The house-museum of the merchant PA Bashenin Sarapul
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One of the main tourist attractions of the city Sarapul is an unusual house, located on the outskirts of the city. On the pine-covered hill in 1909. The house was built under the project of Moscow architect P.A.Trubnikova Nouveau and Gothic Revival. Country house has been designed with the use at the time the latest technologies: water, electricity and concrete structures. A feature of the house is a stone facade, ideally stylized tree. The originality of the mansion and give composite pieces: balconies of different shape, bay windows, verandas and high roof with carved skates. For a long time the building was considered a symbol of the new era, and nowadays - pearl Sarapulsk architecture.

The host country mansion was a man with an amazing destiny. Paul A. Bashenin, son of a peasant who became thanks to his hard work and business acumen first guild merchant, industrialist, pioneer and head of the city Sarapul. Beloved of the people, and the respected mayor lived a short but very active life. In 2008, for the 140th anniversary of the birth P.A.Bashenina it laid the "Avenue of the mayor," named honorary citizen of Sarapul.

The building cottages mayor, is an architectural monument, in 1995 opened an art exhibition complex. The permanent exhibition presents the complex materials about P.A.Bashenina, furniture, 19th century paintings, dishes and other household items Sarapulsky merchants. On the estate were ennobled preserved flower gardens, cobblestone, pine park, stables, outbuildings and decorative fountain with sculptures of children merchant PA Bashenin.

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