Equal powerful voice, wide range, dramatic temperament and bright appearance. Such contemplatives were contemporaries of the opera singer Clara Brun, professor of the Kyiv Conservatory and Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR.
The story of Clara Brun’s success is not a lucky one, but hard work on herself and selfless love of singing.
Though the fortune in her life, she still smiled: a poor, but extremely talented girl came from Cherkassy province, took a guard Zvietkov under patronage and helped to get education.
At the time of the end of the Vienna Conservatory, there were about 25 operatic parties in its account, and the geography of tours covered Germany, Austria, France, Italy and the cities of the Russian Empire. She came to Zhytomyr …
According to some ethnographers, in 1907, on request of the opera maiden, a two-story house was built in the central part of Zhytomyr.
Former owners had taste and abundance: exquisite molding on the facade and ceilings, majolica furnace with gilding, which has survived to this day.
The walls of the house saw many inhabitants during their existence: in pre-revolutionary years there was a private surgical hospital, a maternity hospital for Rosenblatt doctor, and after nationalization – a kindergarten for military children.
The house transmits the spirit of the era; it is an unconditional architectural color of the city.
An amazing atmosphere is felt inside, perhaps because now there is the Zhytomyr Oblast Literary Museum, which preserves the creative work of the Zhytomyr Writing Elite.
Museum address:
Zhytomyr, 45, Kyivska Str.
Tel. 0412 42-18-94
Opening hours from 10-00 to 18-00, weekend – Mo
Translated by Aliona Matushevich