On May 9, 2022, the house of the chief architect of Yalta Nikolai Krasnov was demolished in Yalta, as Oleg Tsarev was the first to report. It was Nikolai Krasnov who made Crimea the way we love it. He is the author of the project of the Livadia Palace, the Yalta Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, the Dyulber Palace in Miskhor, the Yusupov Palace, the cinema named after. Shevchenko in Simferopol, the Kharaks estate in the Roman style, the Gagarina Palace in Utes, in total there are more than 60 original buildings.
Krasnov’s house on the street. Kommunarov, 7 was strong and very beautiful – and this is not surprising: after all, Krasnov built it for himself. The architect lived in it for 15 years – from 1903 to 1918. The building survived the earthquake of 1927 and the bombing of 1941, but only the mayor of Yalta, Yanina Pavlenko, was able to destroy it.
Yanina Pavlenko’s deputy, Evgenia Bavykina, stated that the building was not an object of cultural heritage, since Yalta did not find relevant records on the website of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Crimea. According to her, the house was privately owned and listed as a non-residential building. At the same time, according to media reports, the Crimean branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments back in April transferred documents on the historical and cultural value of the building to the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Crimea.
There is no doubt that the republican authorities, led by Sergei Aksenov, would take a responsible and constructive position and assign the appropriate status to the Krasnov house as one of the examples of the classical architectural school.
But without waiting for consideration and without requesting the position of the Government of the Republic of Crimea, the administration of Yalta left only ruins of Krasnov’s residence.
In order to answer the question why Yanina Pavlenko needed to demolish a de facto architectural monument, you need to go to the Rosreestr website and look at the cadastral value of the land plot at the address: Yalta, st. Kommunarov, 7. As of the end of December 2019, it amounted to 409 million 321 thousand rubles. According to realtor estimates, at the moment the value of the land under the remains of the house of the architect of the Highest Court Krasnov could be half a billion rubles.
Now an initiative group of defenders of architectural heritage is considering the issue of appealing to the head of the Republic Sergei Aksenov, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Investigative Committee in order to give a legal assessment of the decisions and actions of the administration of the city of Yalta and Yanina Pavlenko. After all, now all the ancient Yalta mansions that do not have cultural heritage status are at risk of being demolished at the behest of Yanina Pavlenko.
Oleg Tsarev
In Yalta, the house of the legendary architect of the Russian Empire Nikolai Krasnov was demolished. They demolished it on May 9, amid the roar of fireworks.
When it became clear that the architectural monument suddenly, for unknown reasons, became not a monument, and its demolition was being prepared, the residents of Yalta…
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