The historic Karatygin House on Timiryazeva Street in Murom looks like it won't wait for restoration. Photographer Irina Kazantseva captured the current state of the building.
The construction of the house began in 1837 on the funds of merchant Grigory Shvedov. A quarter of a century later, entrepreneur Maxim Karatygin bought it for 11,000 silver, and later acquired a beautiful garden surrounding the building. In 1873 the house became the officers' apartments of an infantry regiment, and in 1881 the headquarters of the 13th Narva Hussar Regiment, a veterinary infirmary and a team of trumpeters moved in. After the October Revolution the house was occupied by the Murom Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, and later it was given to communal apartments.