One of the oldest and most picturesque estates was located in the village of Nikolskoye and belonged to the wealthy St. Petersburg noble family of Nalyanovs. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it was owned by the famous patron Pavel Dmitrievich Nalyanov.
The estate included a large two-story stone house with a six-column portico. Surrounding the house was a picturesque forest park with a large pond known as "Ozerko," around which birch alleys were planted. The estate also had a small pond with an island, where a gazebo for tea drinking was built. The main alley, lined with birches, led from the estate down the slope of a hill. At the entrance to the alley stood two towers with oval ornaments and the coat of arms of the Nalyanov family.
After the Nalyanovs, the estate was owned by Nikolai Fedorovich Grunner. In the late 19th century, it was rented out to the famous writer Pyotr Alexeyevich Seryenko, the author of books about the life of L.N. Tolstoy. Seryenko maintained friendly relations with Tolstoy, as well as with A.P. Chekhov and I.E. Repin. From 1905 to 1914, the estate was used by the German consul.
During the Soviet era, the house of the estate housed an agricultural commune. The house, which had fallen into disrepair, was dismantled in the 1970s. During the dismantling, a pencil sketch of a painting by the famous Russian landscape painter Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin was found in the attic.
The estate complex also included a stone church in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, with an altar dedicated to the icon of the Kazan Mother of God. Built in 1797 with funds from P.D. Nalyanov, the church was non-parish and was maintained by the estate owners. In 1925, the church was closed, and since then it has been used as a hay storage. The Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker lost its five domes and is in a ruined state. The apse and refectory are destroyed, and the pier of the first tier of the square is also ruined. The church had three entrances: the western one through the first tier of the bell tower, as well as the northern and southern ones from the square, decorated with porticos with columns, which have not survived. The first tier of the bell tower is adorned with rustication.
There was no cemetery around the church. There were only three burials: that of a priest, one of the estate owners N.F. Grunner, and his daughter. Currently, they are lost, but at the entrance to the church, the gravestone of N.F. Grunner has been preserved.
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