The Mosolovs' estate in the village of Dubna. Everything about us is changing

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Along with the Demidovs, one of the important places in the development of our metallurgy is associated with another surname - the Mosolovs, who built their own iron smelting plant on the Dubna River in the Tula region. The Dubno plant, as often happens with enterprises built in an “open field,” became a city-forming plant, and the current village of Dubna arose around it.

In 1828, Pyotr Mosolov built an estate opposite the plant on the shore of the pond, with a three-story main house made of brick and wood with four front facades.

The house was beautifully decorated from the facade, its design was complemented by a veranda and cast iron elements: columns with vines and grapes, intricate brackets and a grand staircase with leaves and flowers of grapes. Some historically valuable architectural elements have been preserved in the house to this day: a cast-iron staircase, wooden carvings on the facade of the building, columns in the hall.

In 1912, the Mosolovs sold their house and business in Dubna to the rich peasant brothers Baranov and Kuritsyn, and with the approach of the revolution they emigrated abroad. Nowadays, 17 families live in the Mosolovs’ house in Dubna, who are soon going to be resettled, and the estate itself was planned to be restored.

A museum of Russian metallurgy should also appear here, the park should be landscaped and the pond should be cleaned. True, all this was the initiative of the former governor of the Tula region, Gruzdev, who planned to actively develop tourist destinations in the region; what awaits the estate now is not entirely clear.

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The AiF in Tula correspondent talked to Director of the Dubensky Regional Museum of Local Lore Marina Izhevskaya.

The Mosolov estate is called the “pearl” of the Russian nobility of the 18th-19th centuries. This is a large wooden mansion with a stone first floor. Behind the house is a pond, behind it is a forest of pine and spruce trees. A very “relaxing” place, relaxing and harmonizing.

The Mosolovs, in addition to the Dubno house, had houses in Moscow and Tula, in the village of Protasovo, and in Yalta. These two have not survived.

Dubensky was luckier - it is more monumental, and once its large halls were partitioned off, making rooms and moving people there. Since then, the new residents did not know any conveniences, and they were not very warmed by the fact that they lived in a historical house. The good news was that they lived together. We celebrated weddings and holidays together, as did funerals. Recently a new house was built in Dubna, where everyone was moved. And the dilapidated building began to be restored.

Photo: From personal archive

Getting popular

Now they are demolishing the “homemade” walls, says Marina Izhevskaya, which divided the halls into rooms. After restoration, it is planned to create a museum with a conference hall, a cultural, business and tourist center, with a registry office, a cafe and a hotel complex. All this should happen this year.

We were lucky: the Mosolov estate was included in the number of historical sites that will be restored for the 500th anniversary of the Tula Kremlin and Zasechnaya Line.

The area next to the estate has already been landscaped. They cleaned up the park and cleaned out a huge pond that had looked like a swamp for the last 20 years. To remove the silt and clean the bottom, the reservoir had to be drained and then refilled with water. Today this place is unrecognizable - a real oasis. People swim there. Just a year ago this would have been impossible to even imagine.

I myself was recently on vacation, most of which I spent most of my time relaxing next to a “resurrected” body of water. It seems like I never left Dubna, but it feels like I went to a resort.

Everything about us is changing

- Do tourists already know about this?

Yes, they come to us from almost all over Russia. Most of all - from the Kaluga, Moscow regions and our region. Over the past two years, interest in our region has grown greatly: this is noticeable in the attendance of museums, in the number of people coming to us for a walk and relaxation. If in 2017 about 4.5 thousand people visited us for the entire year, today 3 thousand came in just six months. We are becoming popular.

Request for history

- What caused this interest? You can find beautiful nature and ponds in many places.

I think with greater attention from the state to small towns with a rich history. The policy of the country's leadership is aimed at the development of culture, the preservation and restoration of historical and archaeological heritage, and the revival of memorable places.

