The 5-story apartment building at Korolenka Lane, 10 is unique in that most of its windows have remained original since its construction, and the balconies, fortunately, are still unglazed.

This architectural monument was built in 1912 in what was then Petrovsky Lane according to the design of Moisei Dykanskyi. Local historians record Dykanskyi as the owner of the house (most likely Moisei’s wife, Glafira Nikolaevna).

The house is also interesting for the considerable height of the ceilings on the 3rd and 4th floors, which are significantly higher than the ceilings on other floors (especially the “low” second).

Although the building is made in the Art Nouveau style, the shape of the windows of the top floor and the ornaments above them appeal to Orientalism, eastern architecture. The pilasters are crowned with bas-reliefs with male faces (a traditional element for Art Nouveau), but the beards of these men are braided in “multi-tiered” braids – in the fashion of the peoples of Ancient Mesopotamia or Ancient Persia.