Museum "Urban Planning and Life of Taganrog"
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Museum "City Planning and Life Taganrog" is located on Frunze street, 80, two kilometers from the city center. The museum does not have many exhibits, but they are all interesting and unique.
The building of the museum, built in the Art Nouveau style, looks a bit like the building of the Yaroslavl railway station in Moscow: the trapezoidal shape of the roof of the central building with a scallop of a metal roof, island towers, alternation of windows, asymmetric composition. The left tower originally featured the owner's initials, later replaced by a pointed spire topped after 1978 with a weather vane. The gate towers are decorated with masks of lionesses by M. Vrubel himself. The frieze part of the facade is lined with ceramic tiles with colorful mosaic paintings “Sailing Rooks”, “Sea Battle”. In the entire Rostov region it is the only example of facade monumental painting.
The mansion was built in 1912 according to the project architecture of F.O. Shekhtel and until 1917 belonged to the baker E.I. Sharonov. After the revolutionary events of 1917, the building was nationalized by the state and it continued to live in different hypostases: a silk-breeding station in 1920-1922, since 1923 - a children's clinic. During the German occupation, the building was the headquarters of the 1st Panzer Army of General E. von Kleist, and after the liberation of Taganrog - various city services and institutions, including the Ordzhonikidze district committee of the CPSU.
In 1978-1981, a complete restoration of the building was carried out and the museum “Urban Planning and Life of Taganrog” was opened here. The museum itself is unique in that it is the only such museum in Russia. The exposition presents ancient postcards, plans, photos of historical places and monuments of Taganrog, which preserved the uniqueness of architectural plasticity of the XIX – early XX centuries. Also exhibited are unique examples of decorative and applied art, masterpieces of Western European and Russian glass, samples of furniture from Petrine times to the present.