Description of the attraction
Chocolate house - this unusual name hides a building built in the 80s of the 19th century. The building is stylized as a Venetian Renaissance; the merchant Semyon Mogilevtsev was the customer of the house. The famous architect Vladimir Nikolaev designed the Chocolate House. The house got its name for its unusual color, made in chocolate brown shades.
For a long time after the civil war, few could get into this building. At first, the Central Registry Office was located here, and when the residence of the top leadership was located nearby, for the sake of its safety, the Registry Office was moved to another place. Since 1986, the Children's Art Gallery has been located in the Chocolate House - an ideal place for creativity, which was facilitated not only by its long history, but also by the building's entourage.
The gallery was located in the Chocolate House until 2009, when the building was transferred to the Kiev Museum of Russian Art. This fact had a positive effect on the building, since it was the museum that began to carry out restoration here. Thanks to the restoration, the stucco molding, the walls and the unique parquet, which has fallen into a miserable state, have been put in order. Everything that the house of people had previously enjoyed was preserved - this is both wooden inlay and wonderful paintings. Unfortunately, they could not save the magnificent stained glass windows with irises, which cost more than tens of thousands of dollars - some of them were simply not saved. Each area of the Chocolate House is unique as it uses different styles. So, on one floor alone, you can find oriental, Byzantine and French styles, Renaissance and Art Nouveau.
Visitors to the Chocolate House have not yet been able to enter all of its rooms, as restoration work continues, however, those that are available for inspection are able to amaze even the most sophisticated.
Reviews
| All reviews 0 Vyacheslav 04.24.2016 18:19:51
Negative 100 500% We wanted to make a wedding photo session with the girl in this house.
The first time I came with a photographer, we ran everything in 5 minutes - no one warned that there was an exhibition of paintings in the house and that three of the eight rooms were closed. We paid for the entrance, as expected, 25 UAH.
The second time they came with a girl at 17:20, open …
