Description of the attraction
In the late 1880s, a tenement house was opened at the intersection of Moskovskaya and Priyutskaya (now Komsomolskaya) streets. The three-storey building, attracting attention with its unique "Russian" style, belonged to the merchant of the 2nd guild Taras Vasilyevich Gorin.
T. V. Gorin was an active and influential person, with all this one of the richest people in Saratov. Taras Vasilyevich, who did not miss the slightest profit, delved into all the subtleties of the trade business, which allowed him to succeed in everything and be considered the best merchant of Saratov of that time. When Saratov was seized by the "construction boom", the resourceful businessman did it simply - he built a brick factory, which was so lacking in the growing city. The same economic benefit pushed Gorin to build an apartment building in the central part of the city. The main purpose of the Apartment Building was to rent out premises, which made it possible to solve the problem of a shortage of housing, which was acute by the end of the nineteenth century, and at the same time to profit from it.
Merchant houses rented out brought different income to the owners, depending on the location of the building, area, architecture and maintenance of the premises. T. V. Gorin erecting a majestic multi-section house-complex on the street. Moskovskaya won in everything. Subsequently, for several decades, the apartment building of TV Gorin was taken as the basis for the subsequent development of the city.
In 1909. the house was leased to the branch of the Peasant Bank and the branch of the Saratov insurance company "Volga", bringing the owner of the house a huge income for those times, a thousand rubles a month. After the sudden departure of Taras Vasilyevich and his entire family in 1909. from the country, Gorin was declared bankrupt and all real estate was auctioned off.
In our time, the building of the Profitable House of TV Gorin has been restored and included in the list of architectural monuments of the late nineteenth century.
