House of the Weeping Widow

House of the Weeping Widow

Infobox Modern building


caption=The front façade of the House of the Weeping Widow.
name=House of the Weeping Widow
location_town=Kiev
location_country=Ukraine
architect=Eduard Bradtman
client=
engineer=
construction_start_date=1907
completion_date=1907
date_demolished=
cost=
structural_system=
style=Art Nouveau

The House of the Weeping Widow ( _uk. Будинок вдови, що плаче) is an architectural landmark in the city of Kiev ("Kyiv"), capital of the Ukraine, located at 23 Luteranska St.

Constructed in 1907 in the early Art Nouveau style by architect E. 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 afterwards, and even today is sometimes referred to as the "Serhiy Arshavskyi Building". Following the revolution it was occupied by the International Group Federation of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. [cite web|url=http://www.vechirka.kiev.ua/issue.php?np=47&id_issue=21 |title=House of the Weeping Widow |work=Issue №209(17395) |publisher=Vecherniy Kiev |date=2004-12-09 |language=Ukrainian |archivedate=2006-06-17 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060617084628/http://www.vechirka.kiev.ua/issue.php?np=47&id_issue=21]

Currently it is one of the President of Ukraine's official residences,cite book|title=Osobnyaki Kyieva|author=Druh, Olha|coauthors=Dmytro Malakov|publisher=Kyi|year=2004|id=ISBN 966-7161-60-9|pages=192] used to house state visitors, among them: U.S. Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice, and the Presidents of Lithuania and Brazil. [cite web|url=http://telekritika.kiev.ua/articles/154/0/9322/president_report2007/|title=President has opened door for journalists. But not his.|first=Svitlana |last=Ostapa |publisher=Telekritika |date=2007-06-07 |language=Ukrainian]

The building earned its nickname because when it rains water pours over the woman's face on the facade, running down her cheeks like tears.

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