Description of the attraction
Designed by the order of the merchant G. V. Ochkin by the city architect A. M. Salko, a large three-story building was erected during two construction seasons and was completed in 1877.
In the 1830-1850s, this place was the courtyard of the owner of a cloth factory, Franz Ivanovich Stein, who supplied cloth and blankets to the army. His family lived in separate rooms of his own stone and spacious house, and half of the house at one time was rented out for barracks. Three gates of Stein's yard overlooked two streets - Nikolskaya and M. Sergievskaya. The courtyard itself, planted with rows of pickles and maples, stretched to Proviantskaya Street and was filled with many houses, sheds and hovels. FI Stein was the founder of the "German Dance Club", which was located in his house for a short time. Subsequently, the courtyard was fragmented and one of the courtyard places (from the middle of the block to Proviantskaya street) was acquired by the merchant G. V. Ochkin.
The building was built in the forms of retrospective classicism, the main entrance from the side of Malaya Sergievskaya was decorated with a canopy of artistic casting on metal pillars. An elegantly cast, representative cast-iron staircase has been preserved in the interior of the building.
From 1877 to 1890, the building was rented by the Alexandro-Mariinsky men's real school (founded in 1873) in which the artist V. E. Borisov-Musatov, poet, novelist, playwright A. M. Fedorov studied. In 1890, the school moved into a building specially built for them. In the future, the apartment building was rented out to the Main Construction Office of the RUZhD administration, the midwife and paramedic school, and the third female gymnasium. In the first Soviet years, the building housed a labor school of the second degree, and from 1943 to 1948 there was a 19 male gymnasium, the director of which was the legendary Saratov teacher Pavel Akimovich Erokhin.
In 2001, in a capitally renovated and restored building, a secondary military educational institution was restored - a cadet school, in which mainly children of dead servicemen and from poor large families are admitted. Today, the building is considered an architectural monument and continues to serve educational purposes, graduating highly educated and trained cadets.