For a long time - especially in the turbulent 90s - we were on the periphery of attention. Of course, when it is necessary to develop the economy and raise industry from its knees, somehow there is no time for culture at all. But today, it seems to me, an understanding has come that by depriving attention to the historical heritage, we risk being left with a generation that will not know its roots, much less honor them. I think this is why there are so many cultural and educational projects in the country today. And we are seeing a response from the Russians. They became interested in history - their own, their villages and cities, the history of the country.

Of course, when reviving the cultural and historical heritage, we cannot ignore small towns. Take our Mosolov estate, for example. Representatives of this noble family are considered one of the founders of domestic metallurgy. The Mosolovs opened a metallurgical plant in the Tarussky district of the Moscow province back in 1729. It was one of the largest privately owned enterprises in Russia at that time. They also developed iron ore deposits in the Urals. And in the Tula province, in Dubna, brick production was launched. Thanks to their participation, the Likhvinskaya railway, the temple of the Great Martyr Barbara, a stone church with a bell tower and a chapel in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker were built. It is known that the Dubno plant was a serious competitor to the enterprise of the famous Nikita Demidov. The products of Dubno metallurgists were distinguished by excellent quality and precision casting. The enterprise operated until the 90s of the 20th century. During the Great Patriotic War he was evacuated to the Urals, and after the liberation of Tula he was returned to Dubna. Before the war, the plant produced window stoves and boilers, and after that, cast-iron finned pipes, which were used in construction. There was a great demand for these products. It was necessary to restore city buildings destroyed during the war.

We have two kindergartens - they are overcrowded. The queues are huge. School desks are also not empty. What kind of outflow of young people can we talk about?

- How does the village live today? Are young people running to seek happiness outside of Dubna?

Look: we have two kindergartens - they are overcrowded. The queues are huge. School desks are also not empty. What kind of outflow of young people can we talk about? There was a demographic failure in the 90s - but this was typical for the entire country as a whole. We do not have a dying village, nor an aging province. And the revival of historical places, in my opinion, will give an additional impetus to the development of the village. You won't want to leave such a place.

Will Voskresensk be resurrected?

Estates are being restored in Vologda, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Lipetsk. On the terms of public-private partnership. The investor invests in the reconstruction of the building, preserving its historical appearance, and receives the right to open, say, a cafe or hotel in the former estate.

This is a good thing. The main thing is that the restoration preserves historical authenticity. And, of course, there must be restrictions on exactly how the estate can be used for business. It’s not like opening another supermarket in a historical building. If all these conditions are met, if the investor is correct and has good goals to restore the architectural heritage - why not? Another thing is that not everyone will go for it. Reconstruction is a slow process and requires serious investments.

All this splendor - the estate and the surrounding territory - is in such a state today that in another five years the walls will collapse, and this place will grow into its former self. It seems that one of the large enterprises operating in the Dubensky district wants to take on the restoration of this estate, turning it into a recreation area.

We really hope that his leadership will not abandon this project. Because sometimes only business can save historical and architectural values. And apparently, this is exactly the case.

The Mosolov estate was included in the number of historical objects that will be restored for the 500th anniversary of the Tula Kremlin and Zasechnaya Line.

The Gray House on Solyanka was built from 1912 to 1915. based on designs by famous Moscow architects V.V. Sherwood, A.I. German, A.E. Sergeev commissioned by the Moscow Merchant Society. The six-story complex of apartment buildings stands on the site of the demolished 17th-century Salt Yard, which is why old-timers also call it the “Salt House.” The first floors with large display windows were intended for shops, the upper floors for apartments. The two-level salt storage basements were converted into warehouses, so the ventilation and lighting systems were well thought out. During the war, these basements were used as bomb shelters and saved the residents of the house and their neighbors. The buildings of the houses are connected by a passage and courtyards-wells. The house is also called the “house under the angels” because of the figures of Slava on the facade of one of the buildings ( see photo below). It can be seen in the films “The Boy and the Dove”, “Through Thorns to the Stars”, “Accident - the Cop’s Daughter”, “Brother”, etc. Episodes of the series “Gastronom Case No. 1” about director Eliseevsky were also filmed here. The “Gallery on Solyanka” is also located here.

