Address of the monument: Tyumen, Volodarsky Street, 7.
Date of construction: 1911-1912
Historical information
The house was built in 1911-1912, it belonged to Konstantin Vasilyevich Popov and his wife Virineya Sergeevna Popova. Since 1900, K. V. Popov worked in Tyumen as a private attorney for the Tobolsk District Court. Later, he served as a private attorney for the City Council. At the beginning of the 20th century, he held the rank of titular councilor. He was also engaged in private practice.
Konstantin Vasilyevich was also in demand as a public figure. He took an active part in the work of various commissions, delegations, and offices that solved important problems of the city. He was also a member of the board of the clerks' club, which at that time was the center of cultural and social life in Tyumen. He was a member of the Tobolsk Provincial Museum, the oldest repository of Siberian antiquities.
For many years, the Popov family lived beyond Tyumenka in Monastyrskaya 2nd Street (Svobody Street today). In the first years of the 20th century, the family's financial situation improved and the couple decided to build a new house. In 1911, Virineya Sergeevna, who was then over fifty, applied to the Tyumen city government for permission to build a two-storey house in Znamenskaya Street. Today, this is a quiet, peaceful place, seemingly located away from «civilization», but back then, the windows of the Popovs' new house overlooked Aleksandrovskaya Square, where the most important city events and holidays took place.
The Popovs did not choose the location for their new home by chance. Virineya Sergeevna's ancestral home was nearby, where her sister Filanida then lived. Opposite was the Women's Gymnasium, where the girls had once studied, and further on was the Znamensky Cathedral, beloved since childhood. And on the right was the police department (currently Volodarsky Street, 5), which added confidence to the safety of the new home.
The house was built in two seasons. By the end of 1912, the family moved. The city commission valued the Popovs' property at 7,000 rubles. The lower, brick floor of the building housed the office of the private attorney K. V. Popov and the agency of the First Russian Insurance Company, whose agent was the owner himself. The second floor was residential. In addition to the coach house, stables, hayloft, bathhouse, and laundry, the estate also had an outbuilding where the Justice of the peace of the first section of Tyumen lived, a court councilor with a typically Russian patronymic and a German name and surname – Otto Ivanovich Stolz. The memory of him still lives in the family legends of Tyumen residents. Otto Ivanovich was the godfather of many newborn city residents.
In the 1920s, the Popovs' house housed the police department, later the house was given over to housing for the employees of the pedagogical school, and then the school of agricultural mechanization. For most of the 20th century, the house was used as communal housing. Several families lived here. By the end of the century, the building had fallen into disrepair.
In 2005, the monument was restored according to the design of the architect A. I. Klimenko. Today, it houses the Tyumen Regional Educational and Methodological Center of German Culture.
Description
Situated in one of the old streets of the city, near the Znamensky Cathedral, the house forms the unique appearance of the historical environment. A large wooden house on a brick basement floor has an expressive volumetric-spatial composition, largely achieved by the presence of a corner semicircular bay window on cast-iron columns. The decorative finishing of the wooden facades is based on a contrasting combination of strict geometric plasticity of the architraves, covered with large volumetric geometric and turned details, with a wide, two-layer, openwork lace of the profile frieze.
The house is especially attractive due to the light crowning forms – angular pointed turrets with miniature domes and a figured attic on the axis of the facade, accented by ornamental overlay carving of a plant pattern.
The developed layout of the house with an internal corridor and a veranda on the second floor corresponds to the lifestyle of a wealthy family. The interior decoration has not survived.
