From English Russia:
Dmitri Mendeleev was a Russian chemist. He is credited as being the primary creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements. Unlike other contributors to the table, Mendeleev predicted the properties of elements yet to be discovered.
Here is a photosession of the house where he had got this prophetic vision. After the Communist’s takeover in Russia all the private property was confiscated by the state, but state has no funds to support this property. So even these days many of houses of well known pre-Communist Era people stay abandoned and almost destroyed.
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2 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.That’s too bad, I can imagine how amazingly beautiful that house was in its heyday. I love eastern European decor and color schemes.; very drab, but a weird mixture of minimalist and luxury.
Those pictures do not show the Mendeleev’s house but a dozen various abandoned mansions in Poland and were stolen from my flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/alterallensteiner
The admin of the English Russia was noticed but seems very slow about the removal of the copyright infringing content.