Estate Ostashevo - Romanovs. Ostashevo: estate of the imperial family

“Weary son of the earth, in days of vain worries,
Among petty insults and social excitement,
I’m looking for solitude by a lake in the forest.”

Konstantin Romanov.

Driving through the fork in the ancient village of Ostashevo, known since the 15th century, along the road going through Ruza to Volokolamsk and connecting the Minskoye and Riga highways, a rare person will pay attention to the obelisk, lonelyly perched on the side. Meanwhile, it marks the entrance to the alley of the once famous estate - without a doubt, one of the most famous in the Moscow province.

To say that Ostashevo is now forgotten would be an exaggeration. Information about the estate is invariably included in local history and tourist guides, but this place is visited infrequently, and few know its history. The village of Ostashevo itself had other names: Uspenskoe (in the 17th century a church with a chapel of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary was built here), Staroe Dolgolyadye. IN XVII century The estate was owned by Fyodor Likhachev, who served as clerk of the local order in the militia of Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin. Then its owners were the princes Prozorovsky and Golitsyn. The current buildings standing on the banks of the Ruza Reservoir are associated with the name of retired Major General Prince Alexander Urusov, by whose order a manor complex was created here in the 1790s.
It is assumed that for development common project Moscow architect Rodion Kazakov was involved (not to be confused with his namesake and teacher, the famous architect Matvey Kazakov), who was working at that time in the prince’s Moscow house. Work began with the construction in 1776-86 of a late-Baroque church, consecrated in honor of the namesake saint, Alexander Nevsky.

From main square In the village of Ostashevo, a linden alley leads us past the only remaining obelisk to the former entrance gate of the front yard. What remains of them are pseudo-Gothic two-tier towers, very similar to the entrance towers of the Petrovsky Palace in Moscow. The rooms are square on the outside and octagonal on the inside, covered with a closed vault. The cylindrical top was once crowned with a crown of teeth.
At the same time, at the end of the 18th century, two outbuildings (an office and the manager’s house) with lancet windows and pseudo-Gothic towers resembling observation towers were built on either side of the gate. The L-shaped outbuildings that close the corners of the front yard once imitated fortifications, which is typical of the Romantic era.
From the entrance gate one could walk along the alley to the main house. Imagine, behind the trees, a two-story majestic building with a belvedere and a four-column Tuscan portico, to which an elegant staircase leads from the courtyard.

The house was connected by passages to two modest residential outbuildings from the late 18th century, extensively rebuilt in the 1950s. Their clear, precise volumes and strict simplicity of external processing are characteristic of the stage of classicism, transitional to the Empire style. The only decoration of the walls are the relief window sill inserts and the crowning cornice with an energetic profile. The former windows with an outer quarter, without frames, have been enlarged, Above the right wing in late XIX century, the second floor was built from wood. The closed transition galleries are treated with a false arcade, into which small lancet windows are inserted. On the transverse axis of the galleries, elegant entrance pavilions were placed, which simultaneously served as a passage from the courtyard to the park. Each of them was crowned with a wooden belvedere with a high spire.

In 1813, the estate came into the possession of the stepson of A. Urusov, a Russian commander, participant Patriotic War 1812, Major General Nikolai Muravyov. Under him, a huge pseudo-Gothic equestrian yard was built. The construction is amazing in its scale. The one-story courtyard building consists of two long wings connected at right angles. The side facade, stretched along the entrance alley, is decorated with pseudo-Gothic details. The wall consists of three identical sections with a gate in the center and windows on the sides. The main facade is also a one-story building, the flanks of which are decorated with risalits with gables. The dominant feature of the entire ensemble is undoubtedly the huge gate tower with a clock, decorated with tracery arches, lancet platbands, and battlements. Now it houses the local cultural center.
On May 22, 1791, Nikolai Muravyov married Alexandra Mordvinova, the daughter of the Russian engineer-general Mikhail Mordvinov. Among the largest buildings erected under his leadership are the Marble and Chesme palaces in St. Petersburg, as well as the Neva embankment. The couple had five sons and one daughter.

