Chocolate house
Brown Renaissance-style merchant mansion with dog-head carvings and rooms in a medley of historic styles.
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This guide to the Chocolate House in Kyiv opens with a sheet of paper passed around a room of professors, and one man among them who would not sign it. It then goes back to the timber merchant and passionate hunter who had this brown Florentine-style palace built around the turn of the twentieth century, and to the ornaments that earned it its nickname. Stand across the street to see the carved heads above the windows, which some call lions and local legend calls dogs.
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