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Special issue for the 130th anniversary of the villa, 1893-2023

The newspaper that you now hold in your hands will give you aglimpse into the history of the villa at 18 Joala Street and thesurrounding blocks. The building was erected at the end of the
19th century as a villa for the technical director of Kreenholm
Manufacturing. Later on, after the Russian revolution, it was a
military headquarters, a cultural centre and a local library. In
2015, the Narva Art Residency (NART) opened here.
You can find out what happened within the walls of this houseand in the surrounding area from the this newspaper.

New structures at Kreenholm
Kreenholm Manufacturing, established in 1857, was composed of not only
a complex of production buildings but
also a whole factory village. The centre of
the working town, built on the left bankof the river Narova, was on what is now
Joala Street.
The south side of the street, where thehuge Joala factory complex stands on one
side, was particularly beautiful. Neighbours’ small houses, more reminiscent ofvillas than service buildings, stand on theother side.
Special mention should be given to
the house at 18 Joala Street, a two-storey
neo-gothic brick mansion with a small
garden. The house is already 130 years
old this year! The villa was built in 1893,
designed by the architect Pavel (Paul)
Alish as company housing for one of the
manufacturer’s executives and his family. The building was constructed to thehighest standards of the time.

Looking at the house from the outside, take note of the elegant openworkiron canopy above the front door. Don’t
miss the unusual overflow pipe shaped
like the mouth of a mythical animal,
which remains on the south side of thehouse, above the entrance to the basement. Inside the building you can stillfind noteworthy details, such as original radiators produced by Saint Petersburg Metal Works, which speaks to thehigh status of the tenants. At the end of
the 19th century, even the houses of thewealthy were heated by stoves. Central
heating systems, like the one at 18 Joala
Street, were expensive. There was a fireplace in the villa but it was purely decorative, creating a sense of cosiness in thehouse.

Paul Alisch

was a German-born architect working in
Russia. Between 1863 and 1865 he studied
at the Berlin Academy of Architecture andin 1869 he was certified by the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts as a freelance artist.
In his work, Pavel Alish turned to historicalstyles such as the Byzantine or Gothic, giving them a modern interpretation. Among
Alish’s work in Saint Petersburg, it is worth
mentioning the administrative buildingof the Saint Petersburg Metal Works (18,
Sverdlovskaya Embankment) and the remodelling of the Engelhardt House (30,
Nevsky Prospekt). From 1888 to 1907, Alish
was a staff architect at Kreenholm Manufacturing. His designs were used to build
the St. George factory, an annex to the Joala factory, the workers’ quarters, houses for
employees and other parts of the working
town at the plant. Between 1909 and 1917
Pavel and Emilia Alish owned a tenementbuilding in Saint Petersburg at 8 Pushkinskaya Street, close to what is now Vosstaniya Square and Moskovskiy Railway
Station. After 1917, the building was nationalised — the fate of the couple is unknown.

Saint Petersburg Metal Works offers central heating and ventilation systems. In the 1860s, the plant started to produce devices for heating systems and ventilation
with artificial air cooling. Recently, many places haveswitched to central heating: various houses (of Prince Shakhovskoy, Princess Yusupova, Count Tolstoy and merchant
Eliseev), theatres (the Mariinskiy, the Alexandrinskiy,
the Mikhailovskiy, the Hermitage and the Singing Chapel), commercial premises (Upper Trade Rows on the Red
Square), many churches, factories and so on.
Even a short description of our company’s activities isincomplete without mentioning the constructions made for
IMPERIAL PALACES: Mikhailovskiy, Anichkov, Bolshoi
and Maliy in the Kremlin, Alexandrovskiy in Tsarskoye
Selo, and in the fourth reserve, half of the Winter Palace(1895) for the quarters of Emperor Nicholas II.