N. Muravyov was the founder of the Moscow School of Column Leaders (officers General Staff). In Ostashevo they underwent summer internship. In May, the column leaders, led by the major general himself, left Moscow for the banks of the Ruza for practical classes. The son of the owner of the estate, Alexander discussed plans for the reconstruction of Russia with his comrades, future Decembrists. There is a legend that the handwritten text of the draft constitution of Russia by Muravyov is buried on one of the hills.
In addition to the founder of the Union of Salvation, another son of the major general, Nikolai, came to Ostashevo, who in 1855 commanded military operation to capture the Turkish fortified city of Kars. Church historian Andrei Muravyov spent his youth here, whose name, alas, was borne by the no longer preserved gazebo over the river.
After the death of his father, the estate, burdened with debts, went to Alexander, who settled in Ostashevo and began to carry out economic improvements in the hope of repaying the debt. But, despite all efforts, the estate did not generate income and in 1859 it was sold under the hammer.

In the second half of the 19th century, the estate changed several owners. The first was Nikolai Shipov, an innovative landowner, member of the Moscow Society of Agriculture, Mozhaisk district leader of the nobility, and actual state councilor. He not only put the disordered household in order, but also ensured that his barnyard began to be considered exemplary throughout Russia. To process dairy products obtained from the 200 cows of improved northern breeds kept on the estate, a cheese factory was built, entrusted to a specialist invited from Switzerland. At the same time, Shipov undertook to rebuild the Alexander estate church into a burial vault, destroyed the old bell tower and distorted the appearance of the temple.
Then the estate was owned by a Russian general, a participant in the Caucasian campaigns, the Crimean War and Russian-Turkish war 1877-1878 Arthur Nepokoychitsky, merchant and tea magnate Alexander Kuznetsov and the heirs of the Moscow millionaire and theater philanthropist Konstantin Ushkov. The pre-revolutionary period in Ostashev’s history is associated with the name of his grandson Russian Emperor Nicholas I - Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov, who acquired the estate in 1903.

The personality of the Grand Duke himself is interesting and unusual: a professional military man, a hero of the Russian-Turkish war, commander of the Life Guards of the Preobrazhensky Regiment, president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, he is known to us by the pseudonym “K.R.” This is how the only good poet signed his poems royal family turn of the century, a Pushkin Prize laureate, who dreamed of peace and tranquility, which he found, at least for a short time, in Ostashevo.
Now Konstantin Konstantinovich’s poems are included in the anthology of poetry of the “silver” age. The music for his work was written by composers Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninov, Reinold Gliere. The poem “The Poor Man Died in a Military Hospital” became a popular song. It is interesting that the largest work of the “most august poet” - the mystery play “King of the Jews” was banned from production by the Synod. Only with the personal permission of the tsar was the play staged by an amateur court theater; Konstantin Konstantinovich himself performed one of the roles. The Grand Duke died in 1915 after the death of his son in the war, who bequeathed to be buried under the church on his father's estate. Oleg also wrote poetry, but his literary career did not have time to take shape. The first one started World War, and he volunteered for the front. He took part in the fighting in Northwestern Front. Initially, he was offered to become an orderly in the main apartment, but he obtained permission to remain in the regiment. On September 27 (October 10), 1914, Prince Oleg, who commanded the platoon, was seriously wounded near the village of Pilvishki in the Vladislavov area (the current Lithuanian city of Kudirkos-Naumiestis).
On the evening of the next day, Oleg’s father arrived in Vilna, who brought him the Order of St. George,
belonged to Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich. This award was pinned to the shirt of the dying prince, who died that same evening. On October 3 (16), 1915, Oleg Konstantinovich was buried in Ostashevo on Vasyutkina Hill.

