Kazan Chalet on the Second Mountain.

Kazan Chalet, house on the street. 42 Volkova.

Volkov Street was called the Second Mountain until 1927.

The second mountain is a place remote from the city center, but noble. For example, the tram has been running here since 1906. Before the First World War, there was water supply. Previously, there was a cobblestone pavement on the street, carts drove along it, delivered milk, collected garbage. The sidewalks were paved with red brick, but when gas and plumbing were carried out here in the 1960s, they were dismantled.

There were no peasants among the inhabitants, but there were enough officials, doctors, scientists.

Initially, it was believed that the building at 42 Volkov Street (Years of construction: 1910-1912) was the main house of Professor Bogorodsky. But then it turned out that it was a wing. In 2019, Tom Sawyer Fest volunteers came here and restored and painted the facade. Modern Kazan residents have always believed that the main color of the house is gray. But Toms Sawyer dug well in the archives and found that a hundred years ago the house was painted in the rich colors of natural wood. Also a great achievement was the return of real wooden windows in the historical style. Come closer and you’ll see these old pens and laces on the second floor windows.

Documentary evidence with the name of the architect who designed the house on the Second Mountain did not reach us. But in all the features of its unusual facade, the advanced thought and progressive spirit of those who invented and approved the idea of construction reached. Stylized as a German half-timbered house and inside was stuffed with all the achievements of European civilization - no needy in the yard. Water and sewerage were all from the beginning. The bathroom came out with a small window to the courtyard. The cesspool was regularly cleaned by a sewer.

The facade is decorated with a picturesque attic pediment with large artistic carvings. And on the roof - a characteristic spire of larch. Volunteers at Tom Sawyer Fest had to work hard to find similar spires.

The seventh generation of descendants of the family of the scientist chemist Alexei Bogorodsky lives here. During the war there were many evacuees, including Lenin's secretary Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich, the author of the book "Lenin and Children" known to all Soviet children.

Excursion "House of honorable years"