Dacha of Ilya Terentyev

1900. One of the first two-story houses in the city of Pishpek, the so-called country dacha of Terentyev. In those years, the northern border of the city was the Tashkent highway. Like many two-story houses in the city, it stood on a high stone foundation made of cut stone, above which there was a brick plinth of the first floor with patterned decor of the brickwork. The walls of the upper floor are wooden frame. The house had several living rooms and a living room. The roof was originally covered with reeds. Along the facade there were carved cornices, platbands, and shutters on the windows. Under the hanging roof there was a terrace-gallery with a high porch. Wooden posts and railings with posts, slotted cornices gave the terrace an elegant look.

Ilya Terentyev's country dacha is one of the first two-story houses in the city of Pishpek. In those years, the northern border of the city was the Tashkent Highway (Zhibek Zholu). The house stood on a high stone foundation made of cut stone, above which there was a brick plinth of the first floor with patterned decoration of the brickwork. The walls of the upper floor are timber frame. The house had several living rooms and a living room. The roof was originally covered with reeds. Along the facade there were carved cornices, platbands, and shutters on the windows. Under the hanging roof there was a terrace-gallery with a high porch. Wooden posts and railings with posts, slotted cornices gave the terrace an elegant look. Ilya Fedotovich Terentyev (1847-1914) – titular councilor. Born into the family of a master gunsmith at the Izhevsk plant. Following in his father's footsteps, in 1862 he became an apprentice at the same factory and became a master at sewing sheaths for bayonets. Having learned to read and write, he attracts the attention of his superiors and is transferred “for writing classes.” Since 1874, he has been in the Turkestan region, participating in the Kokand campaign, then serving as clerk of the Tokmak district administration, was the director of the Tokmak “trusteeship society for prisons”, and has been acting as Tokmak district judge for two years. Since 1890 he was senior assistant to the head of the Tokmak district. In 1894 he retired and was engaged in his own farming and social activities. Since 1895, he was the first elected city mayor of Pishpek. Terentyev takes an active part in the improvement and landscaping of the city. He buys a plot of land in Fetisovsky with a hop plantation and plants a garden here. Hops were purchased by local brewers and Terentyev received several prestigious awards for its quality, including at the Paris 1900 World Exhibition. In 1900, there were significant plantings in Oak Park and Boulevard Alley. Seedlings grown in Terentyev's garden were donated free of charge for landscaping the city. Terentyev collected the best private library in Pishpek and ran a bookstore. He contributed to the opening of several schools and a gymnasium in the city. On May 14, 1914, Terentyev died at the age of 67. Dacha of Ilya Terentyev. Photo from the collections of the State Historical Museum. This was the house of the first elected head of the city of Pishpek, Ilya Terentyev, which dates back to the architectural buildings of the late 19th century. At various times, the building housed the Pedagogical Institute, Gorono and Oblono, the House of Pioneers, and the Republican Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments. The house, as an architectural monument of the late 19th century, was taken under protection, i.e. completely abandoned, decayed, collapsed and turned into ruins.