Museum Alexandra Curlin is in Samara at the intersection of Krasnoarmeyskaya and Frunze. The Art Nouveau house is one of the most noteworthy monuments of the city.
It works as a museum since 1989. The exhibition consists of 1500 exhibits : the oldest - from the founding of a fortress Samara to the early XX century.Now you can see the furniture Count Orlov- Davdova Usolsky of the palace and dueling pistols from a hiding place in the house Bight , the phone company Ericsson in the early XX . , Cash register and a huge promotional pen pens from Samara shops, sugar-loaf with Timashevsk sugar mill and a block of pre-revolutionary asphalt factory stamp .
The house was built in 1903, architect - AU Zelenko .
The house has 22 rooms , each one is unique and individual. On the second floor is patterned wrought metal stairs .
as the finish applied color tiles.The facade is decorated with blue tiles, shiny , perfectly in harmony with the color of dull green and white washed cap inserts of textured tiles. Stucco on the facade there is : a woman's head ( the hostess ) and on the pediment of the plant with long, flowing stems over an angular window.Metal gratings in the form of stylized butterfly wings , dragonfly on top and fishnet gate house add originality and lightness of forged designs.
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