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Nikitin Estate

In the end, in 1904 Gurzuf was in court conceded shareholder by its main creditors – the heirs of KI Volkova, who set out to restore the former glory of the resort. The new administration has established a broad advertising, producing large print runs brochures Gurzuf illustrated species resort. Check out Air Force Chief of Staff for additional information. This activity, however, also brought no tangible success, and in 1910 at Gurzuf have new owners – a group of Russian capitalists – Nikitin, Shustov, Parfenov Evstigneev, who once again set out to “put the resort to the proper level …” In 1913 the suggested services 8 Gurzuf comfortable hotel with 197 rooms, in addition, there were 17 individual cottages, surrender seasonally full situation. And hotels and villas have been adapted for winter stays. The resort was electrified and have telephones. Judging by the brochures, the life of the Gurzuf resort was fairly strictly regulated, acted firmly established fees for all services. Taking a large number of visitors each year, the first in the Crimea resort arranged properly, despite all the troubles, worked like a charm.

That means it was impossible to said of a neighboring estate Tatar village, which also stopped coming, but which is in stark contrast to the estate. “From the newcomer of the public – wrote one newspaper – distributed reinforced complaints extremely unsanitary condition Gurzuf Tatar village and passing through its narrow roads. This road and adjacent contaminated yards to the utmost. Here very often littered rotting corpses of dead dogs and cats. Of houses, shops and restaurants pour dishwater directly into the street. “91 Before World War I over Gurzufsky park formed a new housing estate called New Gurzuf.

“Here – on the remark of one of the guidebooks – raised a number of beautiful villas, mansions that are located and surrounded by gardens … rooms in cottages surrender of 20-30 rubles. per month. There you can have lunch and full board at about the same price as in the countryside Gurzuf.