The real gem of Darvina Street is the house at number 13.

This house was built for Dmytro Alchevskiy, a professor of biology and the son of the renowned industrialist Oleksii Alchevskiy.

The mansion was built in 1896 according to a design by architect O. Beketov in the Moorish style.

Dmytro was the only one of Alchevskiy’s sons who, in addition to his main field of expertise, had a good understanding of finance and economics and kept his father’s business afloat after his death and financial collapse.

The mansion had to be sold to the Working Women’s Mutual Aid Society at that time.

Dmytro Alchevskiy was executed by the Bolsheviks in December 1920 near Yalta “for serving the Whites.”

The Ukrainian-British College is currently located in the building at Darwina Street,13.