In the 1660s-1670s, the nobleman Stepan Kiprianovich Chirikov received several wastelands in the Kaluga district from the tsar, including Nedyurevo, Kostino, Belikovo, Provaly, Antsiforovo, Sleptsova, Kreksino, and Stanovskaya. In 1685, part of these lands and the village of Ferzikovo, located on both sides of the rivers Myshiga and Gnezna, were granted to him as hereditary property in recognition of his military merits.
The Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior in Ferzikovo is first mentioned in 1677. It was located on the Gnezna river and was part of Chirikov's estate, where he remained a parishioner for a long time.
Stepan Kiprianovich died before 1740. Between 1740 and 1760, most of the Ferzikovo estate passed to his great-grandson Alexander Nikolaevich Chirikov. The Chirikov family was related to the noble families of Raevsky, Gurev, and Bezobrazov. In the mid-18th century, a distillery operated in the Ferzikovo estate, with its products supplied to Moscow for the needs of the landowners. The peasants of the village provided fodder for the horses of the Nizhny Novgorod and Vyatka regiments.
Under Alexander Nikolaevich, a two-story stone house in the Elizabethan Baroque style was built in Ferzikovo, a park was laid out, and a garden was planted. In the 1770s, there were two churches in the village: a wooden one and a stone one. Alexander Nikolaevich, a collegiate advisor, died in 1780, leaving his inheritance to his wife Varvara Afanasyevna and their minor children.
During the Patriotic War of 1812, court councilor Pyotr Alexandrovich Chirikov sent 29 warriors to the militia and organized a hospital for 200 people in Ferzikovo. He also provided food for the wounded.
By 1830, Pyotr Alexandrovich found himself in debt and mortgaged his estates, including Ferzikovo. In 1831, he, his wife Natalia Kononovna, and daughter Elizabeth died of cholera in St. Petersburg. Their heirs were their children Alexander, Vladimir, and Vera.
On April 3, 1844, Alexander Petrovich Chirikov died childless, leaving the estate to his wife Anna Vasilievna and brother Vladimir Petrovich. Due to debts, the widow renounced the inheritance, and Vladimir sold the estate in 1849.
According to data from 1863, there were 25 households, a church, and a post station in the village of Ferzikovo, with a population of 207 people. By the end of the 19th century, the estate belonged to the forest dacha society of the Spis and Stuken company, and before the October Revolution, to the landowners Atryganyev.
After the revolution, the mansion housed a school and a children's sanatorium. In the autumn of 1941, a German hospital was located here. The sanatorium was closed for repairs in 1988, which were never carried out, and the building fell into disrepair. Today, only the walls of the Chirikov house remain.
Currently, there are plans to build a hotel and cultural-entertainment complex on the site of the old estate and restore the park.
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