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The Petrov`s Mansion (Dombrowski`s Mansion) is a building in Rostov-on-Don which located on Pushkinskaya Street (house 115). The house was built in the late XIX century by the project of the Rostov architect N. A. Doroshenko. Since 1959 the Rostov Regional Museum of Fine Arts has located in the mansion. The building has the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.

History
The mansion was built at the end of the XIX century. The first owner of the house was A. A. Dombrovsky. But soon he sold the house. It is known that in 1898 the mansion belonged to the administration of the Vladikavkaz railway. At the end of the XIX century the administration of the Vladikavkaz railway had a lawsuit connected with the acquisition of land plots for railway lines. Then the head of the Vladikavkaz railway announced that the lawyer who would win this case would receive the mansion of Dombrovsky as a gift. Rostov lawyer Apollon Petrovich Petrov decided to defend the interests of the railway and successfully won this process. As a result, he became a legal adviser of the Vladikavkaz railway department and received a mansion as a gift.

Petrov lived with his wife and children in the house on Pushkinskaya Street. Since 1913 his wife Sophia has officially owned the house. After the October Revolution the Petrovs moved to France. In 1920 the house was nationalized. After the Great Patriotic War, the building was transferred to the regional department of construction and architecture. During this period, a mansard and a concrete staircase were built up in the mansion and a wooden terrace and a marble fountain in the garden were dismantled. In 1959 the building was transferred to the Rostov Regional Museum of Fine Arts.

Architecture
The Petrov`s Mansion is built in the spirit of eclecticism. Motifs of baroque, classicism and renaissance are combined in its design. The main (southern) facade has an asymmetric composition. Piers of the main floor are decorated with columns of a composite warrant. Window openings have semicircular completions with lock stones. Archivolts rely on caryatids. There is a heraldic sign above the front entrance. A frieze over the windows is richly decorated with stucco elements: female heads, griffins, cartouches, floral ornament. The territory of the mansion is separated from Pushkinskaya street by a forged fence on a stone foundation. Initially, the gate was located along the sides of the fence, and a wicket was in the center. The farm buildings adjoined the northern facade. Stables and a place for coaches used to be on the site.

The main halls were located around the main entrance hall with a marble staircase in two levels. The walls are decorated with Corinthian pilasters, the doors are framed by archivolts, the ceiling is decorated with stucco. There was a kitchen, a boiler room and servants' rooms on the ground floor. Dishes were served upstairs by a special escalator.