The village of Bolshaya Chern is located on the right bank of the Nugr River, 11 kilometers southwest of Bolkhov. It previously belonged to the Lokonskaya volost and was also known by the names "Chern" and "Rozhdestvenskoye." In the 18th century, the village belonged to the noble family of Rzhevskys, who owned significant lands in the Oryol region. In 1747, Anna Mikhailovna Rzhevskaya, in memory of her husband Alexander Timofeevich Rzhevsky, built a stone church here in honor of the Nativity of Christ, which has not survived.

The Rzhevskys became related to the Cherynishev family in 1710 when Yevdokiya Ivanovna Rzhevskaya married Grigory Petrovich Cherynishev, the founder of the Cherynishev counts. Their son, General Field Marshal Ivan Grigoryevich Cherynishev, had four children, the youngest of whom, Anna Ivanovna Cherynisheva, inherited the village of Bolshaya Chern. In 1798, she married Alexander Alexeyevich Plescheyev, and they settled in Chern.

The Chern estate became a cultural center of the district. Plescheyev had a home theater and an orchestra of serf musicians under the direction of conductor Klassen. Musical evenings, concerts, plays, and performances were held here. In the 1810s and in 1837, V.A. Zhukovsky often visited Bolshaya Chern. E.A. Protasova also came here with her daughters, who were cousins of Plescheyev. In July 1812, composer A.A. Alyabyev, then a cornet of the 3rd Ukrainian Cossack regiment, stayed with the Plescheyevs.

After his wife's death in 1817, A.A. Plescheyev moved to St. Petersburg with his children. Soon, a fire occurred in Chern, destroying the manor house and all documents, letters, and compositions of Plescheyev, including romances on Zhukovsky's verses.

The younger son of the Plescheyevs, Pyotr Alexandrovich, received the estate in Bolshaya Chern as part of his inheritance from his mother. His relative E.I. Yelagina noted that he managed to nearly ruin himself without leaving the village and without playing cards, only by celebrating. Nevertheless, she called him "a knight without fear and reproach." The Plescheyev family preserved a legend about A.S. Pushkin's stay in Bolshaya Chern in 1829.

Today, the complex of buildings of the former Plescheyev estate is a cultural heritage site of the Oryol region. It includes a wing, two stables, a barn, a watchman's lodge, and a separator point, all built in the second half of the 19th century and currently in unsatisfactory condition.