Description of the attraction
The Kazanskoe Podvorie Hotel (Melnikov's House), or the Kazan Hotel in the Soviet period of history, is located in the very center of the city, on the pedestrian Bauman Street. The large-scale building is undergoing renovation.
This building is considered to be an architectural masterpiece. The hotel project by the architect Foma Petondi was one of his last and most spectacular projects.
Melnikov bought a nearby building owned by Colonel Vasily Strakhov. He commissioned the architect Foma Petondi to create the project. It was necessary to build a house not for a family, but for a hotel and for shops. Petondi restored Melnikov's house, which was damaged in the fire, and included a neighboring building in the complex. He united the whole complex with a common luxurious decorative facade decoration.
In 1850, the "house with numbers" was owned by the merchant I. Ya. Tikhonov. He expanded the hotel and updated the interior decoration and furnishings. In 1902 the merchant and philanthropist P. Shchetinkin bought another corner building standing next to it. According to the project of the architect Khrshchonovich, the facade of the building was decorated in a new way, the fourth floor was added, and the buildings were redeveloped. The building has become even larger.
The half-rotunda façade element dates from the late 19th century, the rest of the façade with a frieze and columns is from a later period. All three sections of the facade are decorated with stucco garlands. Above the entrance is a balcony supported by the Atlanteans (the Atlanteans decorating the hotel are the only ones in Kazan).
Many famous people stayed at the hotel, including the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1927, lived for several days in one of the hotel rooms.
