The Apraxins estate is located on the northern shore of the pond, opposite the main part of the village of Brasovo. It was founded in the late 18th century when the village was owned by the Apraxins. In 1778, with the funds of Colonel S.S. Apraxin, a stone church of St. Basil the Great was laid, replacing the previous wooden one. The construction was overseen by the serf architect A. Morozov. At the end of the 18th century, a carriage house and stable were built, and at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries, two almshouse wings. In the 1870s, the Apraxins sold the estate to the Department of Estates, and it passed to Grand Duke Georgy Alexandrovich, and from 1899 until the October Revolution, to Mikhail Alexandrovich. By the end of the 19th century, an office with workshops and two residential buildings, known as the 'Count's House' and 'Countess's House', were built, and in the early 20th century, a blacksmith shop.
Today, the stable has been dismantled, and the remaining buildings have undergone renovations.
The estate is a significant architectural monument of Bryansk in the classical style. The complex occupies a rectangular plot along the pond's shore. The layout is based on two perpendicular axes. The main axis coincides with the road running parallel to the pond's shore from east to west. Along it are the almshouse wings, the church, and the blacksmith shop. The perpendicular axis is connected to the main buildings in the northeast: the Count's and Countess's houses, the carriage house, and the stable, with an office and workshops in between. The residential buildings are separated from the economic ones by a linden alley parallel to the road; to the west, they are connected by another alley.
The Count's and Countess's houses are examples of estate buildings from the eclectic period in the spirit of classicism. They are two two-story brick buildings with a rectangular shape and gable roofs. The facades have seven window axes, while the ends have five. The first floor is pierced by rectangular windows, and the second by tall arched windows in niches. The vestibule with a staircase is located almost in the center of the facade, flanked by five large rooms on each floor.
The church in honor of St. Basil the Great is one of the few surviving estate churches in Bryansk in the style of early classicism. The building has lost its dome and the upper tiers of the bell tower. The main volume of the church is square with rounded corners, topped with a drum and dome. The facades are adorned with Tuscan porticos, and the windows are recessed into niches. The interior features a dome space with original squinches and a round opening in the dome. The dome retains 19th-century frescoes. In the refectory, a memorial board with the names of the architect, the customer, and the date of the start of construction is embedded, which is a unique example for the Bryansk region.
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