mentalpress @ 2009-03-13T15: 48:00
Another interesting inhabitant of the Arbat was Cyril E. In-s, architect.
He was born in 1814 in the family of a poor nobleman who had retired at the end of the Napoleonic campaigns. His wife is rumored to have been from the Bulgarians, and as if he was released from Turkish captivity.
Twelve years Cyril E. was given to study in the Kremlin palace architecture school, which also ended in 1834 with a degree of architectural assistant to the third class.
Lucky fate was soon brought him to the well-known for its eccentricities oz. A nym. The latter are extremely slowness in all his affairs, and especially in the decoration his extensive estates in the province of Tver. In the age of Nicholas Earl continued to build a park with amusement facilities in the spirit of the times of Catherine. In the face of Kirill E. A-in found a loyal guard for the structure of the park, dividing it leisurely manner.
customer was generous, and soon our hero is already healed her home near Patriarch's Ponds with the young as my wife. His house he built in compliance with all rules Palladium architecture, sparking criticism council decorum. The story was that of Cyril E. came to the chief of police with palladium tract and, after reading a few chapters in Italian, persuaded him to their cause.
in the Moscow hospitable greeting guests, owner and does not withheld joys meal, a few years, becoming a human obesity is even famous. Once, after hearing criticism that its belly is so large that it is possible to give the apartment rental, Cyril E. laughed, and immediately ordered any build. They were given to non-affluent artists, and was called "abdominal apartments, why, and he soon lane, where housing was located Kirill E., became Podbryuhovym be nicknamed.
Benefactor Evenevicha Cyril died in 1875, in the years mafusailovyh. Park, however, was never finished construction. Heirs graph, not close relatives, no sentimentality in his park did not have, but instead watched in horror endless building upon her estate.
From Kirill E. heirs still reluctantly paid, and the estate divided and partly sold. From such a formidable erected park gr. A-in as early as 1890 years has disappeared. This unfortunate end of the case throughout the life of Kirill E. plunged him into melancholy. In his garden he had made quite wild gothic booths, and they spent their days in solitude or with a spouse, for reading.
his life, he graduated from the ridiculous - suffering from colds, to facilitate heat required to submit a bucket of ice, which lowered his head. That's why he got sick more than before and a week passed away.
by his country's request, he was buried in German кладбище в Cеменовском полку. Не будучи иноверцем, он потребовал себе такого упокоения, что и было исполнено.
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