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It was built by the Armenians as two-chambered, one-storied, rectangular in plan (8�12 m), with a basement in two levels. In the XVI century, it was partly rebuilt and expanded, and became almost square in plan (16�17 m). In 1672-1699, two terraces, on which the estate was situated, were strengthened by thick retaining walls with difference �f marks of 2 m. The wall of the bottom terrace is about 5 m high, is made in the form of arcade 70 m long, flaked to other building, that was situated ���� �� ����� ������ ��������. In 1770, it was reconstucted by architect Ya. d� Vitte, and the second floor of mansard construction was built on. In 1843, it was rebuilt: the second floor of the capital construction was set up instead of the mansard lodgements.
It is stone, two-storied, almost square in plan, plastered, covered with iron hipped roof, with two-storied ����������� annex from the north-west. The architectural look of the house is characterized by the traits of the Renaissance. The cellar and one of the lodgements of the first floor were covered with torispherical vaults with strikings, in the rest lodgements the coverings are flat on wooden beams. The southern lodgement of the first floor is the ancient one. The planning of the second floor essentially differs from that of the first one.The white-stone profiled Renaissance window aprons have remained in the south-eastern, south-western and north-western elevations of the building. Two carved white-stone portals, decorated with the vegetative and mythological ornaments have remained in the interior of the first floor. The decorative carving of the portals is typical for the Renaissance period. The ceiling of the lodgement is decorated in Baroque taste.
The monument is an example of the ancient two-chambered Armenian dwelling house with highly artistic Renaissance decoraton.

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Translated by Yana Anufriyeva
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