House of the Weeping Widow

The House of the Weeping Widow (Ukrainian: Дім невтішної вдови, Дім вдови, що плаче) is an architectural landmark in the city of Kyiv, capital of Ukraine, located at 23 Liuteranska Street.

Constructed in 1907 in the early Art Nouveau style by architect Eduard Bradtman, it was commissioned by Serhiy Arshavsky, a wealthy merchant from Poltava, who occupied it before the Bolshevik Revolution.

Following the revolution it was occupied by the International Group Federation of the Central Committee of Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik).

Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice, and the Presidents of Lithuania and Brazil.

[3] The building earned its nickname because when it rains water pours over the woman's face on the facade, running down her cheeks like tears.