Once a large village with a rich estate, it has preserved about 30 houses and the ruins of the estate, which at different times belonged to Lopukhins, Goncharovs, and Belkins. However, the village is primarily known as the birthplace of the great Russian architect Vasily Ivanovich Bazhenov. The noble estate in Dolskoye, founded by I. Belkin, has been known since the 17th century. Until the mid-19th century, it remained in the hands of his descendants, and then passed to the nobleman A. A. Kharpovitsky, who was married to O. V. Belkina.
The last owners of the estate in Dolskoye were his daughter V. A. Kharpovitskaya and her husband, the leader of the district nobility B. D. Goncharov. In honor of the 200th anniversary of the death of V. I. Bazhenov, who was born here in 1737 (or 1738) in the family of a deacon of the Vvedenskaya church, a memorial plaque was installed.
The ruined two-story main house in the mid-18th century Baroque style, which was altered during renovations, has survived, as well as a one-story wing from the early 19th century in the classical style, the Assumption (Vvedenskaya) church of 1736, built by fleet lieutenant G. I. Belkin to replace the previous wooden one, and a separate bell tower from 1824 in the classical style, erected by A. M. Belkin, in the lower tier of which the Church of the Weeping Virgin was arranged. A regular park from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries with three cascading ponds has also been preserved, one of which has an island, on the banks of the Rozhnya River.
After the revolution, the estate buildings were used for economic purposes, and until 1977, the main house housed a school.
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