Minsk. Kostrovitskaya House.

   The Kostrovitskaya apartment building has been preserved in Minsk on Kirova Street. The building was built in Art Nouveau style in 1911. The author of the project is architect Anton Krasnopolsky. The pre-revolutionary address sounded like this: "at the corner of Magazinnaya (Shopping) and Serpukhovskaya Streets."

        The house belonged to Jadwiga Kostrovitskaya (1867-1935), who was the sister of businessman Edward Voynilovich. The first floor of the building was occupied by the board of the Libavo-Romenskaya Railway. There was also a pharmacy and a Railway Workers' Mutual Aid Society. There were residential apartments.

          After the revolution, the house was nationalized, and since 1922 it has belonged to the Belarusian State University. During this period, the building housed the apartments of professors and teachers, technical staff of the university.

      Among the famous national figures, Nikolai Shchekotikhin (1896-1940) – a Belarusian historian and art critic, teacher and art theorist, lived here. A few years ago, a memorial plaque to M. Shchekotikhin was installed on the building.

      In 1926, the building was renovated according to the project of architect A. Denisov. During the Great Patriotic War, the building was severely damaged, and was renovated in the 1940s and 1950s. Part of the decor was lost.

       After the war, there was a cafe and a furniture store.