Few buildings in Kharkiv can boast of having preserved their decorative majolica tiles on their façades. One of them is a four-storey Art Nouveau building located at Myronosytska Street, 47.

This architectural landmark was built in 1912 to a design by architect Mykhailo Piskunov.

In addition to the tiles with a red-and-white woven-pattern ornamentation, the striking bay windows, arranged asymmetrically, are worth noting. Above the entrance to the courtyard on the left side of the building, the bay window spans the second and third floors (crowned by a rather plain modern balcony), whilst on the right side, the bay window is situated only on the third floor. Originally, they were unglazed, as can be seen in Soviet photographs of the building.

Unfortunately, between 2015 and 2020, the original, openwork glazing of the staircase was lost; during the building’s insulation works, it was replaced with double-glazed units featuring a more basic frame.

The apartment block was built for Pavel Ivanovich Goryansky, a nobleman. His father owned substantial plots of land on Myronosytska Street.

The wing in the courtyard housed the hydrotherapy clinic of Dr Konstantin Danilevsky, better known for his inventions – hot-air balloons with manual propellers.

The building’s glazing was damaged by Russian shelling in 2022–2025.