On September 7, an official ceremony took place of special cancellation of a postcard dedicated to the ArchSlon Centre for Creative Industries

 
The event took place in Samara as part of the opening of the ArchSlon Centre for Creative Industries of the Samara University of Construction and Architecture in the rebuilt dacha of K. Golovkin. The ceremony was attended by A. Khinstein, the Chairman of the State Duma Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, a coordinator of the Historical Memory federal Party project; N. Ovsienko, a Deputy Head of the Russian Presidential Directorate for State Humanitarian Policy, a Deputy Chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society; V. Fedorishchev, the Chairman of the Samara Regional Duma; Dmitry Bykov, the Rector of the Samara State Technical University and great-grandchildren of Konstantin Golovkin.

The Golovkin dacha complex was built in the early 20th century. Konstantin Golovkin personally designed his country residence. The appearance of the dacha with elephants and its layout most of all resemble the Viennese Secession style - the Austrian interpretation of Art Nouveau.

The picture postcard provides painting In Bread Crops (Samara State Technical University, K. Golovkin, 1899), the logo of the Samara Polytechnic against the background of the House with Elephants. Cancellation was made with a 2022 postage stamp from series Cultural Heritage of Russia. Architectural Monuments of the Samara Region with the image of the Golovkin Dacha Complex. The circulation of the card is 1.2 thousand copies. The cards went on sale in the Collectioner show room chain.

 


 

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