The building from which the colonists were guided

Abstract

The author presents the results of her research about real location of the “Guardian Committee of Foreign settlers in the South of Russia” building. The house was supposed to be located in Odessa. Having been established 200 years ago, the Committee was responsible for the development of the agricultural colonies on the South of Ukraine. It had to monitor the processes of the foreign settlements setting up and take care of them for more than fifty years. Nevertheless, the complete history of the Committee has not been written yet and the exact location of the building had not been found out before. The author proves that the building of the Guardian Committee is still available. It is considered as a monument of a local architecture; however nobody knows the real historical importance of the house. The building was erected in 1847 – 1848 as a shop that belonged to Valentina Shvendner. Then the house was sold to local authorities and became a main quarter of the Guardian Committee. After the Committee had been canceled the building was mentioned only as a Department of State Domains in the souses. It was forgotten that the Guardian Committee had been in the house before. The author has managed to identify the house using the plan and the architecture draft of it`s front wall made by an architect F. Morandy.