According to the recollections of one of her contemporaries, several thousand people took part in the funeral procession. Along the way, the coffin of the deceased prince was accompanied by a mass of peasants. People cried, knelt, and carried his coffin on their shoulders from Volokolamsk station to Ostashev. He was buried with a golden sword. When the revolution began, they began to destroy the estate, rob everything, plundered the grave, pulled him out of the coffin, stole the sword, the remains lay on the road for five or six days, until someone compassionate returned them to their place.
Vandals are already in Soviet time More than once they tried to get to Oleg’s grave. For some reason, they believed that jewelry remained in the burial of the Grand Duke’s son... In 1969, by decision local authorities Prince Oleg's body was secretly buried at night somewhere in a village cemetery across the river.
Soon, the October revolution brutally dealt with the relatives of the Grand Duke: the three remaining sons (John, Igor and Konstantin), along with the other Romanovs, were thrown into a mine near Alapaevsk. Konstantin Konstantinovich himself thought that his family would find eternal peace in Ostashevo...

On the very shore of the Ruza Reservoir, above the grave of Oleg Konstantinovich, the last building of the estate stands sadly. Here, according to the design of the architect Marian Peretyatkovich, the author of the famous St. Petersburg Church of the Savior on Water, and the engineer Sergei Smirnov, a Romanov church-tomb was built in 1915-1916 in the power of Russian Art Nouveau with Pskov-Novgorod traditions. The composition of this structure is very simple. A massive two-span belfry adjoins the cubic, four-pillar, single-domed cross-domed church on the southeastern side. Under the building there is a basement with a beamed ceiling. There are no paintings preserved inside the church; there were none. The tombstones embedded in the masonry have also been lost. The sparse exterior decoration emphasizes the severity of the forms of the entire building. The almost completed church in the name of the holy faithful Prince Oleg of Bryansk, Grand Duke Igor of Chernigov and St. Seraphim Sarov the Wonderworker was never consecrated - this was prevented revolutionary events.
And the poems of K.R. himself seem like an involuntary prophecy:
“When there is no strength to bear the cross,
When the melancholy cannot be overcome,
We raise our eyes to heaven,
Saying prayer day and night,
May the Lord have mercy."

During the construction of the Ruza Reservoir, the lower part of the linden park with ponds was flooded, and now the shore comes close to the estate and the temple. Its overgrown eastern half turned into a forest. Now no one knows where the secluded corners of the park were located under the strange, perhaps Masonic names “Baden”, “Philadelphia”... They disappeared forever.
Nowadays, the ensemble of the Ostashevo estate is a sad sight. Manor's house due to its disrepair it was dismantled. On its foundation in the mid-1950s, a similarity to the previous one was built, with a belvedere and a four-column portico. And these days it greets the traveler with empty window sockets. A local history museum was originally located here, and then some kind of children's institution. However, the driveway linden alley is nice, as it harmoniously organizes the development of the front yard. It is gratifying to see that the tomb church is being restored. This gives hope that over time the rest of the buildings on this estate will also return to their original appearance.

You can get to the estate of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov either by car or by train from the Rizhsky station to Volokolamsk, and from there by bus. There is another way. From the Belorussky railway station by train to Tuchkovo station, from there by minibus to the city of Ruza, and then by bus to Ostashev. Theoretically, when traveling by car, you can combine a tour of the estate with architectural monuments Volokolamsk and Ruza, but I would advise not to “gallop across Europe”, but to devote two or three days to such a trip.

The Alexandrovo estate in the village of Dolgolyadye was created at the end of the 18th century for retired Major General Prince Alexander Urusov (1729-1813). The architects are not known for sure; it has been suggested that R. R. Kazakov, a master of Russian pseudo-Gothic, participated in the design. Work began with the construction in 1776-86. late Baroque church, consecrated in honor of the namesake saint, Alexander Nevsky.