The Landmark 07.15.1882

1932

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John Carr, senior manager at Kreenholm
from the United Kingdom
To manage Kreenholm Manufacturing, the roles of managing director (also simply called director)
and technical director had to becreated. That is why there are two
director’s houses at Kreenholm today: a wooden one, erected in the1870s by company architect Roman
Henrichson, and a brick one, built
in 1893 by Pavel Alish.
The house at 18 Joala Street was
the technical director’s company
housing. The first to live in the villa was John Carr (May 1849-22 May
1911), a senior manager from theEnglish town of Preston in Lancashire. In 1870, he was working as anaccountant in the United Kingdom.
Carr married twice. His first wife
was called Ann and after her deathat the end of the 1870s, he married
Hannah Tyson. He had 4 children.
No later than January 1878, Carr
relocated from the UK to Estonia,

which was then the Estonian Governorate of the Russian Empire. By
this time, John Carr was alreadyserving as assistant technical director of Kreenholm Manufacturing under another Briton, William
Shawcross.
John Carr served as assistant until
February 1892, at which time he waspromoted to become the new technical director. John Carr remainedin this role until April 1899. For thelast three years of the role, he also
held the post of British vice-consul
in Narva, permanently residing in
the Russian Empire. He retained
British citizenship.
After resigning from his positionas technical director of Kreenholm,
Carr moved to Reval where he became the first director of the new
Baltic Manufacturing. The English
manager died in the capital of Estonia in 1911.

News of the day:
The Emperor has commanded the recognition of John Carr as the British vice-consul in Narva. - Revelskie izvestiya 1896
Sent to Mr Shtude, oranges received forthe childrens’ treats from the wife of thedirector of the Baltic Paper-Spinning Manufactory, Mrs Carr. This modest gift forneedy children left the warmest impression on all present. Easter table for needy
children - Revelskie izvestiya 1902

OBITUARY

The world is deprived of anotherlovely, energetic, good-humoured
man... John Carr, son of Richard Carr,has died. I didn’t serve with him in
Reval for very long. I had alreadyon several occasions seen the goodheart of the deceased and his willingness to compromise where there
was a plea from the workers. Workers come here from Narva and Tverand they were better able to settle
down at J. Carr’s Baltic manufactory than in their homeland. On various occasions, I went personally to J.
Carr for workers. Carr never refused
to forget the misdemeanours of eventhe clearly guilty and they were allowed to work again.
I requested for a sick labourer
who wanted to go home, expecting to live out his days there. J. Carr
agreed to have the worker operated on at the factory’s expense in an
expensive private hospital in Reval.
The worker recovered and regained
his ability to carry on working fora long time. It would be difficult tofind another rich factory owner who
would make such concessions, evenat the request of a supervisor. I mustalso note also that, since 1911, at mypersonal request, J. Carr abolishedlong overtime in his factory and now
the total number of hours worked
lasts only up to 11 1/2 hours, which
does not exceed the length of a legal
work day. J. Carr was a kind and fair
man and his death is a great loss forall: for the supervisors and the workers of the factory. J. Carr knew business, proven by the fact that he was
The Western Daily Press Dec.28,1872 the technical director of Kreenholm
Manufacturing near Narva and thenorganised joint-stock companies andestablished manufactories in Revaland Riga.
Expressing my deepest sincere
regret at the early death of such ahumane factory owner, it remains
to pay him his last respects: “Sit tubi
terra levis.” Senior factory supervisor, Estonian Governorate, N. Metelsky - Revelskie izvestiya 1911.

