BROTHER SIEMENS HOUSE

The building located at 30, Asatiani St. is known as the Siemens House in Tbilisi. However, according to archival materials, the project of the building was approved on August 31, 1834, and the author of the project was engineer-lieutenant Colonel Belokopitov. According to an archival document dated 1833, Tbilisi citizens Ivane and Nikoloz Shadinov bought a plot of land (where a garden was probably planted) from Tekle Batonishvili in 1832 to build a house. The surnames of the Shadinovs are also included in the project of 1834. There is also a building reconstruction project approved on May 10, 1896, commissioned by Al. Shadinov, and the architect A.D. Powitz-Epping. The present appearance of the building is the result of this reconstruction. In 1860-1868, the consul of the Union of North Germany, Walter Siemens, representative of the firm "Siemens and Halske" in Georgia, lived in this house.