The landowner's village with wastelands has long been located on the right side of the old Bryansk road, by the quiet river Vyazichka. Three ponds were arranged here, which gave the estate a special charm. The estate was owned by second lieutenant Pyotr Matveyevich Yeropkin, who served as a judge in the district court of the Peremyshl district in 1788. He allocated more than twenty desyatins of land for the estate buildings, where he lived with his wife Agrafena Nikolaevna, born Shcherbacheva, and their seven children in a cozy wooden house surrounded by a fruit orchard. A stone church in honor of the Great Martyr Paraskeva Friday, built in 1771 with funds from Boris Matveyevich Yeropkin, the brother of the estate owner, already stood in the village.
According to archival data, the Yeropkins owned the estate until the 1830s. They were well-off, as, in addition to the village of Kumovskoye, they owned vast lands and nearly three hundred serfs in neighboring villages and hamlets.
In the mid-19th century, the estate passed to landowner Karpov, then to the wife of lieutenant A.Y. Yakovleva, and by the end of the 19th century, it became the property of the wife of captain Ekaterina Antonovna Stanislavova. At that time, the estate was valued at more than fifty thousand rubles and was listed among the largest.
The estate experienced its greatest flourishing in the 1870s when the main house was replaced with a stone one. Despite its modest architectural appearance, the single-story building was distinguished by elegance and fine taste in the facade decor: garlands, original "brows", arched windows with keystones, and a grand entrance with a cornice. The house had eight living rooms and a large hall for guests. Nearby were two buildings for servants, a separate basement, a kitchen, a carriage house, and other outbuildings. To the left of the estate was a linden alley, with fruit orchards on both sides.
According to the memories of A.I. Boyarchikov, the last owner Nikolai Barykov, who graduated from the Petrov Agricultural Academy in Moscow, shared agronomic knowledge with the peasants of Kumovskoye long before the revolution. In the early 20th century, the village had a church-parish school and a literacy school, and part of the land of Kumovskoye was rented out to poor peasant families.
In 1929, the estate house was handed over to the commune, during the war it served as a hospital, and later the building was used as a school. Now the estate is deserted, and the church of the Great Martyr Paraskeva Friday is in ruins.
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