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House of merchant Vasily Matveyevich Kubrina 1910-1912gg. According to legend, it was built by the architect of the St. Petersburg school Polezhaeva AI Gauguin background for the Mariinsky Theater actress Elizabeth Larionovny Vekshina that Basil Kubrin asked to become his wife. After the Revolution, the mansion housed the workers 'and peasants' club, a library, then the district executive committee. In October 1920 he was officially to name in the "First House of the Soviets." Kubrinsk manor has survived all the vicissitudes of the XX century: at one time there were city, district and regional offices of the OGPU, NKVD and the militia. A little later, in the "thaw", then settled Education Department and the House of Pioneers, and in the mid-60 complex of buildings handed over a local history museum. After the dissolution of the museum, funds which are now in the Presidential Center of Culture, in a completely renovated house is located the embassy of Ukraine.