M. G. G. Editor, please place a few words
of appreciation in your esteemed newspaper. The director of the paper-spinning
manufactory, J. Carr, donates unbleachedcloth for my school-home for girls in Kungur, Perm almost every year. I offer Mr.
Carr my heartfelt gratitude. Founder ofa school-home in Kungur, Perm. Udaltsova-Zybina. - Revelskie izvestiya 1909

Liverpool Echo 03.06.1917

Wisconsin State Journal 12.21.1924

The Baltic Times 25.04.1938

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Protest movements at Kreenholm
For many decades, life for factory workers
at Kreenholm was very difficult. Their hard
work was poorly paid and their housing
and meals left much to be desired. This was
the usual cause for strikes and industrial
action.
In September 1872, a cholera epidemic
among workers provoked a major strike inwhich around 7000 textile workers partook.
The Kreenholm strike became an important milestone in the history of the workers’ struggle for rights. On the centenary ofthis event, a monument, which to this day
stands near the director’s house, was erected. At the start of the 20th century, major
protest movements erupted at Kreenholm
between 1905-1907 when the first wave ofrevolutions swept across the Russian Empire. Newspapers at the time were full of reports of alarming events in the city placednext to news of resorts, festivals and concerts. A selection of communications under the CITY EVENTS section will take thereader back to October-November 1905.

CITY EVENTS October-November 1905
Over the weekend on 23 Octoberat around 16:00, a crowd of 50-70
young workers, among which were anumber of women, gathered on Petrovskaya Square. A large portion of
the gathered crowd were intoxicated. At 17:00, the crowd raised a large
red flag and moved down past thechapel and up Gentovaya Hill on Vyshhorodskaya Street.
News of the demonstrators’ movement spread like wildfire across thecity. Stores closed in a hurry. Many
people came out to VyshhorodskayaStreet.
The crowd of workers, shouting‘Ura’ and wildly singing some songs
in Estonian, moved to the Market
Square. Here, the red flag was passed
to a woman.
After shouting in the square forabout ten minutes, the demonstrators carried on marching, singing
and clamouring down RytsarskayaStreet and Vestrevalskaya Street to
the railway station. At Joachimsthal,
the crowd grew with masses of young
men and hooligans. After passing thetrain station, everyone headed forKreenholm. However, the demonstration by seemingly out-of-town
workers failed to impress or garner
sympathy: the workers stayed on
the pavements and when the crowd
reached the garden of the manufacturing director V. F. Fe., one of theworkers grabbed the red flag fromthe woman’s hand and took it backto the road, having sent all the protesters ‘to hell’. He then entered themain gate and passed over the bridgeto the canvas factory. From there thecrowd went back to the city, but soon
began to dissipate and only a small
group reached Petrovskaya Square.
Complete order was observed
during the march.
The next day, on 24 October at
10:00, workers of the flax-spinning
manufactory left work and went
home when the horn sounded.
In the evening, a crowd of 300-400
people, mostly women, unexpectedly showed up before the end of thework day at the Kreenholm manufactory with the purpose of also
abandoning work.
However, the venture was not suc-cessful. After creating noise for a few
hours, the strikers left.

On the morning of Tuesday, 25 October, almost all the workers in bothfactories went to work but at lunchtime both factories as well as thoseof D. Zinoviev and Co. halted operations.
Around 16:00, rumours spreadthat a huge crowd of workers wasmarching on the city. Hearing this,shops in the city began to close one
after the other. And indeed, at about
17:00, a crowd of two hundred men
appeared in the town. The crowd
may have included factory workers,
but it was mostly made up of teenagers and assorted street rabble, who,
taking advantage of the strike at thefactories, went into town shouting,singing and carrying a red flag.
Since the wine and beer shops inthe city were closed, the crowd went
to the Baltic Brewery. Here, some ofthe demonstrators entered the factory and demanded that work behalted; others broke into the factory
basement and robbed 25-30 cases ofbeer, which were immediately consumed. The crowd then marched,shouting and hollering, throughthe city streets, fired a few revolver
shots at Virskaya and Westerwalskaya, broke a number of windows
and headed for Petrovskiy forstadt
where they dispersed.
In this street demonstration, mobviolence against the property of civilians by robbery of beer at a brewery and the breaking of windows wasa sad truth. Property — whether it
be state-owned, public or private —should be inviolable and those guiltyof plundering it should face legal
consequences.
Why, during the employee strikeat the local railroad station, lastingten days, was there not a single actof demonstrative behaviour? The
strikers behaved in a highly appropriate manner that set an example
worthy of emulation. And, in general, why are these demonstrations
and strikes happening now, when
the workers and all people have been

