Description of the attraction
One of the most beautiful buildings in Perm is the house of the merchant Gribushin, built in the Art Nouveau and eclectic style according to the designs of the architect A. B. Turchevich in 1895-1897 on Pokrovskaya Street (now Lenin Street).
The house is made in white and blue tones with stucco and sculptural decorations, with interwindow pilasters and wrought-iron flagpoles. The main attraction of the building are 20 bas-reliefs of the owner's daughter, sculpted by the self-taught master Peter Agafia. The fairy-tale house was owned by Sergei Mikhailovich Gribushin - an honorary citizen of Perm and Kungur, a public figure, a philanthropist, the city head of Kungur since 1872. to 1876. The Russian "tea king" had trading offices in India, China, Ceylon and in the cities of Russia. The idea of packaging expensive tea in those days in small bags so that poor people could buy, belonged to Sergei Mikhailovich.
The architectural monument of the late nineteenth century has a literary name - "House with Figures", presumably became the prototype of the house described by B. Pasternak in the novel "Doctor Zhivago". After the civil war, the entire Gribushins family emigrated to Finland, the house was nationalized. In 1923, the film "The Gribushin Family" was released on the screen, in which the "family clan of tea kings" who had fled from the massacre were exposed. For a long time, the scientific center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences was located in the house with the angels, and now the building houses the "House of Scientists" and "Musical evenings" are held in one of the halls with excellent acoustics.
