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March 12, 2022

Swallow's Nest (Ukrainian: Ластівчине гніздо, Russian: Ласточкино гнездо) - a monument of architecture in Crimea, located on the Aj-Todor rock in Haspra near Yalta. The neo-Gothic castle, designed by the Russian architect Leonid Sherwood, was built in 1911 or 1912, on top of the 40 m high Aurora cliff. The Swallow's Nest is one of the most visited tourist attractions in Crimea.

The Swallow's Nest, although it looks like a real stronghold of a medieval knight or an elegant lady, can be called a castle by convention. After all, this unusual building from the earliest days of its existence served as a summer seaside villa, for which fashion appeared among the nobility and wealthy merchants of the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th century. The history of the Swallow's Nest dates back to the late 1870s, when the construction of a wooden structure began on the top of the Aurora cliff, which is part of Cape Aj-Todor. Its owner was a former Russian general, whose name, unfortunately, has not been remembered by history. The secluded location of the general's villa, the romantic views of the sea stretching from its windows and the fact that the general himself referred to it as the "castle of love" contributed to the rumors that the Swallow's Nest is a meeting place of the general with a mysterious lady.

After a few years, the owner of the villa was a member of the Yalta city council, Adalbert Karlovic Tobin, who was a doctor at the royal summer residence in Livadia. In his time, a stone building appeared in place of a wooden villa, the appearance of which can be admired on the canvases of Aivazovsky and Bogolubov. It was during this period that this villa finally gained the nickname of the swallow's nest, under which it even appears in the 1895 tourist guide. Next to his house, between the lighthouse and the rock, the doctor set up a small boarding house where wealthy patients from big cities were treated. After Tobin's death, the villa was not taken care of for a long time by his wife, who sold the Swallow's Nest to a wealthy oilman - Baron Sztejngel. On the initiative of this host, the villa was rebuilt and took on its magnificent appearance, reminiscent of knightly castles in the Rhine valley.

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1. View of Swallow's Nest Castle loop from Kurpaty

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