A very beautiful building, popularly referred to as the "Shah's Palace" (Gogol St. , 2). With its architectural forms, it will remind the people of Kiev Richard's Castle and the Puppet Theatre. At the beginning of the 20th century, the real shah, overthrown by the revolution in his eastern country, really lodged in the palace. There are rumors that this bloodsucker even threw offending wives from the palace balcony right onto the Odessa cobblestones! Such are the horrors of our town. Now some bank lives peacefully in the building, and, unfortunately, the entrance to the territory of the palace is forbidden to mere mortals.→