Everything would be fine, but the place chosen by Bashkirov for the construction site was built up by small wooden five-walls. But this obstacle was not so impassable. G. Bashkirov owed the owners of these houses a decent jackpot, and they gladly gave him this place.
In the city government, having learned about Bashkirov's intention to build not some trading house, but a hotel, they came to rapture indescribable. The city as the air needed new inns and visiting courtyards, and the hotel even more so. The matter went off. The work boiled up so that, not only ordinary people, but also the city's steppe fathers were shocked at the pace at which construction was going on. Literally in front of you, like a leap. grew floor by floor and parallel with the laying of walls, almost a trace in the trail, finishing work was carried out.
Part of the summer, autumn and winter flew quickly, and already scaffolding scaffolding, the surrounding area was built, and before the gaze of the Trojans appeared in all its glory and splendor a building in the style of the fashionable Viennese Art Nouveau.
A few days later at the opening summer fair among the sales guests were old acquaintances G. Bashkirova. Clearly, without special enthusiasm, they had to untie their wallets, give an argued amount of money. What it was like no one will tell us now.
According to the old-timers, it was no small matter, since Bashkirov's expenses for the construction of the hotel and restaurant turned out to be blocked with interest and allowed him to erect a beautiful mansion in a prestigious corner place with two front porches, one of which faced Bazarnaya Street and the other on Soborny Lane.
After all this business, Bashkirov went even steeper. He acquired huge land areas, opened several of his own stores, became owner of gold mines.
Talking about the merchants, who left us the most exquisite architectural treasures, we can not fail to mention the Yaushev brothers and their amazing Passage.
In the second half of the last century, Latyp Yaushov decided to settle with his brothers in Troitsk, settle here for good.
However, it was not so easy to fulfill this desire. Because the local merchants saw in the brothers their competitors. What kind of obstacles did the officials of the city government not come up with in order to prevent alien out-of-town traders. One of the strongest proofs of the refusal was the alleged lack of free land within the city.
The officials were obstinate, but the Yaushevs were not among those who fell prey to difficulties. In the end, after the lawsuits and delays, they were given the go-ahead for the arrangement. But the indulgence of the fathers of the city was simply a mockery.
Yes, and how to judge otherwise, if the site for construction was not only abandoned, but bogus - a hot place, which according to the annals, and it was first led in our city, Archpriest Gavriil Terentevich Amanatsky (died in 1871), says: "... there was a lake on which fowling was fired. "
It is difficult to say now what made the Yaushevs agree with such a decision of the city authorities: is it a great desire to live in Troitsk, or a hurt ego? But anyway, the brothers decided not to back down.
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