Minsk. The Sventsitsky House.

A four-storey stone building has been built in the historical center of Minsk at the intersection of K. Marx and Lenin streets. Which is called the Sventsitsky House. The building was erected at the turn of the 19th – 20th century, according to another data in 1913.

         The building belonged to a doctor, Doctor of Medicine Sigismund Karlovich Sventsitsky, who died in 1910 and is buried in the Kalvaryiskoe cemetery. Sventsitsky led the public organization of the society of Minsk doctors for several years and founded a free hospital for poor residents.

         The house was built according to the design of the famous architect Heinrich Guy, as an apartment building in the Art Nouveau style. At that time, the address was called 34 Podgornaya Street. The apartment building had residential apartments and a Red Cross store. In Soviet times, in the 1920s and 1930s, the building was called the second House of Soviets and the party nomenklatura lived in the building.

        In 1920, Felix Dzerzhinsky stayed in the building. Famous public and party figures lived here: Alexander Chervyakov, Nikolai Goloded, Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Kirill Mazurov, academician Nikolai Nikolsky, writer Tishka Gartny. The building now houses the State Literary Museum of Petrus Brovka, who also lived in this building.

       Memorial plaques to the following figures are installed on the house: F. Derzhinsky, A. Chervyakov, M. Nikolsky, P. Ponomarenko, M. Matsapur and P. Brovka.