Дом купца Павла Пономарева в Иркутске

Abstract

The article tells us about Irkutsk merchant Pavel Ponomarev, the author of a unique testament first made when he was 26 years old. It describes his family house, which is both a historical monument related to the merchant’s charitable activities in the field of public education and a wooden architecture monument of the first quarter of the 19th century. The author raises awareness of the necessity to protect this house and to preserve it for our culture.