Villa "Faith"
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Villa "Faith" is located in the historic city of Sochi is a monument of regional significance.

In October 1872 Moscow first guild merchant Nikolai Mamontov erected here for his daughter Vera beautiful wooden cottage. Vera very ill, so was limited in movement. Near the mansion merchant planted a garden with different fruit and fruit trees, planted flowers and shrubs. The whole villa is just very green.

Thanks Matsestinskaya sources and fresh air condition daughter NN Mammoth is much improved. Soon, she married a local city elder N.A.Kostareva then villa and the park went into their possession. Vera took an active part in the life of the city and is the main reason to initiate the City Library in honor of the 100th anniversary of AS Pushkin. Since the city did not have space for the library Kostareva decided to give up your house for this. In 1910, on the site of an old dilapidated building was built a new two-story stone house and enlarged the park.

The mansion has retained its previous name - Villa "Faith." Like most merchants' buildings, eclectic architecture of the building. Identify the author of the architectural project did not succeed, although it is known that the project was commissioned in St. Petersburg.

In the post-revolutionary period Kostareva estate was nationalized, from January to July 1918 was located here revolutionary executive committee of the Soviet of Workers 'and Peasants' Deputies of the Sochi region. From 1943 to 1946 it housed evakogospitali and resort name Cjurupy. In 1960-ies., After the sanatorium was transferred to another room, the territory on which the villa is re-planned and rebuilt, to start a redistribution of lands. Until 1992, the building housed the Sochi Palace of Pioneers and schoolchildren, and already in 1992 and to this day - the Sochi city center extracurricular activities.

Villa "Faith" - a monument of culture, history and urban development, protected by the state.

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