Studying the history of their city I have recently found out amazing to me.<p>It is alleged that during the period from the 18th and 19th century Ufa was the most aristocratic city of the Urals.<br></p><p><br></p><p>By the mid-19th century the number of nobles in the city of Ufa were approximately  2,000.<br></p><p><br></p><p>In the years 1844-1856 on the Central street (now Lenin 14) was built two-storey building.<br></p><p><img src="http://s014.radikal.ru/i329/1705/60/138b16939888.jpg"><br><a href="http://photo.qip.ru/users/tylerox/96488438/118768661/#mainImageLink" target="_blank">source</a><br></p><p>It is intended for realisation of noble meeting to select leaders and the police captain. The same were resolved and other issues concerning the nobility.<br></p><p>This house until the revolution became a favorite pastime of the nobility.<br></p><p>The area around beautified and improved.<br></p><p><img src="http://s018.radikal.ru/i525/1705/f9/bf5516a935d4.jpg"><br><a href="http://photo.qip.ru/users/tylerox/96488438/118768660/#mainImageLink" target="_blank">source</a></p><p>In 1885 this building appeared in the Society of lovers of singing, music and dramatic art.<br></p><p>6 may 1891 here for the first time came on the stage, Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin in the role of the old servant in the Opera "the Demon".<br></p><p><img src="http://s018.radikal.ru/i519/1705/9e/b62df39a1dbf.jpg"><br><a href="http://photo.qip.ru/users/tylerox/96488438/118768659/#mainImageLink" target="_blank">source</a><br></p><p>In our time on the building hangs a marble slab with the inscription that here was first made by Chaliapin. And next to the house has unsightly monument to this great singer.<br></p><p>In 1918, the house was looted. Archive burned,<br></p><p>In 1968, with the support of Dmitri Shostakovich, this building was opened at the Ufa State Institute of arts.<br></p><p>The concert hall was to bear the name of F. I. Shalyapin.<br></p><p>The building was restored recently. And now it looks refreshed.<br></p><p><img src="http://s012.radikal.ru/i320/1705/46/8d244d67c4e2.jpg"><br><br></p><p>It was nice to see. Although more recently it looked shabby.<br></p><p>I think guests of our city should stop near it, to try to imagine the scurrying around of the nobility and to hear somewhere in the depths of the house, a great voice of Chaliapin.<br></p>