Blagovischenska 24
Blagovischenska, 24 (Благовiщенська 24 in Ukrainian, Благовещенская 24 in Russian)
Colonel (possibly Cossack) Ilya Abaza, who came out of Moldova with prince Kantemir. On the spot which today is currently under No. 24, a wooden house with a garden was built. Abazas owned it until the early XIX century. At that time, Tatiana Abaza gave the house to his son from the first marriage, Savva Vasilyevich Alkhovsky, Second-Major, from the Cossacks of the Murafa family.
Savva Alkhovsky is a remarkable figure of his time. He gathered in different ways around his estate in the Bogodukhovsky district extensive lands, by hook or by crook taken and bought from the Cossacks, peasants and even relatives. All the last years of life, he had to defend the rights to land in the courts, for which the house was required in Kharkiv. Alkhovsky is first and foremost known as the enemy of Colonel Nazar Karazin, with whom they engaged in feudal wars for the estates, armed their peasants with guns and even cannons. Karazin, thanks to his relationship, managed to put an Alkhovsky in the Kharkiv Ostrog for a short time and he was morally a specially molted bell. Karazin also annoyed Alkhovsky with a special noisy bell.
After the death of Savva Vasilyevich Alkhovsky the house passed to the possession of his son Peter, who is known for continuing the construction of the palace in Sharovka village and the stone Blagovischenska Church. The house in Kharkiv was redesigned by the project of the professor of architecture Andrei Ton: the two-story extensions were added to the left, which expanded the house almost twice and possibly distorted the proportions set by Vasilyev. But at the time in Kharkiv, there were not enough apartments for officials, visiting dignitaries and generals, rental for apartments brought solid money, sometimes saved landowners in the off years. It is known that part of the house until 1855 was rented to officials of special assignments of the office of the Governor-General for 1200 rubles in silver.
In the second half of the XIX century, the manor has passed into the possession of the noble family of Glushkovs. In the 1880s, it was owned by Captain Alexander Glushkov, and after his death - by his wife of Maria Lukinichna, who rented the whole house, staying only in the outbuilding in the depths of the courtyard.