Residential building of Babadzhan Davidovich Lazarev
This mansion on Yusif Mamadaliyev (formerly Politseyskaya) Street was built in Eastern Baroque style from 1894-1896 to a design by the talented German architect Johann Wilhelm Edel (1863 - 14.02.1932).
The building’s pediment is decorated with a monogram, «LB», presumably belonging to the first owner of the mansion, a native of Shusha, Lieutenant General Ivan Davidovich Lazarev, to whom, in 1879, Tsar Alexander I presented an oil-bearing area of 10 acres (10.9 hectares) in Balakhani village near Baku. Ivan Davidovich was the founder of a small oil-industrial company the «Lazarev Brothers», in which his brothers Yakov and Babajan worked with him. Perhaps the building was erected at the expense of Babajan Davidovich Lazarev.
It was later owned by the «Münch und Weiss» trading company.
During the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic from 1918-1920, N.S. Alshibey, the diplomatic representative of Georgia, lived here.
This mansion on Yusif Mammadaliyev Street is one of the most beautiful of architect Johann Edel’s creations and is a hallmark of Baku architecture in the late XIX - early XX centuries.