Description of the attraction
On Volzhskaya Street 32, opposite the Lipki Park, there is a mansion of historical and architectural value in Saratov. The house was built in 1906 and belonged to one of the sons of the Schmidt flour millers dynasty - Ivan. In some sources, the architect is Capitol Abramovich Dulin (a prominent representative of neoclassicism and Moscow Art Nouveau), but there is no evidence (as well as refutations). The destinies of the millers and the talented architect crossed in 1915, when Capitol Abramovich designed a house at 21 Bolshaya Kostryzhnaya Street (now Sacco and Vanzetti streets) in the "Moorish style" for the Schmidt family (after numerous reconstructions, the mansion has now lost its original appearance). And since the information about the building on the street. Volzhskaya was absent, many saw the "hand of the master" Doulin.
Volzhskaya Street (formerly Armenian) was one of the streets connecting the Upper Bazaar (now Teatralnaya Square) and Nizhny (now Museum Square), so the location of the entrepreneurial owners of the mansion does not raise any questions. Only the architecture of the building surprises and delights: a large volumetric composition and dynamic asymmetry from Art Nouveau, individual details and stucco molding from neoclassicism and square large windows from rationalism. All these contradictory and difficult to combine styles are extremely harmoniously combined in the house at the intersection of Volzhskaya and Sobornaya streets.
After the revolution, in 1917, the city committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League entered the Schmidts' mansion; during the Great Patriotic War, aviation regiments were formed here. In the post-war period, a hotel for distinguished party guests was opened in a chic mansion with a miraculously preserved parquet floor, a fireplace and lions guarding the entrance to the building. From 1991 to 2003, the mansion housed a kindergarten, which could not but affect the courtyard of the building with a beautiful grotto and a small pool. Now the restored mansion houses the "Reception House for Official Delegations" under the government of the Saratov Region.