I've always wondered what it would be like to live in such an incredible home. I walked into the entrance with a sinking heart, but the house, as it turned out, had gone through reconstruction, and all the most valuable and interesting things, as often happens in our city, had disappeared. But luck was still on my side: it turned out that my former student’s neighbor, Tatyana Yakovlevna Grozdova, was an old resident of the house, of which there are very few left. Over a cup of tea we talked about life in the house before and after the war, about what had become of it in our time.

Acquaintance.“Moscow has been ruined!”- Tatyana Yakovlevna greets me with this phrase. While drinking tea, he and his daughter Nina immediately remember the disappeared tea and pastry shop (pictured above) in Armenian Lane. “The store was simply amazing: with wooden panels and counters, mirrors, vases, porcelain figures. I still remember him well. My mother and I often went there. There was an amazing marble table, so round, on a leg! So at first this table disappeared, but the pastry shop was still working, and then - that’s it! And now there is a pharmacy there, probably the tenth in the area. It's horrible!"- says Nina.

Tatyana Yakovlevna has lived in the second building of the house on Solyanka since her birth - since 1927. Her parents settled here in 1924. The house belonged to the People's Commissariat of Railways of the USSR, and her parents just worked in the People's Commissariat of Transport. Father, Yakov Vasilyevich Grozdov, was of Georgian princely blood, born in Tiflis and lived in the Georgian settlement before Solyanka. Mother, Olga Ivanovna Grigorieva ( in the photo below), was born in the city of Memel (Klaipeda), was of Lithuanian-German blood. Before moving to Moscow, she lived in St. Petersburg.

Tatyana Yakovlevna is a labor veteran, until she was 80 years old she worked at the Institute of General Genetics named after. N.I. Vavilov RAS in the laboratory of space genetics on international projects ( in the photo below). She has VDNKh awards, a government award for labor excellence, which was presented to her in the St. George Hall of the Kremlin. Her daughter Nina Yakovlevna worked as a typist at Voenizdat, then at the Nauka publishing house and at the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry named after. N. S. Kurnakov RAS.

Before the war. The house in which the Grozdovs still live was very prestigious. In addition to ministerial workers, people of creative professions, doctors and NKVD employees lived here. " We had a very intelligent and cultured house! The ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya lived in the 3rd entrance, and the author of the music for the Anthem, Alexandrov, lived in the 12th entrance.“- says Tatyana Yakovlevna. The yard was regularly cleaned, there were stone flowerpots with flowers, and carpets were laid on the staircases in the entrances. There were concierges at the entrances.

There were no separate apartments, all were communal, but some families occupied 2-3 rooms. Many residents kept housekeepers. The courtyards—the “back door”—and the cellars were always open. Tatyana Yakovlevna recalls: “ There were beautiful flower beds in front of the house, rugs and flowers everywhere. And in winter, so that we would not go anywhere - neither to Sokolniki, nor to the Park of Culture - the passage to Solyanka was flooded. And we went ice skating. A Christmas tree was placed at the 13th entrance. It was still installed after the war, but without toys. The yard was very green, because everyone was worried that poor children live in Moscow, it’s unclear what they breathe.”. The house had marble window sills, copper door handles ( see photo below), stucco on the ceilings, parquet with copper plates to allow the floor to breathe. Nina says that when the house was undergoing reconstruction during the period of perestroika, the neighbor tried to remove this parquet, but it was difficult.

