There is no story sadder in the world than the story of the abandoned dacha of Colonel Kvitko. We invite you to an exciting photo walk around the castle! Learn the amazing history of this long-suffering place, overgrown with mystical legends.
History and legends of the Kvitko dacha
Andrei Kvitko came from a family of Kharkov Cossacks and was a versatile personality: he was promoted in military service, knew how to draw, wrote books, traveled a lot, was engaged in winemaking and was interested in cars. He was among the first motorists in Russia!
The history of the Sochi dacha began in 1916, when, at the request of his wife, Kvitko built a mini-castle in the Italian style. The castle came out wonderful - neat, graceful, surrounded by a beautiful garden and with gorgeous views of the sea. They say that the owners arranged brilliant receptions in the castle, where even such celebrities as Fyodor Chaliapin came.
Then I want to write that they lived happily ever after, but a revolution broke out and crossed everything out. The Kvitko couple had to hastily emigrate to Italy.
After the revolution, the dacha was nationalized, and the long-suffering castle passed from hand to hand. Strange stories took place in it, and gradually the dacha was overgrown with legends and received the status of a haunted house.
The first legend of the Kvitko dacha attracted marauders and treasure hunters. It was believed that after fleeing abroad, the colonel buried all his valuables in the park, hoping to return later and pick them up. Of course, Kvitko did not return, and the black diggers were so zealous in their searches that they gradually switched from the park to the dacha itself - they were looking for treasures even within the walls.
It is also said that during the Civil War, four white officers took refuge in an abandoned dacha. They were surrounded by the Red Army, killed by them and buried in the park. This is how the dacha got its name "Red assault".
Then the dacha became a children's labor colony, but in the 30s it was converted into a sanatorium for the Chekists. It is with the employees of the NKVD that the most the terrible legend of Kvitko's dacha... According to her, once the Chekists abused a teenage girl and killed her. The girl's mother, in turn, killed one of them, and she hanged herself. Since then, there has been talk about the ghost of the mother, or even about three ghosts of those killed at once.
From the 60s to the 90s, Kvitko's dacha was a children's sanatorium. After its closure, the building stood in desolation, the furnishings were taken apart, the walls were mutilated with graffiti.
Only in recent years, the dacha began to be restored, the rubbish was removed, the lighting was made, the props for the photo sessions were installed: mirrors, a piano, chairs, costumes, paintings. There is even a cat! As the security guard told us, they plan to open a museum at Kvitko's dacha.
