House of the Weeping Widow

The House of the Weeping Widow (Ukrainian: Дім невтішної вдови, Дім вдови, що плаче) is an architectural landmark in the city of Kyiv, capital of Ukraine, located at 23 Lyuteranska Street. History Constructed in 1907 in the early Art Nouveau style by architect Eduard Bradtman, it was commissioned by Serhiy Arshavsky, a wealthy merchant from Poltava, who occupied it before the Bolshevik Revolution. The building kept its first owner's name long afterward, and even today is sometimes referred to as…