New Video on Hartford’s Lost Rossia Insurance Company Building

I have a YouTube video and a Substack post about the Rossia Insurance Company Building that was located at the corner of Broad Street and Farmington Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut from 1914 until 1969. It was built as the US branch of a Russian insurance company and was later the headquarters of the city’s Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) for 20 years. The building’s iconic sculpture of Mother Russia later stood above the Russian Lady cafe and bar on Ann Street. The original sculpture was sold in an auction in 2002 and a replica is located atop the building today. In front of the lost Rossia building were two statues of Russian bears. They were moved to Cal Berkeley in 1987.