Location: Alushta
Villa Otrada or "Joy" Вилла "Отрада" (Дача Стахеева) in Russian is a beautiful residence situated on the shores of the Black Sea in Alushta. Villa Otrada was constructed in 1880's by design of a famous architect Nikolai Petrovich Krasnov for a Russian millionaire Staheev who made his millions mining gold. Krasnov designed private cottage as a small palace. Owner of the villa loved his new residence. He spent his summers here along with his friends like famous artist I.I. Shishkin and writer D.I. Staheev. Staheev also didn't forget less fortunate ones. He invested big part of his wealth to help poor people of Alushta and its vicinity. He also constructed first theatre in Alushta and several apartments. Villa Otrada is surrounded by a botanical garden. It contains over sixty rear plants, shrubs and trees.
The dacha of the merchant Stakheev was regularly
repaired with funds allocated for children's and youth preschool
education in the USSR, and was always in good order and in good
condition. Merchant N.D. Stakheeva is built on two floors using modern
and European classics. The project was fully developed and implemented
by the architect Krasnov, who by that time had already been recognized
not only at home, but also abroad, as one of the most talented
architects of that time. Krasnov's skill had to roam at that time on the
coast of the southern coast of Crimea. Perhaps his most famous work in
the world is the Livadia Palace. Staheev's order was accepted by Krasnov
with great pleasure, Nikolai Dmitrievich Stakheev was considered one of
the most famous patrons and respected people of the Crimean peninsula
not only in Alushta, but throughout Crimea. It was an honor for Krasnov
to come up with and implement a new creative idea for Stakheev,
especially since these two outstanding people had been bound by
friendship and love for their native land and, in particular, for the
Crimea for many years.
The project of Stakheev's dacha was
developed in 1879 and in 1882 it was fully implemented and put into
operation. Until 1885, work continued on the arrangement of the park
area: planting ornamental trees, creating shady squares and hedges. In
those days, landscape design was inscribed in the natural landscape, and
not like now everything is leveled with the ground and planted again. It
was the method of inscribing into nature that made it possible to
preserve many rare plants, in particular, ancient plane trees (plane
trees), their average age is over 100 years, and the oldest of them has
long exceeded 300 years. You can now visit the plane trees in the
Seaside Park of the city of Alushta; before the revolution, it was part
of the park area of the Stakheev mansion.
Merchant N.D. Stakheeva
after the construction became one of the favorite places of the local
beau monde, many famous people came to visit this estate in the summer.
Perhaps the most famous visitor was the artist Shishkin. Nikolai
Dmitrievich Stakheev himself went down in history as a Crimean lover and
a patriot of Russia, one of the largest patrons of the city of Alushta.
It was with his money that the pier, the embankment, the Church of
Theodore Stratilates, a vocational school, a city park and much more
were rebuilt. From the end of the 19th century, Stakheev became an
honorary citizen of the year of Alushta and was awarded the title of the
First patron of the city. After the events of the 17th year, due to the
rich decoration of the building, spacious rooms and the sympathy of the
inhabitants of the city, the dacha of the merchant N.D. Stakheeva passed
under the children's center and was not looted and destroyed.
The dacha of Merchant Siaheev is located at the ring
at the intersection of the main streets of Alushta-Krasnoarmeyskaya and
Lenin. Also, quite often, tourists get from the sea to Stakheev's dacha
along Perekopskaya Street. If you move from the sea along Perekopskaya,
you need to reach the intersection with the street. Krasnoarmeyskaya and
turn to the ring. Here you are at the target.
Merchant N.D.
Stakheeva is one of the most beautiful sights of Alushta, and if you
take a sightseeing tour of the city, then the cottage will be on the
mandatory list to visit. If you are planning to visit the Crimean
peninsula, then be sure to look through the most interesting sights of
Crimea in order to build an owl route with the highest quality and have
fun in Crimea.
Founded in the second half of the 19th century, it has 99 species of trees and shrubs. The memorial tree of the plane tree dinosaur grows in the park.