Lamenting a gone brothel in Baku

I have to admit, there is one good side of our government - it creates for us such ultimate moral justifications that we can not only praise hooligans, but also lament a gone brothel as well. With all of our consciousness.

So, you can ask - what happened now?

Photo by me

By the time all our attention was fixed on Fuzuli and Badalbayli streets, where whole historic neighborhood is leveled to make a way for a winter boulevard and "House with Atlases" which hinders one promising construction site to become a whole rectangular, authorities have just stepped in unexpectedly in other part of the city and demolished a not less important another landmark - pre-1917 "Madrid" hotel, which was also city's top elite brothel in that era, frequented by the high society gentlemen.

Of course, you couldn't keep a brothel in Soviet times in a central street - but history has kept names of two prominent beauties of that brothel for us - Lame Tamara and Naevused Rosa. Anyway, tastes differ, or de gustibus non est disputandum, as Latins would say ;)

Literally yesterday, I was there and took a photo of the building - or what remained of it. I was thinking it was being renovated. But alas, I am not always right - today, it was actually demolished.

Here are some photos of the building, followed by a footage of demolition. - [UPDATE: I'll upload a new footage as soon as possible.]

Photo from Baku.ru

Photo by me

Photo by me