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Bogimovo Estate

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According to some sources, the Pronchishchev family traces its origins to Ivan Vasilyevich Pronchishchev, who moved from Poland to Grand Duke Ivan III in 1488. His sons served Tsar Ivan IV and were gifted a landholding in the Kaluga province, which included Bogimovo and Torbeevo in the Tarusa district.

One of the most famous representatives of the family is Arctic explorer Vasily Vasilyevich Pronchishchev, a participant in the Great Northern Expedition and commander of the III cartographic detachment, who discovered the Taymyr Peninsula. He was born in 1702 in the village of Bogimovo, where he spent his childhood.

In the 18th century, the estate village was described as a peasant settlement with dilapidated huts and woven gardens, located along the river. Not far from the noble estate, on a hill, stood an old wooden church with a cemetery, and below it, the priest's house and the huts of the clergy.

The original estate was located next to the cemetery and church, where, in addition to the noble house, there were several small wooden buildings.

In the late 18th century, the estate was owned by Alexei Ionovich Pronchishchev, a retired second major and leader of the Tarusa nobility. He moved the estate to the left bank of the Myshaga River and began construction of a new stone house with outbuildings in 1800, owning it until 1824. The buildings of the estate, erected by the strict and despotic Alexei Ionovich, resembled barracks with their rational appearance.

The builder paid no attention to style or decoration; his goal was the strength and reliability of the structures. A large two-story house with 25 rooms appeared, along with two wings, as well as stables and cattle yards. In the 1830s, his grandson Alexei Vladimirovich laid out a fir-linden park with an alley and built the Assumption Church.

In the summer of 1891, when the estate was owned by landowner Bylym-Kolosovsky, the family of the itinerant artist A. A. Kiselev lived in Bogimovo. At the same time, the second floor of the noble house was occupied by the family of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, who spent several months here. This period became one of the most productive in the writer's work. Here he worked on "The Duel," the story "The Women," and the novella "Sakhalin Island." Impressions from Bogimovo later inspired Chekhov to write the story "The House with the Mezzanine." During his stay in these places, he treated local peasants.

Since 1936, the estate has been used as a psychiatric hospital. During the Great Patriotic War, a hospital for horses was set up in the park, and officers were treated in the two-story building. Currently, the surviving structures of the former estate are in a state of disrepair.

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Усадьба Богимово

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