Tatyana Yakovlevna’s family lived in the 11th entrance and occupied one room, the largest in a four-room communal apartment - about 29 sq.m. with a balcony overlooking the courtyard-passage. Some apartments had eight rooms. There was always a kitchen area near the kitchen. Two families with children lived in their apartment, an engineer and a woman who kept to herself, and later turned out to be an “informer” and imprisoned the engineer. Her name was Manka. Tatyana Yakovlevna says that Manka worked as an accountant at some ministry and lived alone to a ripe old age. Mom, Olga Ivanovna, subsequently felt sorry for her and later even found her distant relatives in Kolomna. There were agents of informants in every entrance, in almost every apartment. On the Memorial website there is a list of 45 victims of Stalin’s terror in the house on Solyanka.

In 1937, Tatyana Yakovlevna’s brother was born, and her mother called her grandmother from St. Petersburg to help. My grandmother’s name was Berta Ivanovna, she was of German blood, and they didn’t want to register her in the apartment, and it was impossible to stay in the city for more than three months without registration. Then the family wrote a letter to Stalin, and soon a resolution came: “register.” In May 1941, Berta Ivanovna died. Tatyana Yakovlevna says: “Lucky for her! And I probably wouldn’t be talking to you now, in June we would all be evicted at best...”

Nevertheless, in pre-war times the house lived very amicably. Often in the evenings a table with green cloth was brought into the common hallway, and the men played cards and billiards, all drinking tea in silver cup holders. Of course, we met and talked in the common kitchen - this was the main place for discussing all topics. Each family had its own table and place on the stove. The apartment was cleaned according to schedule, laundry was washed and hung out as agreed. After washing, the floor was necessarily rubbed with mastic and polished with a brush. The residents of the apartment treated it very carefully and even received a certificate from the building management for cleanliness and order.

During the war years. In 1941, Tatyana Yakovlevna’s father, accompanied by his family, was sent to Kuibyshev (now Samara). But my mother refused to leave, she was afraid that the room would be taken away, and she and her daughter stayed in Moscow. Then the father went into evacuation with his little son and spent a whole year there. “He took out the wives of important people. And he stayed there for a year. Life was very bad; dad didn’t know how to steal. He returned and died in 1943. He contracted consumption during the evacuation. When I visited him at the Ministry of Railways hospital on Frolov Lane, he always gave me something from the food he had hidden from lunch.”

Tatyana Yakovlevna recalls how in the summer of 1941, during the bombing of Moscow, a shock wave broke the glass in their apartment, and for a whole year they lived with the windows boarded up. When the air raid siren sounded, they ran to the basement. “And on the roof of the house there were barrels of sand, and I, with other teenagers and adults, was on duty and grabbed the “lighters” that were dropped by the planes with large iron tongs. They were extinguished in barrels. They left holes in the entire roof, and sometimes lighters fell onto the balcony.”

Post-war time. After the war, the house ceased to be departmental. Almost all of the residents have changed: some were repressed, some did not return from evacuation, some had their living conditions improved. Separate apartments appeared - people occupied the vacant rooms. The Grozdovs have new tenants - factory workers and a half-crazed elderly couple. " The old woman obviously put something in our food, because sometimes the porridge that I prepared for my daughter foamed a lot and looked strange.”- says Tatyana Yakovlevna. “We didn’t get along with our new neighbors, especially when I was left completely without male support - with my mother and small child. Dad had been gone for a long time, and my brother got married and moved away. I was a single mother, and at that time it really affected people's attitudes. Nina's father helped us well, but this irritated the neighbors even more. It was very difficult to live in such conditions, so we were looking forward to the summer, when we could go to a rented dacha and take a break from our communal apartment.” In the apartment they knew everything about each other. The telephone was built into the wall in the common hallway, and there was a Viennese chair underneath it. The wire was short, so the receiver could not be taken anywhere, and all conversations became the property of the residents of the neighboring rooms.

