House with Chimeras (1912-1914) - an architectural monument of Kharkiv in the Art Nouveau style with elements of English Gothic. Architects Building V. Pokrovsky, P. Velichko. Located on the street Chernyshevskaya, 79.

Sculptural elements of the building, in addition knight emblems, chimeras, salamanders, wolves, also include the head of the Pokrovsky and his assistant, technician-architect Velichko. They have a sister project Pokrovskiye without the knowledge of his brother. Sculptures of Architects - relatively young Velichko right in a medieval scribe and Intercession in glasses on the left as a professor of reader - even now, as everyone can see peeking out from under a second floor balcony.

Originally Velichko holding in his right hand or stylus pen to write in the book that holds in his right hand. Between the restoration of the 1990 and 2003 this writer was the subject of broken off, and in the 2000's, as seen in the photographs, the students place the pen permanently inserted cigarette.

At the level of the fourth floor of the mirror-symmetrical, left and right of the central part of the building, visible created in 1914 by two sculptures of humanoids bent, holding up the long vertical columns of the facade. It was only after 87 years after their modeling - after reaching the screen in 2001 movie based on Tolkien's trilogy, by John Lord of the Rings "- has seen a striking similarity with the character data humanoid fantasy Gollum. For these sculptures and the derogatory term of "Gollum" (left and right). Furthermore, modern students of Theatre Department has taken to makeup, to which you can reach from the window 4 floors, nails.