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Mansion of Love

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The house at Pushkin Street, 61, known as the "Mansion of Love" or "House of Love," was designed and built in 1910 by the Kuban architect of Cossack descent Ivan Rymarevich-Altmansky.

In the late 19th century, a young engineer from Yekaterinodar, Ivan Rymarevich-Altmansky, met a beautiful princess from Tiflis at a ball. They fell in love and maintained their connection through letters to ease the separation. However, the girl's strict father, who dreamed of a different fate for his daughter, forbade her from thinking about Ivan and took her to Georgia. Rymarevich-Altmansky traveled to Tiflis, hoping to persuade the girl's father to allow their marriage. But he was stopped halfway, sent back to Yekaterinodar, and ordered by the authorities to come to his senses. The girl, cut off from her beloved by a strict prohibition, fell into melancholy and died.

In memory of his unfulfilled love, Rymarevich-Altmansky built this mansion in an eastern style, with domes symbolizing the two lovers who were not destined to be together.

He lived in this house alone with servants until the revolution. In 1920, Ivan Rymarevich-Altmansky was repressed as a representative of the Cossack class.

During the Soviet era, the mansion was converted into an apartment building. Today, it contains 15 apartments.

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