This building, hidden in the shade of trees, once served as a home for the merchant family Revyakins. Descendants of this family still live in Syzran. One of them, Nina Konstantinovna Pevzner, even published memoirs about her ancestors. The mansion, built in 1908, belonged to her great-grandfather and then her grandfather, Pyotr Vasilyevich Revyakin, who founded the first pawnshop in the city for providing loans against collateral.
The Revyakins took pride in their ancestral estate. It is a beautiful building in the Art Nouveau style with elements of Empire. The asymmetric layout of the first floor combines with a mezzanine. The large windows of the main facade, the projecting portico of the main entrance, and the corner bay window with a balcony give the mansion an elegance of classical style.
The facade's stucco work, wrought iron railings of the balcony and parapet, vases in niches, and an open terrace with stairs leading to the garden resemble a European country villa.
The internal layout and finishing of the building are also interesting. The ceilings of the first-floor rooms are adorned with stucco that has survived to this day. Unfortunately, some decorative elements have been lost. An old photograph shows a tent over the central window, which is now missing.
The house is surrounded by a metal fence with decorative wrought iron elements, made at one of the Ural factories.
The owner lived here until 1918, continuing to work as one of the three directors of the 'Repyovsk Mills Partnership.' The building was then nationalized and used by various party and Soviet institutions. Since 1945 and to the present day, it has housed the Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology.
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