Gorodetzky

Although the private house of Gorodetzky is also known as the monster house, this name is really not appropriate for this building. House with Chimaera is the real name. Sylvie had a chance to visit the inside of this house with a small and privileged group. Tours are only on Saturdays and all tours in 2009 are already fully booked.
The house is being used by the president for smaller meetings and he has his big office building right across the street.
All the facts about the house can be found on Wikipedia at (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_with_Chimaeras).
An interesting detail is that all the animals on the outside of the building are living animals and on the inside of the building, the hunter Gorodetzky used fur on the floors and stuffed animals for decoration that he brought from his hunting trips to Kenia. Also the other animal sculptures inside the house mainly show the wildlife as dead trophy.
Gorodetzky always tried the latest and newest and this is why his house (built from 1902-1904) featured electricity, an elevator, and many tile stoves.

Gorodettky also built the national Art Museum of Ukraine, that the whole family went to visit one Friday evening. The occasion was the vernissage of an exhibition by Anatoly Krivolap. His daughter, the painter Anna Krivolap, had invited us and we got to see many interesting paintings (non-figuartive). The kids discovered that the paintings had no titles, just great colour and structure, and so they went on to attribute a title to every oeuvre. Father and daughter share a website: http://www.akrivolap-akrivolap.com/.