Velikanova House

In 1884–1890 Rostov-on-Don merchant Semyon Ivanovich Velikanov had a mansion built for his daughter Pelageya on Kazanskaya Street (now Serafimovich Street).^[1] There she lived with her husband, Matvei Kirillovich Kozlov, who was a speaker of Rostov-on-Don City Duma and a mining engineer. The mansion had 28 rooms, several cellars and a fountain in the courtyard.^[2] The facades of the building were decorated in Neoclassical style.^[1]

In 1921 the mansion was nationalized and Karl Marx Rostov-on-Don State Library (now Don State Public Library) was opened there.^[2]

In 1994 the library was moved to another building on Pushkinskaya Street, and since then Velikanova Mansion houses Rostov Art College named after M.B. Grekov.^[1]

47°07′49″N 39°25′14″E / 47.1302°N 39.4206°E / 47.1302; 39.4206