granted rights by the Imperial Manifesto? The government cannot implement everything that it has promised at once. We must be patient andnot host flagrant demonstrations or
impose violence on peaceful citizens
and their property. We must remember that such a gross display of wilfulness cannot be tolerated in any
State. We must remember the lofty
words of the manifesto, calling on allfaithful sons of Russia to exert theirenergies in restoring silence andpeace to their native land.

Along the way, the church singing
and the sounds of the funeral marchwere interspersed with the Marseillaise in Estonian and then in Russian.
The grave had been prepared on fresh
ground. The whole procession was
directed to the right so as to bypass
the cemetery. Exemplary order wasobserved here too. To the sounds ofthe Marseillaise, the coffin was lowered into the grave. Several speeches
focused on current events in general and on this one in particular weremade around the covered grave. The
speeches were given in Estonian.
At 15:00, the procession headed
back in the same manner as they
arrived and reached Kreenholm at
On Sunday, 6 November, the fu- about 15:30, from where all the workneral of a Kreenholm worker who ers went home.
died from a gunshot wound received
On Monday the 7th of November,during a riot in the factory was held. normal operations began at KreenAt around 12:00, the white coffin holm Manufacturing, but work did
containing the remains of the de- not begin at the cloth and canvas facceased, accompanied by a crowd of tories even though all the workers
more than ten thousand people hold- showed up. - Narvskiy Listok 1905.
ing wreaths and flags, was carried
from the Kreenholm manufactory
to the factory church where Priest
Anderson, to the singing of the factory choir, performed the ceremony.
At the end of the service, the soundsof the funeral march were heard infront of the church. The memorial
sung by the choir blended with thesounds of the orchestra.
The coffin, accompanied by thepriest and the choir, was carried outof the church by the workers andthe powerful, grandiose procession
moved towards Ivangorod cemetery.
All along the procession, thousandsof people stood on the wooden andstone stairs and on the embankments.
Then the orchestra stopped andthe singing of the Trisagion mingledwith the singing of the Marseillaisein Estonian. During the procession,
exemplary order was maintained by
the workers themselves, and several
dozen of their elected officials had
red ribbons over their shoulders.
In front of the bridge over the
Narova, the procession was stopped
by the stewards. In light of the dubious strength of the bridge, the crowd
was let through in sections.

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Celebration of 1 May in Narva