A linden alley led to the estate house of Prince Urusov. On either side of it stood white stone obelisks and (at the entrance to the front yard) paired Gothic turrets. The master's two-story house with a portico with four columns and a belvedere was visible many miles around. It was connected by galleries with lower wings, covered with a plank belvedere with a spire. At the same time as the manor's chambers, a manager's house and a business office were built.

After the death of Prince Urusov, the village of Aleksandrovskoye became the property of his stepson Nikolai Nikolaevich Muravyov (1768-1840). He approached management very responsibly and started a dairy yard - a prototype of future dairies. Muravyov headed the School of Column Leaders, which served as a hotbed of freethinking: 22 graduates became Decembrists. In May, the column leaders, led by Major General Muravyov himself, left Moscow for the banks of the Ruza for practical training. The son of the owner of the estate, Alexander, discussed plans for the reconstruction of Russia with his comrades in Ostashev. There is a well-known legend that Muravyov’s handwritten draft of the constitution is buried on one of the hills.

In addition to the founder of the Union of Salvation, another son of the major general, Nikolai, who commanded the capture of Kars in 1855, came to Ostashevo. Church historian Andrei Nikolaevich Muravyov, whose name is named after St. Andrew's gazebo over the river, spent his youth here. After the death of his father, the estate, burdened with debts, went to Alexander, who settled in Ostashevo and began to carry out economic improvements in the hope of repaying the debt. He built a monumental equestrian courtyard in a pseudo-Gothic style, unusual for his time, with a high tower above the entrance, with lancet windows and architraves. Despite all efforts, the estate did not generate income and in 1859 it was sold under the hammer.

In post-reform times, the estate was owned by the energetic entrepreneur N.P. Shipov, General A.A. Nepokoichitsky, and merchant A.G. Kuznetsov. The first of them not only put the disordered farm in order, but also ensured that his barnyard began to be considered exemplary throughout Russia. He introduced extensive ten-field crop rotation. To process dairy products obtained from the 200 cows of improved northern breeds kept on the estate, a cheese factory was set up, entrusted to a specialist invited from Switzerland. At the same time, Shipov undertook to rebuild the estate Alexander Church into a burial vault, destroyed the old bell tower and distorted the appearance of the 18th-century temple. In 1899, it was jointly owned by the Ushkovs, the heirs of K.K. Ushkov.

The grandson of Nicholas I, Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov, in 1903 decided to retire to the outback from the vicious temptations of metropolitan life. He liked Ostashevo as an estate, exemplary in economic terms, very remote from Moscow and spacious enough to accommodate his large family. On August 28, 1903, Grigory Konstantinovich Ushkov issued an earnest receipt, and on September 13, 1903, a deed of sale was completed for the purchase of the estate.

Driving through the fork in the village of Ostashevo along the road going through Ruza to Volokolamsk and connecting the Minskoye and Riga highways, a rare driver and not every passenger will pay attention to the obelisk, perched forlornly on the side. Meanwhile, the obelisk marks the entrance to the alley of the once famous estate - without a doubt, one of the most famous in the Moscow province.

To say that Ostashevo is now forgotten would be an exaggeration. Information about the estate is invariably included in local history and tourist guides, but this place is visited infrequently, and few know its history. The village of Ostashevo - now Volokolamsk district Moscow region, and once Mozhaisk district of the Moscow province - is located seventeen kilometers from the Volokolamsk railway station.

This village had other names: Uspenskoe (in the 17th century a church with a chapel of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary was built here), Staroe Dolgolyadye. In the 17th century, the estate was owned by Fyodor Likhachev, who served as clerk of the Local Prikaz in the militia of Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin. Then its owners were the princes Prozorovsky and Golitsyn. The estate ensemble began to take shape at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries, under Major General Prince Alexander Vasilyevich Urusov (1729-1813). Before him, the buildings were located on the opposite bank of the Ruza River. Urusov built a temple in memory of the blessed prince Alexander Nevsky, and the estate began to be called Aleksandrovskoye.

