclassicism, belonged to Mikhail Viktorovich Gotovitsky. A one-story mansion lined with brick with high arched windows and a minimum of stucco decorations on the facade has come down to us almost in its original form and is an architectural monument of the early twentieth century.
MV Gotovitsky is a descendant of an ancient noble family who lived in Saratov. Mikhail Viktorovich himself was a scientist-orientalist, diplomat, versatile person, educated in Moscow. After serving in Central Asia, he was the district marshal of the nobility and magistrate in the Tsaritsyn and Kamyshin districts of the Saratov province.
After his retirement, Gotovitsky settled in Saratov and founded the famous Saratov Scientific Archive Commission (SUAK), thanks to which the history of the Saratov Territory did not disappear during the period of wars and revolutions. Over thirty volumes of research, documents and archival data published from 1880 to 1910 by the devotees of the SUAK are an invaluable contribution to the history and culture of Saratov. After the revolution, Mikhail Viktorovich was repressed, the house was nationalized, but a descendant of Gotovitsky, a local historian A. V. Kumakov, nowadays lives in Saratov, preserving and multiplying the works of his great-grandfather.
In Soviet times, until the 1940s, various organizations were housed in the mansion. For almost twenty years, the house housed a children's clinic, later an advertising factory, and from 1985 to the present day, the Public Organization of Sobriety and Health.
