Gubonin's riviera in Gurzuf

In Gurzuf in 1881, Pyotr Ionovich Gubonin bought land and built hotels, a postal and telegraph station, a restaurant, trading shops, a pharmacy, turning the local village into one of the most attractive places on the peninsula.
The canvas depicts the very first Riviera Hotel.
The projects of the Gubonin hotels, or, as they were then called, apartment buildings, were developed by the Yalta architect Platon Konstantinovich Terebenev.
The buildings are designed in a quaint Moscow-Mediterranean style. Built of stone, they are surrounded by wooden galleries, columns, balconies. The wooden decorations of the buildings were decorated with rich carvings.