Where is lionheart castle

The first owner of the castle was Prince Urusov who according to legend had lost it by playing cards with rector of St. Andrew Church but soon won at cards the castle back. In Kiev spread rumors that in the castle on Andrew Descent settled evil spirits.

Rumors have been caused by sounds in the furnace and ventilation ducts which occurred just when wind picks up. Kiev inhabitants were literally paralyzed by fear. Soon came the reasons of emergence of howling sounds.

One of the tenants of the house number 15 was a professor of Kiev Theological Academy a historian Stepan Golubev. Once tired of mournful howl in ventilation pipes Stepan Golubev reached into the chimney and found egg shell. That was the reason for the hearing unpleasant sounds: the air pass through the small holes in egg shell and that played the role of the resonator.

Perhaps Lydia Orlova not paid the builders so they "thanked" her by leaving in the chimney and ventilation hollow objects such as bottles, eggshells and other things that howls at the castle on a windy day. The original castle had no name and the name of Castle of Richard the Lionheart came only in by a famous writer Viktor Nekrasov.

In same year in the eighth issue of the literary magazine "New World" he published the essay "Turbiny House" about house number 15 located on Andrew descent. As it turned out the castle was named after the real Richard - Mr Yurevich - a brilliant storyteller and inventor who lived in Castle of Richard the Lionheart for over 60 years.

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