Rahvusarhiiv EFA.114.A.259

1 May passed peacefully. There were noprocessions. Beautiful weather brought
many people to the streets. A long walk

The Los Angeles Times 08.26.1906

The last director and between revolutionary periods:
Amidst unrest in the factory town,
During the German occupation intechnical director Wilhelm Fech re- 1918, German officers lived in the house,signed and fled Kreenholm, leaving the and during the War of Independence itvilla empty for his successor, George became the headquarters of the 1st DiviCottam, who moved into the house with sion of the Estonian Defence Forces. The
his family in 1906.
military remained in the house even after
Marjorie Cottam, daughter-in-law the signing of the Treaty of Tartu andof the new technical director, later re- the end of the war. In the peacetime up
membered the house this way: “A square to 1925, the building continued to housebuilding with large rooms. The house the chancellery at the division headquarhad three living rooms, a kitchen, three ters and from 1925 to 1932 it housed the
bedrooms, a cloakroom and a bathroom headquarters itself. In 1932 Estonia
The attic was used for drying clothes, for concluded a nonaggression treaty withstoring wine and as winter storage. Out- USSR and then military division headside, there was a garden and an icehouse quarters has been relocated from frontier
where provisions were stored during the city of Narva to Rakvere. For more thansummer months. Residents were served a decade the military was renting direcby a cook and a maid.”
tor’s house (or house just house number
The wealth of the technical director “43” as it was known, at that time houses
was also demonstrated by the fact that, in industrial settlements were just signedin the 1910s, Cottam purchased an auto- with numbers without any streets) frommobile. At the time, self-propelled car- Kreenholm Manufacture. According toriages were very rare and a sign of luxury discovered newspaper article after headin Kreenholm and Narva. A company quarter relocation house supposed to bearchitect of Kreenholm Manufacturing, renovated and host there manufacture
Aleksandr Vladovskiy, was also among administration from Tallinn which was
the few local car owners.
at Pikk Street 68, but in latest advertiseThe First World War and the 1917 ments administration address was still in
Revolutions drastically changed the lives Tallinn. During the German occupationof those at Kreenholm and the Director’s in 1942 there were school classes for chilvilla. After director Cottam left for Eng- dren in the house. We don’t know how
land at the end of 1917, the house served the house was used from 1932 to 1942.
as a servants’ club and then as the headquarters of the Narva Red Guard.
Wisconsin State Journal 01.15.1920

around the city was organised by military units. - Põhja Kodu 1923

The Baltimore Sun 03.20.1942

The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle Nov 1944

The Guardian Feb.10.1944

The Morning Journal-Courier 21.02.1888

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In the Second World War, thehouse was badly damaged. The
east side of the building, whichfaces Joala Street, suffered themost. On the side of the housethat was less damaged, original wooden pieces of the main
staircase and other elements of
the late nineteenth-century décor survived.
After the fighting ended, Soviet authorities made the decision to renovate the former director’s villa and on 5 November
1948, the house at the Kreenholm manufactory opened its
doors again, now as a clubhouseand library. The second floor
was rebuilt as a film hall, whereconcerts and important meetings between factory bosses
were also held.

If you have any information
about this, let us know atresidentuur@artun.ee

The Kreenholm factories destroyed during the war were
gradually rebuilt and the number of employees grew again.
Soon enough, the factory’s culture centre couldn’t accommodate everyone.
In 1957, a new grandiosebuilding of the Vasily Gerasimov Culture Centre was erected to mark the centenary of the
manufactory. The villa at 18 Joala Street became the Amalie
Kreisberg Children’s Art Centre in honour of an Estonian
worker’s activist who died in
Yamburg. Local residents often
simply called it “the Children’s
Quarter” or “Amalie’s”. In the
1950s, various children’s clubs
were opened in the building.

Rahvusarhiiv 1944

The newspaper editors still do
not know what happened in the
Kreenholm director’s house
between 1932 and 1942.

Kreenholm hockey players on the ice

Young women textile workers reading a book

Aleksandr Stepanov:“Battles at Narva”
It was already getting dark. There was anendless string of wagons, carts and sleds
moving through the streets. The migrants
were mixed with groups of armed workers
and sailors. It was impossible to tell who
was in charge and indicating the directionof movement. The lively river flowed naturally through the city to the east. The shop
doors and gates were tightly shut and thehouses seemed deserted. Some shrapnel
exploded over the streets causing a terrible
panic. Horses began to gallop, wagons collided with sleds, sleds knocked down men
and horses and an incredible commotion
ensued. Everyone was shouting and fighting and nobody was listening to anyone.
Chapter 21, Page 34

