Near the village, the estate of Maximilian Karlovich von Meck (1869-1950), one of the leading transportation engineers in Russia and an actual state councilor, has been preserved. In the early 1860s, he was involved in the construction of railways and managed to amass a significant fortune.
His mother, the renowned patroness Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck, purchased land in Khruslovka and organized the construction of a palace and park in the late 1880s. She supported the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky for a long time.
The palace was built in the Romanesque style by the Venëv contractor Boris Zhuldubin, based on the design of architect Sergey Alexandrovich Ecarev. Each of the 24 rooms had unique decor and furnishings. Among them were oak and walnut halls, a 'Chinese' hall with upholstery made from Chinese fabrics, as well as halls decorated to resemble ash and painted in silver and gold, with furniture made from walnut and Karelian birch. The most unusual was the 'mirror' room, where the walls, ceiling, and floor were covered with mirrors.
In 1895, M. K. von Meck married Olga Mikhailovna Kiryakova and left the estate in the Venëv district, starting a career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He worked as a secretary at the Russian embassy in Washington and other countries. Since 1917, he was in exile and never returned to his homeland.
After nationalization in 1918, the palace's property was transferred to the Museum of Noble Life in Moscow, where part of it was sold at auction. The estate housed a 'State Farm' where sugar beets were grown and livestock was raised.
From 1923, the former estate operated the Khruslovsky orphanage for orphans from the Volga, which closed in 1984. The building was then handed over to one of the enterprises in Novomoskovsk to create a boarding house, which was never opened.
Today, the estate is gradually falling into disrepair. Remnants of agricultural buildings can still be found at the edge of the park by the Osetr River.
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