The castle "Swallow's Nest"

One well-known and most popular monuments of the Crimean peninsula is "Swallow's Nest." The beautiful palace is situated on a height sorokametrovoy Avrorin cliffs at Cape Ai-Todor. To contemplate a work of art, you need to get to the village of Livadia near Yalta. The building looks like a castle of medieval times, and for some time now Swallow's Nest has become a visit card of the Southern coast of Crimea.

For the first time at this place was erected a wooden building as early as 1877-1878 years. Here was the house of a retired Russian army general, who represented such great seascapes as Aivazovsky, and Bogolyubov, Lagorio.

Further, the owner of "miracle-giving" is becoming court physician Tobin AK After his death the widow went to a house, which sold its merchant's daughter from Moscow Rachmaninov. This is the mistress ordered to demolish the old building and erected on Calvary wooden palace, which he soon became known as "Swallow's Nest." Many trips to the Crimea must include this unique object in its path.

In this form looks like now, "Swallow's Nest" was due to Baron Steinheil. By occupation, and he was engaged in oil baron often been in the Crimea. He bought land for Avrorin rock and built a castle.

The project served as a famous sculptor Leonid Sherwood. By the way, his father Vladimir Sherwood is the author of the Historical Museum on Red Square in Moscow Russia. Gothic structure appeared on the platform at sea as early as 1912. Since the site was small in size, the architect did the design speed, to save space. The building is twelve feet in height and located on the base dimensions of 10 x 12 meters, is located inside the building entrance, living room and two bedrooms, next to the castle was a garden, which at the time of the earthquake bultyhnulsya straight into the deep.

Merchant Shelaputin at the start of World War II bought the building and the Swallow's Nest opened a restaurant. After the death of the merchant restaurant has stopped working, and in the 30s of last century there was the reading room Holiday Homes, however, due to the accident room was closed.

In 1927, a historical monument considerably shaken. The crack that separated from the base of the cliff top to the middle ground, threatened at any moment to topple the building to the sea. The building itself is almost not affected - has broken a few spiers. In 1967-68 under the guidance of architect Tatieva conducted restoration work: the foundation of strengthened, changed the facade and interior of the castle. The author of the restoration project Timofeev offered to fix the building with reinforced concrete structures. In addition, construction of reinforced anti-seismic zones, and the tower was decorated with four spiers.

In the castle were filmed movies such as "Ten Little Indians" Mr. Govorukhin on the novel by Agatha Christie, "Mio, my Mio" and Grammatikov B. "Academy of Mr" K Gradovskii.

Swallow's nest for many decades, enchants the eye with their fragile beauty. Small architectural masterpiece, defied nature, standing literally on the edge of a precipice actually has much in common with Swallows Nest.