Of course they would restore it, it's built property. It wasn't "their" idea. Therefor it isn't "original" any more. Even if they do like it. It is "tarnished."

Thanks for sharing! It's gorgeous! Not to mention so mysterious and romantic!

We're looking for a new home right now, and I'm trying to talk my husband into buying a 1940s farm house. I can't stand cookie cutter houses. I need something with character.

OMG shut up and take my money! I want that house!

Sure it's a beautiful piece of art. No doubt at all, but it is hardly embarrassing. WE don't build houses like that because ot would cost millions of dollars per house. Either the owner had access to slave labor or he had gobs of cash to spend on artisan workmen. Either way, it's ostentatious, particuilarly considering what his neighbors' standard of living was like.

You go through a typical English manor house like Blenheim and it has similarly ornate workmanship, especially inside. And there all you here is about how the English upper class ripped off the rest of the world to keep this stuff for themselves. So we need to tax the bloody rich out of their houses.

This house was built by someone in the 1%, those people you love to hate. Admire it, for sure, but have some perspective on what you are looking at here.

Originally posted by AussieAmandaC
How beautiful!

A house so beautiful should not be empty at all, glad to hear they're restoring it and some others.
I can tell you by looking at those photos though, it will only be cosmetic.
Lucky buggers

You'd be going real hard to try and find a Westerner who could build a house like that at all.

Not really - could and would are the differentiators. I know some amazing craftsmen who have done some amazing things with their own homes, but its extremely expensive to do so, because nobody is willing to pay the value of the time put into it.

Originally posted by canucks555
It would take me more than a year just to make one window frame. Unreal!!

Maybe it did take a year. A life time.

I see true love. Love for wood, love for the craft and most of all, love for the lady he built it for.

Wow...this is really weird as this house and it's placement...

A similar one has appeared in a recurring dream I've had, except I was being chased by wolves and there was a room full of flowers and in that room also was the dead body of my beloved...

Scary.

But really cool architecture none the less.

It can't be Russian. Wake Up!
Have you lost your mind? Russia a.k.a Soviet a.k.a Communists are full of bullshhh propaganda.
There is no way such god less creatures in Uni Soviet could ever build such a building unless they were inspired by Satan.
Don't you remember what you are told? Communism is axis of evil?