The new owner, the Austrian Hugo Schobermann, owned modern city taxis. The market for his cars was in front of the Revenue Building. Ruse residents did not have much faith in the new vehicles and preferred to use the services of "Sharket-Arabas" for transportation by horse-drawn carriages. To prove the safety of his taxis, Schoberman took advantage of the frozen Danube River and crossed the ice with one of them to the opposite Romanian coast. The extravagant advertising won the trust of citizens. However, he failed to keep his lavish house for long. One night in 1910 he played poker with the industrialist Petko Hadji Petkov. First, Petkov lost a large sum of money. That's why his wife, who was a pretty good player, intervened in the game. Luck was on her side and Hoberman lost. The players agreed on a decisive, final hand, with very high stakes. Schoberman pledged his beautiful house and Petkov his beautiful wife. The industrialist won.

The following year, the house successively changed owners. First it housed the Italian consulate, then the Austro-Hungarian consulate, and for the longest time it was managed by the Romanian consulate. From 1925 it was used for the needs of the Historical Museum, and later by the Hunting and Fishing Society. In 2001 it was bought at auction by the owner of the company "AERI-44" Ivan Dobrev Milev. The repair and restoration works started in September of the same year.

Hotel "Anna Palace" opens its doors on April 9, 2003.