Vasily Mikhailovich Mikhailovsky, who served in the military engineering troops of the tsarist army, became the owner of the former estate of the Venivitinovs in the village of Gorozhanka, which he received from his wife's relatives, the Chokolovs. Since then, the estate has been called Mikhailovsky.

The new owner closed the old productions, built a distillery, and set up a beehive. An underground passage was dug to the factory.

People in the village remember Mikhailovsky differently: some consider him a kind man, while others see him as cruel. It is known that during holidays he gave peasants three rubles at the church.

At the beginning of the revolution, Vasily Mikhailovich did not leave the estate, as many other landowners did, and remained there until 1918, when the Red Army soldiers arrived. His fate was discussed at a meeting. Mikhailovsky asked to be allowed to keep his house and garden, but the residents insisted on the complete confiscation of his property.

The Red Army soldiers, who settled on the first floor of his house, arrested him and kept him on the third floor. However, at night he managed to escape by climbing down sheets. He found refuge with peasant Dmitry Vinokurov, who smuggled him out in a hay cart, saving him from retribution. Mikhailovsky's further fate is unknown. There is a legend that during the Great Patriotic War, when the Germans were on the right bank of the Don, one of the peasants recognized him as one of the German officers. It is said that thanks to him, the house was not shelled, unlike another noble mansion in the village.