this very house that telephony was first tested in Kyiv. In September 1882, Adelaida Sulymovska sold the plot of land with the house to the wealthy entrepreneur Nikola Tereshchenko. He divided the plot into two smaller parts. In 1899 or 1900, Tereschenko presented his youngest daughter Yefrosyniia, who married Volodymyr Sakhnovskyi and took his surname, with No.17 house. The couple lived in the mansion until 1917, when the husband died. In 1919, the house was purchased by the attorney Serhii Pistriak, who became its last private owner. After its nationalisation the house was used as an apartment building. In 1986, by decision of the Kyiv city authorities, No. 17 house was handed over to the Khanenko Museum (then Kyiv Museum of Western and Oriental Art). In 2001–2005, substantial restoration and renovation works were conducted on the mansion. As a result, the rooms of the ground and first floors became suitable for displaying artworks and holding public events. Office and utility rooms are located on the third floor. In addition to this, a covered passage at the first floor level was built to connect the Khanenko Mansion and the Sakhnovski House. In 2006, the second part of the Khanenko Museum permanent exhibition, "Asian Art", opened in the Sakhnovskis' House. Displayed in the four halls on the first floor are selected artworks in the museum's key Asian collections: "Buddhist and Hindu Art", "Chinese Art", "Islamic Art", "Japanese Art". The ground floor houses the Khanenko Museum's scientific library and temporary exhibition rooms as well as a hallway, a ticket office, a wardrobe, and a shop. See also Tereshchenko family Tereshchenko diamond Bogdan Khanenko Mikhail Tereshchenko References The Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko Arts Museum at the Museum World of Ukraine: in Russian. in Ukrainian Vyacheslav Prokopenko, The gift of Khanenko, Zerkalo Nedeli (The Mirror Weekly), February 4–10, 1995. External links Official Museum of Western and Oriental Art website Art museums and galleries in Ukraine Tereshchenko family Art museums established in 1919 1919 establishments in Ukraine Buildings and structures completed in 1887 Renaissance Revival architecture in Ukraine