Eight versts from Mtsensk, on the left bank of the Zusha River, lies the ancient village of Glazunovo, named after its former owner. Its oldest part was called Chichinovka, where the volost administration was located, and the entire volost was named Chichinovskaya.

Andrei Andreevich Glazunov, already a wealthy man, acquired this estate and built a new church in honor of the Protection of the Mother of God, which has survived to this day. After that, the village began to be called Pokrovskoye. A.A. Glazunov, known in the Oryol region, was a member of the provincial Masonic lodge, served as the county treasurer, and was elected the noble leader. One of his contemporaries called him "very cunning." He managed the affairs of the Novosil magnate N.Ya. Sverbeyev for a long time, and this management was assessed as "unsuccessful, if not dishonorable." In Oryol, he had a house that was purchased in 1814 by Varvara Lutovinova, where the future writer was born.

In the 1860s, the Glazunovo-Pokrovskoye estate passed to the Sheremetevs, long-time landowners of Mtsensk, belonging to the untitled branch of this family. Their rise in Mtsensk is associated with Vasily Alexandrovich, who held high positions in St. Petersburg.

The Sheremetevs acquired Glazunovo for their eldest son Vasily Vasilievich, who was a graduate of St. Petersburg University and participated in the Crimean War. He lived in Paris, where he had a house, and was an art lover. Officially unmarried, his common-law wife was a Frenchwoman, Madame Legrand.

With significant funds, Sheremetev built a magnificent estate complex in Glazunovo (Pokrovskoye) with a stone palace, greenhouses, stables, and other buildings. He died in Paris but was buried in the Trinity-Sergius Monastery.

The estate complex began to take shape in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, as confirmed by the dating of the Pokrov Church. The linden alleys, creating a regular layout of the park, date back to the first half of the 19th century. The main house has not survived.

A two-hundred-meter linden alley leads to the estate, connecting with a transverse alley. At the intersection of these alleys stands the Pokrov Church. There are three main direction alleys, and along the axis of the middle one stood the main house. Behind the house were cascading ponds.

The stable, built in the third quarter of the 19th century, is located in the northwestern part of the park. The barn and water pump date back to the late 19th century. The Church of the Protection, an interesting monument of classicism, resembles a park pavilion. It is adorned with rusticated walls and has a bell tower with arches.

The northern boundary of the estate runs behind the cascade of ponds and ends with a linden alley. To the east, the estate is bordered by a linden alley and a road, to the south, by a poplar alley, and to the west, by an alley of young trees and outbuildings. In the central part, the linden alley has been preserved, and among the buildings, there are old pines and firs. The church was closed in the 1930s.