Today in the heading "#lyubimygorod we will tell you about the House of the merchant Katsnelson.
This building is a unique monument of wooden architecture, the house of the merchant Katsnelson, is among the sightseeing objects of our city.
Once this mansion belonged to the Bobruisk merchant Pae-Bryna Katsnelson.
The building is wooden, the architectural style is modern.
The house is one-story, L-shaped.
The project of the mansion is really original – there is nothing even remotely resembling it in the city. The facade is decorated with 2 two-storey towers with tents, there is an attic.
The house was assembled in 1912 on Prisutstvennaya Street (now International), where it stands to this day. Why “assembled"? Because there is a version according to which the building was not built, but brought to Bobruisk from somewhere in the Baltic States. When Mrs. Katsnelson saw the house, she bought it and ordered it to be brought here in parts. She could afford such an expensive operation: the woman was engaged in the timber trade, at the beginning of the last century the turnover of her company was 2 million rubles a year, and her name was well-known in Russia and far beyond its borders, in particular, in England.
In November 1918, the house of the merchant Katsnelson changed orientation again: now the Bobruisk District Revolutionary Committee, which was a temporary local government body under the leadership of P.F. Revinsky, began to be located here. In this regard, a memorial plaque was attached to the building in 1958.
After the Revolutionary committee, the central city library named after M. Gorky began to be located here. It existed in this building until 2014 – then a large piece of plaster collapsed here, and the library was closed for repairs. For some time it did not function, then there was an art mini-gallery “Old House".
Now the building, unfortunately, is empty…