Since 1813, Ostashev was owned by Nikolai Nikolaevich Muravyov (1768-1840), major general, participant in the Patriotic War of 1812 and foreign campaigns against Napoleon of 1813-1814. Muravyov was the first chairman of the Mathematical Society at the Imperial Moscow University. He was one of the founders of the Society of Agriculture and the Agricultural School, and was the author and translator of numerous works on agriculture. But most of all, the Ostashevo landowner is remembered as the founder of the School for Column Leaders (organized in 1816), which trained army officers.

Later, the school was transformed into the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff. In the warm season, from May to October, in 1816-1823, future officers were engaged in geodesy, military formation and fortification in Ostashevo. Among the students of the School are twenty-two Decembrists. Participants visited Ostashevo secret society Ivan Yakushkin and Mikhail Fonvizin (nephew of the creator of Nedorosl), Nikita Muravyov (one of the ideologists Northern Society, creator of one of the constitutional projects), Matvey Muravyov-Apostol (brother of the executed Sergei Muravyov-Apostol).

Here, according to legend, one of the owner’s sons, Alexander Muravyov (1792-1863), who also belonged to the Decembrist circle and participated in the creation of the first secret freedom-loving society - the Union of Salvation, drew up and then, fearing a search, buried a draft of the Russian Constitution. He became the owner of the estate in 1840, after the death of his father.

A more noticeable mark in Russian history Other sons of Nikolai Muravyov, the Alexander brothers, left behind, part of whose lives were spent in Ostashevo. Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky (1796-1866) - count, infantry general, minister of state property, governor-general of the North-Western Territory in 1863-1865. With measures that some considered decisive and others considered executioner, he suppressed Polish uprising, for which he received from the emperor an honorary addition to the surname “Vilensky”, formed on behalf of the Polish-Lithuanian city of Vilna, present-day Vilnius.

Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky is the hero of two poems by Nekrasov - “Reflections at the Front Entrance” (the prototype of a sybarite nobleman, callous and indifferent to the disasters of the people) and the so-called Muravyov ode, in which he was glorified as the winner of the Polish rebels. (The poet wrote his panegyric to Muravyov, hoping to gain the patronage of an influential nobleman and thereby save the Sovremennik magazine he published from the censorship ban; the hope turned out to be in vain.) In his youth, Muravyov was involved in the Decembrist case, and in his declining years he proudly said about himself that he is not one of those Muravyovs who are hanged, but one of those who are hanged.

His no less famous brother Nikolai Nikolaevich Muravyov-Karsky (1794-1866) - general, commander-in-chief of the Caucasian Corps in Crimean War. Under his command the troops took Turkish fortress Kars (1855). In memory of this feat, he received the honorary addition “Karsky” to his surname. The youngest of the brothers is now half-forgotten, although he was once also very famous. Andrei Nikolaevich Muravyov (1806-1874) - church historian, spiritual writer.

In the second half of the 19th century, the estate changed owners twice. Under the new owner Nikolai Pavlovich Shipov, who replaced Muravyov Jr., a horse yard was built. Shipov turned the debt-ridden estate into a profitable enterprise: a stud farm began to generate income. Horses from the Ostashevsky factory have won prizes at the races more than once.

From 1903 to 1917 Ostashevo belonged to Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov and his heir. Grand Duke Constantine (1858-1915), grandson of Nicholas I and cousin of Nicholas II, fought the Turks on the Danube in the war of 1877-1878, later served as inspector general of the military educational institutions. For more than half a century, until the end of his life, he was president of the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

The Grand Duke is the author of many poems and the drama about Christ “The King of the Jews,” which was reflected in the “Yershalaim” chapters of Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita.” His poem “The Poor Man Died in a Military Hospital...” (1885) about the plight of a soldier became a folk song. The Grand Duke translated Shakespeare and Goethe; Caesar Cui, Anton Rubinstein, Sergei Rachmaninov and Pyotr Tchaikovsky wrote romances based on his poems. Konstantin Konstantinovich, who modestly signed his works in print with the letters “K. R.”, corresponded with Tchaikovsky, with the poets Afanasy Fet and Apollo Maykov.

