After 1625, the village of Berizichi became not only an independent settlement but also the center of a church parish. At this time, the first wooden church in honor of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker was built, likely at the initiative of Andrei Grigorievich Chicherin, the owner of these lands.
From the 1780s, the estate with the manor house, garden, and church was owned by Anna Vasilyevna Chicherina (1730-1793), the great-aunt of A.S. Pushkin. She established a "gentleman's house" by the church and laid out a fruit garden. Anna Vasilyevna died unmarried and was buried in the Don Monastery in Moscow.
In 1812, Berizichi housed a recruitment point for the people's militia. For some time, the estate was owned by Vasily Lvovich Pushkin (1766-1830), A.S. Pushkin's uncle, likely in partnership with the Chicherins. In the summer of 1829, he sold Berizichi to the Kaluga governor Prince Alexander Petrovich Obolensky (1780-1855), a representative of a well-known Russian dynasty.
Prince Obolensky established several industries here: a beet sugar factory, a paper mill, a distillery, a flat tile factory, and others, including a glass factory. In gratitude to this place, he built a new stone church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. After his death in 1856, Berizichi was inherited by his eldest son, Prince Dmitry Alexandrovich Obolensky (1822-1881).
During Dmitry Obolensky's management, several brick residential buildings were constructed in Berizichi, which have survived to this day, as well as a small brick house where a school functioned for a long time. Initially, it was a church parish school, and from the 1860s, it became a zemstvo school with a three- or four-year curriculum.
The last owner of Berizichi, Prince Alexei Dmitrievich Obolensky (1855-1932), was not only a landowner but also an industrialist. He founded a glass factory in 1912 and created an estate complex on the banks of the Zhizdra River. In 1905, a palace with a terrace, a landscape park, and a gazebo overlooking the river was built according to the design of architect Gaveman.
After 1917, the Obolensky family emigrated. The estate's territory housed a rest house, a hospital, an orphanage, and a boarding school. The area is now open for visits. The main house of the estate burned down in 1970, but the outbuildings, church, park, and the glass factory founded in 1912 have survived.
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