The author and owner of the house with chimeras constructed in 1902-1903, Vladislav Gorodetsky. House laid out a seven apartments, one of which, at the very top floor, has won himself an architect, while the other six lease. Board took fabulous, but from the tenants did not rebound. The mansion's crazy, and their interiors. Spiral staircases, stained glass, polygonal halls. Also in the house had its own ice, laundry, wine cellar and ... a couple of cows. The house has always been shrouded in legend. According to one legend, the Gorodetsky had a daughter, a beauty that is either drowned, or drowned herself from an unhappy love affair. So he built a house decorated with mermaids. Another legend says that he created his "house with chimeras" with promotional purpose: to see all the rich possibilities of a new building material. Name Gorodetsky has always been shrouded in legends and rumors. Few people of Kiev at the time dared to hunt in the jungles of Africa or to ride with the breeze on Kreshchatik in the open convertible with a monkey on his shoulder. On a hunting obsession Gorodetsky in Kiev were legendary. They said that even family visits to his wife's parents turned gambling shooting. Gorodetsky, lived here from 1903 to 1913 after the revolution and before the Second World War the house was a communal, then - Hospital Central Committee Communist Party. In 2003-2004, The House with Chimeras restored and became the residence of the Little tricks of the President of Ukraine. Here to receive foreign delegations. Based on the home Gorodetsky created a museum and cultural center of Masterpieces of Art of Ukraine as a branch of the National Museum.