The famous lawyer Alexander Koni came to Ostashevo. Here he had a long conversation with the son of the Grand Duke Oleg, a passionate admirer of Pushkin’s poetry.

Ostashev’s owners did not belong to the outstanding “progressive” cultural figures, but memories of the Grand Duke-poet were in Soviet years simply undesirable. The estate did not have the fate of being turned into a sanatorium or rest home and thereby avoid destruction. None of the previous owners would have recognized their lovely estate.

The main house was demolished, and a building was built in its place exactly in the middle of the last century music school in the “Stalinist Empire” style. Little has survived: two one-story residential wings of the late 18th century - they were connected by a passage to the main house, a one-story office and the manager's house, horse and cattle yards.

The stone equestrian yard, built in the 1840s, is one of the last neo-Gothic buildings in Russian estates. The courtyard is an L-shaped structure of two one-story wings with a multi-tiered entrance clock tower, decorated with pointed architraves - arches, battlements and pinnacles - small pointed decorative turrets. Looking closely, you can see that the clock dial with hands is painted. A pathetic replacement for the old, present. The spire that once crowned the tower has been lost.

The two-tiered entrance towers at the front courtyard (pseudo-Gothic of the 18th century), two fence towers of one of the side courtyards and the already mentioned white stone obelisk at the entrance to the estate escaped destruction. The newest of the estate buildings, the church-tomb in the name of the blessed Prince Oleg of Bryansk and the Venerable Seraphim of Sarov, suffered the least from the barbarity of people and time. Only the roof of the temple was replaced - from lobed to hipped. The four-pillar, single-domed cross-domed church with a separate belfry was erected in 1915 in memory of the son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Oleg, mortally wounded in German front at the very beginning of the war.

The temple was built over Oleg’s grave according to the design of architects M.M. Peretyatkovich and S.M. Cheshova, he was not consecrated. Vandals already in Soviet times broke stones with the names of persons imperial family who were present at the laying. The robbers more than once tried to get to the grave of Prince Oleg: their criminal greed was fueled by rumors that jewelry was placed in the coffin of the Grand Duke’s son...

In 1969, by decision of local authorities, the body of Prince Oleg was secretly buried at night in a village cemetery across the Ruza River. But rumor insists that the remains of the Grand Duke’s son were simply thrown out like unnecessary garbage.

In Soviet times, a fence made of stone pillars with bars was destroyed, which separated the front yard from the outbuildings of the horse and cattle yards, connecting the entrance towers, the office and the manager's house. Were once in the park separate areas, tracts - each with its own special composition and mood - bearing the names of glorious foreign cities: “Baden”, “Philadelphia”. Now they can't be found. The abandoned park has grown and now looks more like a forest. But you can still find a pond with an island in the middle.

A three-tiered tower-shaped church in the village of Brazhnikov, located on the other, left bank of the Ruza River, has survived. This temple, the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was built on the estate of Prince Peter Ivanovich Prozorovsky in 1713-1715. The tiered composition of the church is characteristic of its time and resembles the structure of the famous Church of the Intercession in Fili. But the Brazhnikov church is simpler and more austere; it lacks the stucco and carved patterns characteristic of the Filyo church, which reflected the trends of the “Moscow Baroque.” Brazhnikovsky Church has been restored.

During Soviet times, the bell tower built in 1859 was lost (only the lower tier remained). The wide windows of the lower, four-tiered tier of the church do not belong to XVIII century, and at a later time: the window openings were cut out in 1863. You can get to the temple by driving or crossing the river via a road bridge. Under Shipov and Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, Brazhnikovo was part of the Ostashevo estate.

