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The residents of Saratov, spoiled by the architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, could pass by the Art Nouveau house on the street. Zheleznodorozhnoy 23, if not for one thing … This is the mansion of the great architect who presented Saratov with the University Town (an ensemble consisting of four main buildings), a gas plant based on the university on the street. Beloglinenskaya, a number of buildings in the Clinical town, which changed the appearance of the entire complex and many other architectural sights of the city.
Architect Karl Ludwigovich Mufke (1868-1933) was born into a poor family of a pharmacist. After studying at the local gymnasium, he entered the architectural department at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. Then there was an overseas business trip to France, Italy, Australia and Germany, which affected all his work in the future. Having settled first in Kazan (1897-1910), the young architect does his first independent work and immediately gains popularity and fame as a great architect. The proposal of the Saratov professor V. I. Razumovsky, the first rector of the Imperial Nikolaev University, on the design and construction of SSU buildings, Myufke met with joy. Karl Ludwigovich was attracted by the opportunity for large-scale creative work. After completing the construction of the four main buildings, he began construction of his own house near the University with the leftover materials. In the hungry twenties, professor of architecture and architectural design K. L. Mufke in the cold auditoriums of the University collected sold out with students who came to his lectures from other faculties and institutes.
In 1933, the great architect Karl Ludwigovich Mufke died at the age of 65 in his home and was buried at the Saratov Resurrection cemetery, where a black marble obelisk, made at the expense of the university, rises.
The mansion on Zheleznodorozhnaya, vaguely reminiscent of the architecture of the university, got a memorial plaque in 1999 in memory of the great architect K. L. Mufke.
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Glazyrina Julia 2014-24-09
After several years of living in Saratov, Mufke's personal life began to improve, he married a second time. Anastasia Nogina, who was 22 years younger than him, became his chosen one. In 1916, Karl Ludwigovich transported children to Saratov, the house on the street became the place of residence of the family. Vavilova, 51, build
Show full text After several years of living in Saratov, Mufke's personal life began to improve, he married a second time. Anastasia Nogina, who was 22 years younger than him, became his chosen one. In 1916, Karl Ludwigovich transported children to Saratov, the house on the street became the place of residence of the family. Vavilova, 51, built according to the Mufke project from rejected materials from the construction of the University.
The two-storey mansion is designed in a neoclassical style. Only the main facade has a decorative design. The first floor is rusticated and plastered, and like all the other buildings in Mufke in Saratov, the second floor is not plastered. The main facade with 9 light axes, highlighted by pilasters throughout the entire height of the building from the basement to the frieze, has 3 risalits: the central one - with 3 windows, and at the corners of the facade - with 1 window. In the center of the main projection there is a balcony, the balcony door is decorated with columns and a decorative pediment. The end of the risalit is highlighted as an attic gable, while the rest of the facade has a strongly protruding cornice and a frieze decorated with floral ornaments. The spaces between the windows on the first and second floors are also decorated with embossed decorative elements.
One can only guess about the initial layout of the building, since now it has been greatly modified, the house has been rebuilt, divided into four apartments according to the principle of "communal". The mansion is in a deplorable state. Only decorative stucco ceilings in some rooms and the decoration of interior openings with arches have survived.
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