Let's start the morning with architecture and newspaper a magnificent three-story building on St. Lenzhronovskaya 8, near the Opera House, was inaugurated on October 26, 1891. Red bricks and white plaster, a record number (about 18!) of animal reliefs, which gave the house the name "House with lions", a pretentious pseudo-baroque and the nickname "the opera in the temple". All this is Navrotsky's house. Vasily Vasilevich Nabrotsky is an extraordinary personality. He arrived in Odessa with empty pockets, without even finishing high school. At a local printing house he worked part-time as a cleaner or printer, but very quickly he became rich and established himself. Having bought the tiny newspaper "Odessa Listok Advertisements" for almost nothing, an enterprising 23-year-old businessman-publisher turned it into the largest and most influential newspaper in the entire southern Russian Empire with a huge circulation. A great lover of technical progress, Nabrotsky bought a French printing press for his home printing house with lions, which provided tremendous printing speed. He also became the owner of the first steam car in Odessa. Navrotsky created a full-fledged correspondents' institute - his journalists were always and everywhere the first, thanks to which the Odessa List printed the latest news. After the Odessa Bulletin, having survived the revolution, "The House with the Lions" sheltered the Odessa communist press, then the Stanok newspaper, and then the city registry office. Today it is a residential building and an architectural monument, an integral part of any trip around Odessa.

Let's start the morning with architecture and newspaper a magnificent three-story building on St. Lenzhronovskaya 8, near the Opera House, was inaugurated on October 26, 1891. Red bricks and white plaster, a record number (about 18!) of animal reliefs, which gave the house the name "House with lions", a pretentious pseudo-baroque and the nickname "the opera in the temple". All this is Navrotsky's house. Vasily Vasilevich Nabrotsky is an extraordinary personality. He arrived in Odessa with empty pockets, without even finishing high school. At a local printing house he worked part-time as a cleaner or printer, but very quickly he became rich and established himself. Having bought the tiny newspaper "Odessa Listok Advertisements" for almost nothing, an enterprising 23-year-old businessman-publisher turned it into the largest and most influential newspaper in the entire southern Russian Empire with a huge circulation. A great lover of technical progress, Nabrotsky bought a French printing press for his home printing house with lions, which provided tremendous printing speed. He also became the owner of the first steam car in Odessa. Navrotsky created a full-fledged correspondents' institute - his journalists were always and everywhere the first, thanks to which the Odessa List printed the latest news. After the Odessa Bulletin, having survived the revolution, "The House with the Lions" sheltered the Odessa communist press, then the Stanok newspaper, and then the city registry office. Today it is a residential building and an architectural monument, an integral part of any trip around Odessa.