Yasenovo is a historical estate located in the Southwestern Administrative District of Moscow, within the territory of Bitsevsky Park, near the Novoyasenevskaya metro station. The building was erected during the era of the Lopukhins and is currently undergoing restoration. Yasenovo is one of the oldest settlements in the Moscow region, first mentioned in 1339 as a grand princely estate, and later a royal manor. In the 1690s and 1790s, the estate belonged to the Lopukhins, and in 1728 it became the property of F.A. Lopukhin, after which it was sold. In 1800, the estate was acquired by Paul I and gifted to his mistress Anna Petrovna Gagarina. From 1814, the owners were Ekaterina Sergeevna Gagarina and her husband Andrei Pavlovich, whose cousin Sergey Ivanovich bought Yasenovo on November 22, 1818. Under Sergey Ivanovich, the estate flourished: greenhouse farming developed, a farm for breeding fine-wool sheep was established, and a garden with a fruit-rotation system was laid out. Next to the estate is the Church of Peter and Paul, built by the 1750s. In this church, on July 9, 1822, the parents of Leo Tolstoy were married: Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy and Princess Maria Nikolaevna Volkonskaya. In the western part of the park, two ponds have been preserved, marked on the 1766 plan. Another chain of ponds separated the estate from the peasant houses, originally there were four. Now there are also two of these ponds, which have lost their historical shape and were reconstructed in the late 1980s.
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