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The building earned its nickname because when it rains water pours over the woman's face on the facade, running down her cheeks like tears.
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style by architect Eduard Bradtman, it was commissioned by Serhiy Arshavsky, a wealthy merchant from
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State Committee on Television and Radio broadcasting
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façade
Art Nouveau
Kyiv
Ukraine
Coordinates
50°26′37″N 30°31′40″E / 50.44361°N 30.52778°E / 50.44361; 30.52778
Ukrainian
Kyiv
Ukraine
Lyuteranska Street
Art Nouveau
Poltava
Bolshevik Revolution
Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik)
President of Ukraine
Madeleine Albright
Condoleezza Rice
Lithuania
Brazil
"House of the Weeping Widow"
Evening Kyiv
the original


ISBN
966-7161-60-9
"President has opened door for journalists. But not his"
the original
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