Built in early 18th century by the prosperous petty bourgeois, it is more known as "Mazepa's House".
The recently founded Museum of the Hetmanship has been forming its collection and preparing the expositions. The museum building is one of a few Podil's houses which survived the terrible fire of 1811. Apparently, the name is explained by a fact that the building of the house is connected with the hetmanship of I. Mazepa who contributed the money into building a great number of churches, monastic schools, civil and fortification structures in Kyiv. The museum illustrates the history of the national-liberation movement in Ukraine, the life and activity of the Ukrainian hetmans beginning from the time of the Cossacks rise in the end of the 15th -beginning of the 16th century, and, to the Ukrainian state of Hetman P. Skoropadsky, in 1918.
