The building endured while the city lay in ruins, but now it’s a sad sight: this is what the oldest pharmacy in Dnipro looks like today.

Dnipro is a city rich in beautiful historic buildings. However, many of these structures are in deplorable condition. One such building is the Pritsker House located at 4 Serhiy Nihoyan Avenue. This site once housed one of the first pharmacies in what was then Yekaterinoslav.

The two-story mansion was constructed by pharmacist Lev Pritsker in 1916. The grand building housed a pharmacy on the ground floor, while the second floor served as the owner's apartment.

As noted in the Facebook group "History in Photographs. Yekaterinoslav-Dnipropetrovsk," the two-story mansion, designed by the renowned Yekaterinoslav architect Krasnoselsky, was crafted in the style of a 16th-century Italian palazzo. Its unique façade featured a Venetian window and bore the inscription "Pharmacy." Additionally, it displayed the head of one of the Greek gods. The building was adorned with four Corinthian columns that stretched the full height of the structure.

The mansion looked particularly exotic in the Chechelevka district – the most poorly maintained and crime-ridden area of Yekaterinoslav. However, pharmacist Pritsker was known and respected throughout the neighborhood, which is why his house was left untouched. He provided people with advice on treating ailments and sold medicines to the needy at significant discounts.

The Pritsker House survived the revolution and endured during World War II when half of the city was reduced to ruins. The owner disappeared as soon as the revolution began. With the arrival of the Bolsheviks, he managed to take his family abroad, presumably to France. When the house was visited first by the Makhnovists and then by the "Reds," there was no one left inside. Pritsker even managed to evacuate some of the furniture. Everything that remained in the building was taken by the "fighters for justice," including those workers whose families received medications from the pharmacist at little to no cost.

The Soviet government nationalized the house, but a pharmacy continued to operate on the first floor. The pharmacy's furniture, including intricately carved wooden cabinets and counters, as well as an antique cash register, remained from the tsarist era. However, a red star was painted under the roof.

On the second floor, in Pritsker's former apartment, a kindergarten was established. Animal drawings still adorn the walls of the corridors. The nursery left the building in the 1990s, while the pharmacy only closed in the early 2000s.

Today, this beautiful mansion is in a highly neglected state, despite being granted the status of a local heritage monument.

Previously, "Telegraph" reported on how the Old Bridge in Dnipro looked in the past. Throughout its history, it has been destroyed twice.