Kislovodsk is a true fount for those who want to relax not only the body but the soul. This is easily seen walk the streets and alleys of the city. The first thing thing to say is of course about architecture the city and its beautiful attractions that dotted the resort town. Many of them are of historical significance not only for the city, but for the whole of Russia, they are as dumb chronicler chroniclers bygone age reflected in all the the vicissitudes of the history of the Russian state. The city was founded in the early 19 th century, the memory of that stored in the building of the Kislovodsk fortress that is now museum. It is the center of its historic core, along with sour narzan source.
The fortress was built to protect the resting here the Russian nobility. In addition, located at the intersection of major roads in the area leading from one mountain gorges in others it was built the same way for the control of the troubled mestnosti.Mestnost around the fortress gradually mastered the whole 19th century, this process was slow, but at the end of the nineteenth century and especially at the beginning of the twentieth century began to change in Kislovodsk eyes, the Russian intelligentsia and the aristocracy began to actively build up their city estates villas and houses. In addition, the city was laid railway which will simplify access to the resort and its side effect gave a beautiful Kislovodsk Station of the European sample. Built up the city and wealthy locals, the rich, military officers, Mountain and Russian nobility. Thus the whole historical part of the resort town is a period of imperial Russia, its elegant form of tender, small columns, balusters, arches and characteristic trapezoidal roofs. All this in common with Kislovodsk Petersburg because it is the northern capital was then so heart of the state and the rest of the city hostage fashion in St. Petersburg.
Bright jewels of this period in the history of Kislovodsk in its architectural decoration of the building were such as house-cottage is located Chaliapin opposite the railway station in the eponymous square, colonnade – the main entrance to the park, built in honor of the 100th anniversary of the victory in the Napoleonic Narzan gallery – you arrange the main spa building, house, villa M. Kseshinskaya located on the main avenue of the environment is now modern buildings of the Soviet era sanatoria have them. Kirov them. Dimitrova, Spa Plaza. Although earlier this avenue was named Nicholas, and it is not difficult guess he was named in honor of the royal family, in this sense, the house-cottage M. Kseshinskoy located very well, emphasizing its connection with the imperial house, was in this kind of simvolizm.Bez suspended for this period also belongs the entire resort boulevard formerly known as poplar alley. Almost all the historical monuments of the imperial period after the Revolution went to the state and basically preserved turned into a hostel or a sanatorium. But there were those who became victim of the new socialist state. Because of the rapid construction of sanatoria of Kislovodsk absorbed some of the original monuments. Yet in the general efforts of many generations kislovodchan, despite the difficult and sometimes terrible twentieth century, managed to keep in the style of architecture which was the first to Kislovodsk and that is its hallmark today.