House Mikhail Shestakov (Kyiv)

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Delicate yellow building in a "palace style" was built in 1912. The project's author - well-known architect Robert Meltzer. He mainly worked on the orders of the imperial court, however, could not refuse to help the sugar magnate, head of the South Russian society to promote agriculture and rural industry, Mikhail Shestakov. By the way, Shestakov was the doer of deeds sugar mills known millionaire Theodore Tereshchenko.
Shestakov enough funds for the construction of a luxury home. Only now he had lived there for only four years, and then sold the daughter of his boss - the countess Uvarova Natalya Fyodorovna. By the way, at the disposal of Natalia, the daughter of Theodore Tereshchenko, as was a mansion on the street Lipskaya, 16.
During the First World War there was established the South-West Regional clerk Committee, chaired by a member of the State Duma, a large landowner Mikhail Balashov. Active member of the committee was, and Mikhail Shestakov: In the years 1916-1917 he was in charge of logistics and advanced military hospital trains.
In 1938, half of the house occupied by Nikita Khrushchev. In the 1970s there was a parlor party leader Vladimir Shcherbytsky.
It is known that the winter of 1973 in this house stayed Yugoslavia leader Josip Broz Titta, when he came on a business trip to Kiev.
Now here is the press center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Interior Ministry.