This little-known jewel of Kiev’s heritage was chosen by the Ukrainian president as the setting for his interventions on social networks.
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By Marc Lambron, of the French Academy
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Ihen tragedy returns, a former actor knows how to find the setting. During the first days of the Russian invasion, President Zelensky, dressed in his now emblematic olive green T-shirt, camped one of his speeches in front of the Maison aux Chimères, also known as the Gorodetsky House, a building that is the pride of of the Ukrainian capital. Halfway between a Barcelona building by Gaudi and the Dakota Building where John Lennon died, this Art Nouveau building dating from 1903 has become one of the vectors of Ukrainian national consciousness.
Who is its architect? Born in 1863 in the former Polish part of the Tsarist Empire, Vladislav Gorodetsky was educated in Odessa, with the popes of Saint-Pavel’s Church, before studying architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Healthy…
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