Original artwork description:

It is a diptych ( two parts) 100x100cm, 100x100cm. oil on canvas.2020 Picture was exhibited on my personal exhibition in Kyiv.

Dedicated to "King of Contractors".

Lev Borisovich Ginzburg (1858 - c. 1926) - Kiev merchant of the 1st guild, construction contractor, millionaire. He was one of the ten richest people of Kiev at the beginning of the XX century. Owner of the Leo Ginzburg Construction Company.
Lev Ginsburg - the "King of Contractors" built the Kyiv Opera and Ivan Franko Theater, the Teacher's House and the Philharmonic, the National Art Museum on Hrushevsky Street, the Nikolaev Church on the Red Army and the main building of the KPI and many more that became symbols and decorations.


Picture " Ukrainian skyscraper" from the series "Kyiv, which no longer exists". This series of paintings are about buildings that have unfortunately not survived and also about the outstanding people who built this beauty.

History of Kyiv
Ginzburg skyscraper, or Ginzburg House - 12-story skyscraper, which stood in Kyiv at the beginning of the XX century. It went down in history as “the first skyscraper of Ukraine” The house was used as a hotel for visitors and for renting apartments; in those days, such houses were called profitable. There were 94 luxury apartments in a skyscraper, the largest of which had 11 rooms. There were about 500 rooms in total.

This building was serviced by a large number of servants, only the cleaners were more than twenty .

On the ground floors of the Ginzburg house there was a shopping center (food shops were located here). The construction was crowned with a tower, from where beautiful panoramas of Kiev opened. Ginzburg's house was so famous that every cabman knew where it was. Due to the height of 50-60 meters, the building was visible even for several kilometers.

About the end of the life of Lev Ginzburg.
The Bolsheviks robbed him of all the real estate he owned, all his savings, and he died poor in a Soviet hospital.

On September 24, 1941, the Ginzburg skyscraper encountered the same fate that had been prepared for another 15 homes (Khreschatyk) - it was blown up.
In 1961, the Moscow Hotel appeared on the site of the skyscraper, which in 2001 was renamed as "Ukraine"

Materials used:

oil on canvas

Tags:

#monochrome #buildings #skyscrapers #rooftops #dyptych #retro cityscape #beautiful architecture #picture with history #beautiful building #anastasiia grygorieva #famous street #retro town #cupol roof #the highest house #big old city