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Ignatovskoye Estate

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Until the end of the 17th century, the village of Ignatovskoye-Znamenkoye was owned by the Khitrovo family. The last representative of this family, the chamberlain A.S. Khitrovo, transferred the estate to the Naryshkins. At the height of its glory, the estate belonged to Major General Vasily Sergeyevich Naryshkin (1740-1800), who was married to Countess Anna Ivanovna Vorontsova, a cousin of Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova. Their son Ivan Vasilyevich Naryshkin, a chamberlain and the leader of the nobility of Tarusa district, often lived in Ignatovskoye.

In the summer of 1825, the young count Mikhail Dmitrievich Buturlin (1807-1876), the nephew of the owners, visited Ignatovskoye for a few days. It was about him that A.S. Pushkin said: "My Onegin, it is you cousin." At that time, Buturlin did not yet know that his fate would be closely tied to these places: he would settle here with his family after losing everything, and his wife would be Katya Naryshkina, who was still a child then.

In the first quarter of the 19th century, Mikhail Dmitrievich wrote about the estate: "According to the old Russian landowner customs, near the village of Znamenskoye (with less than 200 peasants), there were up to 60 household souls. Of these, hardly half were fit for service, while the rest were old people and minors."

After settling in Znamenskoye, M.D. Buturlin took up gardening. He recalled: "Besides the airy fruit garden, restored after the previous one, which had almost completely perished from the severe frosts of 1835 to 1836, I only maintained the rest, and newly established the almost non-existent flower part and developed ornamental plantations in the completely bare yard, in front of the newly built house."

To create the "flower part," Buturlin initially hired gardeners from Moscow and other places, but eventually recognized that none of them could compare to his self-taught gardener Semyon Maximovich. During the Naryshkin period, a greenhouse for fruit trees and flowers was arranged in Ignatovskoye.

In the mid-19th century, materials from the old Naryshkin mansion of the late 18th century were used for the reconstruction of the house. As a result, the existing small stone single-story house on a high basement and the wing were created, forming a late classical ensemble.

The house faces the main courtyard with a four-column Tuscan portico and a triangular pediment, in the tympanum of which is inscribed a rare triangular window for the architecture of that time. The facades of the house lack decorations and stucco, while the interior design indicates that the building is intended for comfortable everyday life in nature, rather than for grand receptions.

In the early 20th century, the owner of Ignatovskoye became engineer P.N. Pertzov, who reconstructed the wing in the neoclassical style. A wooden mezzanine with a semicircular window, semicircular portico, and balcony appeared.

The rough stylization gives the architectural ensemble a new emotional resonance, creating a sense of unexpected "echo" of different eras of artistic sympathies and ideals.

Currently, the estate is occupied by buildings and lands belonging to the Ignatovskoye nursing home for the elderly and disabled. In the ancient park, trees have survived, some of which are likely over 500 years old.

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Усадьба Игнатовское

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