The Guardian 02.10.1944

A.Kreutzberg Children’s Club. Foto: Narva Museum

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According to memoirs, on the firstfloor, a singing club was opened and achoir was created, led by Helmut Weiss.
His wife, Elvira, ran a sewing club. The
pupils of the club sewed puppets for
puppet theatre with performances
staged in the building.
Part of the house was used for danceclasses. You can still see the metalprongs to which the ballet barre wasonce attached. Many visitors remember the painting that hung on the wall:schoolgirls watching a young ballerina
perform. For many years, the dance club
was led by Lyudmila Semykina, a pupilof Suren Harutyunyan, creator of the‘Narva’ ensemble.
From the dance hall there was directaccess to the large stage of the auditorium, which was often used to show films.
There was even life in the cellar of thehouse. This housed the director’s club,
the photography club, the sports division, the woodworking club and thecooking club. It is worth mentioning thetravel club, which was also housed in thecellar but had a separate entrance on thewest side of the building. The club leader
Sergei Panin recalls that the pupils went
on camping trips around Estonia, to the
Caucasus, Kamchatka, the Far East andCentral Asia. After the country regained
its independence, trips around Finland
and Norway were also made possible.
You can read about the club’s excursions in the travel notes which were
published in “Textilshchik Krenholm”,
whose editorial office was also located in the former villa. Employee of thenewspaper, Olga Ivanova, joked that,in the 1970s-80s, the editors were
“cooking” where the director’sreal kitchen used to be.
At the start of the 1990s, manyof the clubs and divisions stopped
running at this address andmoved to the neighbouring Gerasimov Culture Centre. The firstMore information about the library
floor premises were given over toand events can be found at this site: narthe Kreenholm Library.
valib.ee/krk

ChattanoogaDailyTimes,1947.01.03

ChicagoTribune Sep. 1967

Private archive. Olga Clark

Memories of “Amalie”

The story of the Kreenholm Librarybegan at the end of the 1940s when thefirst “union library” for workers appeared in the basement of the factory’s
management office at 20 Joala Street
with its collection stored in a single
bookcase.
In 1949, the reading room was moved
to the neighbouring restored building at 18 Joala Street where the Kreenholm club operated. The collection was
moved again in 1957 and the majority ofthe books were taken to the new Gerasimov Culture Centre, but the children’s
section remained at the old address andbecame the independent children’s library.
For many decades, the Kreenholm library was financed at the mill’s expense.
At the start of the 1990s, it had to reduce
the size of the book collection and staff
numbers due to lack of funds. The 11
employees became 5 and the book collection shrank from 130,000 volumes to102,000. The library returned from the“Gerasiki” to 18 Joala Street.
In 1994, the library was taken over by
the municipality. In 1999, there were already 3119 registered readers who could
use the 26-seat reading room in the former director’s house. Many employees
and visitors recall that the building on
Joala Street was cramped and cold in
the winter. The historic house was poorly suited to the needs of the book collection and so the library enthusiasticallywelcomed the construction of a newbuilding nearby. Since 24 October 2007,
the Kreenholm library has been operating at 45 Kreenholmi Street and in 2008,
it became part of the Narva City Library.

The Baltic Times 09.11.2003

Radio class in the children’s club named after A. Kreutzberg

the story

2015-...

New life
in oldwalls
After the library moved, the doors
were closed to visitors for seven years
and the house was empty until the
NART Narva Art Residency opened in
2015.
The NART cultural platform integrates international art residency, exhibition spaces and spaces for lecturesand seminars. The residency is open toartists regardless of their medium: music, theatre, architecture, design, film,
literature, curatorial practice and so on.
The programme fosters creative interdisciplinary exchange and the consolidation of ties between artists and the
local communities of Kreenholm andNarva.
The historical technical director’s villa, where the residency is housed, as
well as the factory itself located acrossthe street, serve as additional sourcesof inspiration for artists from all over
the world.
The Narva Art Residency works under the Estonian Academy of Arts incooperation with Narva Gate and withthe support of the Estonian Ministry of
Culture.
You can find out more about NART
events at nart.eeHow we researched the history of the house
Every building has a unique history, but some historical subjects are
more fascinating than others. The
history of the Narva Art Residency
building, aka the former technical director’s villa, illustrates all stages ofrecent history in Kreenholm, Narva
and Estonia.
We have tried to gather information about this important and beautiful building in the neighbourhoodfrom the Tsarist era to the present
day in order to remember its previous owners and functions in different
eras. We have also tried to involve local residents in the research processby compiling and telling the stories ofthe people of Narva themselves.
Since the start of the project inspring 2022, the team has conducted ten interviews and engaged inarchival research in Narva, Tallinn
and Tartu. In June 2022, the “Carr Amalie - NART” street photography
exhibit opened, (Carr-Amalie-NART).
In spring 2023, part of the layout of
Fyodor Shantsyn’s Kreenholm, transferred from the Narva Museum collection, was shown. From summer
2023, all visitors to the Art Residency can see an exhibit on the history

