The house was built in the late twenties of the twentieth century for the banker Dimitar Ivanov and his wife Nadezhda Stankovic. Inside, the focus is on the red marble fireplace in the reception hall.
There is a stage for musicians as well as crystal glasses on the interior doors. Several bedrooms, beautiful terraces, a large study, and utility rooms.
None of the furniture has been preserved, but it is known that high-ranking citizens of Sofia preferred furniture from Central and Western Europe at that time.
The exterior consists of a large front yard facing the street, separated from the sidewalk by a beautiful wrought-iron fence.
Triple staircase to the entrance of the house, but it is always very impressive that there are special portals for carriages and wagons on both sides of the courtyard.
Even today, I imagine a carriage with the members of the invited family entering the courtyard of the house through a portal, while the horseshoes and the carriage remain in the space behind the house, specially adapted for them while they wait for the end of the reception, and then leave the courtyard through the other portal.
The family of banker Ivanov lived happily in the house, at least until 1944.
After the war, the property was nationalized and originally housed the Romanian embassy.
Later in the year, the house became a trade representation of the USSR in Bulgaria, as well as the headquarters of various communist structures of unclear purpose.
In the 1990s, the house was restituted and returned to the heir of the first owner, banker Dimitar Ivanov.
Since 2004, the property has belonged to the director of Lukoil, Valentin Zlatev, who has so far shown no connection to this cultural heritage.
The beautiful house, once in decay for decades, is sadly still in a state of disrepair today.
