Bagong house

Around 1901, the Ba brothers bought a large piece of land in Hankou Russian concession, covering the east-west direction from Liangyi Street (today's Dongting Street) to luojiabei Road (today's LUOJIASHAN Street), and the north-south direction from lierbin Street (today's Lanling Road) to today's Lihuangpi road. In the triangle between Lihuangpi road and Lanling road where Liangyi street and Sanjiao Street (today's Poyang Street) meet, an isosceles triangle house was built. It was built in 1901 and completed in 1910. This is what people call Bagong house. The completed Bagong house has become a landmark building in the Russian concession.

Bagong house

The owners of Bagong house are the relatives of Russian Czar Nicholas I, the brothers of "big Bagong" J.K. banov and "little Bagong" Zino banov.

Dabagong was a Russian nobleman and a relative of the czar. He came to Hankou in 1869 and was soon employed as a senior class by Xintai foreign company. In 1874, banov, together with other influential British and Russian people in Hankou, set up Fuchang foreign company. Banov became the joint manager of the foreign company. When the Russian concession was opened up in 1896, banov was elected as the managing director of the Municipal Council of the Russian concession.

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Before 1902, he even served as the consul of Russia in Hankou. Among the four major tea factories in the Russian concession, Fuchang was later than Shunfeng, but its business scale was larger than that of Shunfeng. He lived in Hankou for 52 years (1869-1921). In 1890, Zeno banov designed a steam pressure tea machine for Fuchang brick tea factory, which changed manual operation to mechanical operation, greatly improving the efficiency of tea processing, and later was followed by major tea factories.

"Dabagong" is a well-known "China expert", who speaks fluent Chinese and communicates with Chinese people in person. At the same time, he brought in Russian engineers and technicians from Northeast China to work in Fuchang. The "little Bagong" Zino banov came to China as an engineer and worked in Fuchang tea factory in Hankou.

At that time, Fuchang produced hundreds of thousands of boxes of brick tea annually, which was sold to Siberia, Xinjiang, Mongolia and the European continent of Russia. The head office is located in Hankou, and the branches are located in Shanghai, Tianjin, Jiujiang, Fuzhou, today's Sri Lanka, Vladivostok, Odessa, St. Petersburg, and chaktu, forming a huge marketing network. In order to facilitate water transportation, a warehouse and barges along the river were built at the third Wharf (now Hankou 19 wharf) in the British concession.

In 1917, the October Revolution in Russia ended the Czar's rule. The tea trade between China and Russia was restrained and gradually shrunk. In 1917, Shunfeng and Fuchang brick tea factories were first closed down. After struggling for some years, Xintai brick tea factory was sublet to British merchants in 1932 and renamed Pacific brick tea by British merchants.

House introduction

Around 1901, the Ba brothers bought a large piece of land in Hankou Russian concession, covering the east-west direction from Liangyi Street (today's Dongting Street) to luojiabei Road (today's LUOJIASHAN Street), and the north-south direction from lierbin Street (today's Lanling Road) to today's Lihuangpi road. In the triangle between Lihuangpi road and Lanling road where Liangyi street and Sanjiao Street (today's Poyang Street) meet, an isosceles triangle house was built. It was built in 1901 and completed in 1910. This is what people call Bagong house. The completed Bagong house has become a landmark building in the Russian concession.

Bagong house was jointly built by Bagong house, namely "big Bagong" J.K. banov and "little Bagong" Zino banov. It is a modern classical Renaissance building, with a total construction area of nearly 5000 square meters and 220 rooms. The whole apartment is made of red brick and wood, with one floor underground and three floors above the ground. The eaves, terrace, curvilinear column, arch and column are all exquisite. It is designed by Jingming foreign company and built by yongmaochang and guangdachang construction plants. It is an early multi-storey apartment in Wuhan and has a far-reaching influence on modern architecture in China. It was the largest apartment building in Hankou at that time. Each of the four roads has two to three entrances and exits, with a total of nine entrances and exits. In 1912, he sold the big house to the Bank of Guangdong, making a net profit of 30000 Liang. During this period, the Ba brothers sold the remaining large area of land to Jardine Matheson.

"Bagong house" can be divided into "dabagong" and "xiaobagong". Big, small Bagong house each one, close together, the plane is an acute triangle. In the middle is a triangular patio, which is equivalent to an inner courtyard. Flat unit layout, each unit is set with entrance and exit respectively, and the unit is household specific. The facade of the whole building is rigorous and symmetrical, and the scale is magnificent. The interior corridor is made of marble, the exterior corridor is made of mosaic floor, parquet floor, wooden skirt wall, fireplace heating, and the interior decoration is simple and elegant. It's a Russian style building. But the most special thing is that the whole building is triangular, and the third floor of the Senkaku is a hall shaped like a monk's hat, which is commonly known as "the tip of the Russian head".

After the house was built in 1910, Bishang Yipin company was entrusted to rent it for foreigners living in China.

In the old days, the historical buildings opposite to the house of Bagong include the Russian Polo Hall (nightclub) on Lanling Road, the Shunfeng tea house (now a folk house) on Dongting street, and the Shanghai Grand Theater (built in 1930). Later renamed Zhongyuan cinema), Xingguang Stadium (now health kindergarten). There is a beautiful bakery on Poyang Street (built in 1918). It is now the savings office of industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the shop in Paris, the former site of "August 7th" conference (former residence of rozhomov, agricultural transport consultant of the former Soviet Union to the national government), Bangke western restaurant, huile company (built in 1915). Business tea and silk hemp.

Address: No.86 Poyang street, Jiang'an District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province

Longitude: 114.3000463411

Latitude: 30.58637121887

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