Team: Johanna Rannula, Denis Yatsenko, Gleb Kuznetsov, Maria Kopytova,
Denis Girenko, Arina Yegorova, Tiina
Kulikova, Alexei Shishkin, Alexei Ivanov, Mirjam Kalamees.
Thanks to: Maria Zheleznova, Olga
Clark, Fyodor Shantsyn, Iren WeissWendt, Irina Seletskaya, Ekaterina
Moskalenko, Lev Migdalskiy, Lyudmila Semykina, Natalia Nikitina, Sergei
Yakovlev, Sergei Panin, Svetlana Hachikian, Tamara Eder, Tarmo Tamiste,
Valentina Mihhailova, Igor Kurov, Madis Tuuder, Margarita Stepanova, Raisaof the building, made up of cabinetsfrom different eras. On the foyer wallis an interactive timeline on which
visitors can place historical photos
using magnets. Guests of NART havethe opportunity to listen to the installation “What did the house hear?”on a vinyl player. Mirjam Kalamees
made a model of the house that became part of the permanent exhibit. In autumn 2023, a large metal“NART” structure will be installed in
front of the building to showcase thisamazing building in the city space. Finally, as one of the final parts of the
project we produced a small newspaper, which you are currently holding
in your hands.
Over a year and a half, more thanten historical tours around the Narva
Art Residency and its surroundings
were conducted. Guests could visit rooms that were usually closed tovisitors. The NART Tour Programme
will continue in the future.
Events and activities as part of andrelated to the project: Kreenholm’sbirthday celebration, historical tours
around the house and its surroundings, day of Cultural Heritage Preservation, lectures and meetings.

2023

Popova, Svetlana Zaitseva, Ekaterina
Poltavets, Irina Solodova, Aleksandr
Openko, Dmitry Kitayevski (ASG Robotics OÜ), Narva Gate OÜ, Estonian National Archive, Narva Central Library,
Narva Museum, Narva City Archives
The special edition of the newspaper
is published in the framework of theresearch project that focused on thehistory of the house, a collaboration
between the Narva Art Residency and
the NGO Vabriku Sonaat. The project is
supported by the Cultural Endowmentof Estonia.

crossword
1. The surname of a famous female
weaver who was a participant in
the great workers demonstration of1906.
2. Who was the last company architect of the factory who built the new
hospital?
3. Which English city was the showcase of European industrialisation in
the 19th century?
4. Coming to live and work in the
Russian Empire, many foreigners
changed their name to a Russianname. What was the name at thetime of the German architect, Pavel
Alish, who built the director’s villa?
5. One hundred years ago, somejoked that Narva was so big that it
was in two governorates. To whichgovernorate of the Russian Empire
did the manufactory settlement belong? (historical name of the region).

6. What is the name of the manufacturing district on the other side of
the Narva River?
7. A sport brought to Kreenholm byworkers from the UK.
8. What word does the Estonian
name Joala come from?
9. What did the factory in neighbouring Kulgu produce for the manufactory?
10. What bird, according to one theory, gave Kreenholm island its name?
11. An epidemic of what diseasecaused a work strike in 1872?
12. The business affairs of Kreenholm Manufacture’s founder werevery successful so he even has beenhonoured with a proverb: “Whereis church there is priest, where isbarrack there is bedbug, where ismanufacture there is ... “