Those who expect to see a holistic architectural and park landscape will not only be disappointed by Ostashevo, but will be deceived. Ostashevo is not Arkhangelskoye, not Kuskovo, not Ostankino and other luxurious palace ensembles. And among the lesser-known estates near Moscow you can find better preserved ones with more famous former owners - for example, Lermontov's Serednikovo or the Goncharovs' Yaropolets, which owes its fame to a couple of Pushkin's visits.

You need the ability to peer into the scattered buildings - the remains of the former Ostashev and an effort of imagination in order to feel the discreet beauty of the place and touch the memory stored by these ruins and dilapidated ruins. See pearls in the mud. And then the effort and time spent will not be in vain.

Restoring the estate is difficult, maybe even impossible, the ensemble is so badly destroyed. However, even in this form it remains a historical monument. It would be good if the Ostashevo buildings could be preserved, although this is hard to believe.

Text by Doctor of Philology Andrey Ranchin
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Konstantin ★★★☆☆

(8-10-2018)

In general, everything is sad. The central building continues to deteriorate. Some of the outbuildings are adapted for private housing. The fence with turrets is being destroyed. The horse yard is relatively intact, but it has been painted the color of feces. The separate temple-tomb has just been brought into decent shape.

Irina ★★★★★

(29-05-2015)

And isn’t it a shame to call these objects of cultural heritage - architectural monuments federal significance! If the state cared about preserving our history and culture, then before allowing cottage communities to be built around them, they would oblige these developers to restore the most beautiful and significant nearby! Still subject to restoration, they built it conscientiously. Such a wonderful place can be used as a holiday home or as a forest school - it is not necessary to set up a museum. After the war, my father was a pioneer in a camp in this place and all his life he remembered it with pleasure. ... continuation src="/jpg/plus.gif">

And now this is a national disgrace!

An example of the results of the vandalism of our people and the indifference of the state. Very interesting manor, which is in a very deplorable state. It's a pity... We couldn't get to the church - the grass and thickets of hogweed were taller than our heads.
You can enter the house, the stairs are still strong. Inside there is a local landfill + mountains of broken glass, it looks like drinking vodka and beer and then breaking the bottles inside is a favorite attraction of the local population.
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Muravyov's estate.

On the occasion of our arrival at the dacha, we visited the nearest estates
(and Yaropolets-two, Fedorovskoye, Volokolamsk). There are practically no changes here (from last year)! The main house was cleared from the ground, but a new problem is that the entire floor, on both floors, is covered with a thick layer of broken glass (bottles
damn!), well, there are MUCH more inscriptions. And the view from the landing of the stairs, through the exposed window, is still the same
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The tower with the attached house is still alive! The entrance turrets are behind....! But supposedly people live nearby (center)!

A visit is strictly recommended for lovers of estates, abandoned buildings and fragments of ancient architecture. A large territory, quite a lot of farm buildings have been preserved. The house, of course, is in a deplorable state, but the horse yard is something. I must admit, at first I thought it was a church;)

I’m not a fan of ruined estates, but one cannot help but admit that this one is very, very interesting - I can’t define the style for sure, but there are obvious elements of pseudo-Gothic. First of all, this applies to the tower of the horse yard (pictured). Everything else is in terrible ruin, with no prospects for restoration in sight. Only the nearby church is being actively restored - well, this is always the case in today's Russia. They find money for churches, for estates, with the exception of the most famous - figurines.

Everything is abandoned unfortunately. There are empty beer containers all around and other signs of the human factor, sad. Unfortunately, not the only estate in this condition in the Moscow region is sad and with famous history. You need to stop by if you find yourself in these places.

Anya ★★★★★

(15-07-2011)

We were recently in Ostashevo. The estate, of course, is very outdated, but it was still interesting to see. Nearby is the Ruza Reservoir - a very beautiful place! We stayed at the Ostashevskaya hotel - a cozy hotel 500 meters from the reservoir. We fried kebabs, Fresh air. It was nice)))