In 1985, reconstruction began in the second building of the house. Residents were offered separate apartments in Khimki and Khovrino, but Tatyana Yakovlevna and Nina managed to stay on Solyanka - they received a two-room apartment in the 15th entrance, where they live now. “To stay in this house, my mother knocked on doors, we handed over the warrants that were given to us. My friend from entrance 12 went to the square. Ilyich - this was the best option of all. My mother’s institute wrote a petition, listing all the merits and awards. The City Executive Committee reluctantly gave us this two-room apartment, where the four of us now live, with my children. Mom spent all her savings on this apartment. But our whole life is connected with the surrounding area; leaving here would be a tragedy.”- says Nina. The first building is currently under reconstruction. Nina says that there " something strange is happening The entrances have already been dismantled piece by piece.” " I know that there are both communal apartments and separate apartments. They cannot resettle communal apartments because there is no consensus among the residents; they cannot decide who wants to go where.”

Neighborhood. And Tatyana Yakovlevna, and Nina, and her children all studied in special school No. 337 (aka No. 35, No. 1227). It is located in Bolshoy Trekhsvyatitelsky Lane, then Bolshoy Vuzovsky, in 2013 the school celebrated its 100th anniversary ( in the photo below). Tatyana Yakovlevna did not study for long at school No. 661 in Kolpachny Lane. He says that during the war there was a hospital there: “ We didn’t study for a whole week, we helped in the hospital.”

From 1946 to 1948 Tatyana Yakovlevna worked as a laboratory assistant at the Institute of Radiology and Radiology named after. Molotov, who was in the famous House with Atlanteans. She is very worried about this house, she says it’s good that it was finally noticed and will be restored.

Nina went to kindergarten No. 304 (pictured below), located in the mansion of Savva Morozov, in which the famous film “The Mustachioed Nanny” was filmed. " There are very beautiful stairs and panoramic windows. There was a kitchen in the basements. I remember that when we were on duty, we went down to this basement, and they poured crackers for the broth, gave us bread, and we took it all to the other guys. Part of the Morozovsky Garden belonged to our kindergarten, and part remained open to everyone. We often walked there, even when we were at school, and went sledding. In the spring there was a very beautiful Hungarian lilac there, there was a lot of greenery. And my first kindergarten was in a church on the corner of Varvarka. Then it was restored, but then it had no dome.”- Nina recalls.

She also says that she always loved to walk in the courtyard of house number 10 on Starosadsky Lane (see photo below), where the monument to Osip Mandelstam now stands. There was an apple orchard, also a lot of greenery, there were large flower beds. " And on the way to school there was this front garden, very small. It reminded me of a piece of a dacha. It was located next to the Ivanovo Monastery, if you walk along the wall. Now there is a passage, but before there was a green wooden fence. There were real gooseberries growing in this yard. Can you imagine? In the center of Moscow!".

Tatyana Yakovlevna recalls the Khitrovsky market: “ Carts with milk and vegetables arrived from the Kursky station. So my grandmother and I went to our market". We didn’t go far to the shops either – we had everything we needed in the house. On the corner of the first building, where the Viennese Coffee House is now, there was a Baltika store with a huge selection of fabrics from the Baltics ( in the photo below), which existed for quite a long time, until the end of the 90s. The pharmacy in the same building remained in the same place, only the owner changed.

There was a book and stationery store “Svetoch” in the house. There was a bread shop, a dairy shop, a meat shop, a confectionery shop, and a deli. The stores, of course, changed, but there were always enough of them. There was a flower shop in Solyansky Proezd. Nina recalls that it appeared in the late 60s and existed until the fall of 2016, and then disappeared: “ He survived all these “systems”. Appeared when I was still a child. It was very cozy, and suddenly it was closed". On the site of the “Gallery on Solyanka” there was a “Red Corner”, where clubs were organized for children.

