Реальное училеще

Real School stands in Tashkent as a late nineteenth-century building designed by Wilhelm Heinzelmann. Completed in 1898, it presents the Turkestan colonial style in exposed brown-yellow brick. White stucco mouldings and patterned brick or stone enliven the façades. Iron balustrades, grilles and railings add a distinctly practical finish.

The building began as an educational institution and now houses the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations. Its construction followed Tashkent’s incorporation into the Russian Empire in 1865, when a planned new city grew beside the old Muslim town. Wide green streets and a radial layout around Amir Timur Square shaped this European-inspired district. Nearby landmarks included the State Bank, women’s and men’s gymnasiums, and the palace of Grand Duke Nikolay Konstantinovich Romanov.

The 1966 earthquake destroyed many original architectural ensembles across Tashkent, leaving this structure among the surviving and restored fragments. Heinzelmann’s building therefore brings together education, government and the city’s changing architectural history. Its most memorable detail remains the unplastered brick, set against white ornament and dark ironwork.