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The House with Chimeras

In 1901—1903 popular and spectacular Kyiv architect Vladislav Gorodetsky put up
a private house that is known as the House with Chimeras. Inside and outside the building
is decorated with quaint and sometimes even freakish sculptures, including maidens on
fantastic fish, elephants, rhinoceroses, antelopes, frogs, lizards, eagles, snakes and even a little
crocodile.
The sculptures are made of cement, and there is a legend saying that architect
Gorodetsky together with companies producing cement intended to construct a house that
would be a kind of advertisement for the new building material. Gorodetsky built the House
with Chimeras for his family. Immediately after the construction works of the house were
completed, it became surrounded with numerous legends. One of them explains the very
bad location of the House with Chimeras. The house is situated on the slope of Pechersk
Hills, which made the construction a real challenge. Gorodetsky, who was famous for his
adventurism, betted with his friends architects that he would complete such a difficult task.
He really managed to put up the house and won the bet. However, modern architects say
that the House with Chimeras is in poor condition today, as its façade is covered with cracks,
and according to the results of specialists’ investigation works, the whole building slides down
the slope.

1) Who built the house? —____________________________.
2) When was it built? — ______________________________.
3) What do sculptures look like? — _____________________.
4) Who was the house built for? — _____________________.
5) Where is the house situated? — ______________________.
6) What is the trouble with the house? — ________________.