The first estate with a wooden manor house was built under Adam Vasilyevich Olsufyev, who served as state secretary to Catherine II. The estate passed to him in the late 1770s. Later, it was inherited by his sons Sergey and Dmitry. The Olsufyev family constructed stone churches: the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in 1795 and the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in 1815. After his retirement in 1798, Sergey Adamovich lived in Vazerki. In the 1850s, the estate was owned by his son Dmitry Sergeyevich, who had no children.
Under the Shakhovskys, the estate had two manor houses: the old one, built by the Olsufyevs in the mid-19th century and preserved to this day, and a new one that has not survived. In the western part of the estate, there was a landscaped park with a pond.
The old one-story brick house is designed in the style of mature classicism. Its central part with a mezzanine has been preserved, featuring semicircular windows in the tympanums of the mezzanine's pediments and side ends, as well as rusticated side sections with windows having wedge-shaped lintels.
In 1918, the estate was nationalized. Currently, only fragments of the estate complex remain, and the park and pond have overgrown.
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