Home on Solyanka 102 years old, And 90 Of these, Tatyana Yakovlevna lives in it. The composition of the residents has changed many times during this time, and continues to change now, but the Grozdovs try to maintain warm neighborly relations with everyone who lives here. The fate of the house and its surroundings is not indifferent to them - Nina helped save the House with the Atlanteans. At the end of our conversation, she suddenly remembered the copper handle from the door of their first apartment in the house - during the reconstruction, all the doors were replaced, but she managed to save this handle as a memory of the now disappeared beauty of the interior decoration of the house. I asked Tatyana Yakovlevna how she felt about the changes that were happening to the house and the surrounding area. “It’s a shame that our yard has turned into a parking lot,” says Tatyana Yakovlevna . – I like the idea with the pedestrian zone on Zabelina, but drunkards often gather there, it’s bad. It would be better to hold some kind of fairs. But I still love these places very much; I haven’t lived in others. It’s a pity, of course, that there is not enough greenery now, that there is only commerce everywhere. But this is my home. Life goes on!».

Text – Olga Pichugina. Photo: Pavel Sukharev and from the archives of the Grozdov family. We thank Lilya Morozova for the meeting with Tatyana Yakovlevna and Nina Grozdov. The publication was prepared as part of the “Live Journal of the Basmanny District” project. The project was supported by the Moscow Public Relations Committee.

So, we started. The second day of my trip to the estates of the Tula region, awaiting an investor, promises to be no less eventful than yesterday.
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Update:
12:45 - Pyatnitskoye estate.
14:30 - Voskresenskoye Estate - the many faces of neoclassicism.
16:10 - Dubna (Mosolov) estate - cast iron durability of wood.
18:50 - Krasino-Uberezhnoye estate - rebirth.

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Manor Pyatnitskoye

How can I briefly describe my impressions of my acquaintance with the Pyatnitskoye estate? Perhaps this is the name of the stop near the local village - Obidimo.
That's it - “I'm offended” by the fact that this beauty is in such a monstrous state.

So, a little historical background. The Pyatnitskoye estate has been known since the last quarter of the 18th century. The most famous owners of this estate were representatives of the Alexandrov family. Once upon a time, the village of Pyatnitskoye was considered a fairly prosperous settlement. It was located near the busy Aleksinsky tract.

The troubles in the Alexandrov estate, as usual, began after the revolution. The estate was nationalized and a commune was opened in it, and then an orphanage.

The first landmark to be damaged during Soviet times was the Transfiguration Church, built in 1835. A hundred years later it was simply dismantled into bricks. The small fragment shown in the photo is all that remains of the temple.

You need to walk very carefully in the area adjacent to the church. You can gape and fall into the crypt - in the literal sense of the word.

And this impersonal building, covered with siding, is the former main manor house. The upper wooden part burned down in 2010.

The majestic stone building in front of us, according to official local history sources, is the manager’s house. Although, many locals confidently call it a carriage house. I will try to find out why there is such uncertainty when I write a full post about the Pyatnitskoye estate.

In general, Pyatnitskoye amazes with the number of buildings that were once part of the estate complex. Local historians say that there are more of them here than in Yasnaya Polyana. Year of construction - 1867.

Outbuildings and human buildings have reached us in varying degrees of preservation.

A well-fed cat walks around Pyatnitskoe like a businessman. Perhaps he is the most life-affirming thing that could be seen here today.

We believe that Pyatnitskoye has enormous potential and, if desired, it can be restored.

Voskresenskoye Estate - the many faces of neoclassicism

The Voskresenskoye estate delights at first sight, even though it greets any traveler in desolation.

“Romantic Ruins” is one hundred percent about her.

At different times, Voskresenskoye belonged to representatives of different families. Both Khitrovo and the Urusovs had it. However, people remember it as the Maltsov estate - members of this family really owned the estate for a long time and brought the most significant changes to its appearance.

The main house of this estate, built in the stylistic forms of neoclassicism, amazes with its beauty and scale. But, at the same time, it is very similar to several other Russian estates. At first glance, I noted that the mansion in Voskresensky reminds me of both the Moscow region and .

