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Andriyivsky Uzviz, 22
(Encyclopaedic note)

House # 22, that traditionally consists of three buildings, is one of the oldest houses in Andriyivsky Uzviz. Two-storeyed building # 22-A, faced to Vozdvizhenskaya Street, is the oldest in the house. The whole house was kept by Kiev bourgeois, merchant of 2nd order Ivan Iosifovitch Shatrov.

I.I.Shatrov was a well-known jeweller, owned the workshop of icon-painting and iconostasis, was a member of Orphan Court and Comittee over Podol district, was an honorary keeper of household in Kiev theological college (Voznesensky Spusk, 22), and also was a Head of the Executive Board of the Association for Mutual Aid of craftsmen and the Merchants' senior representative.

At the beginning of the XX century an apartment in Shatrov's house was rented by icon- painter P.F.Shtronda, who also owned an icon-painting studio. In 1909-1910 in the house # 22-B was disposed the "Society of Religious Painting Artists".

Alexander Antonovitch Koshitz (1875-1944), famous Ukrainian choir conductor and composer, was one of the most interesting inhabitants of Shatrov's house. He lived here while studying in Kiev Theological Academy. In his memoirs ("Memoirs" ("Spogady"), Canada, 1949) A.A.Koshitz devoted enough attention to description of patriarchal style of life in Shatrov's family. He said, that Shatrov has bought the house at those famous Serkov (Sirko), who was portrayed in comedy "Following Two Hears" by Iv.Netchuj-Levitsky.

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