The village of Popelyovo, located in the Kozelsk district of the Kaluga province, belonged to the noble family of Bestuzhev-Ryumins. The estate was founded in the second half of the 18th century by the sons of the chamberlain Dmitry Andreevich Bestuzhev-Ryumin, representatives of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the family.

Ivan Dmitrievich, a captain of the Rostov infantry regiment, mainly lived in Moscow, where he had his own house. His brother, second lieutenant Nikolai Dmitrievich Bestuzhev-Ryumin, who began his service in 1741, preferred to stay in his Kaluga estates. Nikolai Dmitrievich was the grandfather of the Decembrist Mikhail Pavlovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin, one of the leaders of the Southern Society, executed in 1826.

By the end of the 18th century, the owner of the estate in Popelyovo became Nikolai Ivanovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin, a member of the Kozelsk district court, elected district judge in 1794. It is believed that in 1815 he renovated the old Christmas church in honor of the victory over Napoleon, updating the stone church with a bell tower and surrounding it with an iron fence.

According to the Kaluga archive, in the 1820s, part of the estate land with the manor house belonged to lieutenant Nikolai Ivanovich and his brother, cornet Ivan Ivanovich Bibikov. Another part of the estate and 53 serfs were owned by captain-lieutenant of the fleet Pyotr Bogdanovich Karpov, a deputy from the nobility for the Kozelsk district in 1823 and 1830. The Bibikov brothers rarely visited the estate, preferring to live in their estates outside the Kaluga province.

From the 1830s, the estate was managed by the third brother, staff rotmistr Alexei Ivanovich Bibikov, who retired in 1827 and settled in Popelyovo. He married Praskovya Sergeyevna Kamynina. His sons, Nikolai and Alexei, studied at the law faculty of Kharkov University. The younger daughter Praskovya married Alexander Pavlovich Zapolsky, while the elder daughter Alexandra, who graduated from a Moscow boarding school, married lieutenant of artillery Vasily Vladimirovich Voeykov, receiving the estate in Popelyovo as her dowry.

Vasily Vladimirovich, who held the position of district leader of the nobility for over ten years, managed the estate with his wife but went bankrupt, and the estate was sold. The Voeykov family moved to Poland, and the new owner became Prince Alexei Alexeyevich Vyazemsky. The widow of Pyotr Bogdanovich Karpov continued to own a small part of the estate, but Alexei Alexeyevich bought out all the land and became the sole owner of the estate, which occupied almost 700 desyatinas. In 1881-1883, he was the leader of the nobility for the Kozelsk district, later became the vice-governor of Mogilev, and in the late 1890s retired and settled in Popelyovo.

After his death in 1902, the estate passed to his son Vladimir, while his daughter Nadezhda received a small estate but continued to live with her brother. Prince Vladimir Alexeyevich was fond of hunting and kept 75 hunting dogs. In 1914, he married Alexandra Gastonovna Aksakova and transferred the village of Popelyovo to her name. The October Revolution caught Alexandra Gastonovna with her daughter Tatyana and son Dima at the estate, and in December 1917 they were forced to leave the estate.

The village was transformed into a division of the state farm "Krasny Kombinat," and in 1930, a state farm "Krasny Plodovod" emerged on the former landlord's lands. The frequent change of owners led to changes in the estate life and architectural appearance of the estate, making it difficult to judge its former appearance. In the 1980s, the one-story wooden manor house was faced with brick. The village church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, with a rich library, was destroyed during the Great Patriotic War.