The mansion is very rich in decor both outside and inside. Some of this decoration has survived to this day. But, in general, the condition of the house can be assessed as good - in comparison with other estates, and emergency - from the point of view of obvious technical facts.

The estate is surrounded by a linden park. It is also partially preserved. Some manor buildings have also survived to this day: an outbuilding and outbuildings.


At the Voskresenskoye estate in 1825, a manor church in the name of the Resurrection of the Lord was built. It suffered greatly during the Soviet years, but is now slowly being restored through the efforts of believers.

Before the revolution, the Voskresenskoye estate was famous for its economic power. Its owners were very competent in farming and managing their own assets.

After 1917, the manor house was used for various purposes for some time: local government institutions, a school and an orphanage were located here. Educational institutions were located here in our time. Until 2008, there was a secondary school on the first floor of the mansion, and a music school on the second. After local authorities decided to build a new building for schools, the former estate was empty. And a year later there was a fire in it, the consequences of which we can observe to this day.

Now the estate is desolate. However, it will be a real find for any investor or philanthropist! The condition of the estate, as I have already noted, is very good.

Dubna (Mosolov) estate - cast iron durability of wood

The Tula region has its own Dubna. This urban-type settlement became famous throughout Russia thanks to the Dubna iron foundry, which was founded in the first half of the 19th century by industrialist Pyotr Ivanovich Mosolov.

It is symbolic that the main attraction of this village is the Mosolovs’ estate, miraculously preserved in good condition.

This mansion, which is about to turn 200 years old, is built more than half of wood. Only the first floor of the manor house is made of stone. The fact that it did not burn and was not destroyed is nothing other than an exception to their sad general rule.

Before the revolution, the Mosolovs' estate was truly huge. Local historians note that there were three houses here, intended for the residence of gentlemen. But now only one mansion has survived - this wooden unique one.

The complex of estate buildings also included economic services, housing for servants and factory workers, and small enterprises that provided the economic power of the estate, in addition to the plant itself.

And, of course, the Mosolov house was surrounded by a beautiful park. Now it is only partially preserved.
Let's go inside the house. There's a lot to see here! Inside we will find skillfully made cast iron staircase elements that were produced at the Mosolov factory. Before the revolution, cast iron elements were present in many elements of the decoration of state rooms.

The Mosolov estate managed to “survive” to this day only due to the fact that its main house was turned into a residential one. It even survived the cast iron plant, which went bankrupt and stopped working. Many Dubna residents will be happy to tell everyone how their family members lived here and visited their friends.

Nowadays, people seriously think about the fate of a unique house. Residents of the village, who lived in an old house, but dilapidated housing, were resettled in new apartments. The estate is temporarily empty. But here they are already working with investors and in the future they really want to open the House-Museum of Russian Blast Furnace Metallurgy.

Krasino-Uberezhnoe estate - rebirth

During this two-day trip, we came across only those estates that are in varying degrees of abandonment. Meeting those who will give them a new life is currently a matter of the future.

To end this trip with a positive touch, we went to the Krasino-Uberezhnoe estate. Several years ago it was restored by investor, entrepreneur Alexander Foatovich Sitnikov.

This ancient estate was founded in the mid-18th century by Nikita Yakovlevich Kireyevsky.

Subsequently, the estate changed owners several times. One of the last owners of the estate were representatives of the noble Trubetskoy family.

During the Soviet years, the house, park, temple and outbuildings became very dilapidated.
However, a miracle happened. The main house of the Krasino-Uberezhnoye estate was recreated in great detail. Alexander Sitnikov is carrying out large-scale work to improve the local park. Ahead of him is the work of restoring the Church of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity.

We hope that very soon the fate of the Krasino-Uberezhnoe estate will befall all the estates of the Tula region that became participants in our tour.

On this positive note, I am completing a two-day online broadcast from a trip to the estates of the Tula region! See you again!

Photo: Mosolovs’ estate in the village of Dubna