Elsa's House

A luxurious but abandoned three-storey mansion with 62 rooms in the resort area of Pyatigorsk is known for the ghost living in it. This house was built at the beginning of the XX century by entrepreneur Alexander Gukasov for his fiancee, the daughter of a German merchant Elsa.

The marriage broke up a few years later. According to legend, Elsa turned out to be childless, Gukasov divorced her, abandoned his successful business, castle and left with another woman. But in the city he is still remembered as the owner of the famous Gukasov coffee house in the mansion at the entrance to the Flower Garden Park. Now it is an "Art Cafe".

- After the betrayal and departure of her ex-husband, Elsa organized a hotel in the house. Although things were going well, the woman was hard going through the drama, began to go crazy and eventually committed suicide - drank poison. They say her death was painful, so her soul remained in the house," says Sergey Ivanov, a native of Pyatigorsk.

This legend is known to all residents of the city, but suicide is not the only version of Elsa's death. Some say that the woman was killed by a guest in a drunken brawl, and the body was walled up in one of the walls, others say that she was shot by the Bolsheviks. But all the stories end with the fact that Elsa's ghost still lives in the house.