🏛 House of the Emir of Bukhara

Каменноостровский пр., 44Б

An apartment building of 1913–1914 with facades in the spirit of Florentine palazzos, built for the Emir of Bukhara (designed by Stepan Krichinsky).

The house was built in 1913–1914 on commission from the Emir of Bukhara for his son Sayyid Alim Khan; in fact, it is an apartment building.
The architect is Stepan Krichinsky, who also took part in building the Cathedral Mosque; the emir awarded him the Order of Noble Bukhara.
The facades in the spirit of Florentine palazzos are clad in dolomite marble from the Shishim deposit in the Urals.
Because of the First World War the balustrade was dropped, and some of the columns were made of wood instead of marble.
Krichinsky himself lived here, in flat No. 4, until 1923.
In 1993 the film “Kommunalka” was shot in the house; local legend says an underground passage leads from here to the mosque.

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